Pins and Needles is a column about making useful Texas-themed crafts at home. That’s how I approach many things in my life. The week’s project, for example, involved clay sculpting, something that ...

Leaves flow from a ceramic fall tree which sprouted up next to the media center at Fouse Elementary School this spring. "I thought it would be a little, tiny tree," fifth-grade student Seraiah Wells ...

After hoisting a pencil point 100 feet into the sky and snaking a line of logs 400 yards on the ground, there was just one direction left to Andy Goldsworthy - down into the Earth. "Tree Fall," his ...

Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) saw trees as examples of living prayers. “Silence my soul these trees are prayers. I asked the Tree: Tell me about God -- then it blossomed,” wrote the ...

Dong Zhuangzhuang, 31, was born into a family of craftsmen in Laoting. From his grandfather's generation, the Dongs have been renowned clay artists. Dong has been influenced by his family since he was ...