Vol. XII. No. 8 
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK 
December, 1910 
MERRY CHRISTMAS to you 
again! This makes the twelfth 
time that we have exchanged the 
season's greetings with you and 
we hope to greet you again with 
Christmas cheer at least twelve 
times more and twelve times 
twelve. Though our editor may 
have gone by that time to join 
the great majority and mayhap 
other editors will have followed, still, like the brook, our 
editors may come and editors go but may Keramic Studio 
and the good ceramic work go on forever ! 
We are receiving many appreciative letters from those 
who are following Miss Ehler's course in overglaze decora- 
tion printed by courtesy of the American Woman's League, 
and we are chuckling inwardly at our good luck at securing 
this course for our subscribers, and again as we think of the 
other card we have up our sleeve, which will follow Miss 
Ehler's lessons ; in fact we have two more cards each equally 
valuable to ceramic workers, and before these are used up 
we shall hope to have turned up others in our search for the 
best of everything for our readers. By the bye, it may be 
interesting to those who are following Miss Ehler's course, 
to know that there are over three hundred in Mrs. Cherry's 
correspondence class who are taking up this course with 
The American Woman's League, and really remarkable 
results are being shown, as could hardly fail to be the 
case with the conscientious work done by both the pupils 
and instructor. The work has now increased to such an 
extent that Mrs. Cherry is aided not only by her sister and 
secretary, Miss Jessie Bard, but by four honor students. 
Mrs. Cherry has promised us a naturalistic number by her- 
self and pupils which will be quite as valuable in its way as 
was her design class number — and was not that one of our 
greatest successes? If our readers could only see the 
dainty table ware in color instead of black and white I 
think we would have very few left on the naturalistic side 
of the fence. 
The New York Society of Keramic Arts announces its 
next exhibit in the galleries of the National Arts Club in 
February, 1911. They are hoping to make it the greatest 
exhibit they have vet held. 
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The Chicago Art Institute will hold its annual exhibit 
of Arts and Crafts as usual, from December 6th to January 
6th. Miss Bennett has made great efforts to secure a fine 
ceramic display from all over the United States. Among 
other exhibits there will be four large cases from University 
City, containing the work of Taxile Doat, the distinguished 
French artist from the Sevres manufactory who is at the 
head of the ceramic department of the American Woman's 
League, the porcelains of Adelaide Alsop-Robineau, 
the American collaborator of Taxile Doat and Editor of 
Keramic Studio; pottery by Frederick H. Rhead and pupils 
of his department of American Woman's League, and over- 
glaze decorations by Kathryn E. Cherry and pupils of her 
department of the League. A novel feature of Mrs. Cherry's 
exhibit will be (if fate and the kilns will it) three eggshell 
porcelain covered cups designed and made by Mrs. Robineau 
and decorated by Mrs. Cherry. 
The porcelain department is at work on several new 
shapes designed by Mrs. Cherry for the use of her pupils. 
If some of our good friends think we are showing 
favoritism by speaking so much of one good decorator, they 
must remember that the editor has ready access to her good 
work, and if our other good decorators would afford us the 
opportunity we would be glad to give their work equal 
prominence. 
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We are showing this month some of the work which was 
sent to the recent exhibition and competition held by Burley 
& Co., of Chicago. There was an equal number of photo- 
graphs of naturalistic pieces sent us for publication, but as 
they do not reproduce well in so small illustrations, giving 
no idea of the drawing of the flowers, it was thought best not 
to reproduce them. The decorative work showed an ex- 
cellent average and the prizes were well awarded. 
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We announce the prize winners in the competition of 
"Little Things to Make" as follows: First Prize, Hannah 
Overbeck, Cambridge City, Indiana; Second Prize, Donna 
Isabel Hoge, Chicago, 111.; Third Prize, Alice Sharrard, 
Louisville, Ky. There was not the variety of objects we 
had hoped for in this competition, almost two-thirds con- 
fining themselves to belt buckles, lace pins and shirt waist 
sets, etc. Another time we shall have to specify the shapes 
to be decorated. 
We were forced to omit the pottery lessons for lack of 
space in the last two issues but will begin again in the Janu- 
ary issue with an article on Mould Making, which should be 
very valuable to our pottery workers. The number of those 
interested in this branch of ceramic work is steadily increas- 
ing, the public schools here and there are taking it up, and it 
promises soon to be a good bread winning pursuit as well 
as a means of education and enjoyment. The public are 
slowly but surely being educated to a love for hand-made 
things in every direction and pottery is not the least of these. 
Still the movement is in its infancy and we should not be- 
come discouraged if it does not move along fast enough to 
suit our impatience. 
Palette and Bench, the sister art publication to Ker- 
amic Studio, has been transferred to the International 
Studio, who will, we trust, keep up the standard it has held 
up to the present moment. We wish them success. 
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The New York Society of Keramic Arts will hold its 
annual exhibition in the Galleries of the National Arts Club, 
Gramercy Park, New York, from February Sth to 28th. 
Manufacturers, individual potters and clubs are in- 
vited to participate. Application for space should be made 
at once to M. M. Mason, 4S E. 26th St., New York City, 
Chairman Art Committee. 
