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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 ...

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...

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...

Lindsey Hampton Shows Us Why Non-potters are Actually Better at Pottery

Justin CroweMarch 31, 2016

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 ...

Japanese Potter Norikazu Oe Collaborates with Earth and Fire

Justin CroweMarch 16, 2016

Following the traditional Japanese aesthetic, Norikazu Oe creates refined, minimal pots that are a true collaboration between maker and material. Nothing in Oe'...

Learn How Doug Peltzman’s Pots Reintroduce Familiar Imagery into the World

Justin CroweMarch 11, 2016

Within Doug Peltzman's Pottery is a sense of comfort unique to the 21st-century. The New York artist takes in contemporary visual culture, abstracts it, and the...

Undeniably Beautiful Pots Achieved Through Creative Parameters by Tadamasa Yamamoto

Justin CroweFebruary 27, 2016

American trendy-pottery has an aesthetic - bright, bold, illustrated, high-gloss or bare-clay, with decoration on the bottom. This is all fun and dandy, but whe...

Simplicity & Thoughtfulness in Utility with Jess Carter

Rachel DonnerFebruary 24, 2016

Knowing when it is best to use neutral tones and simple shapes during pottery making is a difficult art to master. Jess Carter has a clear sense of style that i...

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...

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...

Learn About the Visual Vocabulary of Joseph Kraft

Rachel DonnerFebruary 14, 2016

Joseph Kraft uses a visual vocabulary to reference drawing and architecture within each piece. He has a diverse body of work that includes functional ceramics, ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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