Welcome 2017! This is the first Clay Blog Review of the year and the pottery bloggers are off to a blazing start.
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Now, let’s get to the blogs!
The Can’t Miss
What were the “must read” pottery blog posts during the past month?
- Pottery Making Blog: Clay Blog Review: December 2016
- Bloomer Pottery Blog: Soda Kiln at Cobb Mtn Art & Ecology Project.
- Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast: 164: Joy Tanner and Will Baker on setting up a studio
- Big Ceramic Store: How To Make A Yarn Bowl
- Pots and pieces: All About Ceramics Crazing: Why Glazes Craze And How To Avoid Crazing
- Pottery Making Blog: Top Pottery Blogs of 2016
- Lucy Fagella Pottery: Using Shellac Resist on Pottery
- Gary Jackson: Nolan Baumgartner : Large Platters Three Ways
- Love Sown: Hand Building Project: Lace Imprint Casserole
Process and Technique
What do pots look like during the process and how are they made?
- Gary Jackson: New Stamps In The New Year
- Big Ceramic Store: How To Sculpt An Elephant – Part 1
- Anna’s Ceramics: a little progress
- Jenni Ward: WIP: Starting New
- meesh’s pottery: Making Vessel Sinks
- Big Ceramic Store: How To Sculpt An Elephant – Part 2
- Dawn Whitehand: Ceramic Pit firing – New sculpture.
- Lucy Fagella Pottery: New Urns for 2017
- Jenni Ward: Video: Carving Hive Series
- Courtney Martin: Blank canvases. #courtneymartinpottery #workinprogress
- The Smart Cat: Forms
- Gary Jackson: Starting With Cylinders…
- Big Ceramic Store: Adorable Teaspoon Rests For Your Counter
- Kyle Carpenter: Loaded the salt kiln today…
- Gary Jackson: An Evening of Stamping
- Gary Jackson: Trimming & Signing.
- Anna’s Ceramics: Progress and slow drying
- meesh’s pottery: Making Work For Raku
- Courtney Martin: This pattern doesn’t look complicated…
- Gary Jackson: Score… Slip… Repeat… Repeat.. Repeat…
- Shaun Hall’s Raku Ceramics Blogspot: Making new pots 1
- Kyle Carpenter: Cuttin’ feet!
- Gary Jackson: Impressive Impressions
- Scott K Roberts: Back to Work
- Lori Watts: Well, that didn’t go as planned!
- Courtney Martin: I’ve been working on a collaboration with @jasonbburnet
- Big Ceramic Store: How To Sculpt An Elephant – Part 4
- Gary Jackson: Stamp. Stamping. Stamped.
- Zygote Blum: Projection
Tips and Technical
How can I become a more efficient or knowledgeable potter?
- Caroline in clay: Disasters and solutions
- Carole Epp: technical tuesday: Installing a Vent-A Kiln Overhead Vent Over My Home Studio Kiln by Karans Pots and Glass
- John Britt Pottery: Gold Shino Test Series
- Lori Watts: Flexible Flyer Platter Molds
- Carol Clarkson: Best Price on Pigment Stains for Pottery
- Bloomer Pottery Blog: 1/12/17 Soda Firing
- Carole Epp: technical tuesday: Isla Transfers: applying underglaze transfers with Jason Burnett
- Lori Watts: Value-Added Oddballs
- Big Ceramic Store: How To Sculpt An Elephant – Part 3
- Barb Rogers: Bowling along
- Big Ceramic Store: Glaze Mixing Equipment Essentials
- Carol Clarkson: How to make clay moist again
- Liz Crain Ceramics: Glaze Transparency: Clear As Mud
- bridges pottery blog: Mishima Technique on Clay Surface Decoration
Finished Work
Where can I see inspiring pottery?
- Barb Rogers: While they are closed Chapter 3
- Jenny Mendes: Two new plates
- Carole Epp: monday morning eye candy: Brian Harper
- Barb Rogers: No longer closed – but still Chapter 4
- Blog – objective clay: these things don’t hold water
- HaldeBlog: 2016 Kiln Firing Roundup
- CFile – Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design: Exhibition | Magdalena and Michael Frimkess at the Nevica Project, Chicago
- Il Vasaio A5f11: Round plant pots 🙂
- CFile – Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design: Sponsor | Warren MacKenzie, “A Master’s Hand” at Driscoll Babcock, New York City
- HaldeBlog: The January Mug
- Carole Epp: emerging artist: Zachary Wollert
- Carole Epp: monday morning eye candy: Guy Van Leemput
- Blog – Clay By Laura: Home Base
- Artworks of Johnson Tsang: Open Mind Series
- Barb Rogers: My last pot finished in 2016
- ang design blog: In Studio…
- Jenny Mendes: close to the heart
- Tony Clennell: Doing Crack!
- CFile – Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design: Exhibition | New York Times Lauds Voulkos, but Misses the Point
- meesh’s pottery: Wood Fired Mugs
- Carole Epp: emerging artist: Idris Kabir Syed
- Dawn Whitehand: Sunday Studio Visit – outside the studio!
- Tony Clennell: For the love of Blackheads
- meesh’s pottery: Ginkgo Leaf Bowls
- John Bauman: The Great Extraction
- ang design blog: hot chocolate marble ware…
- Whynot Pottery: We are working
- Gary Jackson: Mugshot Monday
- Gaea Ceramic Bead and Art Studio Blog: Happy New Year!
- Il Vasaio A5f11: Small plant pots 🙂
- HaldeBlog: New colors for butter dishes and deviled egg plates!
- andrew widdis: Fishtailed mug.
- Carole Epp: emerging artist: Minna Graham
- Carole Epp: monday morning eye candy: Arantxa Recio Parra
- CFile – Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design: Spotted | Amazing Ceramic Design by Piipu, Andrea Branzi, Soft Baroque and More!
- CFile – Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design: Collect | Ceramics of January’s Rago Auctions: Vessels, Nuclear Teapots and Ohr!
- Caroline in clay: Bird bowls, new shapes and a cat bowl
- WALLYWARE: 2017 State of the Studio Address
- CFile – Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design: Art | The Deep, Dark Bucchero Vessels of Paolo Canevari and their Historic Prototypes
- Jenni Ward: Art Hearts for Your Loves!
- Dawn Whitehand: New Exhibition – After the Fire.
- Il Vasaio A5f11: Small round plant pots 🙂
- Barb Rogers: Can you match that glaze?
- andy priestman: ash/lime/clay slip under pale celadon glaze #woodfiredscotland…
- Barb Rogers: That upside down bowl
- Bloomer Pottery Blog: Work from 1/12/17 Soda Wood/Gas Soda
Thoughts
What can I ponder while making pottery and ceramic art?
- Lori Watts: Meet the New Year…
- CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Truth and meaning
- Euan The Potter: Epiphany
- CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: The Darwinian fate of Dreams, redux
- CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: ‘Curing’ starving artists
- HaldeBlog: True North
- Whynot Pottery: Ring or no ring; cell phone in the studio?
- CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Giving the public what it wants only perpetuates the abuse of artists
- CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Why is art a luxury?
Interviews and Podcasts
What do potters have to say?
- The Potters Cast: A Life of Change | Laurie Goldstein | Episode 280
- The Potters Cast: A College Students Is Building Her Business | Sage Cortez | Episode 281
- Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast: 163: Bill Griffith and Peter Beasecker on Utilitarian Clay
- The Potters Cast: Learning to Say “No.” | Amy Hamley | Episode 282
- Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast: 164: Joy Tanner and Will Baker on setting up a studio
- Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast: 165: Louise Rosenfield on building a ceramic collection
- Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast: 166: Margaret Bohls on hand building meaningful pottery
- Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast: 167: Oesterritter, Peltzman, Allen and Schwartzkopf on Objective Clay
- The Potters Cast: A Teacher’s Journey | Mike Flowers | Episode 283
- The Life & Blog of Two Potters: our Etsy feature
- Carole Epp: Art Pro Podcast with… me, Carole Epp
- The Potters Cast: A Vulnerable Conversation of Life as as Artist | Jen Fontenella | Episode 284
- The Potters Cast: Having a Heart to Grow the Clay Community | Merle Lambeth | Episode 285
- Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast: 168: Liz Quackenbush on maturing as an educator and an artist
- The Potters Cast: Making Community Happen | Sharon Greenwood | Episode 286
- The Potters Cast: Making a Community Celebration Installation | Kim Lulashnyk, Hilde Lambrechts, & Kristen Davidson | Episode 287
- Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast: 169: Laurie and Peter Pincus on developing complex mold systems
Opportunities
What’s out there for potters?
- Carole Epp: call for artists: International Craft & Design Residency
- Carole Epp: call for entry: Ceramic Innovations
- Cousins in Clay: “Cousins in Clay” June 3-4 in Seagrove, North Carolina
- Carole Epp: call for entry: Blue Line Arts (CA), International Call for Ceramic Artists: Off Center
- Carole Epp: resident artist program @ Clay Arts Vegas
- Carole Epp: call for entry: Images on Clay
- Clay Club: John Britt Cone 6 Three day Ceramic Glaze Testing Workshop
- Nan Rothwell Pottery: 2017 Spring/Summer Workshops at City Clay in Charlottesville
- Carole Epp: residency opportunity: Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
- Carol Clarkson: Images on Clay/ Juried Show / Las Vegas, Nevada/ 2/24/17
The Rest
What else do potters blog about?
- Lori Watts: Okay, So…About Those Resolutions
- Blog – Clay By Laura: Playtime
- HaldeBlog: Begin as you mean to go on
- Tony Clennell: All Hell Broke Loose
We all paraded the pot out to the garage where we took turns taking swings with the hammer. For the cost of $12.50 I had exorcised the planet of one really ugly pot. We went back to the dinner table and lifted our glasses to a cleaner, better and more beautiful world.
- Carole Epp: Canadian Ceramic Artist Robin Hopper honored with Order of Canada
- Carole Epp: movie day: Stories Potters Tell: Clay and Community in the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour
- Carol Clarkson: Prime Ribs for Potters
- Bloomer Pottery Blog: January 2017 Update – Cobb CA
- Lucy Fagella Pottery: Artist Made Cremation Urns
- Acorn Pottery: think of it as an internship
- Kitty’s Granada Studio: New Year and new opportunities (I hope).
- bridges pottery blog: More Clay Less Plastic
- John Bauman: Uphill Climb
- Ellison Bay Pottery Studios – News: We’re Looking for a Few Good Artists and Other Exciting News
- zephyrvalleypottery: Video Blog
- Blog – Clay By Laura: It’s Your Serve.
- Rachel Dorn: Teaching Online
- Blog – Kara Leigh Ford Ceramics: Exciting times ahead…
- Barb Rogers: Thanks to potter blog readers!
- Jenni Ward: Honorable Mention for The Dirt!
- Tony Clennell: Prince of Boredom
- Carol Clarkson: International Ceramics Directory
- Tony Clennell: Bloggers take a bow
- Carol Clarkson: Top Pottery Blogs 2016
- John Bauman: On Blogging
- meesh’s pottery: Don’t let your head swell…
- Joel Cherrico Pottery: How Meditation Helped Me Break A Guinness World Record
- Gary Jackson: Top Pottery Blogs of 2016
- Clay Club: Glazed and Confused – Understanding the Unity Molecular Formula short online course
- Carole Epp: feeling the LOVE….
- Tony Clennell: True Love
Life is good for those of us that know that life is good.
- Gary Jackson: Sunday In The Studio
- Blog – Clay By Laura: In Great Company
- Gillian McMillan — Rara Avis: Snowy weeks
- Carol Clarkson: Switchlift Potters Wheel
- Gillian McMillan — Rara Avis: The Materiality of Clay
- Marshall Colman: COTSWOLD POTTERIES: PLEASANT ENVIRONMENT AND PEASANT TRADITION
- Rachel Dorn: Top Pottery Blogs of 2016 Honorable Mention
- Tony Clennell: Why we do what we do??
- Jenny Mendes: The Great Pottery Throw Down !!
- Blog – Clay By Laura: Outside The Box
Thanks for reading! Don’t forget to leave a comment on the blogs that you enjoy above and tell them what you like.
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Great survey collection! Thanks for posting!
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