Congratulations to you on a job well done!! You are a great team that successfully completed the process of firing beautiful American Raku ware for all the students in Mr. Yanashot's 3-D Design Experience of the Fall Semester. All of you are now experts in the execution of this exciting technique!
To all my elective students who created the pieces; great job! You have not only created beautiful artwork, you have also bonded with tradition, knowledge and culture of the ancient Japanese. It doesn't get any better than this!
The 2008 Fall Semester Raku Team.
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First Firing Demo by Mr. Yanashot
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Placing glazeware into an oxygen reduction chamber.
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Tossing sawdust into the chamber.
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Another piece placed in the reduction chamber.
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Taylor Donahue starts to add the sawdust!
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Chamber Flare-up.
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Reducing the oxygen atmosphere of the chamber.
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Let 'er burn!
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Burn baby burn!! Pyrotechnics of the process.
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Conceived by fire; born of water.
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Cooling the Raku ware to induce coloration and crazing (cracking) of the glaze surface.
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Finished Raku Ware.
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Taylor Donahue extinquishes the burner.
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Removing the portable Raku kiln shell.
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Transporting the ware to the reduction chamber.
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Much fire and smoke!
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Killing the flame to create a beautiful glaze finish.
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Quick, keep 'em comin', they've got to be red hot!
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Removing ware from the reduction chamber.
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Logging firing & reduction times.
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Red hot Raku ware.
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Samantha McGraw removes ware from reduction chamber.
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Easy does it Sam!
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Vanessa Donatello removing kiln shell.
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Alana Hronich casting sawdust into the reduction chamber.
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Marie Lavelle handling red-hot ware.
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