With a sound more like a loud pop than a bang, an explosive charge buried inside a solid 2,000 pound block of wet clay turns what had been a perfectly shaped cube into a shattered, hollow sphere. As ...

Sculptor Robert Pulley has spent decades creating metal-like clay sculptures. Sculptor Robert Pulley has spent decades balancing a teaching career while creating a dizzying number of sculptures in all ...

Nie Peng and his father, Nie Chenxi, who make Gaomi clay sculptures, have created artwork to support China's fight against the novel coronavirus pneumonia and thank medical workers on the frontlines.

HELENA — For a clay sculptor, Anton Alvarez seems to have a lot of industrial-looking metal in his studio at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena. In fact, the assortment of metal is the first thing ...

Artist Murjoni Merriweather is gifted with a rare ability: the potter’s touch. With just dirt and water in her hands, she is able to form life-like images of the Black men, women, and children we see ...

A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman. The finished wall sculpture surrounded by handmade ceramic furniture and objects, including a cobalt dividing screen, stoneware oval table and bronze ...

It’s nearly impossible to make ugly millefiori, which is what makes the clay craft such a great fit for kids. I recently took my 9-year-old son to a class offered by artist Layl McDill at her studio ...

With a new book, Monumental Sculpture, being launched at the Art Basel Shop, Urs Fischer is returning home to Switzerland with ever more grandiose ambitions. The maverick artist—who has made ...

Chen Yulu instructs pupils to make clay sculptures at his studio in Qixia City, East China's Shandong province, July 31, 2017. Chen is an inheritor of the intangible culture heritage "Qixia painted ...

In sculpture, because it's created 'in the round,' depth is added naturally. Two-dimensional works create the illusion of depth, while sculpture or 3-D is the depth of the object. That being said, ...

In Jewish folklore, a golem is a rough-hewn, amorphous creature molded out of clay—an unformed, anthropomorphic being that is clumsy and slow. One origin story traces the golem to be the result of an ...