NDSU's new wood-fired kiln takes shape FARGO - In the back of North Dakota State University's downtown Renaissance Hall, a labor of love is taking shape, brick by brick.

Trey Hill is painting the largest sculpture he's built in the United States.

They knew they needed a new kiln. Their only big kiln at the time was 30 years old and, though it worked well, there were some problems with it. Firing clay products, ...

George Rodriguez is a Seattle artist who does things in a big way, in a big kiln. From its fire comes anything from massive mariachis -- to colossal clowns.

Bizen, Powell explained, is one of the large kiln sites in Japan. A potter there - Hirakawa - suggested he fire a kiln there with him, and then he'd come to Arkansas to return the favor as Powell ...

The kiln, measuring 4 feet by 6 by just under 9 feet tall, can hold ambitiously large work like Hill's several-hundred pound sculpture. TOM BAUER, Missoulian Facebook ...