Dozens of potters gathered this weekend to practice one of the most primitive forms of their art: a pit firing. Instead of hardening clay pots in an electric kiln, potters place them in a large pit ...

If you or a friend are trying out pottery as a hobby but are dismayed at the cost of an electric kiln you can utilize a standard charcoal grill as a basic pit fire kiln—the results won't be quite as ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Pottery enthusiasts will meet at Huntington State Beach Saturday to use the fire pits to make ceramics. Participants plan to use a technique called pit firing to create unique ...

Established artist and SRJC instructor Joel Bennett is known to be the first person to introduce the ancient tradition of pit-firing to Sonoma County. With his clay-dust-covered sandals and smudged ...

We used to all get together once a year, a bunch of potters, and do a pit firing. We'd all bring our pots, put them in a big pit and set it on fire just like Native Americans used to fire their ...

This kind of pit firing is new to her, she said, but she has known wood-fired pottery since her college days. “In Montana, where I’m from and where I studied ceramics, I fell crazy in love with wood ...

Fifth-grade students at Holmen's Viking Elementary learned about the oldest method of firing pottery last week during a hands-on introduction to ancient pit firing. Pit firing, a technique for making ...

Tao Kawase, right, carefully arranges wood in a pit fire on Ocean Beach for the 10th-grade pottery class at San Francisco Waldorf School. Students use the traditional process to fire their sculptures ...