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November/December '07 Eden Revisited: Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser A Handbuilt Basket Project Hot New Claywork from Josh Copus's Noborigama Essential Packing Tips to Help Your Pots Survive A Journey An E-Z Way to Take Pot Shots Like A Pro Jafar Shoja's Dysfunctional Teapots Marketing Your Pottery: The Quest for Wow! Practical Use of the Unity Formula Ceramic Talc: Two Sides of a Story Could You Help A Fellow Potter?

September/October '07 John Bauman: Picks of the Season Claymobile Community Outreach Program Making Sense of Unity Formulas Serve 'em Up: A Double-Walled Platter Project More Great Tools for Throwing Texas Clayfest: BIG FUN for Potters "Botanical" at Santa Fe Clay Life, Line & Color: The Works of Deb LeAir Could You Leave Your Career for a Life in Clay? Three Guys and Some Pottery

July/August '07 Tim Christensen: Purely Black and White Groovy Pots & Ways to Make Them A Closer Look at Glaze Formulation How-to Raku: Too Hot to Handle! Remembering Rudy Autio Inviting Critique: Can You Handle the Truth? Linda Taylor: Creativity & Resiliency Follow the Line: ACGA Artists Titanium Dioxide & Studio Safety The Inconvenient Truth for Potters

May/June '07 Natalie Blake Carves her Niche in the Clay World How to Make Great Plates Conversations with Nick Joerling Building A Banana Leaf Kiln in Thailand More Tried-and-True Techniques for Waxing & Glazing Strictly Functional Pottery National Sound of the Earth: Clay Instruments Art of the Pot Shocking New OSHA Regulations New Products & Ideas Candling: More on Marc Ward's Pet Peeve

March/April '07 The Ceramic House: Pottery You Can Live In! Understanding and Applying Glaze without Ruining Your Work Conner Burns: Pushing Pots and Career Georgia Perspectives Showcase and Sale Building the Sugar Maples Soda Kiln Aventurine Glazes: 14 New Recipes for Cones 04 & 5 22nd Alabama Clay Conference The Bray Effect Kilnopening.edu Exhibition "Fashion Footwear" for Potters

January/February '07 20+1 Years of Tozan Kilns Intro to Glaze Chemistry How to Make Great Plates NCECA Clay National Exhibit Brian Taylor's Pots with Purpose Confessions of an Electric Kiln Repairman Lars Westby's Weathered Surfaces Blair Meerfield Workshop Free EPA Booklet on Artist's Health and Safety in the SchoolsInstru Instruments for Measuring Temperature, Part 3 Why We Need Teachers

November/December '06 Otto Heino, Living Legend Spray Equipment for Slips & Glazes Deborah Shapiro's Secrets to Eye-catching Pots and Displays Dynamite Formulas for Crystalline Glazing How to Make Great Goblets Jan Jacque Mixes Clay and Wood Instruments for Measuring Temperature Marc Lancet Workshop at Sierra Nevada College

September/October '06 Sandy Culp's Trompe L'oeil Buying A New Pug Mill Ceramic Artists Rebuild After Hurricane Katrina Weighing the Risks of Manganese Exposure Discovering Glazes: Simplified Techniques "Architectural Echoes" Wood-fired Clay Exhibit Instruments for Measuring Temperature Fluting Wet Pots Tools to Maintain Your Studio Art Centers: The Other Education Arena

July/August '06 An Extravagance of Salt & Pepper Buying A New Slab Roller High-tech Kiln Shelves: The Pros & Cons Brian Somerville's Animal Confrontations Fluting Pots for Terrific Texture Building Your Own Adjustable-height Banding Wheel Collaborative Clayworks of Tom Collins & Bryan Yancey Portrayals of Comfort: Works of Jennifer Allen Earth, Surrealism, & Marketing: Jeff Brown's Clay Art Building an Adjustable Banding Wheel Art Centers: The Other Education Arena

May/June '06 X-Man's Guide to Crystalline Glazing Avoiding Internet Rip-off Scams Lasting Impressions with Rope Texture Pottery Training: Mothering in the Clay Studio Multi-faceted Forming Methods Shopping for an Extruder Making it BIG Raku the Painterly Way Perfectly Different: Alice Munn and Fong Choo Shopping for a Manual Clay Extruder Giving A Critique Chromium: The Green Chemical

March/April '06 Sandy Miller's Compromise Handbuilding with Soft Slabs Buying A New High-fire Electric Kiln Pete Pinnell Addresses the Reduction Debate Texturing Surfaces with Bisqued Stamps Living Dishes Exhibition Hideaki Miyamura: A Man of 10,000 Glazes More of Steven Hill's Secrets to Form & Furface About Wood-fired Pottery Todd Leech's Salku Encounters

January/February '06 Rebekah Bogard's Large-scale Works Building A Mini Wood-fire Kiln Thoughts on Pricing Steven Hill's Secrets to Form and Surface Fired Up on Maui Mid-Atlantic Clay Conference The Mosaic Tile House Allen Moe's Artful Dirt Finch Pottery Pyromania Put Another Lid on It The Shrinkage Ruler How to Survive A Critique

November/December '05 CERF Aids Artist Katrina Victims Firing Costs On the Rise Tables, Shelves, and Ware Carts Put A Lid On It! Occupational Ceramics Illness Imaginative Imagery of Lauren Gallaspy Cone 5 Zinc Glazes Charlie Tefft: In the Flow Rising Fuel Costs Tables, Shelves, & Ware Carts An Explosive Topic Jeff Oestreich's Working Process Potters with Illness Come Forward

September/October '05 Potsketch 2005 Fundraiser Dorothy Davis's Oil-spot Glazes Zen and the Art of Centering Walnut Creek Potters Guild Tools for Terra Sigillata Marbleized Clay Forms Shino Glaze Variations & Recipes Hot Advice on Buying Burners

July/August '05 Raku in Hawaii: The Perfect Mix of Work & Pleasure Refraction and Flux Exhibition Eastern Shore Pit-firing Denise Smith's Layered Slips Animalistic Artifacts Tool Cost vs. Efficiency Meredith's Matte Glaze Variations

May/June '05 Philippe Faraut: Sculpting the Portrait Pricing Your Work Bill Hunt's Life with Clay 8th Annual K-12 National Fluorescent Glazes Banding Wheels and Turntables Denise Smith's Large Vessels The Pottery Underground: Fireside Web Radio Titanium Glazes for Extreme Surfaces

March/April '05 Ron Meyers: Ten Years Later Penland Glaze Workshop Stephen Wright's Drums of a Different Beat Body Language: The Figure in Clay Fancy Footwork NCECA 2005 Clay National Hood College's Alternative Teaching Certificate

January/February '05 An Interview with Simon Levin Great New Glazes for Cones 6 and 10 Baltimore's 2005 Tour de Clay Exhibit Preview Selling Your Claywork Through A Gallery The Road to Mata Ortiz How to Fire Damp Work Ceramics Photography Tips Who Needs an M.F.A.?

November/December '04 Mark Hewitt's Mammoth Pots All About Bats American Museum of Ceramic Art Opens with Soldner Exhibition Rand Heazlitt's Wood & Salt Works Dancing Platters, Step-by-step Italy's Ceramics Expo: Tecnargilla 2004 Our Cups Runneth Over Exhibit Making A Damp Box Electric Firing Tips Formulas from the Potter's Book of Glaze Recipes

September/October '04 In Depth with Sequoia Miller One-piece Covered Jars Steamin' Teapots Pinhole Prevention Tile: Matter & Motif Exhibit Rimas VisGirda: Line & Color A Fairy-Tale Exhibit Steve Albrechtson's Porcelain Luminaries Horse Hair Raku Viola Frey: 1933-2004 Plaster Hazards Success Stories

July/August '04 Charitable 2D Clayart: Potsketch 2004 Squared Forms from Round Pots Low-cost Ways to Promote Your Work Preventing Glaze Crawl Feats of Clay XVII Exhibit Gargoyles: A Great Project for Kids Constructive Critiques Tool Safety Julie Wheeler's Folder Forms Tool Safety Phil & Trista Chapman: Sharing A Pottery Career

May/June '04 Bill van Gilder's DIY Pottery Comes to Television Kyle Carpenter's Fast Track Building Your Own Drum Kiln Clay As Therapy by Kerry Shea Animal Instincts: Stefani Gruenberg Julia Galloway's Artful Insights Pt 3 What's Up with Wiggle Wires Carl Schoenberger's "The Kiln God Show" Scripps College 60th Anniversary Exhibition Maggie Jones' "Wild Dirt"

March/April '04 Tom Turner Resurfaces Sliptrailing Techniques NCECA Regional Student Juried Exhibition Julia Galloway's Artful Insights Pt 2 Jerry Rothman: Five Decades Textured Attachments Accessories for Your Claywork The Making of Noh Masks Marriage of Forms Weathered Bronze, Part Two

January/February '04 David Ogle's Saggar-fired Porcelain Handbuilding with Large Slabs Major Works in Clay Julia Galloway's Artful Insights Pt 1 Exploiting the Airbrush Wood Firing at the Hambidge Center Handling Handles Weathered Bronze, Part One

November/December '03 Judith Duff at Mid-Atlantic Clay Conference 21st Century Ceramics Exhibit Great Plates Building A Successful Community Studio Sprig Mold Methodology Marty Fielding's Soda-fired Works Shared Classroom Tools

September/October '03 Barb Campbell: Making Her Mark Cambridge Pottery Festival Shino Glazes Revisited Elit-Tile Stiff Slab Box Building Solutions for Firing Problems Making Your Own Sprig Molds Tattooed Ceramics

July/August '03 Frank Boyden & Friends at Finch's Otto Heino's Million-Dollar Glaze Formula Deep Dish Handbuilding Sex Pots: Eroticism in Ceramics Maria Martinez Exhibition Increasing Your Claywork Sales Naked Raku, Flemish-style

May/June '03 Posey Bacopoulos­Maiolica at Terra Incognito Archieving Visibility In the Art World NCECA Student Exhibition Making Your Bats Fit Sierra Nevada's Awesome Tahoe Workshops Throwing and Altering Casseroles Studio Storage Solutions

March/April '03 On the Cutting Edge Lynn Meade's Carved Forms Building A Homemade Kickwheel NCECA 2003 Clay National Surface Embellishment With Sprigs & Stamps A Kiln of Recycled Materials Figure Sculpture With Molds Developing your Own Potter's Web Site "The Artful Teapot" Exhibition Keeping Carbon Monoxide Out of the Clay Studio

January/February '03 Emerging Talent: Ceramic Competition Winners Kristen Kieffer's Lingerie-style Pots "Illusion of Reality" Trompe L'oeil Exhibition Celebrating the Yixing Teapot Throwing Large Forms Tiles From Twin Cities Building Your Own Spray Booth Polymer Clay Hazards

September/October '02 Sam Scott's Pots Strictly Functional Pottery National Understanding Unity Formulas Terra Sigillata: A Primer Techiques for Teaching Ceramics Profile: Marilyn Richeda Cone 6 Glazing Remembering David Shaner

July/August '02 Robert "Boomer" Moore's Signature Style Building a Raku Kiln Base A Weekend with the Masters Digging Your Own Clay Joyce Michaud: Meeting the Challenge Cathy Broski's Journey to Clay Oregon Potters' Lesson in Showmanship Variations on Floating Blue Glaze Formulas

May/June '02 Rodney Mott's Figure Sculpture NCECA 2002 in Photos Wood Firing for the First Time Randy Johnston: A Circular Process Foire Aux Tupiniers - Art Fair in Lyon, France Native American Influences on Modern-day Pottery Programmable Low-fire Glazes

March/April '02 Special Tribute to Peter Voulkos New Ceramics Museums Unveiled at WOCEK Tile Heritage Festival in Washington, DC Tom & Elaine Coleman: Copper Red King and Celadon Queen Elements of a Terrific Teapot Story Pots and Motherhood Dynamite Uses for Commercial Glazes

January/February '02 Japanese Potters Hosted in USA Texas Wood Fire Linda McFarling's Vessels That Pour Clay on the Web Lead Cautions for Expectant Parents Human Forms Exhibit Ceramic Jewelry Mid-Atlantic Clay Conference New Glaze Samples Planning a Kiln Adrian Arleo's Sculpture Unusual Tools

November/December '01 Tatsuzo Shimaoka in Washington, DC Emerging Artist Steven Cousens Reality TV Goes to Pottery A Sink Trap for Clay Scrap Native American Student Art Show Bacia Edelman's Lifetime of Claywork Glaze Analysis Using Unity Formulas Stiff-slab Handbuilding with Marj Peeler Feats of Clay Exhibit

September/October '01 Woodstoke 2001: Voulkos, Soldner, Autio, Balistreri, & Mott Bisque Basics Burner Port Placement Design Elements for Clay People The Millennium Wall: A Kids' Tile Project Cat Jarosz's Functional Art Photographing Your Work: An Update David Kuraoka's Pit-fired Works High School Ceramic Safety Tips

July/August '01 Emerging Forms of Alice Munn Build Your Own Transmission Wheel Plate and Platter Exhibition Jeff Oestreich's Thrown & Altered Pots Financing for Clay Artists Anatomy of Propane Firing Systems Dioxin Dangers in Ball Clay Tom and Jean Latka's Extruded Vessel Project Trompe L'Oeil Works of Sylvia Hyman

May/June '01 Banff,Canada: A Place for Inspiration NCECA 2001 Conference Highlights Out of the Fire Exhibit Pete Pinnell's Teapot Assembly Method Getting the Lead Out How Clay Artists Can Utilize the Internet Making Simple Tools With a Bench Grinder Three Paths to Surface Design A Tile Project for Kids

March/April '01 David Norton's Cosmic Pots NCECA Clay National Are Your Wares Microwave Safe? Palestine Juglets Venues for Selling Your Work Vapor Firing With Biz Littell Home Office Tax Write-offs Tools You Can Make Whimsical Figures About Pyrometers Raku in the Schools Ergonomic Injuries: New Regulations

January/February '01 Jim Connell's Sandblasted Surfaces Horsetail Raku A Potter's Journey to Cuba K-12 Open Bowls Pottery Disaster Stories South Carolina Clay Exhibit Internet Sites for Clay Artists Parturition Sets San Francisco Clay & Glass Festival Lea Topping's Wall Tiles Utilitarian Clay Insights A Safe Studio, Part 2

November/December '00 Victoria Christen Glaze Calligraphy Soft Slab Handbuilding With Lana Wilson Marie Gibbons Building a Safe Studio Utilitarian Clay Exhibit Svend Bayer's Thai-style Wood Kiln Crack Prevention A Celebration of Women Cane Handles Glossary of Firing Terms Baltimore Clayworks' Anniversary Exhibit

September/October '00 Crystalline Glazing at Cone 6 A Weekend With Jack Troy Porcelain 2000 Exhibit Textured Surfaces Flame Retention Devices Extruder Experience Clay Studio Recordkeeping Rick Berman's Raku Workshop More on Hazards of Talc Insects as Classroom Models Sublime Servers Ancient Ceramic Lamps of Palestine

July/August '00 Connie Christensen Installing a Ceramic Fountain Lill St.'s Anniversary Cup Exhibit The Joy of Style Shino Glaze Formulas Step-by-step Centering for Beginners Ramon Camarillo's Raku Archie Bray Exhibit A Safer Ceramic Fiber Height & Width Design Concerns Eyewear Protection for Kiln Gazing Benjamin Burns

May/June '00 A Touch of Porcelain Randy Brodnax's Voluminous Pots Lids for a Perfect Fit NCECA in Photos Habit of Mentorship Jim Leedy Retrospective Exhibition Making Plates & Platters Saggar Firing Update Incremental Additions for Faster Glaze Testing Understanding Kiln Shutdowns Taking a Shine to Shino, Part III

March/April '00 Inspiring Lines: The Ceramic Art of Don Davis "Naked" Raku Stained Surfaces Mudfest '99 Surface Design Inspiration Shino Glazes, Part II Ceramics for a New Millennium Wood-fired Cup Exhibit Visual Roots Lessons From a Pug Mill Accident Dahlman's Dazzling Clayworks Spone™ Human Bone Ash Pots

January/February '00 Robin Hopper's "Pots of Purpose" Workshop Legitimately Lower Taxes Taking a Shine to Shinos Preventing Studio Fires Linda Cordell's Lifelike Porcelain Insects Virginia Clay Conference Raku Kilns, Part 2 Pyrochromatics Wood-fire Symposium Sensuous Surfaces at Baltimore Clayworks Does Size Really Matter?

September/October '99 Paperclay with Ian Gregory International Potter's Fest How to Mix Glazes Clay Totem Poles Quick & Easy Mosaics Barb E. Doll's Figure Sculpture Italian Terra Cotta Robert Piepenburg's "Dialogue with Clay" Selecting Burner Valves Mediaramics

July/August '99 Stephen Robison & Kathleen Guss Pyromania '99 Nature in Clay More Simple Glazes Leaching Hazards of Ceramic Wares Earning an Income from Your Claywork Brookfield Craft Center A Different Approach to Wheel Throwing Ceramics from Georgia Collections Wood-fired Pottery Exhibit

January/February '99 Phil Rogers Workshop Anderson Ranch Revisited "Living With Tile" Slip Trailing Techniques Studio Options for Those Who are Physically Challenged Manassas Clay Cooperative Crackle Raku Basics Firing Copper Reds, Part II Ceramic Safety in the Schools International Pottery Studio of Kecskemet, Hungary

November/December '98 Collecting Ceramic Art Secrets to Firing Great Copper Reds Setting up a Teaching Studio How to Make Goblets NC Pottery Center Presents "A Different Turn" A Wood-fire Kiln Project in Germany Pit Firing in a Barbeque To Build or to Buy a Kiln? Pottery and the Japanese Art of Food Arrangement

July/August '97 Al Qoyawayma's Native American Pottery Fertilizers as Glaze Materials Insurance for Clay Artists John Glick Workshop Studio Safety Tips for Kids Historic Edgefield Pots Zakin's Cone 3 Clay Formula NCECA '97 in Photos Potters for Peace in Nicaragua Tom Coleman's Vegas Red Glaze Throwing by Feet?

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