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Sounds like the pottery class for beginners at Freeland’s Whidbey Clay Center is underway. Six students take a whack at shaping a chunk of clay as instructor Jordan Jones talks about a shaping ...

Explore clay through pinch, coil, slab, and wheel with Ruth Mork and potter John Glazer. Educator Ruth Mork asks, “Is mud just mud?” and guides children through pinch, coil and slab clay techniques — ...

Clay is an active ingredient in a lot of cult beauty products. Clay helps to pull impurities out of your pores and can minimize oily skin. There seems to be clay masks in almost every color: blue, ...

It’s hard to find a good mud hole these days. Have you noticed that? Too much concrete and asphalt. When I was a kid, few things brought me greater pleasure than a big, mushy, soft mud hole. I ...

[Series note: People have been making pottery in the mountains of western North Carolina for thousands of years. This Living Traditions series focuses on the contemporary artists and makers who are ...

Instructor to class: “Clay is very humbling. But you can remake it. It’s just mud. We’re just having fun.” Splat. Pat. Pound. Whump. Sounds like the pottery class for beginners at Freeland’s Whidbey ...