PHOTO PROVIDED Kat Wysnewski’s art class at Sugar Valley Rural Charter School has created a homemade kiln. This kiln was ...

Tucked in the mountains of southeastern China sit the ruins of a large-scale manufacturing site. The centuries-old furnaces that once made iconic pottery now lie crumbling and abandoned. The ruins of ...

Palo Alto Art Center pottery instructor Mo Moran puts finishing touches on a large pot during a class. Photo by Magali Gauthier. What is it about the art of pottery and its ancient alchemical process ...

Inside the long, narrow chamber of the dragon kiln, Hong Kong sculptor and ceramicist Louis Lo Sai-keung crouches next to stoneware pots called saggars, traditionally used in pottery to protect clay ...