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The 2025 issue of Ceramics in America includes articles that reflect the wide range of ceramics made, used and collected in America over the past four centuries, from colonowares made by Native Americans and enslaved potters on the Gulf Coast, to imported and locally made ceramics found in eighteenth-century Philadelphia, to Chinese export porcelain hong bowls celebrating the United States' entrance into trade with China. Other articles explore early experimentation with hard paste porcelain in eighteenth century South Carolina, the collaboration between ceramicist Charles Volkmar's and designer Kate Cory to create plaques evoking Old New York, and Gustav Stickley's unexpected ceramic collection.