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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...