Texture is key in African-style pottery. Use natural materials like leaves or fabric to imprint patterns onto the surface of ...

The Central Nigerian Nok Culture has been well known for its elaborate terracotta sculptures and evidence of iron metallurgy since its discovery by British archaeologist Bernard Fagg in the 1940s.

The hand-coiling technique is one of the oldest methods of pottery making in Africa. It involves rolling clay into long ...

Body Vessel Clay at the Ford Foundation Gallery spans three generations of artists who embody continuity, molding the past and present. William Alfred Ismay, "Photograph of Ladi Kwali at a pottery ...

A Human Ideal in African Art: Bamana Figurative Sculpture (Exhibition) (1986: Washington, D.C.) Africa Illustrated: Fantasy and Reality Before 1900 (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.) African Art ...