October 19, 2026  ·  Issue No. 10  ·  Vol. 19

CreARTivity

Magazine

Decorative Arts

Pottery

Vessels of everyday beauty. Explore pottery and the potter’s craft, where function and tradition turn clay into art.

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Pottery: The Oldest Art We Still Use Every Day

LatestPottery: The Oldest Art We Still Use Every Day

Humanity's oldest craft is also one of its most alive, and it begins the same way it always has, with two hands and a lump of clay. Pottery is the ancient craft of shaping clay into vessels, the pots, bowls, plates, jugs and cups that people have made for use and for beauty since before writing existed.

September 17, 20265 min read

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10 Ceramic Artists Who Defined Studio Pottery

10 Ceramic Artists Who Defined Studio Pottery

Ten potters, from a Cornish fishing town to a Nigerian training center to a California art school, who turned clay from craft into one of the great art forms of the past hundred years. Studio pottery has a birthday of sorts: 1920, the year Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada built a Japanese climbing kiln on a hillside in St Ives, Cornwall.

June 28, 20268 min read