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An interview with Jennifer Halli, educator and multidisciplinary artist who specializes in ceramics and printmaking, is presented. She discussed some of the biggest influences on her work, what her prints share in common with her clay pieces, and whether decay is an important element in her art. It also provides insight on ceramics as fine art.

The article focuses on the life and artistic contributions of Marea Gazzard, an Australian artist known for her reductive clay forms and advocacy for craft as art. Topics include her international recognition, evolution from functional ceramics to sculpture and her groundbreaking work in bronze casting. Gazzard's dedication to promoting craft as art and her seamless transition between clay and bronze sculpture are highlighted.

The article provides information on the causes and solutions for glaze crawling, a common defect in pottery. It explains how greasy or dusty bisque pots can disrupt the clay body and glaze surface, leading to crawling, and suggests preventive measures. it discusses the high clay content in glaze formulas, which can result in cracks and flawed bonding with the clay body, and offers corrective actions, such as using calcined clay and glaze binders.

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.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for crafting a clay trinket tray using air-dry clay, with a focus on creating a practical and stylish storage solution for jewelry, along with information on Sara Davies' crafting guide book and a chance to win copies.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of making Te Verde out of clay, paper, scissors, a bottle, and a feather.

The article offers information related to Rongchang pottery refers to vessels made of Yayu Mountain clay by people living around Anfu Town, Rongchang County, Chongqing in China. It reports that Rongchang pottery was revived and welcomed its third period of development under government support and from 1960s to 1980s, the best of Rongchang pottery were given as "national gifts" to many important international guests.

The article highlights work and life of ceramicist Kathy Kranias, transforms clay to not only tell a story, but to capture movement and emotion. It mentions that Kranias' sculptural work is as meditative as it is spontaneous. It reports that Ceramics demands precision as well as patience, yet is infinitely diverse in its many forms.

The article discusses work and life of Takeshi Yasuda, a Japanese potter who was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1943. Yasuda trained at the Daisei-Gama Pottery in Mashiko from 1963 to 1966 and established his first studio there. His early work consisted of ash-glazed stoneware, after which he explored sancai and creamware.

The article offers information on the Sylvie Enjalbert was an avid mountaineer and paraglider living and working in the tourism industry in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile. It mentions her desire to be creative using her hands caught up with her and she found herself enrolled in a local pottery workshop where she learned coiling; and also mentions that she started harvesting local clays with a friend, potter Laetitia Pineda.

The article offers information on the Michael Sherrill grew up in Charlottesville and was influenced early on by North Carolina folk pottery tradition and the arts community of the Penland School of Crafts. It mentions his use of porcelain as a means of continuing to use brilliant color; and also mentions his use of metal provides a particular kind of setting for clay and he has used it primarily as a means of creating branches, stems, thorns, tendrils, and, in some cases, tree trunks.

The article offers information on Stoin M. Stoin worked as a potter in vibrant community. It mentions that instead of popular images of vines, flowers, or critters like mice, spiders, lizards, frogs, beetles, and bugs on vases and containers, he continued his resolute focus on simple forms, handsome glazes, and the natural qualities of clay; and also mentions that he was not a reformer and did not use conventionalized designs for the decoration of pottery.

The article offers information on seveal artworks in Alexandria city in Virginia including hosting of an exhibition at the the Alexandria Museum of Art (AMoA) addressing poverty and homelessness. It mentions about "Sordid and Sacred" featuring rare etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn. It mentions that River Oaks has the Dirty South Cup Call & Competition, a national, juried exhibition in which clay artists from around the country send in their mugs, cups and tea bowls for consideration.

The article discusses ceramic art London (CAL) 2019 which organized by the Craft Potters Association. Topics include inspired the audience with the projects of Tate Gallery and international influence from Republic of Korea; views of Nichola Theakston, ceramic artist on creating physical ceramic art using by clay; and Kirsty Macrae, ceramicist on producing sculpture which are exploration of gesture, form and color.

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 features the works of Acoma Pueblo potter Lucy M. Lewis. Also cited are how Lewis developed her interest in pottery as a child under the guidance of her great-aunt Helice Vallo, how she learned the process of tempering, coiling, scraping, and smoothing clay, as well as the comments of Museum of Indian Arts and Culture curator of ethnology Tony Chavarria on the works of Lewis.

The article offers information on glaze firing that is required to hold liquid for earthenware, like fired clay pottery. It reports that potters apply a layer of glaze to the bisqueware, leave it to dry, then load it in the kiln for its final step, glaze firing. The glazed item is carefully loaded into the kiln for the glaze firing.

The article reviews the exhibition "New Designers" in London which hosts all the arts departments from colleges and universities in the country and also invites previous year's exhibitors which is called as " One Year In."

The article offers information held at the Vilnius Academy of the Arts in Kaunas, Lithuania exhibiting the history of Kaunas with ceramics. It mentions that Remigijus Sederevičius, Head of Ceramics at the Academy and a participant himself, has been either organizing or managing it with the assistance of his wife and Administrative Director Giedra Petkeviciutė.

The article offers information on pottery skills, characteristics and primitive methods of Dusun Tindal, a sub-group of Kadazan Dusun tribe in Malaysia. Topics included potter Kantiam Binti Setan who uses hand tools such as bamboo rods split in half, round and smooth river stones, and wooden paddles; traditional Malay pottery which is created as unglazed and plain forms by people who adopted Islam; and the patterns engraved on wooden paddle which are either geometric shapes or natural motifs.

The article presents a profile of Richard Crooks, an American artist. Topics mention including his training in the Modernist manner of the post-war Western sculpture, his practice which emphasized phenomenology learning from experience and key features of his sculpture which concerns volume, mass and scale.

The article offers information on how to make a ceramic plate. Topics mention including the creation of texture through dragging of the dynamic tool across the clay which create zigzag and waves, challenges in achieving a symmetrical rim and applying the underglazed technique in the finishing touch.

The article presents a profile for Green River Pottery studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Topics mention including using the wheel thrown and slab formed as the primary forming method, favorite surface treatment which combed the texture with the worn hacksaw blade and tools used as the bent at angles and lengths of steel banding strap.

The article discusses the Clay Gulgong, Australia's great international ceramics festival, held in April 2018.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for making metal clay jewellery.

The article explores on the concept and form of the ancient Chinese ceramic art which known as the Two Sages of Harmony and Union. It states that the art symbolizes the Chinese Cupid who governed the marital affairs. It also cites the value for understanding ancient Chinese culture and social concepts that evolved into a folk legend and an object of worship.

The article offers information on the works of artist Jesse Darling. Topics discussed include sculpture of Darling titled "Our Lady Saint Jerome, 2018;" mixed media art of Darling titled "Composition of objects that keep things [a]live plus the constellation Orion in spilled lentils on a dead refrigerator;" and works of Darling made with white clay, porcelain and ink.

The article offers information on ceramic sculptures of ceramist Tony Moore. Topics discussed include use of intuition to achieve form by embedding stones and shards of glass in clay in Collector's Cabinet; covering of press-molded clay heads stacked within the cages with blue glaze; and durable understanding of frontality as a kind of architectural façade in Portal and Journey of the Ferryman.

The article offers information on ceramic tableware of artist Ozioma Onuzulike. Topics discussed include creative adventures in pottery with intricate relationship between clay and different natural and artificial materials; exploration of texture, colour and pattern in his ceramics; and use of casting techniques and adoption of natural yam tubers in crafting "Yam Bodies".

The article presents step-by-step instruction for building a jar using clay.

The article reports that the famed Meissen Porcelain Manufactory produced some of history's most distinctive and attractive coinage from the stoneware and porcelain clay bodies. It mentions that the economic consequences of reparation imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, citizens of Germany began hoarding every gold and silver coin they could acquire. It presents information on the alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger.

The article offers information on the seventh Utilitarian Clay Symposium held at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. It mentions that objective clay is able to divide the jobs of advertising, sales, and workshop coordination. It states that conversation at the symposium focused on the fact that craft education is vital to the future of ceramics.