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An Interview with Wendy Gers
By Wendy Gers
Wendy Gers is a curator and arts administrator who seeks to push the social, political, and technological boundaries of ceramics. The following conversation addresses curating on an international stage, and her "Post-Colonialism?" project at the Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Centre in Israel. Read More.
Trans-Action Art
By Saba Stovall
In discussions of social reform, there is a point at which words can no longer educate listeners. Art intervenes where words cannot. The unprivileged— the others, the outsiders, the marginalized — can access tools of political and social reform through art to bypass cultural boundaries and speak across borders. Read More.
Blending Genre Boundaries
By Nick Geankoplis
In 2013, I moved to Beijing to teach ceramic design at the Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA). As I conclude my four years of teaching at CAFA, I am reflecting upon how I’ve restructured and redefined my understanding of the roles and boundaries of art, craft, and design. Read More.
The Transformative Geographies of Murmuration
By Lauren Sandler
As communities, we can criminalize, stigmatize, and incarcerate, erect rigid confines, and designate borders. Or, through collective endeavor, we can provide access, allow movement, and foster an interdependent web of supportive resources. Read More.
Ploughing a New Path
By Mark Errol
This is how it all starts. Wherever it is. It starts with people opening doors, with taking the chance to find a place and put an “open” sign in the window. Our job is to make the place where we live more aware, more vibrant through art. Read More.
Limbo
By Adam Chau
As both a first-generation Asian American and multigenerational Caucasian American, I am interested in the perceived boundaries of employing one’s heritage as a contemporary aesthetic. Read More.
A Norwegian Potter's Perspective: Studio Pottery Practices in Norway and the Impact of Social Media
By Elisa Helland-Hansen
Forty years ago, I had access to a limited number of photos of ceramic work. Today I am constantly exposed to images of pottery through social media. How does this affect our work and thinking? Can we have too many influences? My answer is no. Read More.

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To Serve the Divine

St. Barbara plate, 2013. Earthenware, 14 in. Photograph by Lydia Clark.

To Serve the Divine

By Adam Posnak

Within African and African-Pan-American religious-cultural systems, special pots are understood to literally house divinity and are receptacles for detailed and painstaking spiritual offerings. It...

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Author Spotlight

Saba Stovall is a ceramicist in Atlanta, GA and is currently pursuing a Masters in Art History from Georgia State University. Their focus is on the intersection of feminist art history, traditional...

Call for Submissions, Winter/Spring 2018

St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour - MN Potters

Call for Submissions, Winter/Spring 2018

Studio Potter is calling for contributions to the next issue, Vol. 46, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2018, "Regional Perspectives & Pottery Tours." Submissions due October 15, 2017. In examining regional profiles of ceramists and their work, and exploring all aspects of pottery tours, SP is looking for unique perspectives and stories of five hundred words or more.

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