The colorful glaze on that ceramic mug of yours may look nice, but there's a chance that it could contain toxic substances. US scientists have thus created a safer type of glaze, that incorporates ...

The Owen family can trace their pottery roots back six generations, so far back that their family’s artwork now rest in the The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC. Ben Owen III has been making pottery since ...

A New Haven ceramic artist and Yale University material scientist have teamed up to turn eggshells into a sustainable ingredient for ceramic glaze. The waste egg glaze, they found, is just as good as ...

SInae Kim has found a way to glaze ceramics using human urine. Ceramics is an ancient industry going back thousands of years. Humans have been glazing their ceramics since as far back as the 8th ...

Darrell Adams likes to do things the old-fashioned way. The first thing Adams did when he started working with his grandfather, Georgia folk potter William J. "Bill" Gordy, was to build himself a ...

HIRONO, Iwate Prefecture--Sea urchin are a culinary delicacy, but because their shells are often seen as too difficult or costly to recycle, they end up getting tossed out in bulk. But a local potter ...

Lithuanian designer Agne Kucerenkaite reveals the value of industrial metal waste in her project Ignorance is Bliss, which sees the material used to make colourful ceramics. Ignorance is Bliss ...

One local artist's love affair with pottery began 50 years ago when he was a sophomore in college in New York state. It was 1964, and Ray Allen was looking for a minor to accompany his business ...