As she carefully used large metal tongs to move molded chunks of hot fired clay to a tub filled with cool water, Shepard High School senior Ava Gliva joked she “maybe” found a career. “It’s not ...

When you're thrifting for ceramic art to incorporate into your home, one type of pottery stands out among the rest: raku pottery. If you've never heard of it, raku pottery refers to an ancient ...

Don't try this at home. That could be the motto for raku, a style of art that blends the introspective aspects of pottery such as glazing with fire. For the past eight years, The Art Center's ...

A Raku show was performed on the grounds of IVS last Tuesday. One may ask: what is Raku, and what techniques are used in order to create it? According to Nabahat Lotia, who has learnt this technique ...

SOMERVILLE – Raku, a 12th-century pottery-firing technique, may trace its origins to creating the wares for Japanese tea ceremonies, but you certainly don’t need to hop on a plane to try it yourself.

FAIRBANKS — Jed Williams lifted the 3 1/2-foot cylindrical lid of the kiln at his Chena Hot Springs Road home, exposing the red-hot pottery underneath. Working quickly to retain as much heat in the ...

BERLIN -- Despite a tradition of more than 400 years, raku ceramics are now not well-known in Japan beyond the tea ceremony. Yet, raku is extremely popular with Western potters. Cornelia Nagel, a ...

Two artists, two mediums, one long conversation. Commonwheel Artists Gallery’s new exhibit, “Relics of Abstraction,” will feature raku pottery by Jerry Rhodes and woodcuts by Amy Guadagnoli. It runs ...

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