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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the many exciting events taking place at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts in Mount Vernon this year, one of the most awe-inspiring and entertaining is the Raku pottery firing that happens just a ...

The centuries-old art of Raku pottery comes to South County this summer as Amy Webber teaches an eight-week course on the techniques of Raku and pit firing. These two time-honored firing methods come ...

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.