How to Make a Handmade Martini Glass
One of the biggest reasons I am a potter is that I love to make things that people use and … Read More
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Pinch Pot Technique: A Fundamental Way to Make a Beautiful Pitcher
When you first decide you want to create your own pottery, it’s likely your first class will involve the pinch … Read More
Carly Slade’s Oeuvre: Monuments to Everyday People
Foundational experiences from Carly Slade’s upbringing in a blue-collar family that valued hand work pervade her sculptures, which focus on … Read More
Beyond Self Expression: From Psychology to Ceramics
Meg Beaudoin had been working for 20 years as a psychologist and psychoanalyst when she took a ceramics class and … Read More
Charlie and Linda Riggs’ Naked Raku Technique
Naked raku gets its racy name because during the process of firing, the outer shell of slip that was applied … Read More
Magnificent Marbling: Using Colored Slips to Create Marbled Patterning on Pottery
Michelle Erickson and Robert Hunter
Slip, glorious slip. This versatile liquid form of clay can be used in a multitude of different ways to create … Read More
How to Design Low-Relief Carvings in Wet Clay
This post is all about carving into clay and the best tools and techniques for doing so. In this post, potter … Read More
In the Potter’s Kitchen: Cookie Warmer
At the beginning of each pottery class, I like to introduce one or two fresh projects for my students. Coming … Read More
Glaze Chunks
Alex Zablocki casts liquid glaze in soft-brick molds to create solid chunks of fired glaze, which he then saws, sands, … Read More
Collaboration: Jen Allen with Kurt Anderson, Maia Leppo, and Bryn Perrott
Jen Allen, Kurt Anderson, Maia Leppo, and Bryn Perrott
Jen Allen has been interested in making art with other people since she was an undergraduate student. Her recent creative … Read More
