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 ...

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.

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 ...

The centuries-old art of Raku pottery comes to South County this summer as Amy Webber teaches an eight-week course on the techniques of Raku and pit firing. These two time-honored firing methods come ...

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 ...

Among the many exciting events taking place at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts in Mount Vernon this year, one of the most awe-inspiring and entertaining is the Raku pottery firing that happens just a ...

Smoke billows out of the 55-gallon steel drum on the patio of Jed Cossonay’s Chandler home. With a pair of metal tongs, he pulls a small copper-colored pot out of the makeshift kiln and places it in ...