Studio Practices, Techniques and Tips: A Collection of Articles from Ceramics Monthly

Studio Practices, Techniques and Tips is a collection of articles, suggestions, and questions and answers from the Ceramics Monthly archives. 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. There are also stories of problem solving, insightful solutions, and the individual stories of challenges and successes. This is a must-have book for any potter or clay artist setting a course for pursuing clay beyond the casual past-time.

Workshop Planning and Business Practices

A 21st Century Potter by Janet Buskirk
Finding Your Niche by Brad Sondahl
The Studio Sale by David Cuzick
Learning Through Apprenticeship by Alisa Carroll
Selling at Retail Shows by Sandi Pierantozzi and Neil Patterson
Studio and Showroom Organization by Dick Lehman
The Marketing Dance by Richard Selfridge
Attention to Detail by Tony and Sheila Clennell
Red Star Studios by Paula Sibrack Marian
Attaining Merchant Status by Mark E. Battersby
A Garden Exhibition by Alice Heystek
Questions to Ask a Gallery by Karen Shelly-Genther
Pack With Care by Debra Burke
Writing an Artist Statement by Ariane Goodwin
Is It Covered by Mark E. Battersby
Profiting Under the Right Label by Mark E. Battersby
Photographing Ceramics: Black-and-White Images by Glenn Rand and William Blanchard
Photographing Ceramics: Color Transparencies, Slides and Prints by Glenn Rand
Photographing Ceramics Revisited by Glenn Rand
Going for the Gold by Garth Clark
Materials and Equipment

Build a $75 Electric Wheel by Jolyon Hofsted
A Dry Clay Mixer by Brian Van Nostrand
Modifying a Cement Mixer for Mixing Clay by Susan Nykiel and Ray Bub
The $1200 Studio by Lili Krakowski
The Versatile Extruder by William Shinn
An Environmentally Safe Spray Booth by Bill Campbell
A Utilitarian Booth Display by Carol and Jim Gross
Bamboo Tools by Mel Malinowski
Mining with the Potter in Mind by David Hendley
The Perfect Clay Body? by Jeff Zamek
Clay Body Absorption and Shrinkage by Jeff Zamek
Kilns

Salt and Refractory Coatings by Mel Jacobson
Insulating Existing Kilns by Regis Brodie
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 Vegetable Oil by John Britt
George Wright: Oregon Potter's Friend and Inventor Extraordinaire by Janet Buskirk
Lessons from a City Kiln by Marc Leuthold with Sarah G. Wilkins
Kazegama by Steve Davis
A Fast-Firing Test Kiln by Rich Childs
Building a Modular Kiln by Bob McWilliams
Recycle That Old Kiln by David G. Wright