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Ceramic Art covers different styles of ceramics, including functional pottery, sculpture, and installation art. It includes information on design, composition, and aesthetics, as well as the history and cultural significance of ceramics. Visitors can learn about artists, their techniques, styles, and backgrounds through interviews, reviews, and features on emerging talent.
Ceramic Tools and Equipment: This practical and informative category provides visitors with information on the different tools and equipment needed to work with ceramics, such as kilns, pottery wheels, and clay extruders. It also includes tutorials on how to use different tools, reviews of brands and products, and tips on maintenance and repair.
Firing Techniques: This essential category covers different techniques used to fire ceramics, such as oxidation, reduction, raku, and pit firing. It provides information on the science behind firing, tips on achieving different effects, and troubleshooting common issues.
Ceramic Glazes: This important category is focused on creating unique colors and finishes for ceramic pieces. It covers different types of glazes, such as underglazes, overglazes, and engobes, and includes tutorials on how to apply glazes, tips on achieving different effects, and reviews of different brands and products.
Clays: This category focuses on the different types of clay used in ceramics, such as earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain. It includes information on the properties of different clays, tips on selecting the right clay for a project, and reviews of different brands and products.
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Karl Martz was an American potter, ceramic artist, and teacher who lived in Columbus, Ohio, USA, from 1912 to 1997. When Karl Martz worked, he made things out of clay, stoneware, and porcelain. Known for making pottery with clay slabs. Emphasized the correct use of basic clay tools as a teacher at the School of … Read more
Kirk Mangus (1952 to 2013) was a ceramic artist and sculptor is known for playful, gestural style, and experimental glazing. Kirk’s work is known for having high relief surfaces deeply carved with personal iconic motifs on well-known classical forms. Kirk is inspired by Greco-Roman art, mythology, Japanese woodblock prints, comic books, and ceramics from Meso-America … Read more
Warren MacKenzie (February 16, 1924, Kansas City, MO and Died: December 31, 2018) was an American craft potter. Warren MacKenzie is noted for his basic, wheel-thrown practical pottery, which is influenced by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada’s Japanese aesthetic. He grew up in Wilmette, Illinois, the second oldest of five children, including his brothers, Fred … Read more
Roberto Lugo (Born 1981 in Kensington, Philadelphia) is an American potter, social activist, spoken word poet, and educator. Lugo’s work draws together hip-hop, history, and politics into formal ceramics and 2D works. Lugo uses porcelain as his medium of choice, illuminating its aristocratic surface with imagery of poverty, inequality, and social and racial injustice. Roberto … Read more
Cliff Lee (born 1951 in Vienna, Austria) is a ceramic artist from the United States. He is well-known for his intricately carved and glazed porcelain pots made from kaolin clay from England’s White Cliffs of Dover and inspired by Chinese Song dynasty porcelain. Cliff Lee works on a potter’s wheel with translucent porcelain to create … Read more
Doyle Lane (1925–2002) Born in New Orleans, was an African-American ceramist recognized for his tactile glazes and inventive designs. From tiny vases and ceramic sculptures to large-scale clay paintings and mosaics, his work was diverse. Lane attended the University of Southern California and maintained a studio in the East Los Angeles neighborhood of El Sereno. … Read more
Karen Karnes was an American ceramist, best known for her wheel-thrown functional pottery, salt-glazed, earth-toned stoneware ceramics, and her experiments with wood firing and sculptural pottery. She was born in 1925 in New York City, where she attended art schools for children. Her garment worker parents were Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants, and the family … Read more
Linna Vogel von Fogelstein Irelan (1846 – 1914) was an American potter and author who was born in Germany. She was the first woman in California to work in ceramics and use purely California clays and materials. She founded the first art pottery west of Ohio and won numerous gold medals under the name of … Read more
Wayne Higby (born 1943) is one of the most innovative second-generation artists to come out of the post-World War II American ceramic movement. Wayne Higby is a Professor and director at Ceramic Art at Alfred University and Museum. Higby is best known for making earthenware vessels and sculptures that involve spatial relationships with glazed landscape … Read more
Edith Kiertzner Heath (Edith Heath was born on May 24, 1911 – December 27, 2005) was an American studio potter and founder of Heath Ceramics in Sausalito, California. Edith Heath is well known for her avant-garde, minimalist mid-century modern ceramic tableware, including “Heathware,” and architectural tiles. Heath was a pioneer in advancing the evolution of … Read more