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The article describes artist Casey Whittier's 2024 textile piece that is made of beads that shimmer vibrantly due to the natural patterns and subpatterns of clay.

An interview with several American ceramists, including Nick Lenker, Jami Porter Lara and Anita Fields is presented. Among the issues they discussed include what drew them to the medium of clay, their preferred pottery techniques, and calls for change, seeking to raise awareness of social, political, and environmental issues through their art.

The article previews several ceramic art exhibitions across the U.S. in 2019, including "About Face: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture" at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, "Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery and "The Haas Brothers: Ferngully" at The Bass Museum of Art.

The article profiles transgender, queer, Jewish artist Nicki Green. Topics covered include her depiction of the Jewish ritual bath known as the mikveh in her art which uses clay, how her passion for mycology started, and the description of the intricate pictorial detail of her works which has its own iconography.

The article previews the exhibition "The Good Making of Good Things: Craft Horizons Magazine 1941-1979" at the Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul from March 7 to May 12, 2019.