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The article features ceramic artist Byron Temple and his work. Born on a farm in Centerville, Indiana, Temple pursued undergraduate training in ceramics at Ball State University in Muncie. He moved to New York, spent some time in the army and eventually made his way to the Leach Pottery in Saint Ives, England. He began a production pottery on Swann Street in Lambertville, New Jersey after returning to the U.S. It is noted that the focus of his work changed when he moved to Louisville, Kentucky, but he and his devotion to clay and pots remained the same.

The article features artist Ron Kovatch and his work. Kovatch's 1999 exhibition at the Quincy Art Centre gallery in Quincy, Illinois consisted of a 10-year retrospective of his work, completed while he was a faculty member at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. According to the article, his prints and drawings are testament to the search that he undergoes to express the images and symbols in his life and art. On paper Kovatch works out further issues of his expression using materials not available in the clay world.