For Cleota Rae Reed, ceramics was not just an art, it was a way of life. Reed was a celebrated Syracuse ceramist and ...

Oakland tile setter Riley Doty remembers his first trip through the San Francisco Marina District in the late '70s. Doty, who had fallen in love with the ceramic medium during his teens in New York ...

In the art world, craft occupies a lower cultural status than art. Certain folks sneer at the category as parochial, lacking in concept, or as is an insult within these circles, purely “decorative.” ...

Craft Contemporary, formerly called the Craft and Folk Art Museum, has followed its inaugural clay biennial of 2018 with a second iteration that is consistently engaging and more tightly conceived ...

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 ...

Three Sonoma Valley artisans share the stories behind their work, what inspires them and handling the changes technology has ...

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The Craft & Folk Art Museum is losing an ampersand — and gaining a new name: The Wilshire Boulevard museum will announce Tuesday that it will go by Craft Contemporary, effective immediately. The new ...