Students in a spring Ceramics studio called Figure Modeling are creating life-size portraits of a live model in water-based clay. Taught by faculty member Ann Hirsch, the course focuses on symmetry, ...

Their legacy, imprinted in clay, now resurfaces from the depths, offering new insights into the spiritual and domestic lives ...

At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to ...

A boy arranges freshly made clay drinking pots to dry at a workshop in Gaza City in 2008. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images) Review by Maggie Lange Acquiring knowledge is one of the great pleasures of ...

Archaeologists uncover an 8,400-year-old human figurine in Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave, shedding new light on Mesolithic art ...

At Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, five-week “Figure Drawing” classes feature live models, so students can master the human form ...

Artist Beth Cavener’s staggering new exhibition of clay sculptures asks if we have the empathy needed to rebuild the trust ...

The unfinished clay figure of a woman, dating from between the 10th and 9th centuries BC, looks more like a first draft than a ready-made piece of art. But just because the clay worker didn’t ...

The Tumaco-Tolita people, who lived in an area rich in natural gold, crafted intricate and delicate metal objects until the ...

Artists in Mesoamerica chose to use clay for their ... but were missing human remains, according to a March 5 Facebook post from Antiquity. With the items were five ceramic figurines dating ...

Bolinas figurines refer to various human-modeled statues created throughout ... And yet, researchers say their clay bodies were likely too delicate to function as toys. Each of them also had ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a large number of ancient megalithic structures and inscriptions in Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, ...