In the foothills of Saja Mountain, in South Korea’s Jangheung, Jeollanam-do, an unassuming slope conceals one of the country’s most singular art spaces: a one-hundred-meter grotto, dug entirely by hand, its 1,650 square meters winding through a labyrinth of chambers and tunnels. The walls bloom with roots, skulls, celestial beings, and Buddhas; shallow alcoves cradle […]
Visit Eugene Ofori Agyei’s studio by appointment, and explore other studios and ceramic destinations across New York through Ceramic World Destinations (CWD), MoCA/NY’s interactive map featuring over 4,000 ceramic sites worldwide. Eugene Ofori Agyei’s sculptures do not sit still. They reach, coil, and unfurl—gestures in clay, batik, yarn, wood, and the layered histories of things […]
Visit Keka Ruiz-Tagle’s studio by appointment, and explore other studios and ceramic destinations across Chile through Ceramic World Destinations (CWD), MoCA/NY’s interactive map featuring over 4,000 ceramic sites worldwide. Keka Ruiz-Tagle speaks to the ancestors—not through language, but through fire, pigment, and clay. Her ceramic figures, squat and monumental, solemn and watchful, seem to emerge […]
In a Dutch underground bunker-turned-residency, a painter—Jonat Deelstra—is in the studio when his photographer friend arrives carrying several bags of wet clay. Like a child first encountering the soft, amorphous material, Deelstra’s sensorial curiosity takes over. Instinctively molding the unfamiliar clay, he conjures familiar forms—eggs—an implied image imprinted in his temporal lobe, evoking the ducks […]
Ceramic SupplyPittsburghOne Walnut StreetCarnegie, PA. Standard Clay Company, based in Pittsburgh, is a fourth-generation manufacturer of wet clay bodies, slips, and glazes. Its products are distributed through a network of over 50 partners across the eastern United States, with an expanding presence internationally. The company's gallery, ClayPlace@Standard, hosts multiple exhibitions annually and served as a […]
In a downtown Toronto studio, where light streams through high windows and illuminates layers of clay in various stages of completion, Susan Collett can be found working intuitively with wires, porcelain, or earthenware paper clay. Now in her 31st year of full-time studio practice, Collett continues to push boundaries as a multi-disciplinary artist. She shifts […]
An elusive figure dressed in all black, wrapped with tape and protective gear, walks onto the chthonic, dungeon-like stage filled with black conical, spherical, and tubular ceramic forms, grounded and suspended, arranged in an ensemble reminiscent of an abandoned, ramshackle gymnasium. The baroque lighting hyperbolizes the shadows of the forms and performer, showing only slight […]
The Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, situated in scenic Maine, provides an idyllic retreat for ceramic artists. The renovated studio offers top-notch facilities and a self-directed residency program with themed sessions guided by established artists. Watershed stands as a haven for artistic growth, creative exploration, and meaningful connections.
STUDIO The team starts at 10 AM. A group of eight artists lay stoneware clay on the concrete floor of the sun-bathed Bushwick studio in Brooklyn, New York. The air is fragrant with freshly sliced cilantro and simmering veggies in a stewy base of yellow lentils. The sound of the team chatting and laughing […]
