Ceramics in America 2025

Ceramics in America surveys diverse ceramic histories across four centuries, revealing enduring cultural currents and collected legacies.

The 2025 issue of Ceramics in America includes articles that reflect the wide range of ceramics made, used and collected in America over the past four centuries, from colonowares made by Native Americans and enslaved potters on the Gulf Coast, to imported and locally made ceramics found in eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Other articles explore early experimentation with hard paste porcelain in eighteenth century South Carolina, the collaboration between ceramicist Charles Volkmar’s and designer Kate Cory to create plaques evoking Old New York, and Gustav Stickley’s unexpected ceramic collection.

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Ceramics in America stands as an essential annual publication from the Chipstone Foundation, bridging scholarship and collecting with rigorous interdisciplinary perspective. Each volume explores historical ceramics within American cultural, social, and material contexts—from archaeological inquiry to contemporary studio practice. Indispensable for collectors seeking depth, curators building institutional knowledge, decorative arts students, historical researchers, and working potters alike.