Spread the Love: Ceramics Across the States

The Limestone University advanced ceramics class and craft students have been making and selling mugs and ornaments during the fall semester.

Online Ceramic Collections

• Carolina Clay Matters

  Carolina Potters Guild
• Ceramic Arts Network

  A website focused on the ceramics community
• National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts

  A non-profit organization focused on education and appreciation of ceramics
• The Potters Guild

  A community for ceramic artists

The MET Collections

Italian Pharmacy Bottle

Spanish Dish

Chinese Dancer

Ceramics Definitions

• Ceramics: Topic Page

  Objects made from clay, hardened into a permanent form by baking (firing) at very high temperatures in a kiln. MORE
• Firing: Topic Page

  In ceramics, the process that ‘bakes’ the pottery clay hard, and fixes colours and glazes to pottery surfaces. MORE
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  Porcelain: Topic Page

  White, hard, permanent, nonporous pottery having translucence which is resonant when struck.

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