“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 ...

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 ...

Geometric patterns dominate African pottery, sometimes representing cultural beliefs or social status. The designs may ...

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 ...

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 ...

A thin strip of red paint, styled with a pattern of intricately designed black and white rectangles, runs in a loop around the white clay pot. The red band represents a serpent, while an adjacent ...