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
Classic East Asian high-iron gloss glaze giving black where thick, breaking to brown or red-brown where thin. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
If you have ever had problems with pin holing or dunting, slow cooling your kiln could be the solution you … Read More
Ryan Coppage, PhD and Jenn Wicks
Do you ever wonder how a glaze can completely change color with the adjustment of a single ingredient? Take a … Read More
Oil spot and hare’s fur glazes are beautiful and fascinating. In a nutshell, they are high-iron glazes that are applied … Read More
Mike Cinelli, Jackie Head, Jennifer Higerd, Justin Rothshank, and Deb Schwartzkopf
Artists from the Collaborative Companions exhibition, the Franklin County Clay Guild, and this issue’s process-focused feature share recipes they rely … Read More
This ceramic artist fostered healing within a community devastated by the 2017 Tubbs Fire by incorporating the ash of lost … Read More
Traditionally, shino-glazed works are fired in reduction kilns—as a reducing atmosphere must be created for iron to be drawn into … Read More
Teaching a clay class in the Loveland parks and recreation program for the last 27 years has been gratifying to … Read More
Innovation in art, as in all practices, may be perceptible only against the backdrop of convention, but convention need not … Read More
The psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihalyi wrote in his book Flow, “It is not the skills we actually have that determine how … Read More
When I opened my full-time studio in 1981 I envisioned, perhaps naively, that I would be able to work solo … Read More