Ceramics and Pottery Crafts

Objects formed from clay and hardened by firing, from hand-built and wheel-thrown pottery through glazed and kiln-fired studio ceramics, one of the American Craft Council's own discipline categories, styled Ceramics in the Council's own list. Named Ceramics and Pottery Crafts rather than the bare word Ceramics because the craft Pottery already carries Ceramics as an alternative common name; this subcategory groups the ceramic crafts rather than duplicating that entry. Belongs here: pottery as a practiced craft, the potter's wheel and kiln as its landmark tools, and the makers, teachers and studios whose primary discipline is clay. Does not belong here: glass, which is also formed with heat and a wheel-adjacent tool set but follows an entirely different material science and craft lineage.