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 ...

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 ...

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.

CHICO — In a small park he’s created to house a raku pottery studio behind his Chico home, ceramic artist Dave Owen shares his expertise of this ancient Japanese art with small groups of students. An ...

Recently, a group of potters gathered under the live oak trees behind Franklin Square Gallery in Southport to fire Raku pottery. They had been hand building and throwing special Raku clay for six ...

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 ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Pottery students converged on the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette this weekend to celebrate "raku," a traditional Japanese method of firing pottery. They set up portable kilns ...