Whatever problems you have, when you sit down in the workshop, all of that falls away,” Ms. Mateo said on a rain-drenched January afternoon, seated in the clapboard kitchen of her home in Patamban, a ...

Historically, traditional ceramics like porcelain, brick, and earthenware were primarily composed of clays and silicates and were used by early civilizations to create functional objects. Over time, ...

Ceramics possess a diverse range of properties that enable their use in various applications. These include low thermal conductivity, high heat capacity, corrosion resistance, oxidation resistance, ...

Ceramics, though, were not Ali Schorman’s first artistic love; she went to ASU to study drawing. She says as she was getting ready to finish her degree, she needed to take some classes she’d been ...

Ceramics can inspire a kind of obsession. Mark Twain, in fact, was an avid collector of the stuff. The author once effused that the “marks on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw ...

Several ceramics-focused workshops are being offered during Summer Arts at Alfred, welcoming artists and art educators to the ...

At the end of the 1940s, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) started creating ceramic works. At the time, Picasso spent his summers on the Cote d’Azur in the South of France. Following earlier trips to ...

Ceramics are lightweight and hard, but you can’t make jet engines out of them because they’d shatter like dinner plates. So, materials scientists have been trying to mimic natural materials that ...

Ceramic brake pads outlast semi-metallics by up to 50% despite myths claiming 30% shorter life, with real testing showing ...

Gilbert Smith is an automotive journalist with over five years of specialized research and writing experience. Before joining CarBuzz in 2024, he produced in-depth buyer’s guides and feature articles ...

The New Children’s Museum expanded its programming so adults can step into the ceramics studio, even without children of their own.

Singapore was a thriving trading hub hundreds of years before popular narratives depicted it as a quiet fishing village, according to a study of the cargo of a centuries-old shipwreck. Sometime during ...