Topics: Crafts : Ceramic Art and Pottery
This category is for sites about Ceramic Art and Pottery. It will contain sites for individual artists as well as those covering educational and infomational topics about the craft. Also included: non-commercial galleries, organizations, magazines, working potteries (those not selling products on-line), and resource sites. Ceramics and ceramic art in the art world means artwork made out of clay bodies and fired into the hardened ceramic form. Some ceramic pieces are classified as fine art, while many others can be classified as one of the decorative, industrial or applied arts (the application of design and aesthetics to objects of function and everyday use). Pottery is the ceramic ware made by potters. In everyday usage the term is taken to encompass a wide range of ceramics, including earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain. The places where such wares are made are called potteries.
Art Galleries
This category is for sites providing non-commercial on-line galleries featuring multiple Ceramic Artists and Potters.
United Kingdom,
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Ceramists and Potters
This category is for sites featuring the works of individual ceramists and potters or small working studios and potteries.
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Chats and Forums
This category offers message boards or discussion forums where one can interact with other people interested in topics related to Ceramic Art and Pottery, by posting and replying to messages, on your own time.
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Collections
This category encompasses physical collections or archives of ceramic works which are held by private individuals and public institutions, and which contribute to the knowledge of the history and practice of ceramics and pottery as a fine art.
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Decorative
For sites displaying decorative ceramic ware, and hand built or thrown pottery created primarily for aesthetic purposes.
Ceramists and Potters,
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Directories
For the purpose of this category, directories are a compilation of websites containing comprehensive indexes or lists of resources, galleries, individual artists and related information that is specific to Ceramic Arts and Pottery.
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Earthenware
Sites listed here will offer information on the art and craft of working primarily with Earthenware.
Ceramists and Potters,
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Education
United States,
Workshops and Tours,
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Functional
For sites displaying functional wares, such as vases, pots, bowls, or plates, shaped from moist clay and hardened by heat.
Ceramists and Potters,
Musical Instruments,
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Organizations
Africa,
Europe,
Middle East,
North America,
Oceania,
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Porcelain
Sites listed here will offer information on the art and craft of working in porcelain.
Ceramists and Potters,
China Painting,
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Shopping
Links to ceramic and pottery art and products available for sale in the Shopping section section of the directory.
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Stoneware
Sites listed here will offer information on the art and craft of working primarily with Stoneware.
Ceramists and Potters,
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Techniques and Styles
This category is for non-commercial sites focusing on various Techniques and Styles used by Ceramic Artists and Potters.
Glaze,
Raku,
Sagger Fired,
Salt and Soda,
Terra Cotta,
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Tiles
Hand-crafted and hand-painted ceramic tiles.
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Weblogs
This category is for Weblogs about the ceramic arts, pottery, potters and ceramists.
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