Alex Jennes wore the eyes of a new father and the fascinated grin of a kid playing with fire as he threw logs into the wooden kiln at the Clay Center of Northern Colorado in downtown Greeley. He’d ...

Most potters who use burning wood to heat their clay work find studio space in the wide open country. Geoff Pickett, a native of England, found a place in rural southern Oconee County to fire up his ...

If you can't stand the heat, stay away from the anagama. On a chilly Friday evening in the Coast Range foothills, a few miles from the lumber town of , a great brick beast snakes up a slope, its open ...

Around 20 years ago, the Clay Studio of Missoula built its wood-fired kiln just outside of town on property owned by a ceramics enthusiast. The Japanese-style anagama kiln, roughly 720 cubic feet, was ...