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Architectural Ceramics
By Susan Tunick
In the early 1980s, I was teaching a ceramics class at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City and living in the neighborhood of Gramercy Park. After four years of carefully wheeling my daughter in her stroller around potholes, high curbs, and worse, I was free to look up once again. The buildings in those areas were the subjects of my first investigations into ceramics in architecture. Read More.
Shelter: Ceramics and Architecture
By Paul Mathieu
The art of ceramics has given culture two very important tools. The first, obviously, is pottery . . . that other tool is the brick, and by extension the tile, and both are necessary building blocks of architecture. Read More.
The Sensual Arts
By Julie Wilson
I had always judged my visits to restaurants by the quality of the food and the conversation, but Leah, Patrick, and the student potters helped to open my senses. Read More.
Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: Nina Hole
By Nina Hole
I heard a story about doing this kind of sculpture, about somebody who built a piece right on the spot. I thought, “Oh, my god, I have to think about how to do that.” Read More.
The Portland Brick Project
By Ayumi Horie
Instead of commemorating the famous “fathers” of the city, our project highlights the immigrants, the women, the marginalized, the voices that typically are not heard. Read More.
Order and Entropy
By Cary Esser
I gradually came to realize that I was looking at fired, and sometimes glazed, clay on these buildings – it was my first intimation of the formidable history of ceramics in architecture. Read More.
Harry Holl
By Steven Kemp
Harry’s need to work hard came out of the crucible of war. He had seen many lives lost. He needed to make his life count, to share his experience and knowledge with others. Harry had no secrets. Read More.

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Karen Karnes, A Conversation

Karen Karnes photographed by Robert F. George, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1977.

Karen Karnes, A Conversation

By Karen Karnes

My parents immigrated to this country from Russia . . . Their background was not in art and they probably would have discouraged me if they thought I'd "end up" as an artist.

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Author Spotlight

Ayumi Horie working on the Portland Brick Project

Ayumi Horie is a full-time studio potter from Portland, Maine who makes functional pots, mainly with drawings of animals. She has taught workshops and given lectures at many universities, art centers...

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