For over 120 years, a tiny pottery manufacture in Detroit has been turning clay into durable handicraft, proving that the ...

After she pointed to a vase and said, “I made that,” she learned that her vibrantly colored, crackle-glaze pottery from the 1940s and ’50s was in demand. Collectors had been searching for ...

Barbara Willis, who created vibrantly colored, crackle-glaze pottery in the 1940s and '50s, has died. She was 94.

Originally inspired by fragmented patterns on ice or crackle-glazed ceramic surfaces, the design represents the melting of the ice and the beginning of a thriving spring.