Experience Logan Wall’s Vision-Bending Geometric Pottery Designs

Rachel DonnerMarch 11, 2018

Logan Wall is a ceramic designer who focuses on playful handcrafted geometric pottery. She earned her BFA from the University of North Florida in 2015 and has s...

Download Our FREE Guide to the Top 10 Pottery Exhibitions at NCECA 2018

CAN EditorMarch 9, 2018

NCECA 2018 is here and thousands of potters are about to descend on Pittsburg, PA, which definitely is not prepared for the takeover that is about to happen. ...

Justin Donofrio’s Pottery Keeps us Conscious of How We Move Through the World

Justin CroweMarch 6, 2018

  Many potters talk about earth, fire, history and lifestyle as an unintentional result of their pottery practice (like a life-long art performance), bu...

Brent Pafford’s Salt-handled POPJCTs Slowly Erode and Dry the Skin with Each Touch

Rachel DonnerMarch 2, 2018

In modern society, most young people can no longer be represented by a woodfired mug in the classic country potter style. We need something with bling, charm, a...

Lindsay Rogers Negotiates a Profound Collaboration Between Meals and Pots

Rachel DonnerFebruary 22, 2018

Like churning your own butter or baking your own bread, there is often something magical about truly making things from scratch. This self-made satisfaction is ...

Seohee Park’s Contemporary Pottery Inspired by Joseon Dynasty Porcelain

Justin CroweFebruary 15, 2018

Seohee Park creates hand-thrown Korean pottery inspired by Joseon Dynasty porcelain with flawless craftsmanship and figurative forms. One of the most challengin...

9 Potters to Watch in 2018… They are Killing it

Justin CroweJanuary 12, 2018

The pervasiveness of handmade pottery is a remarkable part of our modern culture. There is no substantial reason that potters should exist at all outside of a...

Miriam Griffin’s “Vermin” Will Have You Celebrating the Scum of the Animal World

Mary BaumstarkAugust 22, 2016

“In Vermin, Miriam Griffin treats oft-maligned creatures with sensitivity and tenderness. Bats and snakes, and even swarming flies – creatures for whom the arti...

Cyber-connected ClayScope Exhibition Launches with Support from Twitter

Justin CroweAugust 3, 2016

This week we are highlighting a physical show gone digital called ClayScope Santa Fe put on by the recently formed collective of ceramic artists called ClayScop...

Find Out How Mike Gesiakowski Explores Degrading Memories Through Ceramics

Justin CroweJune 30, 2016

Mike Gesiakowski is a ceramic artist taking on big ideas through pottery. His work explores passing time and its relationship to the moment that we as individua...

Have Fun Using Pots with Didem Mert’s Humor-infused Ceramic Design

Rachel DonnerJune 24, 2016

Humans are often intrigued by slight abnormalities in their surroundings; not the glaringly obvious, but the subtly strange. Didem Mert's ceramic design falls i...

See How Joanna Powell Strips Pots to Their Essence, Then Rebuilds

Justin CroweJune 17, 2016

Ceramic artist Joanna Powell begins her pots with a reductive process, dismantling conventional ideas of functional objects. She'll take a pot, like a mug, and ...

Learn How to Layer Vessels on Vessels with Ashley Young

Rachel DonnerMay 29, 2016

A vessel is defined as a hollow container and in the human experience, we are constantly shifting between the use of various vessels. There are the daily ritual...

Pottery by Hanako Nakazato That is Only Complete with a Meal

Justin CroweMay 25, 2016

Hanako Nakazato is a Japanese-born potter infusing a much-needed breath of minimalism into the decoration-filled contemporary American pots scene. Now splitting...

AKAR’s Yunomi Invitational Isn’t about TeaBowls… It’s WAY more Interesting

Justin CroweMay 18, 2016

I have to admit, I was not looking forward to another tiring object-specific pottery exhibition with an exorbitant number of mediocre cups in a curated populari...

Don’t Forget to Check Out Our Guest Posting on Musing About Mud

Rachel DonnerApril 18, 2016

Last Monday we posted a guest blog for the wonderful Musing About Mud covering the work of Joyce St. Clair, be sure to check it out! Joyce St Clair - Ceramic ...

Quote From Ceramic Artist Joe Pintz

Rachel DonnerApril 14, 2016

Learn more about Joe Pintz in our full-length post HERE!!...

Secret Subtleties in Precise Pots by Melissa Mencini

Rachel DonnerApril 13, 2016

Many potters also make sculptural work and it can be quite obvious that both the sculptures and pots came from the same hand. Melissa Mencini makes crisp pots w...

Strict Utility Gives Meaning to Pottery by Joe Pintz

Rachel DonnerApril 12, 2016

Joe Pintz bases both his functional pots and his sculptural objects on everyday, hands-on usable items. This translates into his pottery by way of extremely sim...

A Quote From Artist Shawn Spangler

Rachel DonnerApril 7, 2016

  Learn more about Shawn Spangler in our full-length post HERE! ...