Links

Below is a collection of art and ceramics web links divided into Technical Ceramics, Ceramics Galleries, Art Museums and Other Online Collections, Miscellaneous, and Former ACC Students Active in Clay. At all of the gallery links you can peruse exhibitions and the work of represented artists online, and the museum links are those that have some or all of their collections accessible online.

To purchase the 2016 edition of my book, Clay: A Studio Handbook, go to Amazon, or the Ceramic Arts Network Bookstore. At the latter you have the choice of a print copy or a downloadable PDF eBook.

Technical Ceramic Information and Suppliers

STARworks – the wonderful art-centered work community, ceramic supplier, gallery, clay and glass studio, cafe, and taproom located in an old hosier factory in Star, North Carolina
Studio Pro Bats – best prices on Medex waterproof MDF (medium-density fiberboard) throwing bats. In my experience, Medex is by far the best choice for throwing bats.
Mason Color Works – makers of Mason stains – online color charts of Mason stains.
Edward Orton Foundation – makers of Orton pyrometric cones – cone charts and other technical information about cones.
US Pigment – supplier of coloring oxides, ceramic stains, and hard-to-find ceramic raw materials.
Digitalfire – website of Tony Hansen, inventor of the Insight glaze-calculation software – treasure-trove of technical ceramics information.
Digitalfire Reference Database – go straight to Tony Hansen’s extensive library of technical articles.
Ceramic Industry – organization and magazine. This link leads to their extensive article, “Pottery Production Practices: Pottery Myths,” by Jeff Zamek, one of the most knowledgeable potters around when it comes to technical matters.
Laguna Clay Company – this link leads to a good collection of technical articles and a database of SDS (safety data sheets) for ceramic materials.
Glazy – Derek Au’s extensive recipe website including glazes, claybodies, slips, underglazes, overglazes, and refractories.
Mid-South Ceramics – my favorite ceramic supplier in Tennessee
Linda Arbuckle Handouts – a treasure-trove of good handouts about claybodies, glazes, and other ceramic information.
Brian Gartside Pottery – famed New Zealand potter’s page chock full of excellent information, including downloadable books and handouts (some for a fee).
Julia Galloway – in addition to her beautiful work, lots of good technical information.
Of Concern – Ben Fiess’s resource for handmade ceramic art and pottery. Includes a good collection of cone-04, cone-2, and cone-6 oxidation glaze recipes with images of the test samples and full data on each glaze. Also includes the same for a collection of cone-6 and con-9 oxidation claybodies.
Hank Murrow – Fine potter, tool-maker, kiln-designer/builder extraordinaire. Check out his amazing Doorless Fiber Kiln. There’s a lot of good info on his website.

Ceramics Galleries with Online Exhibitions and Collections

Blue Spiral Gallery – click “art” in the banner above and then click on individual artists to see their work.
Crocker Farm Auctions – this is an auction house specializing in Early American pottery, with extensive images of work in various categories.
Crimson Laurel Gallery – click “artists” in upper right and then click on individual potters.
Trax Gallery – click “artists” in upper banner.
Schaller Gallery – click “makers” in upper banner.
Charlie Cummings Gallery – click “current exhibitions” and scroll down to the bottom of the drop-down menu and click on the different categories of represented artists.
Red Lodge Clay Center Gallery – click “artists” in upper banner.
Pucker Gallery – click “artists” in upper banner.
Akar Gallery – click “artists” in left banner.
Ferrin Gallery – click “artists” in upper banner.
Plinth Gallery – click “artists” in upper banner.
Mudfire Gallery – click “shop now” on right to see represented artists.
Oxford Ceramics Gallery – click “artists” on left banner to select individual artists.
Online Ceramics – click “Our Artists” in upper banner.
Signature Gallery – scroll down to see represented artists.
New Morning Gallery – three pages of thumbnails – click on the ones you like.
Clark and Delvecchio – click artists on left banner – mostly sculptural work, but important artists.
York Art Gallery New Centre of Ceramic Art – scroll down and click on names.
John Natsoulas Gallery – sculptural ceramics.
Frank Lloyd Gallery – contemporary ceramics
Freehand Gallery – contemporary ceramics
Sherrie Gallery – contemporary ceramics
In Tandem Gallery – contemporary ceramics – click on “ceramic,” and then click on individual artists.

Art Museums and other Online Collections

American Museum of Ceramic Art
Access Ceramics – an extensive collection of images of work by contemporary potters and ceramic sculptors assembled by the library at Lewis and Clark College.
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen – amazing collection of Dutch and German art and craft, including jugs and steins in ceramics and other media – many pages to scroll through, and you have to go to page 10 or so before you get to any ceramics.
The Dinnerware Museum
British Museum
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University
Victoria and Albert Museum
Metropolitan Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Louvre Museum
St. Louis Art Museum
DeYoung Museum, San Francisco
The Gardner Museum of Ceramics, Toronto, Canada
Guggenheim Museum
Smithsonian National Gallery of Art
Smithsonian Museum of American Art and Renwick Gallery
Smithsonian African Art Museum
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design
Smithsonian Freer/Sackler Museum of Asian Art
Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
MOMA (Museum of Modern Art)
Getty Museum
Brooklyn Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art
Harvard Art Museums
Princeton University Art Museum
The Hermitage (St. Petersburg, Russian Republic)
National Gallery of Canada
The Tate Galleries
Carnegie Museum of Art
Norton Simon Museum
Ringling Museum of Art
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Google Art Project

Miscellaneous Links

North Carolina Pottery Center – museum, gallery, and educational center located in Seagrove, NC, pottery mecca of the Southeast.
Field Guide for Ceramic Artists – Julia Galloway’s amazing new website of information and resources developed to help and support students when they are finishing school. Click on “Table of Contents” at the top to access the extensive content.
The Marks Project – A dictionary of American studio pottery marks and signatures, 1946 to the present, for identifying studio potters/sculptors and their work.
Ceramic Arts Daily – the studio clay web presence of the American Ceramic Society.
Studio Potter – the online presence for Studio Potter magazine, with sample articles and other useful information.
Ceramics Today – lots of useful and informative articles.
CFile Online – Garth Clark’s online ceramics magazine. Probably the most intelligent writing about contemporary ceramics online today. CFile is a subscription service, but much information and articles are available for free at this site.
Leach Pottery – the historic Bernard Leach Pottery in St. Ives, England, where Craft Center BFA alumnus Kat Wheeler is on the production team.
CERF – The Craft Emergency Relief Fund – emergency relief for craftspeople who have suffered catastrophic loss. Please help support CERF.
Potters for Peace – a worldwide network of potters working towards peace and justice at all levels.
NCECA – National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts – an organization of studio ceramics educators and artists that runs the annual NCECA Conference, a wonderful event that no one in studio ceramics should miss.
How to Unlock Your Hidden Creativity – a nice article from Open Colleges.

Former TTU Clay Students Active in Clay
This list includes ceramic artists who were my students at the Craft Center and are currently active in clay. Most are graduates of our BFA program, while some like Beth Cavener and Liz Zlot Summerfield came to the Craft Center for post-baccalaureate studies. You can see ceramic work by many of these artists in the gallery of student work.