With the goal of being a sanctuary for all kinds of ceramic artists, the nonprofit Clay Studio in the Goleta foothills has a wide array of offerings, from memberships giving people unlimited access to ...

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 ...

Italian ceramicist Paola Paronetto has unveiled two new vase designs, created using her distinctive "paper clay" technique. Based in the Alpine village of Pordenone, where she grew up, Paronetto has ...

“Sponge pulling” is a pottery wheel technique where a potter uses a sponge and fingers to shape and lift the clay walls. (Ari David) In the hub of CSUN’s ceramics studio, Lucy Kindseth shapes more ...

Twenty-three artists explore the potential of this ancient material in works tackling issues from Post-it note wars to feudalism and porn Strange Clay is a wild surprise. Totem poles of chimney pots ...

Fingerprints pressed into fired-clay fragments from Ice Age Europe appear to belong to children and adolescents, not just skilled adult artisans, according to a peer-reviewed study that analyzed 489 ...

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM Hawaiiana motif dishes by Tropical Clay Hawaii. The two pumped out hand-turned and hand-built ceramic ware and art pieces for craft fairs and small ...

If anything is a sign of the elevated status of ceramics, it's the central place a kiln now occupies on the campus of CalArts. Once in disrepair because of limited interest, the kiln is in high demand ...

The body remembers, and so does clay. A new exhibition at Two Temple Place titled ‘Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art’ looks back at 70 years to recover lost histories of work ...