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A collection of articles,
suggestions, and Q&A from the Ceramics Monthly archives
published over the past 20+ years. Potters share their knowledge on a full
range of topics including designing a studio, making and using tools and
equipment, photographing work, marketing and sales, kilns and firing.
Woven through the fabric of this book are also the stories of problem
solving, insightful solutions, and the individual stories of challenges
and successes. This is a must-have book for any potter of clay artist
setting a course for pursuing clay beyond the casual past-time.
 | A 21st Century Potter by Janet Buskirk
| Finding Your Niche by Brad Sondahl
| Making a Living in the 90s by Ray Bub
| Learning Through Apprenticeship by Alisa Carroll
| The Marketing Dance by Richard Selfridge
| Attention to Detail by Tony and Sheila Clennell
| Red Star Studios by Paula Sibrack Marian
| Selecting and Designing a Studio by Ric Swenson
| A Garden Exhibition by Alice Heystek
| Photographing Ceramics Black & White by Glenn
Rand and William Blanchard
| Photographing Ceramics Color by Glenn Rand
| Photographing Ceramics Revisited by Glenn Rand
| Attaining Merchant Status by Mark E. Battersby
| Pack With Care by Debra Burke
| Writing an Artist’s Statement by Ariane Goodwin
| Is It Covered by Mark E. Battersby
| Questions to Ask a Gallery by Karen Shelly-Genther
| Customers: How to Get Them by Constance Hallinan
Lagan
| Profiting Under the Right Label by Mark E. Battersby
| Going for the Gold by Garth Clark
| Build a $75 Electric Wheel by Jolyon Hofsted |
| A $50 Ball Mill by Onis Cogburn
| Modifying a Cement Mixer for Mixing Clay by Susan
Nykiel and Ray Bub
| A Dry Clay Mixer by Brian VanNostrand
| The $1200 Studio by Lili Krakowski
| The Versatile Extruder by William Shinn
| An Environmentally Safe Spray Booth by Bill Campbell
| A Low Cost Spray Booth by Lawrence Blazey
| A Utilitarian Spray Booth by Carol and Jim Gross
| Bamboo Tools by Mel Malinowski
| The Brush as Art by Pete Helzer
| Glaze Dipping: Tubs and Tongs by Bennett Welsh
| Mining with the Potter in Mind by David Hendley
| The Perfect Clay Body? by Jeff Zamek
| Clay Body Absorption and Shrinkage by Jeff Zamek
| Q&A/Suggestions
| Salt and Refractory Coatings by Mel Jacobson |
| Insulating Existing Kilns by Regis Brodie
| What Size Burners? How Much Gas by Robert D. Schmitz
| The Mysterious Hole by Marc Ward
| A Castable Venturi Burner by W. Lowell Baker
| The Oxygen Probe: A Potter’s Tool by Nils Lou
| Firing with Waste Oil and Water by Ali Sheriff
| Firing with Vegetable Oil by John Britt
| George Wright by Janet Buskirk
| Lessons from a City Kiln by Marc Leuthold
| A Fast-Firing Test Kiln by Rick Childs
| Kazegama by Steve Davis
| A Double-Chambered Kiln by Penelope Fleming
| Building a Modular Kiln by Bob McWilliams
| A Doorless Fiber Kiln by Hank Murrow |
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