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Teachers: For 90 years, AMACO has been committed to providing schools with safe ceramic products... non-toxic modeling and self hardening clays, firing clays, and 586 lead-free low and high fire glazes! Plus kilns, wheels ... and the NEW QuickCenter(tm) to help kids learn to center clay! Kids & Crafts: Moms and group leaders create inexpensive projects with AMACO non-toxic modeling clays and modeling materials for hand built pots and figures, puppets and piñatas, beads, masks, and holiday gifts. Professional Potters: For 2009, Brent® Wheels celebrates 40 Years by introducing the Classic Controller for optimal torque and smooth control, a 10-Year Warranty on all wheels, and the first products in the Green Series line, made of recycled materials. Craft Designers: Original jewelry design needs mixed media materials made only by AMACO... Friendly Plastic® Design Sticks, fine metal mesh, soft metal sheets for embossing designs to cut out, hand rolled clay beads made with AMACO Bead Rollers, and much more! Neighborhood Pottery Studios: Expand beyond bisque and make your own clay tiles! Buy a Brent® Mini-Slab Roller and box of clay, then set a thickness, and roll. Cut tiles or shapes. Then personalize or draw with AMACO® Underglaze Specialty Products. Plus, choose from 586 lead-free glazes! Framers: A Framer's emergency kit always includes Rub 'n Buff wax metallic finishes and Nail Hole Filler. As Frame Conservationist Jean Easter says, "Rub 'n Buff matches any surface!" and "We go through buckets of black Nail Hole Filler".

We interviewed today’s prominent ceramic artists about their work, their influences and inspirations, as well as, their methods for creating ceramic works of art. You can view these interviews with artist/educators: Lana Wilson, Jeffrey Nichols, Debra Fritts, Eva Kwong, Ovidio Giberga, and Susan Kemenyffy.

Welcome to AMACO/Brent Where We Have A Lot to Celebrate!                 Follow us on Twitter! 

10 Year Brent Wheel Warranty and Green Engineering!

We are celebrating 90 years in the ceramic market as the makers of the first American modeling clay Permoplast®.… still being used in schools today. We are the leader in lead free glaze formulation with 586 colors. And now all Brent Wheels have 10-Year Warranties because we are also celebrating 40 years of Brent Wheels ingenuity.

Friendly Plastic® is Back!

Visit the Friendly Plastic Design Gallery and learn how artists created original butterflies for the Holocaust Museum Houston as well as jewelry. Winners of the Design Challenge for the Craft & Hobby Association (CHA 2009-Anaheim) are listed here!

Metal Work: In Progress wall in front of the Danville Metal Corporate Office, Danville, Illinois, 2007.

Ceramic Installations are a public forum that highlight significant moments in society.

Visit our Ceramic Installation pages to see how some artists using our products have made a lasting contribution to their community.

Studio Colton in New Orleans houses the AMACO/Brent Ceramics Laboratory which serves classes from the Recovery School District as well as neighborhood families.

The AMACO/Brent Ceramics Laboratory Services the Recovery School District in New Orleans and its’ Neighborhood The Creative Alliance of New Orleans (CANO) established the STUDIO AT COLTON, a shuttered school now transformed into a new arts venue hosting 70-plus residents including the AMACO/Brent Ceramics Laboratory (Studio 101). Our Ceramics Laboratory is currently leading arts-integrated AP Classes from G.W. Carver and Clark High Schools, a Community & Family weekend and evening workshop series, in addition to anchoring a Food Garden Project with Kids ReThink New Orleans School.

To learn more, please visit www.studioatcolton.org To read Carver student blogs about their adventures in clay http://carverpride.com/fas/ To meet the ReThinkers, visit http://www.therethinkers.com