ceramics

Once again, the traditional art-opening weekend meets the traditional gift-giving season at the following shows and sales, which involve multiple Kansas…

The quiet force behind the Kansas City Art Institute's Department of Ceramics describes falling in love with clay and finding inspiration in Kansas City's…

Cary Esser, longtime chair of the ceramics department at the Kansas City Art Institute, credits a high school classmate in the 1970s for her introduction…

For thousands of years, artisans have been making musical instruments out of clay — from whistles and rattles to ocarinas and horns. That tradition…

A celebration of clay — in all its forms — is underway. More than 100 ceramics exhibitions are on view in Kansas and Missouri, timed with the National…

Lauren Mabry has some advice for future graduates of the Kansas City Art Institute.Mabry is one of the celebrity ceramicists who’ll be in town later this…

One man has been driving all over Kansas City for eight months transporting hundreds of fragile handmade bowls. “I show up with newspaper and a mish-mash…