In the Mail

The new issue of The Studio Potter, Boundaries and the Digital World, is arriving in mail boxes and at studios even as we write. We hope this summer issue is perused at beaches, in cafes, and alongside hot kilns. It was launched at Watershed’s annual Salad Days event on July 10.

SP Board members Nick Sevigney and Kathy King and SP Advisor Kristen Kieffer, masquerading as Salad Days exhibiting artists, managed nonetheless to flash the new issue around.

Our members are our bedrock. Without you The Studio Potter would not exist, and your support is crucial to the vital sense of community and discourse that underlies our mission – as well as to our financial survival.

When SP changed in 2009 from a subscription-based publication to a membership-based one, the implacable need to stop losing money on every issue forced us to bring the price in line with the work and materials that make the journal what it is. We knew that it would cost us some subscribers, and every single distressed or disgruntled letter hurt. But the stark alternative was just to close up shop, and the decision has proved to be the right one.

At the same time, we were and remain committed to getting The Studio Potter into people’s hands, and to cultivating readers as well as members. We know that copies are passed around in studios and potters’ groups, and that many readers access the journal at one of the nearly 700 universities and libraries that carry The Studio Potter. But others find us at one of the places that offer the journal for sale at the “newsstand price” of $20 – some of them new readers who’ve never heard of us and happen upon SP at a gallery, supplier, or bookstore. Although our publication schedule and size work against our using the usual distribution methods, we are always seeking ways to put the journal “out there.”

Currently about 20 places across the country carry SP (you can find them on our our web site by clicking here) Some are big operations, such as Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis; others are small teaching studios with an enthusiastic student body and/or customer base. If you want your local arts center, gallery, or ceramic supplier to carry the journal, please mention it to them and have them email us at subscriptions@studiopotter.org if they are interested. If you would like to carry SP at your place of business, or be a “field representative” to find new venues for the journal, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us at volunteers@studiopotter.org . 

Oops Department...

Try as we may to avoid errors in the production, we occasionally make a big one. We don't know where it went, but we do extend our humble apologoies to Dwight Holland for the lost paragraph in his article on Nancy Sweezy. A corrected pdf version of this article is available by clicking here.

Color Brigade

Much of the color in SP comes to you courtesy of the Color Brigade, a group whose contributions specifically support the visual quality of the journal. Anyone interested in joining the Brigade should contact Mary Barringer   editor@studiopotter.org for details.

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