Tom Budzak’s Historically Inspired Pottery Takes on the Human Figure
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...
Kyung Won Baek’s Designs Question Function and Origin
Recently, we saw ceramic artist Kyung Won Baek on Musing About Mud and were impressed by her design sensibility combined with her focus on ceramic phenomena. Wo...
Takashi Endo’s Work Balances Functional Pottery and Decorative Design
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
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
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
Learn more about Seth Charles’s playful ceramic art in CAN’s feature article HERE!...
See Alison Reintjes’ Patterned Pottery Steeped in History
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
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
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
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 ...
A Quote by Ceramic Artist Emily Schroeder Willis
Learn more about Emily Schroeder Willis’ playful ceramic art in CAN’s feature article HERE!
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Enter the Curious World of Ceramic Artist Grace Sheese
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
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
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
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
Learn more about Halvorson's playful ceramic art in CAN's feature article HERE!
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Yoshi Fujii’s Ornate Celadon Pottery Inspired by Japanese Heritage
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
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...
Arthur Halvorsen Channels His Inner-child in Playful Ceramic Art
Spending time with a child, you are constantly reminded of the beautiful naivety that exists in the early years of life. You cannot help but laugh, and wonder w...
Kip O’Krongly’s Pottery Asks: Where Did this Food Come From?
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 ...
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