FARGO - In the back of North Dakota State University's downtown Renaissance Hall, a labor of love is taking shape, brick by brick. There, David Swenson, associate professor of visual arts at NDSU, and ...

A little bit about spalted wood: This naturally distressed wood gives a unique look to any project. The photo above shows spalted European beech boards that have been milled. Recently, I was talking ...

Ceramicist Hiroshi Ogawa paints with flames in his "dragon" kiln Hikarigama. We visit master ceramicist Hiroshi Ogawa as he crafts, then loads the dried work into his traditional Japanese "anagama" ...

Over the course of three days, a team of nearly a dozen potters worked together to fire a wood kiln in Marshall, North Carolina, using ceramics techniques that date back thousands of years. (Photo by ...