Here in Bat Trang, an ancient ceramics center near Hanoi, Quang Vinh Ceramic's fastest-rising expense is for vivid blue ink for painting vases and other pottery.
SoHo Through June 30 Jack Earl's small, off-beat, lovingly detailed ceramic narratives center on a hapless Everyman named Bill, a rubbery-limbed bumpkin in blue jeans, a red work shirt and a red billed cap.
Nearby, he arranged three garden-center ceramic rabbits, happier looking decoys.
PORT CHESTER Clay Art Center "Anecdote," ceramic works by Sean O'Connell.
After pouring milk from a small ceramic pitcher onto the center of the stone, Mr. Laib used a moistened fingertip to drag the liquid out to the corners.
On a recent Monday, 15 first-year Princeton students sat in a classroom in Blair Hall and contemplated a large ceramic snail in the center of the table.
The INDEX: Award celebrates five projects that use "design to improve life". The opening of the Center of Ceramic Art in York, England, comes at a time of renewed public interest in the crafts.
PORT CHESTER Clay Art Center "In Form," ceramic sculptures by Jury Smith and Jill Oberman.
In the kitchen, a teapot-size ceramic rooster stood in the center of a wooden table long enough to fit her family and that of her brother, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who lives a mile away.
As its title implies, John Fink's ceramic plaque "Drawn to the Center" focuses its energy in the opposite direction, using snaky shapes, floating figures and swirling fragments to symbolize centripetal force.
