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 ...
Here at CAN our goal is to progress the field of contemporary pottery by highlighting the top makers, exhibitions, and ideas in the field. Pots Getting Action i...
Nick Moen is a creator of experiences and a collector of stories. He spreads his passion for rich human experience through ceramic design, glorifying the mundan...
@anotherseattleartist, aka Katie Marks, is one of the few ceramic artists who has figured out how to be wildly in-demand using digital platforms. Her current su...
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...
Hanako Nakazato is a Japanese-born potter infusing a much-needed breath of minimalism into the decoration-filled contemporary American pots scene. Now splitting...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
One of the most commonly expressed reasons for creating functional pottery is its ability to lend to the experience of connection. These experiences can be an i...
The utility of architecture and clay have long gone hand in hand. Some potters have taken inspiration from the hard lines and angular planes that surround us in...
In the digital age, potters can create completely handmade objects while taking inspiration and imagery from the industrial and digital technologies that are be...
Lindsey Hampton is a designer who makes pottery - think hipster boutique production dinnerware. The forms are unrefined and amateur and the clay is the typical ...
Dan McCarthy is one of the rare potters who has made a life in the fine art world – like an ugly duckling raised by a pack of wolves. The work is proudly anti-c...
How can pottery be both very detailed and extremely simple in form and surface? An answer to this question can be derived from examining Courtney Murphy's pots....
