The Daily Hampshire Gazette recently published an excellent article and short video (see below) on the Massachusetts-based collaborative Pots On Wheels! (POW!) and their recent visit to the R.K. Finn Ryan Road Elementary School in Florence, MA. Started in 2014 by seven potters, POW! takes their… Read More

The following dialogue is excerpted from a charming interview with Ben & Jerry’s co-founder, Ben Cohen, that originally appeared in Vol. 18, No. 2, June 1990. Cohen talks about how he began his career as a potter before founding the now legendary ice cream company.   The legend of Ben &… Read More

The current issue on "Sustainability" features an article by Jane Herold, who has been making wheel-thrown, wood-fired dinnerware and other pottery for over thirty years in Palisades, New York. Jane was Michael Cardew’s last apprentice, and thus, a uniquely direct lineage to one of modern studio… Read More

Studio Potter welcomes writing on "Women" for our Winter/Spring 2017 issue. Over Twenty-five years have passed since SP dedicated an entire issue to women working in ceramics. Much has changed, and we think its time to revisit historical perspectives and engage in a contemporary dialog on the… Read More

Suzanne Staubach's article "It's All in Your Head" from Volume 42, Number 2, 2014 is now available online! In the context of an issue on "Tangible/Intangible," Staubach grapples with how the internet has changed the format for experiencing other people's work. Without ever having met them or picked… Read More

The idea that art produced in response to fashion trends is somehow unworthy of respect doesn’t hold water for me. Art history, broadly viewed, is a history of fashion, and vice versa.  The two are not mutually exclusive, as they borrow from each other all the time. An obvious example is Yves Saint… Read More

Hey, we're on a roll!  We've just added another online article (as different from the page-turning PDF versions) to our archive.  "Artstream 2.0" by Camila Friedman-Gerlicz from Vol. 43, No. 2, Summer 2015, is now online and the full text is available to everyone. We've uploaded some more images,… Read More

Deceptively vegetable free, the Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail attracts shoppers and clay enthusiasts from around New England to our slice of Massachusetts every spring. But where to eat? As a local, these are my suggestions for the best spots for local fare along the trail. Tiffany Hilton’s … Read More

Influences are, of course, not always formal, intended, understood, appreciated, or completely expressible. - Stanley Mace Andersen A new online archive article has been added to our archived issue, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2005. Stanley Mace Andersen interviewed Norm Schulman, who died in 2014. This… Read More

Instagram at the NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) conference is like hosing a wild fire with a steady stream of lighter fluid: how can you keep up with a brimming conference schedule of events happening right in front of you, and stay on top of a whole separate cyberspace… Read More