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ALL GLAZING MUST BE DONE ONE HOUR BEFORE FIRING to allow time for drying.
The entire process will take approximately
3 hours. While waiting for your pots to dry, be sure to check out other activities and shows at the Center and then spend
some time exploring all of Buchanan’s businesses, downtown and uptown, for art and music events, shopping and food during
“Unsanctioned: Music and Art.”
If you wish to create your own pieces for the firing, check out our
Spring Pottery classes.
Everyone is welcome to come and just watch the fun! All profits and
donations will go to the Clay Studio Fund. Don’t miss our book and video sale that day which benefits
our general fund.
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RAKU WALK THROUGH
SATURDAY, MAY 26. 10 AM –
6 PM
Facilitators: Buchanan Art Center Raku Crew Volunteers
All ages
Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult
Pre-made pieces available for firing as priced
$10 - $25
Price includes glaze and cost
of firing
Experience the dynamic coming
together of clay, fire, smoke and water in this one-day, walk-in workshop. During
this exciting firing process you can actually watch the glazes melt and the colors change right before your eyes!
Just walk in (FOOTWEAR IS REQUIRED), buy a piece of pre-fired handmade pottery donated by BAC potters and glaze it the day of the firing. |
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A Little
Pre-Buchanan Art Center History about Our Raku Instructors .....
In the summer of 1971 Nana Maher introduced Raku at Fernwood where she continued to teach it to excited, appreciative
adult students until the closing of its' arts and crafts program in 1993. The wood burning kiln that she and Marie
Remington built was of Japanese design built from Chicago common red clay bricks and sheet metal and it worked wonderfully
for years.
Marie Remington taught Raku to her Buchanan High School students from 1985 through 2004, during which
time they distinquished themselves with award-winning works amazing in size and sophistication. The students custom
built kilns out of anything that would hold heat! Nana Maher often assisted our Art Club on Saturdays in kiln building,
developing glazes and firing techniques. |
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2007 - THE PRESENT
Brooks Bouwkamp offered our first
Raku Class at the center the summer of 2007. That same summer we offered
Raku Fire Dragons for the first time for the children and have done a private firing for them and adults in clay classes every
summer since. Nana Maher has since offered numerous short Raku workshops.
Summer of 2007 we offered our first
Walk Through Raku fund raiser open to the public. We offered it again in the summer of 2008. They were modestly attended
events.
Memorial Day weekend of 2009 we offered Raku Walk Through (note slight name change) in conjunction with
the first Unsanctioned event. We have since offered Raku to the public during the annual Unsanctioned, Nonpareil
and White Saturday events.
We currently are offering four firings a year, three of which are open to the public
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Buchanan Art Center 117 West Front Street * Buchanan, MI 49107 269.697.4005
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