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By Julia Haft-Candell
I do not intend my voice to be the voice of all women. In this significant time of convergence between ceramics and fine art, we have the opportunity to contribute a more critical voice to our culture, which demands that we are represented by people from a wider range of perspectives. We must make space for critical writing from less represented viewpoints. We need to make space for more stories. Read More.
It's Still Political
By Mac McCusker
Being on a platform; as, kind of, the token transgender individual in the clay community takes its toll. When I lectured at NCECA in 2017 on the panel "Gendered Clay," I had no idea what would happen. I could only tell my own story. I thought it was worth sacrificing my anonymity. Read More.
Hiraeth Never Fades: Reclaiming My Identity through the Studio
By Jeff Kuratnick
At a very early age, I was orphaned and placed into the closed adoption industry. In 2018, I was able to secure my true identity. My studio practice has been the key to building a bridge to my past while constructing a future with the family I thought I had lost forever. For all those non-believers out there, it turns out that art does have the power to change lives. It certainly did mine. Read More.
What Good Are the Arts?
By Carter Gillies
The world is facing a crisis. I don’t know what the situation will be when this gets published, but somehow the issues I raise might get lost in the shuffle. Read More.
Disrupting the Canon
By Magdolene Dykstra, By Heidi McKenzie, By Habiba El-Sayed, By Natalia Arbelaez
Four artists use their artistic research to challenge the homogenized art narrative that has privileged those in power. Read More.
Ceramist Diana Kersey’s Physicality: Public Art and Placemaking, Part III
By Teresa Eckmann, Ph.D.
"I have been a student of the possibilities of the materials ... So many variables, so many decisions to make, and so many opportunities to make them. You learn failure is a part of success. Just like not every play will work as drawn out on paper, not every pot will make it through the process as desired, but each time you learn something that feeds into the next attempt. You are playing the law of averages. If you keep at it, something will start to work out." Read More.
Chandra DeBuse: Portrait of a Maker
By Jill Foote-Hutton
Perhaps it is years of conscious determination that create an air of inherent intuition. The first installment of a new Studio Potter series. Read More.
Lesson Plans and Resources for Remote Teaching
By Jill Foote-Hutton
Collaborative and open sharing is an upside to all we are currently experience. Shades of World War II efforts come to mind: rations, women working in factories, and victory gardens, among other things. Imagine the days to come when we are past the pandemic. What will we have learned about ourselves as people, as a nation, and as a world? Read More.

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Mar 23, 2020

Studio Potter planned to announce at NCECA that our March 2020 stories would be available to everyone, regardless of membership status. Despite the cancellation, we are sticking to plan. We proudly present to you, free of charge, eight stories this month. Our gift to you.

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Educational Resources

If you are an educator, you have spent the last week trying to redefine your studio classes which are rooted in hands-on, dynamic interactions as an online course. Social media has been a clamor of shared resources, brainstorming groups, and philosophies on how to approach the problem. Studio Potter asked and received a handful of lesson plans, and we're sharing them with you here. Conversations are happening at every level and evolving quickly. Whatever your take on the matter, we hope this aggregate of EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES provides not only a record of this moment, but also a guide.

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