Most of the time, pottery is a pursuit for the patient. But at the Southern Highland Craft Guild's annual Clay Day, artists show off its swift and spectacular aspects. One of the main attractions at ...

Lawrence and Free State high school students gather at the home of Dave Leach, Lawrence, to learn raku, a ceramics technique. Lawrence and Free State high school students participate in a raku firing ...

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 ...

Vance Hewitt, who was working the Raku Kiln, unloaded pottery and placed it at a station for an organic material to be applied. According to Hewitt, the organic materials would bring out different ...

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.

Paul Soldner, a ceramicist and longtime Scripps College teacher who introduced a pottery technique called American raku, died Monday at his home in Claremont after a period of declining health. He was ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Paul Soldner, the ceramicist who discovered American raku and taught for ...

“Sometimes you stumble upon something and you don’t know where it’s going to go but you just risk it.” These wise words from Chiles High School 12th-grader Katie Parmalee would make raku masters proud ...

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 ...