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 ...

John Nagel kept an eye on the pitfire. MBOMBELA – Pottery is an art form that has been passed down through the ages, as evidenced by the amount of pottery shards and items found during archeological ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

STOCKBRIDGE — On a slope in West Stockbridge, the air smells of wood smoke and frost and the unmistakable, clean sour scent of reduction — fire pulling oxygen from clay. Karlene Jean Kantner is ...