Tucked away in the northern part of the West African nation of Ghana are the remains of a mysterious culture. With no written or oral records of the people who once lived here, all that has been left ...

Clay has traditionally been used for making things that are useful, such as cups and plates. But ceramic artists working in California in the 1950s and ’60s showed that clay is more than a functional ...

Founded seven years ago in Kyiv, GORN Ceramics has become an object lesson in survival. By Rachel Gallaher This article is part of our Design special section about the reverence for handmade objects.

Despite making a bronze sculpture of Thomas Edison that stands in the U.S. Capitol, along with beloved statues of Jesse Owens and Woody Hayes at Ohio State, Alan Cottrill still refers to himself as "a ...

Archaeologists initially recovered the sculpture in three separate clay fragments A 12,000-YEAR-OLD figure of a woman with a goose draped over her back is the oldest human-animal sculpture ever ...

Two sisters stand in Montgomery, creations of love and patience made in the image of a civil rights icon. One is a strong and resilient bronze observer, clutching her purse in both hands, forever ...