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Spencer Wells, a New York City-based photographer, filmmaker and writer, visited and photographed Jono Pandolfi's ceramics studio a few months ago. This photography essay is an incursion into a very beautiful and functional studio located across the Hudson River in Union City, New Jersey. Text by Spencer Wells Walking into the Pandolfi studio felt like walking into a familiar family...

Article by Erez Maayan Five Formica tables, the kind found in almost every (Israeli) kitchen through the mid-1980s, on top of which are what appear to be fossilized meals. Twenty-one porcelain dishes filled with gastromorphic (food-resembling) matter that is completely and undeniably inedible while not completely identifiable. Platters crammed with what could resemble rotten patties with congealed gravy, putrid porridge...

By Laetitia Wilson Once in a while a ceramics exhibition reaches breathtaking proportions by defying expectations and ambitiously expanding the medium. Here and Now 14 at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery was such an exhibition. It showcased new works from 12 Western Australian artists and situated ceramics as a strong medium looking outward as ever greater than the insular cottage...

By Rachel Dickson It is no coincidence that we refer to the ‘making’ of a drawing. To draw is to make and to make is to draw. To draw on skills, experience, material qualities, the past, a glimpse of the future and the influence of others. Others who have taught us, told us their stories, showed us their secrets and...

Article by Debra Sloan In the province of British Columbia, on the far western edge of Canada, the ceramic culture was initiated through international immigration during the 20th Century. BC is one of the few places in the world where the indigenous people did not develop a ceramic technology.Instead, the First Nations were and remained masters of wood—their source of...

By Hagai Segev, 2014“Up until two years ago, my father, Yaakov, had an agricultural mechanization workshop. Every time I visited the workshop, I found myself entranced by the power of the iron boards and the pile of black and rust colored iron pipes of different diameters, waiting to be used”, Simcha Even-Chen reminisces. “When I saw the call for entries...

By Shamai Sam Gibsh & Stephanie Young A movie set, created in the style of a sixth century village, within forests and farmland, cherry blossom and azaleas, in valleys and mountains centrally located in South Korea, is the stage for this amazing Mungyeong Tea Bowl Festival. The City of Mungyeong and the South Korean government sponsor the festival, now in...

Meditations on a performance in clay by Cybele Rowe and Lauren AriBy Daniel Fleischmann 1. “Natural Great Piece” is an intricate, intimate, communal performance in the medium of clay. Like a dance or a concert, it is more overtly bound to time than most sculptural artwork, and it ends dissolved into the past.2. Cybele Rowe and Lauren Ari make a...

By James Romaine Since its inception in 2005, the Zentrum für Keramik-Berlin has been an oasis of cultural exchange for ceramic artists in one of Europe’s principal artistic centers. Founded by Thomas Hirschler and Kaja Witt, the residency program provides a creative sanctuary in the midst of an exhilarating city where artists from around the world can create artwork stimulated...