Ceramic Arts Blog

Halloween is the perfect time to bring a little creativity, sculpture, and spooky fun into the ceramics classroom. From jack-o'-lanterns and haunted houses to ceramic ghosts and monster mugs,...

Ordering clay for a ceramics classroom can be tricky. Order too little and you may run out halfway through the semester. Order too much and you may be left with...

A new school year means fresh ideas, new students, and a ceramics classroom ready for creativity. Before the first class walks through the door, take a few minutes to make...

Picking a clay shouldn't be stressful, but it's easy to get lost when you're looking at a long list of options: earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, grogged, smooth, cone 6, cone 10....

Terra sigillata is a very fine, silky slip that gives clay a smooth, glossy surface without any glaze. Potters have been using it for centuries, and it's still one of...

We spend most of our days talking about clay, glazes and kilns, but we also love the history behind all of it. People have been making ceramics for thousands of...

Whether you're teaching middle schoolers their first pinch pot or guiding advanced students through glaze chemistry, safety in the ceramics studio matters as much as creativity....

Wood firing gives you surfaces you can't get in an electric or gas kiln. Flame, ash and atmosphere all leave marks on the work, from faint blushes of flashing to...

Wheel throwing pottery is incredibly rewarding—there's nothing quite like centering clay and pulling up your first cylinder. But using the wrong wheel turns that satisfaction into...

Good news: you can start pottery at home with a tool kit, a box of clay, and a kitchen table. No studio required. The one catch is that clay has...

If you're staring at an older electric kiln controller—something like a Skutt KilnMaster, an early L&L DynaTrol, or a basic 3-6 segment digital controller—and feeling lost,...