The artist’s work is an urgent invitation to reflect on how we might relate to other forms of life—even the inorganic and the mineral—with a different kind of respect.

Joel Shapiro died June 14, at age 83. In the final weeks of the sculptor's life, Max Norman interviewed him for a ...

But whether I’m working off a vessel narrative or digging into larger-scale sculpture, my forms are organic and sensuous with associations to the human body.

The film demonstrates the process of sculpting a clay portrait, detailing the importance of armatures, measurements, and techniques used to create a three-dimensional representation. The sculptor ...

The artists pursuing figurative sculpture today don’t share a unified strategy, style or concern. They work with plaster, bronze, resin, fabric, motors, glass and clay. They use everyday objects ...

“The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture” will be on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum through Sept. 14.

Working with clay deeply connects us to what it means to be human, who we are, and our place in our community and the world,” shares ceramicist and art educator Rita Badilla-Gudiño.

The perfect human body has the legs of an ostrich, the heart of a dog, and the eyes of an octopus, according to anatomist Alice Roberts. And it’s utterly terrifying. With the help of anatomical ...

I was sculpting it in clay for 15 months in continuity, full time, and it is not even a very big piece—just about human size. I re-sculpted this piece over 60 times—each time sculpting it into ...

He began sculpting when he was a teenager, attending art school for a time in his 20s, before landing a job with San Diego Halloween design company Disguise. One day around this time, he had an ...