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Checking near rivers may reveal where to find natural clay for pottery. If you have a source, you can try pinch pots and more. “To build with love is the way the craftsman … does just enough, not more ...

The knowledge of how to transform mud into pottery signifies a major leap forward for prehistoric cultures, and until the development of metal cooking pots, ceramic pottery was the pinnacle of cooking ...

There’s no shortage of clay art shows to see right now around the country. At the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, “Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture” highlights 50 bold ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

"Fall Wind 041008," currently on view in the Japanese galleries at the New Orleans Museum of Art, is a relatively early work by an emerging force in the field of contemporary Japanese ceramics, Kino ...

Pottery making can be messy with muddy hands shaping a mix of dirt and minerals forming delicate ridges to form a recognizable shape. The scenes have played out throughout history, with pottery making ...

"White is truth," stated mystic-philosopher-scientist Emanuel Swedenborg. "It is the glowing cloud on the horizon that shows the Lord is coming. White is wisdom." The color that we usually think of as ...

The man most often credited as the original creator of European porcelain was a German by the name of Johann Friedrich Böttger. He was an alchemist—he said that he knew how to turn lead into gold.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. . . —Charles Dickens Last week, as in every week in human history, in the best of times ...