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The Pueblo Artist Who Brings Kink to Traditional Craft 

Avatar photo by KT Thompson January 25, 2023January 25, 2023

Gender play, kink, and futures that touch traditional lifeways are enduring features of Virgil Ortiz’s work.

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Shining a Light on a Dark Chapter of American Pottery 

Avatar photo by Ekin Erkan January 23, 2023January 25, 2023

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina brings awareness of both Edgefield’s awesome artistry and poet-potter David Drake’s odds-defying life to a sizable audience.

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Children’s Drawings, Grocery Lists, And Other Inscriptions Found On Ancient Egyptian Sherds

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 7, 2022February 8, 2022

Egyptologists have uncovered over 18,000 bits of broken pottery used as writing surfaces 2,000 years ago.

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Paying Homage to the Ancient Vessels That Transported Water

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford July 25, 2021July 23, 2021

Asunción Molinos Gordo creates pitchers, jugs, and basins in centuries-old designs typical of the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean.

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A Prison Abolitionist Ceramics Studio Is Helping Change People’s Lives

by Rachel Elizabeth Jones December 14, 2020May 23, 2022

The People’s Pottery Project is becoming a structure of support for formerly incarcerated women, trans, and nonbinary individuals.

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The Perfectly Imperfect Grayson Perry

by Michael Glover February 1, 2020January 31, 2020

Grayson Perry, the celebrated potter, is indefatigable on the subject of himself.

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100 Pieces of Tewa Pottery Returned to Their Ancestral Home in the Rio Grande Valley

Avatar photo by Ellie Duke October 30, 2019October 30, 2019

“I think they’re very eager to return,” said Lonnie Vigil of Nambé Pueblo, “and so are we to have them back.”

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Grayson Perry’s Subversive and Psychosexual World

Avatar photo by Melissa Stern April 28, 2016April 27, 2016

SYDNEY — The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Australia has mounted the first ever retrospective of Grayson Perry’s work in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Aboriginal Women in Australia Celebrate Their Football Heroes with Pottery

Avatar photo by Melissa Stern March 31, 2016March 31, 2016

MELBOURNE — The desert of Central Australia might seem like an unlikely place to find an art cooperative making potent and beautiful pottery.

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The Deep-Rooted Expression of Ceramics

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 9, 2016March 9, 2016

DETROIT — One does not, perhaps, consider ceramic objects to be immediately gendered, possess sexuality, or be particularly political.

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