ceramic

Ceramic nonstick cookware: A popular new class of nonstick cookware, these candy-colored ceramic pans — such as the Instagram-famous Always Pan — are often marketed as nontoxic.

More than 1,200 years ago, an unidentified Maya artist decorated an extraordinary, 16-inch circular ceramic plate, painting one half in flat, nearly black slip and the other a creamy off-white.

There are paintings, dolls and ceramic figures, each with its own expression — smiling, laughing, smirking, weeping or silently shrieking.

Into this mix of new art and design in Southern California came an upstart company that focused on everyday ceramics for the Modernist mindset: Architectural Pottery.

West is a ceramic artist known for her explorations of the human form in provocative ways.