Last spring Heather Edwards and Nico Follett met at a children's event in Wilson Park. Eventually, they started booking grown-up playdates, over beers at Fossil Cove, where they got serious and ...

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 — ...

When prize-winning architect Francis Kéré was growing up in Burkina Faso he spent his schooldays in a gloomy classroom that was so stifling he says it would have been better suited to making bread ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...