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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pottery may seem a solitary endeavor -- sitting at the wheel, shaping a pot or vase, glazing and loading it into a kiln. But in Raku, or wood firing, the solitary becomes a community activity. Ben ...