The Potters Manual
​Find your topic of interest below. 

Antoinette interviewing Curtis Benzle

On this page, you will find links to pottery and other art-related educational information available on this website.   Enjoy and if you have any questions, contact Antoinette.  Over the years Antoinette has written about artists and pottery techniques and interviewed artists. She was also interviewed on the radio and podcasts. Please feel free to comment on these blog posts. 

Antoinette interviews John Shirley

Antoinette Interviews Michael Schwegman

Interview with Susy Bowman

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Below is lots of clay related information at your fingertips.
Click on any of the topics below; it will link you with the related information.  

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Written articles

Videos

A

Agateware, acrylic paint and pottery, advanced throwing, artist legacy, altering clay,  

B

Balloon bowls, bone china, bat for wheel throwing, better potter, buying art, body, begin a pottery career, secure a bat

C

​Clay Career, ​Cracking, china painting, Canadian porcelain potter, critique, carving, centering clay, coiling, crazing, color clay

D

​Dinnerware, decorate with glaze, disaster hit, durable ceramic glazes, dunting

E

Engobe, errors on the wheel, emergency, economy, 

F

Firing, ​Foot rim, functional pottery, fellowship grant, food safe pottery, Firing porcelain

G

Glaze, glazing process, glaze tests, glaze calculation, glaze additives, shino glazes, glazing flaws, 

H

Handles, Hand building, Health in the studio, 

I

Interview Antoinette, inlay, iron oxide, incise, instructor, interview, International Academy of ceramics, 

J

Jug, 

K

Kaolin, kaowool, kiln, The kiln studio, Kilns,

L

Leather hard, liner glaze, 

M

Mugs, Mold, MAC artist hour, Mississippi Arts Commission, mugs and microwaves

N

Neriage, nerikomi, nepheline syenite, nickel, 

O

oxides, opacifiers, online pottery classes

P

 Porcelain mugs, pottery career, press mold, pottery demonstrations, porcelain artist, Painting Artist, Potters Cast, production pottery, pinching clay, porcelain altering, plaster bat system, professionalism in art, parian ware, pitfire, paperclay, paperclay in schools, packing tips, mixing paperclay for schools

Q

quartz, quick clay tips, 

R

Raw materials, Ron Roy

S

Slabs, silica, sculpted art, shino glazing, soluble salt, sculpture, spout, shivering, soda firing, shipping tips

T

Thowing clay, tactile strength, teacher, Teapot, teapot body, teapot spout, teapot handle, teapot lid, Teaching pottery, Throw a slab, Trimming porcelain, 

U

Understanding porcelain, Understanding porcelain online class

V

vitrification, video clips

W

Wedging clay, working with porcelain​, Wheel thrown Teapots, wheel throwing, integrated art, porcelain on the wheel, wide rimmed bowl

X

Y

Z

Zinc, zirconium