“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 ...

Students at Lyons Township High School participated in the tradition of firing up a 300-year-old Japanese kiln-firing process to create ceramics, also known as Raku Fest May 20. The outdoor event was ...

Kerry Gonzalez can see Hanging Rock from the backyard of his Walnut Cove studio, where he creates pots with brilliant metallic reds and blues using copper raku glaze, for which he is well-known. He ...

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 ...

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 ...

Raku is known as earthenware that is fired at low temperature. But few people are aware that its roots go back to the chawan (tea bowls) that Chōjirō, the first head of the Raku family, crafted for ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Black Raku tea bowl, cylindrical; low ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Behind the high school, on a swath of lawn between the auto shop and the track, puffs of tan smoke rise from tin garbage cans and the breeze blows it southward. A handful of people ...

Lucknow: Sculptures made of glaze ceramic using raku technique have been showcased at the two-day exhibition titled 'Mrinmay' that began at Kalasrot art gallery on Friday. The exhibition will remain ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Hon'ami Koetsu was a sword polisher and appaiser by profession, but he gained fame as a calligrapher and also as a ...