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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...

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...

Learn How to Get Rich Selling Mugs with Katie Marks

Rachel DonnerJune 1, 2016

@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...

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...

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! ...

Bringing the House and Home into Your Pots with Naomi Cleary

Rachel DonnerApril 6, 2016

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...

When Architecture and Red Clay Have a Baby with Marc Digeros

Rachel DonnerApril 2, 2016

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...

Taking Clay Craftsmanship to the Next Level with Shawn Spangler

Rachel DonnerApril 1, 2016

In the digital age, potters can create completely handmade objects while taking inspiration and imagery from the industrial and digital technologies that are be...

Learn to Create Elegant Utility with Courtney Murphy

Rachel DonnerMarch 22, 2016

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....

A Quote From Ceramic Artist Zak Helenske

Rachel DonnerMarch 21, 2016

Check out our guest blog covering Zak Helenske on Musing About Mud!...

Simplicity and Subtlety in Clay with Adam Gruetzmacher

Rachel DonnerMarch 15, 2016

Ceramic as a medium has such an extensive history that it can be difficult to separate oneself from historic forms, surfaces, materials, and firing techniques a...

Guest Blogging With Musing About Mud

Rachel DonnerMarch 14, 2016

We are very excited to announce that Ceramic Artists Now and Musing About Mud have teamed up! Carole Epp has graciously allowed us to take over Monday Morning E...

Functional Clay Textiles with Adero Willard

Rachel DonnerMarch 9, 2016

Potter's are makers by nature, which means they do so much more with their hands than just work with clay. Activities such as cooking, gardening, clothing makin...

Learn How to Pixelate Your Pottery with Shane Weaver

Rachel DonnerMarch 3, 2016

Often in ceramics we see potters draw imagery from flora and fauna or the abstract and non-representational to decorate their surfaces. Shane Weaver's functiona...

Learn About Being Playful in Pottery with Amanda Dobbratz

Rachel DonnerMarch 1, 2016

Commonly, potters who focus heavily on surface design come to the realization that they are more interested in being painters than ceramicists. The opposite is ...

Collaging the Ceramic Surface with Lydia Johnson

Rachel DonnerFebruary 23, 2016

Striking a balanced marriage between three-dimensional objects and two-dimensional designs can often be a challenging endeavor. A playful balance between dimens...

Learn How to Combine Cultures With Yoko Sekino-Bove

Rachel DonnerFebruary 18, 2016

Yoko Sekino-Bove has made a hobby out of translating one culture's language into another, using her limited vocabulary unite them. This hobby inspired her ceram...

Pottery

Experience Logan Wall’s Vision-Bending Geometric Pottery Designs

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

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

Design

Experience Logan Wall’s Vision-Bending Geometric Pottery Designs

See Su Nao Home’s Stunning Black Glaze That Changes Over Time

A Modern Tea Set Design Reimagining Korean Tea Ceremony Rituals

Art

Nick Weddell Uses Familiarity as a Tool to Deconstruct What You Believe In

Jessika Edgar’s Ceramic Art Puts Threatening Feelings in Protective Bubbles at Santa Fe Clay

See Sarah Pschorn’s Ceramic Art Running From Expectations

Exhibitions

Cyber-connected ClayScope Exhibition Launches with Support from Twitter

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

See 16 Contemporary Ceramic Artists in “Pour it Up” at Red Lodge Clay Center

contemporary clay

Experience Logan Wall’s Vision-Bending Geometric Pottery Designs

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

Learn How to Get Rich Selling Mugs with Katie Marks

Learn How to Layer Vessels on Vessels with Ashley Young

Quote From Ceramic Artist Joe Pintz

Secret Subtleties in Precise Pots by Melissa Mencini

Strict Utility Gives Meaning to Pottery by Joe Pintz

A Quote From Artist Shawn Spangler

Bringing the House and Home into Your Pots with Naomi Cleary

When Architecture and Red Clay Have a Baby with Marc Digeros

Taking Clay Craftsmanship to the Next Level with Shawn Spangler

Learn to Create Elegant Utility with Courtney Murphy

A Quote From Ceramic Artist Zak Helenske

Simplicity and Subtlety in Clay with Adam Gruetzmacher

Guest Blogging With Musing About Mud

Functional Clay Textiles with Adero Willard

Learn How to Pixelate Your Pottery with Shane Weaver

Learn About Being Playful in Pottery with Amanda Dobbratz

Collaging the Ceramic Surface with Lydia Johnson

Learn How to Combine Cultures With Yoko Sekino-Bove