Exploration of Craft & Women’s Work by Katriona Drijber

Rachel DonnerFebruary 16, 2016

Katriona Drijber creates functional pottery focused on combining pattern swatches with animal imagery. She has multiple bodies of work that explore form and sur...

Claire Prenton’s Ornamental Clay Creations Balance Form and Function

Rachel DonnerFebruary 15, 2016

Claire Prenton's ornamental clay creations are highly embellished works that balance the line between form and function. She hand-builds each item before placin...

Tom Budzak’s Historically Inspired Pottery Takes on the Human Figure

Justin CroweFebruary 14, 2016

Ceramic artist Tom Budzak creates historically-inspired vessels altered slightly for an out-of-place feel. His large jar forms and floral imagery reference Chin...

Takashi Endo’s Work Balances Functional Pottery and Decorative Design

Justin CroweFebruary 13, 2016

Takashi Endo is a self-taught Japanese potter making ceramic art with a confidently minimal aesthetic vision that nearly takes priority over the functionality o...

Learn How to Water Carve Porcelain Like Ceramic Artist Ryan McKerley

Justin CroweFebruary 13, 2016

Ryan McKerley is a Texas-based ceramic artist using a technique called water carving (or water etching) to design patterns on his functional pottery. Water carv...

Complex Ceramic Forms Created by Deb Schwartzkopf

Rachel DonnerFebruary 11, 2016

Deb Schwartzkopf was born in Seattle, Washington. She recieved her BA focused in ceramics at the University of Alaska where she also worked for several professi...

A Quote by Ceramic Artist Seth Charles

CAN EditorFebruary 11, 2016

Learn more about Seth Charles’s playful ceramic art in CAN’s feature article HERE!...

See Alison Reintjes’ Patterned Pottery Steeped in History

Justin CroweFebruary 10, 2016

Ceramic artist Alison Reintjes is recognized for her focus on small cylindrical forms and tesselating triangular patterns. Her work is influenced by non-western...

Learn Why This Japanese Pottery is Designed to Become Stained by Your Food Over Time

Justin CroweFebruary 9, 2016

Osamu Saruyama is a Japanese designer who focuses on subtlety and imperfection to highlight experience. When you eliminate decoration from ceramic objects you a...

Explore Sensual Kitchenware by Gwendolyn Yoppolo

Rachel DonnerFebruary 9, 2016

Ceramic artist Gwendolyn Yoppolo makes functional ceramics in order to bring pause and human connection to our everyday lives. Many of her pieces are made to be...

Learn How Seth Charles Pot’s Embrace Wabi-sabi Philosophy

Justin CroweFebruary 6, 2016

Ceramic artist Seth Charles understands his craft from start to finish. The marks he makes when throwing or attaching handles are done in a calculated way that ...

Enter the Curious World of Ceramic Artist Grace Sheese

Justin CroweFebruary 6, 2016

Grace Sheese's work looks like someone reached into a cartoon world and pulled a chunk into our reality. Her pieces are painting first, and pots second. She cre...

Learn Why Focusing on Just 3 Objects Makes Jana Evans Pottery Outstanding

Justin CroweFebruary 6, 2016

Specialization is the key to being the best at your discipline. Living and breathing just one style, technique, color, texture, or object. This is hard in the r...

Everyday Humor With Playful Contemporary Pottery by Chandra Debuse

Rachel DonnerFebruary 2, 2016

Chandra Debuse first found clay at a community clay studio as a cathartic outlet for her emotionally trying job, at a shelter for abused women and children. As ...

Designs by Emily Schroeder Willis Refocus the Pottery Experience

Justin CroweFebruary 1, 2016

Ceramic artist Emily Schroeder Willis has an acute awareness of subtly -  in color, texture, and form - narrowing the focus of the user and encouraging even mor...

A Quote by Ceramic Artist Arthur Halvorsen

CAN EditorJanuary 31, 2016

Learn more about Halvorson's playful ceramic art in CAN's feature article HERE!          ...

Yoshi Fujii’s Ornate Celadon Pottery Inspired by Japanese Heritage

Justin CroweJanuary 30, 2016

Yoshi Fujii is an accomplished ceramic artist, holding degrees in Foreign Language, Anthropology, Sculpture, English as a Second Language, and Ceramics. He is a...

Pottery Designed with Digital CAD Technology by Jay Jensen

Justin CroweJanuary 30, 2016

Jay Jenson is functional potter teaching and working in River Falls, Wisconson. His is an emerging group of ceramic artists, including Andy Brayman and Del Harr...

Kip O’Krongly’s Pottery Asks: Where Did this Food Come From?

Justin CroweJanuary 13, 2016

Kip O'Krongly is a ceramic artist and instructor living in Northfield, MN who earned her BA from Carleton College in 2001. In 2014, O'Krongly was the recipient ...