Mud in the Blood: Wood-Firing Potters Carry the Torch in Rural Western North Carolina (2025)
These days, many pottery kilns can be fired with just the push of a button. But Josh Copus prefers a different method. For 72 hours, Copus and a team of potters from around the country worked together to fire a three-chamber wood kiln in the hills of western North Carolina. This pre-industrial metho