The potter's wheel was widely used by the beginning of the third phase of the Early Bronze Age, about 2400 BCE. Pottery cannot be made by hand modeling or coiling without the potter either turning the ...

Local potter George Alderman shared his passion for pottery during a visit to the Piedmont Arts Guild.

Nivedita Raitz von Frentz meets Swiss ceramist Sabine Wittachy who’s made Sri Lanka her home, Pix by Saman Kariyawasam Donning an apron, Sabine Wittachy sits at one of her electric potter’s wheels.

“The art teachers really liked it ... because there’s no masks or filters when you’re just you and the clay at the potter’s wheel,” McDaniel says. “I think we’re all craving that.