Around 1960, Paul Soldner (1921–2011) and other American ceramic artists began working with the idea of low-firing vessels in small kilns, a principle taken from Japanese Raku ware. Soldner is ...

One of the main attractions at the June 6 celebration of ceramics at the Folk Art Center is a rapid firing process called raku. Here's how it works: Attendees pick an unglazed artist-made vessel ...

See About archive blog posts. Paul Soldner, the ceramicist who discovered American raku and taught for decades at Scripps College, died at his home in Claremont on Monday at age 89. What is ...

Nancy trained in traditional pottery with Frans Wildenhain and Hobart Cowles at RIT. Her early works were stoneware and raku vessels and and later expanded to sculptural blouse forms emblematic of ...

Raku is removed from the kiln while glowing ... Answer: My biggest challenge was learning to fire my copper vessels. My best friend from FAU, George Whitten, developed my glaze and shared the ...

In the fourth episode of The Great Pottery Throw Down, it was Raku week and the potters made bulbous vessels with naked raku decoration. Judges Rich Miller and Keith Brymer Jones decided who was ...

Who's on borrowed time? Noah's Ark and Potties: Episode Image Episode 3Noah's Ark and Potties The potters make a toy Noah's ark and animals, and the second challenge sends them potty Raku Vessels and ...

At the opening of "The Cosmos in a Tea Bowl: Transmitting a Secret Art Across Generations of the Raku Family" at The National Museum of Modern Art, in Kyoto, the current head of the Raku family ...

Undeterred and confident about his talent, he hired a rep to market his raku vessels, a successful strategy that led to national department stores carrying his pottery. With those sales ...