“The Complete Potter” by Steve Mattison, 2003, Quarto, Inc., $29.99, softbound, 224 pages: This well-illustrated book is designed to guide the reader through each process of pottery and ceramics.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Miami Valley Pottery, in its 20th year, is based in a studio surrounded by Yellow Springs farmland. Owner Naysan Mcllhargey, who lives on the grounds, annually releases a unique collection of ceramics ...

Megan Peden was serious about art when she got to Union University. But early in her studies, her primary interest shifted from painting to pottery. “I kind of got roped into ceramics by some really ...

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.