Editor: Anderson Turner
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. Also the 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.
Price $28.95 
1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
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