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Face Jugs – Part One and Two
By Richard Nickel
In part two of Richard Nickel's face jug animation, he looks at the region of Edgefield, South Carolina, renowned for the rise of the alkaline-glazed stoneware industry. Read More.
Interview with Jacqueline Bishop
By Khalil Jannah
This month's FREE article. It's a good place for artists to explore – those tender, unsure, and vulnerable places within ourselves. For one thing, it keeps us all humble. One thing I’ve noticed in these explorations [is that] we get universal. I often say to my students, "Your very individual story is what’s going to become your universal story." Read More.
Work and Lives - Seven Ceramic Artists
We asked Winnie Owens-Hart to recommend several ceramic artists to accompany her forgoing interview "Inside the Pink House – A Conversation with Winnie Owens-Hart." She chose the following seven ceramic artists: Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Sana Musasama, Yvonne Edwards-Tucker, Janathel Shaw, Syd Carpenter, Teresa A. Williams, and Barbara Madden-Swain. Read More.
Inside the Pink House – A Conversation with Winnie Owens-Hart
I used to go to craft fairs. I remember going to the first Richmond craft fair, where I was the only black ceramics exhibitor. As I remember it, for a long time at NCECA conferences, Jim Tanner, James Watkins, and Richard Buncamper, and maybe two or three more African American students I did not know and I were the only blacks. White people would often come by at fairs and say, "You do ceramics? I've never heard of anyone black doing ceramics." I'd say, "Well, you haven't been around." Of course, I knew a lot of blacks doing ceramics. Read More.
Seeing Time: Temporality & The Kiln-Fired Object
By Kristie Lui
The more I thought about this title, the more I puzzled over time's material mysteries. What does it look like for a form or an object to exist in the future? Does an object, like the lived experiences of the hands that built it, always appear relative to the past? How do I see time through an object? Read More.
Katherine Choy: Radical Potter in 1950s New Orleans
By Mel Buchanan
I believe that the artist-potter should question life. This requires a continuous breaking down and summarizing to express, to relate, to find one place and move with one’s own time, yet keep a universal entity. – Katherine Choy Read More.
Pots at Rest
By Will McComb
Endless exposition could be laid down about the way a beautiful bowl or cup enhances the act of eating or drinking. Less is said of what to make of pots at rest. I propose that pots at rest are still engaged in a unique passive utility by defining and enriching how we experience our domestic space. Read More.

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Feb 1, 2023

On a recent excursion to raft the Grand Canyon, I found myself contemplating the depth of time. Time, when you are six thousand feet below the horizon line, presents itself in wonderous complexity: measurements, sequences, dimensions, and experiences (past, present, and future). Having survived... Read More

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