WEBB CITY, Mo. - The delicate-looking bowls and pitchers sitting on shelves in Kellie Evans' shed didn't come from such delicate origins. Fired in extreme heat, the pots are the result of a ...

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 ...

It was about 90 degrees on Sunday, but that didn't stop a group of Blue Ridge Potters Guild member from making it even hotter. The group gets together on a regular basis, this time to build Raku kilns ...

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 ...

Not even a burst of rain could keep the kilns from firing at Raku Fest, an annual event at Lyons Township High School where students decorate pots, vases and other items and get to see first-hand one ...

"Learn the key techniques, tips, and tricks for pit, barrel, raku, and wood firing. Fall in love with flames, wood, and the effect that unique firing methods have on pottery. Move beyond the electric ...

Clay coming out of a raku kiln looks like molten glass. The kiln looks like an insulated wire trash basket. At the top of the hill, on a level space on the grass, we are milling around a two-foot ...

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 ...

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 ...

People have been making pottery for centuries and whether you’re making dishware or a of piece art there is a certain technique that’s needed. News 8 photographer John Schmidt takes us to Coon Valley ...