The week’s news in the ceramic art world – June 24, 2025
We recently announced our first-ever Open Call for ceramic artists. We’re looking for artists working with ceramics whose works reflect unique perspectives and the creative potential of the field to be featured in the 15-year anniversary issue of Ceramics Now Magazine (December 2025). The call is part of our commitment to editorial independence, giving a voice to artists worldwide and creating new connections across the ceramics community. All ceramic artists are encouraged to apply.
The first edition of the Jingdezhen Prize will take place in October at the Taoxichuan Ceramic Art Avenue in Jingdezhen, China. Initiated by the World Crafts Council (WCC), the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC), and the Jingdezhen Ceramic Creative Design Center, the 2025 Jingdezhen Prize aims to create a high-level platform for the global exchange and cooperation in ceramic innovation, engaging artists, collectors, designers, museums, and art lovers worldwide. Several prizes and residencies will be awarded, including the Jingdezhen Prize worth around $14,000. The competition includes distinct categories such as creative design, emerging artists, interdisciplinary practice, and the main Jingdezhen Prize. Applications are due July 30, 2025.
Artists are invited to apply for the 2026 Taiwan Ceramic Residency Program. To broaden the perspectives of contemporary ceramics and encourage interaction and learning among artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, the Yingge Ceramics Museum has initiated this international residency program to provide ceramic artists from around the world an opportunity to engage deeply with Taiwan’s ceramic art and culture. The program offers ceramic facilities, working space, accommodation, material subsidies, and transportation subsidies. Applications are due July 31, 2025.
Join Clay In Conversation 11: Residency for a deep dive into the world of Artist/Makers Residencies. Taking place on July 3, 2025, at the University of Westminster (Portland Hall), this event explores the value and impact of artist residencies. Hear from Harriet Hellman, Jacqui Ramrayka, Alex Simpson, and Julia Ellen Lancaster as they share their residency experiences. The conversation continues with a panel discussion chaired by Tessa Peters, tackling key questions around what artists seek from residencies, how to find the right fit, and how to influence future models.
The Bruckner Foundation in Carouge, Switzerland, is now accepting applications for its 2025 Support Residencies, with an extended deadline of August 31, 2025. Two residencies are available: the Support Residency for Young Ceramicists, open to recent graduates from Swiss ceramics schools, and the Support Residency for Ceramics Creation, open to all ceramicists and artists regardless of nationality, age, or background. Both residencies offer two or three months of studio access, financial support, and possible free accommodation in Carouge.
Several ceramic events are taking place later this week. The first edition of the International Ceramic Sculpture Triennale Poland (ICST) opens on Thursday, June 26, in Warsaw. Saint-Sulpice Céramique (June 26-29) transforms Paris’s Place Saint-Sulpice into a hub for ceramic art, while the International Ceramics Festival (June 27-29) returns to Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Wales, featuring exhibitions, firings, and talks. The 63rd Faenza Prize opens on Friday, June 27, at MIC Faenza in Italy, showcasing exceptional contemporary ceramic artists. The Festival of High Temperatures (June 28-29) in Wrocław, Poland, hosts an international tea bowl competition and other events, and The Hepworth Wakefield Ceramics Fair (June 28-29) gathers ceramicists and makers from the UK. All these events are mentioned in our Ceramics Calendar.
The Ceramics Program at the Office for the Arts at Harvard is hosting two artist lectures with Mary Cale Wilson (June 26) – Mary Cale Wilson’s sculptures, ceramics, and paintings explore themes of visual culture, memory, and home, and Lily Fein (July 31) – Lily Fein makes coil-built porcelain vessels that capture and imply movement. The objects morph and change as she creates them, developing a language of improvisation that gives form to a stream-of-consciousness approach to making. Registration is free.
We recently published a news piece on the new Ceramind Tools clay extruder. Designed for efficiency and consistency, the extruder makes it easy to create clean coils, perfect handles, and custom shapes—fast. Built for serious studio use, it offers strong torque, easy cleaning, and a wide range of die options, including custom designs. A smart upgrade for handbuilders and throwers alike.
1001 Pots, Canada’s largest ceramics event, is back for its 36th edition from July 4 to August 17, 2025, in the heart of the village of Val-David. This outdoor gathering, which annually welcomes over 100 ceramists from Quebec and beyond, offers visitors an immersion in the world of ceramics.
Exhibitions
Discover these ceramic exhibitions that were recently featured in Ceramics Now.
- Perrine Boudy: Juste avant les hors-d’oeuvres at Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels
- muddy mood at Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens
- Kazuhito Kawai: Precious Time at KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo
- Sasha Feldman: TERRORCOTTA! at Ki Smith Gallery, New York
- Eun-Ha Paek: Alters at HB381 Gallery, New York
- GROUNDWORKS at County Hall Pottery, London
- Anne Wenzel – Otto Dix at Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
- 25 Years of the Winifred Shantz Award, Glass Innovation, and Queer Identity at the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery
- Raphaël Emine: Blossom Rocks at Galerie Idéale, Paris
What’s on View
A selection of ceramic exhibitions currently on view around the world.
- Sea of Mud, Wall of Flame: Satoru Hoshino and Masaomi Yasunaga at Nonaka Hill, Kyoto
- Anders Herwald Ruhwald: Lithium Bliss at Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen
- Le Futur des Formes: Céramiques japonaises contemporaines at Musee Cernuschi, Paris
- L’habitat des marveilles and Le ventre de la terre at Centre Céramique Contemporaine de Giroussens, Giroussens
- Becky Tucker: The Quarry at Galerie Favian Lang, Zurich
- Izumita Yukiya at Oxford Ceramics Gallery, Oxford
- Anca Vintila Dragu: Fluid Boundaries at Galateea Contemporary Art, Bucharest
- Visionaries at Florian Daguet-Bresson, Paris
- Erwin Wurm: Bad People at Gmundner Keramik, Gmunden
- Matthew Warner at Corvi-Mora, London
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Featured image – Anders Herwald Ruhwald: Lithium Bliss at Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen