What Makes A Potter

By Janet Koplos

Award-winning art critic Koplos captures the history and zeitgeist of the functional pottery craft through interviews with 50 artists. 

Why are people still handmaking utilitarian pottery in the 21st century? Doesn’t industrial production take care of all our storage and cooking and serving needs? Yet, in all corners of the US, pottery is being discovered, studied, developed, produced, sold, collected, used, displayed, preserved, and passed down.