ART 200: Ceramics I: Websites

American Art Pottery Association
Focuses on pottery of the Arts and Crafts period; also demonstrates frauds associated with this period.

American Ceramic Society
Serves the informational, educational, and professional needs of the global ceramics community.

Beazley Archive
Classical Pottery

Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia
Smithsonian research collections in the Freer Gallery and Sackler Gallery by Materials, Place, and Time.

Ceramics Today
Features hundreds of articles on ceramics, a gallery of a few hundred ceramic artists' work, and a catalog of links to well more than a thousand web sites covering a vast array of topics on ceramics.

Chinese Ceramics
Pacific Asia Museum; Although many sites cover only porcelain wares, the Pacific Asia Museum site covers a broader span of ceramics types, critical to understanding the full impact of the Chinese ceramics trade on world economics, style, and culture.  Downloading images is strictly forbidden and the user must accept the terms before entering the site.

Clay Art Web Guide
Catalog of more than 1,500 Web sites on ceramics. Divided into 50 categories listing topics from art associations to virtual galleries and workshops.

Critical Ceramics
Topics in contemporary ceramic art

 

e-Yakimono
Contemporary and historic Japanese pottery.

Medieval Pottery Research Group
Pottery from the end of the Roman period to the 16th century.

Mimbres Pottery
The National Museum of Natural History

 

Saving Southwest Traditions: The Pottery Project: 2,000 Years - 20,000 Vessels
Arizona State Museum

Smithsonian Institute Encyclopedia - Art and Design
Search in the left side bar to find  Online Exhibits and extensive bibliographies or Reading Lists. Example Reading List:

• Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Ceramics of the United States by Region
• Contemporary Ceramicists Represented in SI Collections
• English Ceramics - A Selected Bibliography

Women Artists of the American West: Pottery by American Indian Women
Purdue University