More than a few decades into the digital revolution, the expectation for instant information is pervasive. At workplace water coolers, dinner tables, and social gatherings, cell phones and tablets are called into service to provide answers to questions ranging from the mundane to the obscure. The 21st–century native wants answers now and ...
For Chicago artist Jay Strommen, life is all about transforming the conceptual into the material. Strommen, also known as “Jayzo”, is the founder of the Chicago Ceramic Center at the Bridgeport Art Center located just southwest of the home of the White Sox on Old Bubb...
February’s Second Saturday at Ceramic Supply Chicago will feature Mike Sievers from Skutt Ceramic Products in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Sievers is the Director of Marketing at Skutt and an expert in the operation and maintenance of kilns. He will present a very useful seminar on various aspects of kiln use. He says, “This i...
“Scholar” is not a term often associated with ceramic artists, not even with those who have spent a lifetime expressing through clay. We tend to think of artists as doers, not thinkers, or perhaps as people who do their thinking with their hands. For Dr. Judith Schwartz, of New York University, humankind’s most elemental makin... 
With more than four decades of working with clay, Tom Radca has made a lot of pots. This 65-year old ceramic artist virtually buzzes with enthusiasm about his work. The history of his years as a potter is a virtual creative evolution, as he continues to transform his inspiration and techniques. ...