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| Ceramics Monthly | |
|---|---|
| Title | Ceramics Monthly |
| Category | Art magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Firstdate | 1953 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Ceramics Monthly is an American art magazine devoted to contemporary ceramics, studio pottery, and ceramic arts practice. Founded in the mid-20th century, it serves as a nexus between practitioners, educators, critics, and institutions involved in ceramic sculpture, functional ware, and kiln technologies. The magazine connects readers with exhibitions, residencies, galleries, museums, and academic programs across North America and internationally.
The magazine traces its origins to the postwar craft resurgence that included figures associated with Black Mountain College, The Bauhaus, New York Studio School, Riverside Church, and regional craft movements in Northeast United States and the American South. Early coverage intersected with exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and biennials like the Venice Biennale. Editors and contributors often had ties to programs at Ohio State University, Rhode Island School of Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, California College of the Arts, and Royal College of Art. Over decades the magazine paralleled developments highlighted by events and organizations such as the American Craft Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright Program, Guggenheim Fellowship, and major retrospectives at the Tate Modern.
Regular content mixes technical articles, studio profiles, exhibition reviews, and market coverage referencing major marketplaces and fairs like Collectors Fair, TEFAF, Art Basel, and regional craft fairs governed by groups similar to the Crafts Council. Features frequently profile artists with ties to residencies at institutions such as The Clay Studio, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Penland School of Craft, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and research collaborations with conservation departments at museums like the Victoria and Albert Museum and Getty Conservation Institute. Technical sections discuss kiln types, glaze chemistry, and firing strategies informed by literature from laboratories at MIT, Stanford University, University of Washington, and University of Michigan as well as commercial kiln makers and suppliers. Reviews cover exhibitions at galleries associated with dealers like Gagosian Gallery, David Zwirner Gallery, Pace Gallery, and regional venues such as Whitney Museum of American Art satellite programs, highlighting catalogues, monographs, and critical essays by scholars affiliated with universities including Yale University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and Goldsmiths, University of London.
The magazine has published writing by curators, critics, and practitioners linked to institutions such as Cooper Hewitt, New Museum, Centre Pompidou, São Paulo Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It has featured profiles and interviews with makers whose careers intersect with exhibitions and scholarly attention given to figures associated with Pablo Picasso's ceramic experiments, studio practices related to Margaret Tafoya, historical references to Bernard Leach, contemporary prominence of artists likened to Ai Weiwei, and studio artists linked to movements seen in shows at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Hammer Museum. Contributors include critics and scholars who have written alongside initiatives sponsored by the National Gallery of Art, Whitworth Art Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, and professional organizations such as International Academy of Ceramics and American Craft Council fellows.
Published monthly, the magazine reaches subscribers through channels that include academic libraries at Harvard University, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, and public institutions such as the Library of Congress and regional art libraries. Distribution networks intersect with trade associations and book distributors servicing museums, galleries, and retail outlets at events like Frieze Art Fair, Documenta, and biennales in Istanbul and Shanghai. Advertising and classifieds reflect connections to kiln manufacturers, clay suppliers, and galleries operating within markets influenced by auction houses such as Sotheby's and Christie's and collectors connected to foundations like the Ford Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The magazine and its contributors have been recognized by organizations that confer honors related to arts publishing and craft practice, including awards coordinated by the American Alliance of Museums, the College Art Association, and publishing prizes administered through academic presses associated with University of Chicago Press and Princeton University Press. Individual writers and photographers have received fellowships and grants from entities such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and regional arts councils across states like California and New York.
As a long-running publication, the magazine has influenced pedagogy and professional practice in ceramics programs at institutions such as Cranbrook Academy of Art, Alfred University, University of Colorado Boulder, and Kent State University. It helped document and shape dialogues that intersect with museum acquisitions, scholarship at centers like the Courtauld Institute of Art, and international exchange supported by cultural diplomacy programs including British Council and Alliance Française. Its archives serve researchers studying the trajectories of artists, studios, and movements linked to major exhibitions at venues such as the National Gallery (London), Royal Academy of Arts, and regional museums that continue to collect contemporary ceramic art.
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