Using a potter’s wheel to make functional art is an experience not common to most people. Provide your learners with a chance to see what pottery making is all about with an app that allows them to create pots, fire them, decorate them,...

In this pottery word search puzzle, students identify words related to pottery and ceramics. Examples include glaze, luster, and porcelain. A list of 18 words is provided to assist students in their search.

In this ceramic terms crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the 20 art clues to fill in the appropriate words pertaining to ceramic studies in order to solve the word puzzle.

In this Native American craft worksheet, students read a short excerpt about Native American pottery and then color each of the pots. Students must circle the two pots that are exactly alike.

How do we know so much about the past? A student-crafted presentation provides viewers with images of artifacts from St. Augustine, Florida that give historians and archaeologists clues into lives already lived.

If a Zapotec urn, buried for over a thousand years in a temple in the lost city of Xoxocotlan in the Valley of Oaxaca in the mountains of southern Mexico could talk image the stories it could tell. That's the set up in a clever resource...

A wide collection of Chinese porcelain ceramics from the Jin, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties.

Site contains photos and instructions on how to make: pinch pots, coil pots, pressed coil pots, slab pots, handles, and how to use a pottery wheel. The directions are simple and easy to understand.

This site boasts 5,000 pages of information about pottery! You'll find extensive lists of potters and examples of their artwork. Thousands of photographic examples to use as references or inspiration!

World Ceramics surveys ceramic artwork produced in a dozen different regions of the world. Extensive notes and illustrations accompany each piece, providing complete facts related to where it came from, how it was used, and how it was...

Pottery was used in Egypt across the ages. Read about the kinds of clay used, the foreign influences on the shapes of pottery, and the many uses of pottery.

These cultural relics span over 1,400 years (from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty) and reflect various aspects of life in ancient China.

Maria Martinez became one of the best-known Native potters of the twentieth century due to her excellence as a ceramist and her connections with a larger, predominantly non-Native audience. Read her ceramic techniques and view examples...

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Peter Voulkos is described here along with information on his contributions to art through pottery and ceramics.

As an archaeological description of Mycenaean art, this site focuses on the frescoes and pottery which have been uncovered from different periods in ancient greek history.

Dozens of useful photos of various ceramics from around the world at this stie from Pics 4 Learning Inc. A useful reference in an art or history class. Browse through the examples, then click to enlarge.

Ceramic sculptor Andrew Werby explains sculpting using clay. He explains different types of clay, the tools that he uses, building clay armatures, firing clay, casting clay, and various clay finishes. Site by WetCanvas.com.

Find information and photos of historic Southwest pottery and other artifacts at this resource. You can search by tribe or by styles of pottery. Plenty of full-color examples.

See treasures from a Han dynasty tomb (206 BC to AD 24) exhibited at the Silicon Valley Art Museum. Delightful reproductions of ceramic and bronze vessels and figurines pepper the site. Informative notes discuss both the technology used...

Louis C. Tiffany created fabulous mosaics, stained-glass windows, Favrile glass, lamps, enamels, ceramics, jewelry, metalwork, drawings and paintings. This site provides details on his life and work with wonderful images to explore.

A short discussion of the history of ceramic production in Southeast Asia, specifically ceramic production in Thailand and Vietnam, and of the role of the ceramic trade in this region. Also discusses the influence of China on the...

Spanish content; this article looks at prehispanic pottery and ceramic work from cultures in the region of Argentina.

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Val Cushing is described here along with information on his contributions to art through ceramics and pottery.

This site provides an introduction to the different types of vases used by Ancient Greeks, including their different purposes, different descriptions, and the historical backgrounds for each.