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 ...

One of the most interesting things about art is that it can be tied tightly to time, but also transcend it. The exhibit “Raku: The Cosmos in a Tea Bowl,” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ...

COURTESY ALOHA RAKU POTTERY Anthony Urango, partner in Maui-based Aloha Raku Pottery, held up the booth placard at the Made in Hawaii Festival in August. Company founder Javier Gaytan started a ...

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 Ferndale Arts Gallery is featuring the work of raku potter Laura Rose this month. Rose has developed her own style of raku pottery, depicting the animals drawn and carved many thousands of years ...

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 ...

Japan’s rich history of ceramic artistry developed in large part alongside the culture of drinking tea. Chanoyu (literally, “hot water for tea”), or the practice of preparing and serving matcha, ...

In a 30-square-meter workshop, a tall man with silver hair is showing children how to mold clay to make Raku pottery. Despite not understanding what he says, by observing his movements and ...