We had a successful outdoor Raku firing this past Thursday, April 14th. We pit fired and applied horsehair to our burnished pieces as well as heated Raku glaze to a molten state, then placed it in reduction buckets to achieve the various copper, turquoise, black and crackle effects.
We fired 98 pieces successfully over a continuous feeding of the fire and reduction buckets during an 8 hour day. 14 students were supporting the firing process all day by gathering work to be fired and returning fired pieces to our locked display case. Stuents also removed lids from the reduction buckets and fed the reduction with newspaper to create beautiful Rak effects.
Our t-shirts were made by Mrs. Yang in the spirit of "Racoon Fighting" which is what some students hear when you say we will be participating in... "Raku Firing." We will be making more of these to sell at school and the Farmers Market.
