ADRIAN — Thanks to a $15,000 donation from the Maurice and Dorothy Stubnitz Foundation, 10 new potter’s wheels are in the hands of Adrian College students at the studio art program. The new potter’s ...

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 ...

Throwing pottery on a wheel can be a love-hate relationship. Becki Chernoff knows all about it. “Many people fall in love with clay when they take their first class,” Chernoff says as she sits at the ...

Evidence indicates the wheel was created to serve as potter's wheels around 3500 B.C. in Mesopotamia—300 years before they were used for chariots. Jim Vecchi / Corbis It’s fair to say that when an ...

LARGE DOUBLE WHEEL MADE WITH TWO HEAVY WOODEN DISKS JOINED TOGETHER WITH 4 THICK WOODEN CROSSBARS OR BLOCKS. UPPER DISK IS SMOOTH, PROVIDING THE WORK SURFACE FOR THE CLAY. LOWER DISK HAS CENTRAL HOLE ...

The Potter’s Wheel is an essential tool used in ceramics for thousands of years. Yet, work made on the Wheel today still feels fresh and contemporary. This course will teach you technical fundamentals ...