Adult pottery students in the former Arkansas Arts Center Museum School used to do raku. Every 10-week session of an introductory handbuilding class ended with this fiery experience, and advanced ...

Handmade pottery began in the New Stone Age, at the dawn of domestication when man chose the orderliness of village life. The craftsmen of the time pinched clay into cups and bowls, and discovered ...

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.

Local artist Terre Christensen creates and markets her pottery under the name PotTerre Raku & Stoneware. Like most of artists, she started as a hobbyist, working out of whatever available space she ...

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 ...

In 1972 Ann Loper and her husband Bill stumbled across a set of pottery plates in a Cost Plus store in San Francisco. They were just so beautiful, Ann recalled as she leaned down, pulling 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 ...

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 ...

British Columbia has long been celebrated as an epicentre of modernist architecture. But what did people decorate those sleek glass-and-wood homes with? What did they sit on, and what locally created ...