This two-part, 8-week course will cover the basics of wood carving and an introduction to plaster mold making for slip cast ceramics. You will learn the basic techniques involved in chisel carving a ...

In a 10 sq m workshop there are piles of all kinds of carving tools and porcelain materials. This is where Zhang Shusong, a Jilin native born in the 1980s, creates his ceramic art and draws his dreams ...

The Honghu Lake teems with fresh water pearl oyster. Its shell is hard, colorful, fine and sparkling. It is a high-grade processing material. As early as the Qing Dynasty, artists have used the shells ...

Ceramic tiles are a decorative form almost as old as time—originating in ancient Mesopotamia, where they were first used around 4,000 years ago. Today, they serve as a global motif, both ascetic and ...