KNOXVILLE, Tenn — Her age is just a number. Ruth Widener has the energy and attitude of someone decades younger. "I may be 97, almost 98, but I've still got work to be done," she said. The work Ruth ...

Schneeman, of Pontiac, began painting china plates in 1978 when her aunt, Cleo Weber, asked that she try it out. Schneeman, in her mid-30s at the time, wasn't interested at first — she knew that ...

Li Jiansheng, one of China’s foremost ceramic artists and scholars, will discuss Chinese and American cultural similarities and differences that find common ground in the clay medium, on Wednesday, ...

Gretchen Small was browsing a Moline antique shop some 30 years ago when she picked up a pretty little china tray, the kind that sat on woman's dresser, holding a hairbrush and comb.