Three stories this month. Each one is a journey.  One author writes from the early part of his journey; if this was a story about a quest, we are meeting him on the road where he has already gathered his kit and set out from home. We, the readers, follow his nascent journey as he arrives at the… Read More

  Studio Potter is Pleased to Introduce the  2021 Grants for Apprenticeships Jurors      Our panel of independent jurors,  Mary Barringer, Turiya Gross, Jason Hartsoe, and Jeff Shapiro, selected five teams as GAP recipients.    Each team receives $10,000 to support a yearlong apprenticeship in… Read More

  Grand Prize Recipient: Ruddhi Vichare @koorm.studio    Ruddhi Vichare lives and runs her pottery studio 'Koorm' based in Pune, India. During the last year of college, while undergoing a Business Management course, she was introduced to clay at a local art studio called Creative Club. After… Read More

Studio Potter has moved through a handful of identities in forty-nine years. How could it not? When the journal began in 1972 it was a tactile version of open-source software. There was no social media. There was no YouTube to search for tutorials on how to put in a venturi burner. There was no… Read More

Studio Potter is pleased to announce the 2021 Grants for Apprenticeships Awardees. Established in 2019 and funded by an anonymous donor, Studio Potter’s Grants for Apprenticeships Program supports emerging artists who want to become full-time studio potters and mentor-potters who wish to take on… Read More

By Garth Johnson and Ann Rosenthal It is with great sorrow that the family and friends of Arnie Zimmerman mark his passing at age 66. Arnie succumbed to a five-year struggle with depression following the death of his 23-year-old daughter Isabel Rosenthal Zimmerman in 2016.  Zimmerman, whose works… Read More

Adam Nicholas Yungbluth, 39, of Morehead, Kentucky, husband of Melissa Lee Yungbluth, passed away June 12, 2021, at home. Adam received a Master of Fine Arts in ceramics from the University of Mississippi, Oxford, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics and Sculpture from Miami University in Ohio.… Read More

One of the first times lecturing in a room with stadium seating, I was so nervous my voice shook while speaking on the confidence-giving power an avatar can provide. Specifically making a point about the history of puppetry, I cited examples of how puppets were able to speak truth to power without… Read More

The Wyoming landscape is not what you could call subtle. Invariably, when driving across the high plains, along with my marvel at the great expansiveness and the magnitude of the confrontational geologic display (Sometimes I imagine the mountains are hankering for a fight. They challenge my gaze… Read More

  To celebrate summer and all its joys, Studio Potter is launching a Summer Sketch Contest. Make a fun, summer and ceramic themed "sketch," post it on Instagram, and tag us to enter! What is a Sketch? A rough drawing (print, paint, photo, clay, found object, mix-medium, collage, animation, literary… Read More