GENERAL INFORMATION AND LINK DIRECTORIES
Clayart
American Ceramics Society, Clayart page: Here, you can search or browse the archives. For more information on Clayart, see the Discussion Groups section below.
http://art.sdsu.edu/ceramicsweb/index.html
San Diego State University ceramics site includes databases of glaze recipes and material analyses, health and safety information, links to other ceramics web sites, and educational materials.
www.clayzee.com
Clayzee is a comprehensive directory on all things ceramic.
www.claystation.com
Claystation aims to be a useful navigational tool for ceramics on the Web.
www.ukpotters.co.uk
UKPotters site provides a good range of links to other sites for potters.
www.ceramics.com
Resources dedicated to the professional interested in ceramics and minerals.
Site includes an interactive periodic table of the elements.
www.studiopottery.com
The Pottery Studio aims to include examples of work from all British potters, and potteries. There are presently about four thousand pages.
http://bubl.ac.uk/link
A catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas and catalogued according to the Dewey Decimal Classification.
www.e-yakimono.net
This Japanese site, e-yakimono, is an information centre, with good links to Japanese pottery sites.
www.ceramique.com
This is a French reference site for ceramics. It also has useful links to other, mainly French, sites.
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~claynet/
Claynet is a non-profit forum for international ceramic art on the Web. The site has been out of service for some time, but is presently being rebuilt, and the links pages updated.
www.pottersdictionary.com
Frank and Janet Hamer: The Potter’s Dictionary Web site.
MAGAZINES
www.ceramic-review.com
Ceramic Review – the journal of the Craft Potters Association, UK Articles published are practical, technical and experiential.
www.ceramicsmonthly.org
Ceramics Monthly – the magazine of the American Ceramics Society on ceramic art and craft.
www.ceramicart.com.au
Ceramics: Art and Perception, - Australian magazine dedicated to ceramic art.
Ceramics Technical - by the same publisher, devoted to research in the field of ceramics.
HISTORIC POTTERIES
www.leachpottery.com
Bernard Leach settled in St Ives on his return from Japan in 1920. There, with the help of his friend Shoji Hamada, he started the now famous Leach Pottery.
www.winchcombepottery.co.uk
The present Winchcombe Pottery was started by Michael Cardew in 1926, when he left St Ives. He had been Leach’s first student.
www.wenfordbridge.com
During the 1930s, Michael Cardew moved his family to Cornwall, "where the light was right". There, he opened the Wenford Bridge Pottery, and developed his own career.
FESTIVAL
www.internationalceramicsfestival.org
International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth: Alternate years since 1986, some of the world's leading potters and ceramic artists gather for demonstrations, lectures and discussions.
DISCUSSION GROUPS: E-MAIL AND NEWSGROUPS
www.acers.org/cic/clayart
Clayart: E-mail discussions range from materials and techniques, to business advice and philosophy. There is information on how to use the site, and search the Clayart archives.
rec.crafts.pottery
This is the major pottery newsgroup. You can subscribe to a group, or you can just watch the discussion. You can then take part, if and when you feel ready.
http://groups.google.com
Here you can search for topics already discussed on any news group, as well as pottery. These archived discussions can be read without a special “newsreader”.
ASSOCIATIONS
www.ceramic-review.co.uk/cpa/cpa.htm
Craft Potters Association: The major organisation for craft potters in the UK.
www.acers.org
American Ceramic Society: The US organisation dedicated to the advancement of ceramics.
http://ceramicsireland.org
Craft Potters Society of Ireland: A source of information for potters at home and abroad
www.potteryinaustralia.com
Potters' Society of Australia: The society also produces the journal “Pottery in Australia”
www.nvk-keramiek.nl
The Dutch Ceramists Association: This site also has an extensive potter’s links section.
www.kalkspatz.ceramic.de
German Potter's Association: The site has a travel guide, and a potter’s German-English dictionary.
www.craftinfo.org.nz/community/moreinfo/craft_potters.htm
New Zealand Craft Resource: The resource for crafts and craft artists, including potters.
www.southwalespotters.org.uk
South Wales Potters: The first, and one of the largest regional ceramics societies in the UK.
MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES
http://ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu
Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, at Alfred University New York, houses nearly 8,000 ceramic and glass objects, from ancient pottery shards to contemporary sculpture.
www.stoke.gov.uk/museums
The Museums of the Potteries: This site includes the Stoke on Trent City Museum & Art Gallery, the Etruria Museum, and the Gladstone working pottery museum.
www.aber.ac.uk/~cerwww
Aberystwyth University Arts Centre: one of the major studio ceramics collections in the UK. It has fine examples of pottery by Bernard Leach, other early studio potters, and contemporary potters.
http://potweb.ashmol.ox.ac.uk
The Ashmolean, Britain's oldest public museum, has one of the world’s finest ceramics collections. Its Potweb project aims to create an online catalogue of the entire ceramic collection.
www.vam.ac.uk
The Victoria & Albert is Britain’s National Museum of Art and Design, with an excellent ceramics collection. It claims to be the greatest museum of applied and decorative arts in the world.
www.asia.si.edu
Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler galleries form the U.S.A. national museum of Asian art. The galleries offer one of the West's most refined collection's of Asian art
www.moco.or.jp/en/colle/index_h.html
The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, is dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and researching oriental ceramics. It has some 2000 pieces of Oriental ceramics.
www.asiasociety.org/arts/ceramics
The Asia Society is America's leading institution, dedicated to fostering understanding of Asia. A selection from the society’s ceramics collection is on the Web site.
www.ceramiccentre.org.uk
Rufford Arts Centre’s national Web site for the best in British pottery and ceramics
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