Ceramics Now Magazine - September 2026

Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 22 (September 2026) features the work of Ross Junior Owusu on the cover. Owusu uses ceramics, performance, and assemblage to explore identity, migration, and cultural memory, focusing on how identities are carried, reshaped, reconstructed across shifting geographies.

This issue brings together essays, reviews, and reports that explore ceramics through biennials, figuration, material histories, and expanded approaches to form. Olivia Fero writes on Jingdezhen in The City That Makes, reflecting on one of the world's most important ceramic centers. Unu Sohn reviews Kneaded. Shaped. Fired., the 47th Tendencies Exhibition, while Stephen F. Eisenman reflects on the ceramics of Charles Bound. Amy Gogarty's essay considers how ceramic form moves toward more open spatial and conceptual possibilities, and Julia Ellen Lancaster reports from Delft in Ceramic Conversations, looking at Common Ground, Delft Market Days, and the Urban Blue exhibition. Ashley Thorpe reviews Lancaster's own liminal sculptures in Phantasms and Frequencies.

This issue presents featured artists Ross Junior Owusu, Astrid Sleire, Heide Nonnenmacher, and Kirsten Spuijbroek.

The exhibitions section highlights Anna Maria Maiolino at MAAT, Lisbon; Fractured Foundations: 250 Years of American History at the American Museum of Ceramic Art; Paolo Porelli and Mattia Vernocchi at Stadtmuseum Siegburg; Gabriel Chaile at Whitechapel Gallery, London; Anna Milczanowska at Craftica Gallery, Warsaw; and Mia Akrap at TROTOAR Gallery, Zagreb.