How to Make Agateware Pottery on the Wheel
Michelle Erickson and Robert Hunter
Agateware pottery is a type of pottery that is made from a prepared mixture of various colored clays and mimics … Read More
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Paper Clay Sculpture: Building with Clay and Paper to Strengthen Work
Paper clay is any clay body to which processed cellulose fiber has been added. Adding paper pulp and other fibers to your clay body can … Read More
How to Make a Wheel Thrown and Slip Decorated Cup and Saucer
Inspired by cup and saucer sets from the 17th and 18th centuries, Lyla Goldstein enjoys investigating the relationship between these … Read More
Porcelain for Beginners—8 Tips for Getting Off to a Good Start with Porcelain
Switching to a porcelain clay body may seem like an easy enough thing to do, but if you’ve ever worked … Read More
Techno File: Air Bubble Myth
Ceramic studios are full of warnings about trapped air pockets in joins or improperly wedged clay, but the factor that … Read More
In the Studio: Getting Started with Porcelain
Porcelain can be worked like other clays, but when fired can reach a state of extreme whiteness, becoming vitreous and … Read More
How to Make Paper Clay in Your Home Studio
In this post, we’ll show you how to make paper clay. Making paper clay is a great way to gain … Read More
In the Studio: Supersizing Clay Bodies
One of the most important decisions a ceramic artist makes concerns their choice of clay body. Commercial clays sold by … Read More
Handmade Modernism
About 10 years ago, in graduate school at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), I developed a keen interest in handmade … Read More
Review: The Body, The Object, The Other
A group exhibition of ceramic sculpture, installation, and performance works examines the way that the realities of the body are … Read More
