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  • NCECA - The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts is a professional association of individuals and organizations whose interests, talents and careers are focused on the ceramic arts. NCECA also annually hosts what is indisputably the world's largest ceramics conference.

  • The Banff Centre is Canada's only learning Center dedicated to the arts, leadership development, and 'mountain culture'. The Ceramics Studios support artists with a Visual Arts Creative Residencies program.

  • The Dubhe Carreño Gallery of Contemporary Ceramic Art is located in Chicago, Illinois. Represented artists include Tanya Batura, Michael Geertsen, Sadashi Inuzuka, Noemí Márquez, Scott Rench and many others. Each artist is represented with images of works, artist's statement and bio.

  • American ceramist and printmaker Barbara Sorensen initially made works inspired by geological formations. Her curent small to large-scale free-standing sculptures and wall-based works reference goddesses and geology.

  • Miranda Thomas is an American studio potter making wheel-thrown functional stoneware. Her carved and painted designs of flora and fauna owe an obvious debt to the work of pioneer British potter Michael Cardew. Thomas shares her studio with her husband, furniture maker Charles Shackleton.

  • Enter the world of US studio potter Richard Milgrim's Japanese Tea Wares. Milgrim has been active in Japan and the USA. In 1984 his kiln in Yotsuya (near Kyoto) was named Richado-Gama by Dr. Sen Genshitsu, the former Grand Master of the Urasenke Tea Tradition. Bilingual Japanese/English.

  • Andretta Pottery - The small village of Andretta, in the Kangra valley, near the abode of the Dalai Lama, offers a fascinating cultural heritage and magnificent surroundings, and an opportunity to study pottery with the renown Indian studio potter Mansimran (Mini) Singh.

  • Elina Brandt-Hansen, member of the International Academy of Ceramics, is a Norwegian ceramist making intricate, hand-built stoneware and porcelain sculpture inspired by natural forms and fractal geometry.

  • Letters From Zen: The 3rd World Ceramics Biennale - ceramist Zen Parry describes her experiences at the 3rd World Ceramics Biennale in Ichon, Korea earlier this year. Hosted by criticalceramics.org.

  • Lawson Oyekan is a British ceramist whose abstract sculptures show the influence of his Nigerian roots. Oyekan won the Grand Prix Award at the 1st World Ceramic Biennale in Icheon, Korea in 2001.

  • The Cleveland Museum of Art has an extensive collection of ceramics from all ages. These can be found in the Decorative Arts, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Islamic, Greek and Roman Arts sections.

  • Martine Polisset is a ceramist living and working in the small village of Biot in the south of France, where she makes large-scale biomorphic, organic sculpture inspired by nature.

  • Markus Rusch is a German wood-firer making wheel-thrown functional ware. He built his own anagama kiln in Koralden in 2000. Bilingual German/English.

  • The Global Arts Village is a non-profit residential art center in New Delhi, India, offering artist in residence programs, classes, retreats and frequent special events and workshops. The Village enables creative people to experience cultural interaction in a natural, eco-friendly environment. It includes a 967 square foot ceramics studio.

  • Charles Bound is a wood-firing studio potter based in Otley, Yorkshire, whose rugged, expressive work can be favorably compared to that of Peter Voulkos and Paul Soldner.

  • Josie Walter is British studio potter making tableware and cooking pots in earthenware clay and decorated with slips and coloured glazes.

  • The Mingei International Museum in San Diego was incorporated in 1974 as a nonprofit, public foundation dedicated to furthering the understanding of art of all cultures of the world.

  • Ancient Greek Vase Database - this site by the Perseus Digital Library is a bit 'clunky', i.e. not much consideration has gone into design or useability, but if you persist, you will find an amazing database of Greek vases in the collections of universities from around the world.

  • Garth Johnson's weblog 'Extreme Craft' is perhaps not to everyone's taste. While Johnson has a background in ceramics, the site covers a whole range of critical art, craft and design issues.

  • British-born American potter Mark Hewitt was initially inspired to take up ceramics by Bernard Leach's A Potter's Book and was then apprenticed with Michael Cardew. He now lives in Pittsboro North Carolina, where he makes tableware, large-scale jars and other vessels.

  • Crapé Porcelain is a website by Belgian ceramist Urbain Crapé. The site traces his evolution from making figurative sculpture to his white-on-white porcelain wall 'collages' of today.

  • Frances Priest is a young Scottish ceramist making elegant abstract sculpture. In 2002 she received a Major Award for Individual Development from the Scottish Arts Council which allowed her to develop her first major body of work for the solo exhibition Line & Form held at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh in May 2003.

  • The Australian Woodfire Survey 2005 is an exhibition of woodfired ceramics by 40 leading Australian potters in Canberra from 24 March until 25 April.

  • The National Electronic and Video Archive of the Crafts - NEVAC is a collection of digital video and sound recordings of people who have been intimately associated with the development of the crafts in Britain. Various video clips, audio and articles are available free for download.

  • Christa Assad is an American studio potter making wheel-thrown functional ware, including a signature iron-shaped teapot.

  • Val Lyle is an American ceramist making expressive figurative sculpture in paperclay. Her work is influenced by "Carl Jung’s ideas of archetypes and the subconscious".

  • Ceramicà Serra is the website of the Spanish potter 'dynasty' Serra, which began with Antoni Serra (1869–1932) and continues to this day with Jordi Serra (b. 1942). It includes biographies, a museum and examples of work. Also available in Spanish and Catalan.

  • Neue Keramik is one of Germany's leading international ceramics magazines. Since January of this year, it is bi-lingual, offering its articles in German and English. The magazine's website, while not offering full articles, still has a wealth of information worth exploring.

  • The University of Wales Aberystwyth Ceramic Collection and Archive has a wealth of information on potters from the UK and elsewhere. Take some time to explore!

  • American ceramist yosoh, aka Scott Rench, creates computer generated images that are printed with a ceramic glaze onto a large canvas of clay. HB

  • British ceramist Julian Stair has made a name for himself designing elegant functional ceramics, most recently in porcelain, red stoneware and black basalt. Site requires Flash 6 plug-in (but it's worth it!).

  • Jan Kollwitz is a German studio potter making wheel-thrown, wood-fired stoneware vessels in the Japanese Echizen tradition. Bilingual German/English site.

  • Simone Fraser is an Australian ceramist making wheel thrown and altered sculptural vessels. Her corrugated, layered surfaces are enhanced with slips, oxide washes, and finally a dry glaze.

  • MAK Online is the Museum of Applied Modern Art in Vienna, Austria. An intuitive site with a good display from the museum's various collections, ranging from Far Eastern pottery to Wiener Werkstätte to contemporary design.

  • Prinda Setabandhu is a Thai-born ceramist and teacher resident in the USA. Her current works are experiments in the integration of various disciplines including ceramics, sculpture, film/video, sound, animation and interactive applications.

  • The National Museum of Women in the Arts is probably the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists. The museum has over 250 works by women artists from around the world in the museum's permanent collection and is currently highlighting pueblo pottery.

  • The Gardner Museum of Ceramic Art is the only museum in Canada devoted entirely to ceramics. It was founded in 1984 by Toronto philanthropists George and Helen Gardiner to house their outstanding ceramics collection and has often been described as a "jewel box" of ceramic treasures. HB

  • Jerry Bennett, currently artist-in-residence at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia, makes intricate sculptures using paperclay and terra sigillata. HB

  • Tavs Jorgensen is a ceramist with a difference. From 'binary pottery' and 'digital drawing' to rapid prototyping and hotelware - this is one cool maker. HB

  • Peter Hayes is a British potter making raku-fired work using textured clays combined with burnishing. Requires Flash 7, otherwise skip intro page. HB

  • Cultural Connections was founded in 1998 by Birthe Fraser to promote Danish and Nordic Applied Art in the UK. The site covers various media and has a nice selection of Danish ceramists. HB

  • Kerameiki Techni is a high-quality Greek magazine that deals with Greek and international ceramics. The website offers a good insight into the contents of the magazine with images and excerpts from the articles.

  • The Digital Museum of Cornish Ceramics has an extensive A-Z database of potteries in Cornwall, UK, as well as makers' marks, galleries and other pottery related information from the region. HB

  • AKAR is an art gallery located in downtown Iowa City focusing on contemporary ceramics of various styles. Recent shows included works by Blair Meerfeld, Diane Kenney, Robert Archambeau, Dan Anderson and Michael Kline.

  • The Zsolnay Porcelain Manufactory, established in in 1853, is one of Hungary's largest and best known porcelain producers.

  • Clay at Caecarrog features the work of Meri Wells and Steve Mattison. Meri makes figurative sculpture and Steve makes figurative sculpture and raku pieces. HB

  • Nina Hole is a Danish artist known for her spectacular firings of 'kiln-sculptures' at ceramic events. Her site reveals she has much more to offer than this.

  • Teabowls, teabowls, teabowls. The Oakwood Gallery (Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, UK) presents TOTALLY Teabowls a wonderful display or works by artists ranging from Amanda Brier to Edmund de Waal. HB

  • Christos Tsimpourlas is a Greek ceramist making domestic ware, sculptural works and architectural ceramics. Bilingual Greek/English. HB

  • The St. Earth Pottery features handmade stoneware and porcelain by American studio potter Scott Cooper. Also includes articles on processes, theory and other stuff. HB

  • The Museo Richard-Ginori della Manifattura di Doccia holds a remarkable collection (more than 8.000 pieces) of porcelain and tin-glazed earthenware, dating form 1737 to 1990.

  • Fire + Earth is an excellent site that includes over 350 pieces of ceramic art by 57 Canadian artists. Requires Flash, otherwise go for the text version.

  • The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University was established April 11, 1900 as 'The New York State School of Clay-working and Ceramics'. Today, it is one of the most respected ceramic educational institutions in the USA.

  • Annette Defoort is a Belgian ceramist making slab-built figurative sculptures. Flemish language only, but worth checking out anyway!

  • World Ceramics is hosted by the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. This site takes you on a grand tour of the history of world ceramics.

  • The International Museum of Print and Clay is sponsored by Professor Les Lawrence of Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA, and intended as a resource for people interested in clay art using print and clay techniques.

  • The Leach Pottery website has extensive information on Bernard Leach, his family and students and related artists such as Shoji Hamada.

  • The Islamic Ceramic Museum is a multilingual site featuring masterpieces of Islamic ceramics from throughout the centuries. The museum itself is located in Cairo, Egypt.

  • Sidestoke.com is one of the most extensive sites dedicated solely to wood-firing. It is maintained by Australian potter Arthur Rosser.

  • The Potters Council is a non-profit subsidiary of The American Ceramic Society. It was founded in 2001 to serve the needs of potters and ceramic artists by providing forums for knowledge exchange and professional enhancement. It is entirely governed by volunteer members.

  • The European Ceramic Work Centre - is an international workshop, where participants explore the art and techniques of ceramics. The studio offers working and living space, as well as a team of specialized professionals.

  • Hutschenreuther - may be one of the smaller German porcelain copmpanies, but it is one with a distinct sense of design class! The company caters mainly to the hotel and rstaurant industry.

  • World Crafts Council - is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization. Its purpose is to strengthen the status of crafts, to promote fellowship among the craftspeople of the world and to foster economic development through income generating activities.

  • Keramion - German language website on the 'Keramion' ceramics museum in Frechen, Germany. Check out 'Ausstellungen' (Exhibitions) and 'Sammlungen' (collections).

  • John Dix - is an American potter living in Japan. He draws on influences from the East and West, combining traditional Japanese wood-firing with Western style salt-glazing.

  • Dorothy Hafner is no stranger to most of us - her successful ceramics and glass wares have been around since the mid 1970s.

  • Rufford Craft Centre - it's got the lot - a collection of British studio pottery, a research facility, a library and a studio complete with a residency program.

  • Watershed Ceramic Arts Studio - a residency-retreat which provides artists from across the country and abroad with time and space to create in clay. Located in Maine, USA.

  • The Clay Studio is a non-profit educational arts organization dedicated to the promotion and development of the ceramic arts and the work of new clay artists.

  • Dick Lehman is a well known American studio potter making wood-fired stoneware and porcelain pottery in an anagama-style kiln.

  • Ulla Viotti - this Swedish landscape artist makes amazing public structures using bricks. Website is in Swedish and English. Click on the images for enlargements!

  • Interpreting Ceramics - brainfood for the potter! An international, refereed, electronic journal committed to research into ceramics. An initiative of the 'Interpreting Ceramics: Research Collaboration' (ICRC).

  • American Craft Council - A national, non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting understanding and appreciation of contemporary American craft.

  • CeramicSculpture.com - here you will find information on ceramic sculptors from around the world, from Champy to Voulkos, and lots of other stuff!

  • Pottery Making Illustrated is a practically oriented publication for amateurs and professionals alike. Published by the American Ceramic Society, articles cover throwing, glazing and firing and all sorts of other clay related topics.

  • E-Yakimono.net - Yakimono is Japanese for 'things that are fired'. Robert Yellin's comprehensive site is dedicated to Japanese ceramics past and present. A must for lovers of the ceramic art!

  • The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred houses nearly 8,000 ceramic and glass objects, ranging from small pottery shards recovered from ancient civilizations to contemporary sculpture and installation pieces to advanced ceramics reflecting the cutting edge of ceramic technology.

  • FJSAWORK - means Fujisawa's work. The soul of zen, becomes apparent in Fujisawa's ceramic installations and photography of the Japanese garden.

  • Alfar Galeria Azul - website of the Spanish potter José Antonio Sarmiento, who makes large scale, Japanese-inspired woodfired work in an Anagama kiln, as well as wheel-thrown tableware. English & Spanish.

  • Japanese Tea Bowl Masterworks Exhibition - possibly one of the most eminent collections of Japanese tea bowls ever shown in America. Hosted by Touching Stone Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico.

  • Archie Bray Foundation
    Founded in 1951, the Bray is a non-profit, educational institution dedicated to the enrichment of the ceramic arts, offering residencies and specialized workshops to ceramic artists from around the world.

  • Pierre Catanes' Clay Whistle Site - a wonderful site on historical and contemporary clay whistles from around the world. Even features a 'Monthly Whistle'. French & English.

  • Robert Arneson Tribute Site - The name says it all. Lots of stuff on Robert Arneson including clay work, drawings, articles interviews and lots more. This has got to be the best resource on the fun west coast artist.

  • Tiles On The Web - this is the definitive web site for tiles, be it historical, contemporary, technical info and heaps of other resources. Hosted by Tom Colson and going strong since 1995!

  • The International Ceramics Studio (ICS) - is a ceramic art center located eighty kilometres south of the Hungarian capital, Budapest. The mission of the studio is to promote the formal, aesthetic and technical development of ceramics and to help foster creative skills.

  • The Pottery Studio - a knowledge base for collectors, students and lovers of all kinds of pottery with the aim to include examples of work from all the major and minor potters and potteries.

  • Geoffrey Swindell - British porcelain artist making unique wheel-thrown, glazed and lustered miniature vessel forms.

  • The International Academy of Ceramics is a world body representing the interests of ceramists worldwide. Its membership consists primarily of individual makers, supported by writers and critics, museum and gallery curators and private collectors. A membership list is available for 56 countries around the globe.

  • Regina Heinz - Taking inspiration from the mountainous landscapes of her home country Austria, Regina Heinz creates hand built sculptural ceramics, ceramic reliefs and wall pieces.

  • Marie e.v.b. Gibbons - Marie is a ceramic artist from Denver, Colorado, making fantastic sculptures and vessels, reminiscent of Sergei Isupov.

  • John Norris - has held a life long interest in information, chiefly how it is organized and communicated. Another interest of his is what he calls the imaginative object. These are those things that show a creative mind at work. His site combines these two interests by looking at information about ceramic art.

  • The White House Collection of American Crafts - Assembled in 1993, the White House collection of American crafts features seventy-two works by seventy-seven of America's leading craft artists of today.

  • Kemal Uludag - Kemal is an award winning ceramic sculptor from Turkey. Works shown date back to 1985, but the more recent ones are the most stylish.

  • Gendered Vessels, Women And Ceramics - From humble cooking pot to postmodern vessel, women have had a special relationship with fired clay. This site from the Ceramic Collection and Archive of the University of Wales Aberystwyth, explores that relationship from past to present.

  • Bauhaus Pottery Workshop - the German design school of the 1920's and 1930's had a rough, short-lived history, but its influence on design was huge. No discussion of ceramic design is complete without a review of the Bauhaus' achievements.

  • Dakan Arts - Hawaiian ceramic artist David "Dakan" Allison's passion is making native masks and other ceramic art influenced by Hawaiian and Japanese culture.

  • Museu del Cantir d'Argentona - The Argentona Pottery Water Vessels Museum, located in Argentona, near Barcelona (Spain) is the first and foremost in its specialty, has as its primary objective the collection, conservation, study and propagation of all vessels related to the use of water, irrelevant of their geographic origin, period of production, material or typology. English, Spanish & Catalan.

  • StudioPottery.co.uk - this highly professional site is dedicated to promoting studio ceramics worldwide, but has British studio ceramics at its heart. It boasts the most extensive list of British potters I have ever come across.

  • Brenda B. Townsend - a cool web site and Raku with style. Brenda makes Raku tiles and jars and has some pointers on the firing process too.

  • Ferrin Gallery - a gallery in Massachusetts that specializes in Teapots. Current online exhibitions feature work by Chris Berti, Chris Antemann and Kerry Jameson.

  • Potters for Peace - seek to build an independent, non-profit, international network of potters concerned with peace and justice issues, principally through interchanges involving potters of the (overdeveloped) North and (underdeveloped) South.

  • Jean-Louis Frenk - a Swiss artist who has been working in the USA since 1998. His work ranges from simple high fired vessels to quirky sculptural teapots and full on ceramic sculpture.

  • Tea Ceremony - A comprehensive site on the Japanese Tea Ceremony with listings of Japanese Tea Masters, Raku bowl makers. With images. Bilingual - Japanese/English.

  • Chris Gusten has a beautifully designed site that does justice to his wonderful sculptural ceramics and tiles. Chris is interested in pottery that makes connections to the human figure.

  • Critical Ceramics is a site that deals with critical theory within ceramics. Here you will find a number of articles on issues dealing with ceramics, ranging from discussions on Bernard Leach to exhibition reviews to reports from NCECA.

 


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