And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. you might see two cowboy boots. They are painted with a design of clouds and ...

Whether your favorite tea tipple is colored green or black, the receptacle that is perfect for pouring it from may well be purple or some other color. For that is the color of the teapots produced in ...

A colorful history. Early Chinese and Korean colored clay ceramics -- Agateware -- Twentieth-century Japan -- Japanese masters. Matsui Kosei (1927-2003) -- Ito Sekisui V (born1941) -- Ogata Kamio ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- When West Philadelphia native Stefani Threet was a teenager, she knew she wanted to make a living crafting works of art from clay. Now she owns Ceramic Concept in the same ...

Installation view of Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery, London. Pictured: Takuro Kuwata, "Untitled" (variously 2015, 2016), porcelain, glaze, pigment, steel, gold, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the 1880s, at a moment of personal crisis, Paul Gauguin started to make vessels and sculpture from clay. He wrote, ...

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 ...