Dozens of potters gathered this weekend to practice one of the most primitive forms of their art: a pit firing. Instead of hardening clay pots in an electric kiln, potters place them in a large pit ...

Established artist and SRJC instructor Joel Bennett is known to be the first person to introduce the ancient tradition of pit-firing to Sonoma County. With his clay-dust-covered sandals and smudged ...

If you or a friend are trying out pottery as a hobby but are dismayed at the cost of an electric kiln you can utilize a standard charcoal grill as a basic pit fire kiln—the results won't be quite as ...

The Nicodemus Center for Ceramic Studies at Penn State Mont Alto in collaboration with the Mont Alto Pottery Cooperative and the community of Penn National will hold an April 5 workshop followed by a ...

John Nagel kept an eye on the pitfire. MBOMBELA – Pottery is an art form that has been passed down through the ages, as evidenced by the amount of pottery shards and items found during archeological ...

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 ...