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 ...

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 ...

Most of the time, pottery is a pursuit for the patient. But at the Southern Highland Craft Guild's annual Clay Day, artists show off its swift and spectacular aspects. One of the main attractions at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...