Thank you for listening to another installation of Studio Potter's Author Chats. In the November issue of Studio Potter, Marion Angelica wrote The Floor of the Sky, wherein she shared ceramics artist Betsy Williams' recent search for high-fire, wild clays in New Mexico. Co-editor Jill Foote-Hutton… Read More

To fascinate is to “attract and hold attentively by a unique power or some other special quality.” To be fascinated is to be enthralled. Fascination arouses interest. Fascination is the first step of a journey with an unknown destination. We might travel so far on this journey that an external… Read More

Studio Potter is pleased to welcome Randi O'Brien as a Co-Editor. Beginning in January 2022, Studio Potter will have not one but two editors! The co-editors will publish in four-month blocks. Randi will bring us into the new year with a fresh, thoughtful selection of articles from January to April… Read More

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 2021/2022 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… 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