Tao Kawase, right, carefully arranges wood in a pit fire on Ocean Beach for the 10th-grade pottery class at San Francisco Waldorf School. Students use the traditional process to fire their sculptures ...

Before you get into pottery, you have to understand that a single piece, regardless of size, takes at least eight weeks to make. That’s roughly two months of waiting to see the end result of shaping ...

F?rom about 1875 until about 1925, there were more than 200 American companies producing American Art Pottery. One of the more prolific of these companies was the Roseville Pottery Company. Roseville ...

Even with a full-time job in tech, Atlas Maier finds time to be creative every day. “Pottery draws me in not only as a means for creativity, but as a means of personal growth,” he says. Maier had ...

Pots of Arsi (Arusi) people are considered essential utilities in their daily lives. Women artisans, who belong to the socially segregated group called mana, are exclusively engaged in pottery making.

“I always think of pottery as having a bunch of dairy cattle,” he said. “If you’ve got a wet pot, you can’t leave for two days, ’cause when you come back, your piece is dried up and you didn’t finish ...