Inspired by the three-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, Julian Stair’s exhibition honors the lives of eight people with cinerary jars.
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Grounded in Clay and Moved by Spirit
An exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, curated by over 60 individual members of 21 tribal communities, paves the way for equitable collaborative possibilities.
The Pueblo Artist Who Brings Kink to Traditional Craft
Gender play, kink, and futures that touch traditional lifeways are enduring features of Virgil Ortiz’s work.
The Wondrously Defiant Art of Contemporary Ceramics
Strange Clay at the Hayward Gallery demonstrates the conceptual and technical innovation of contemporary ceramics with riotously joyful art.
How Japan’s Best Ceramists “Listen” to Clay
Listening to Clay sheds light on how Japanese clay workers went from skilled production craftspeople to fine artists, transforming the country’s culture in the process.
Fierce and Fantastical Experiments in Ceramics
The ceramics-focused Earth Oracles is a garden of earthly delights, with sumptuous glazes and a mastery of the medium on proud display.
Anabel Juárez’s Castles of Wonderment
By enshrining her memories into sculptural form, Juárez celebrates her emotional pilgrimage through the growing pains of childhood to adulthood.
A Museum Is Using Its Erotic Ceramics Collection for Cancer Prevention
Visitors to the Museo Larco in Peru learned how to perform self-tests for prostate and testicular cancer by touching the genitals of replicas of pre-Columbian huacos.
Kamoda Shōji, One of Japan’s Most Celebrated Ceramic Artists
Early on, Kamoda’s exhibitions were met with crowds who lined up around the block to see his elegant, elusive works.
Solange Knowles Has Launched a Brooklyn-Based Ceramics Residency
The program “promotes the spatial sensibilities and creative innovation of Black and Brown women practicing ceramic art.”
An Unsentimental Sculptor Confronts Mortality
Daisy Youngblood is a portrait sculptor whose themes include the embracing of one’s mortality.
Step Into a Pantry of Ceramic Groceries
Stephanie H. Shih’s selection came from Asian American social media followers, who helped pick the top “Western products which ‘feel’ Asian.”