Clay Culture: Sonoma Ash Project
This ceramic artist fostered healing within a community devastated by the 2017 Tubbs Fire by incorporating the ash of lost … Read More
Tag: tenmoku
Classic East Asian high-iron gloss glaze giving black where thick, breaking to brown or red-brown where thin. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
Super Cool! Slow Cooling an Electric Kiln Firing
If you have ever had problems with pin holing or dunting, slow cooling your kiln could be the solution you … Read More
Hare’s Fur and Oil Spot Glazes
Oil spot and hare’s fur glazes are beautiful and fascinating. In a nutshell, they are high-iron glazes that are applied … Read More
Techno File: Visual Arts Shino
Traditionally, shino-glazed works are fired in reduction kilns—as a reducing atmosphere must be created for iron to be drawn into … Read More
Weaving Your Way with Clay
Teaching a clay class in the Loveland parks and recreation program for the last 27 years has been gratifying to … Read More
Masayuki Miyajima: Innovation from Tradition
Innovation in art, as in all practices, may be perceptible only against the backdrop of convention, but convention need not … Read More
Editor’s Note: Flow
The psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihalyi wrote in his book Flow, “It is not the skills we actually have that determine how … Read More
The Most Difficult Things
When I opened my full-time studio in 1981 I envisioned, perhaps naively, that I would be able to work solo … Read More
Throw Some Clay on the Walls
As a functional potter with a penchant for patterns and textures, I keep trying to find new shapes and forms … Read More
Online Extra: Oil Spot and Hare’s Fur Glazes
As a category, oil spot glazes are sometimes called Black and Brown ceramics. They include a wide variety of iron … Read More
