Amateur and professional artists will have a chance to produce their own raku pottery this weekend at the third annual Raku Arts & Crafts Festival in downtown Chandler.
At the free event vendors will sell the unadorned pottery for between $5 and $25 a pot. Patrons can then glaze the pot and have it fired in the kiln. After an hour or two, the finished pots are available to take home.
The festival also will feature Asian dancers and musicians and a traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Last year about 1,500 people attended the event.
�You don�t have to be an artist to do raku at our festival,� says festival chairwoman Jackie Robinson. �You just have to use your imagination with the glazes.�
Raku was invented in 16th-century Japan for traditional Zen tea ceremonies. Its techniques have been adopted and modified by contemporary potters.
The difference between traditional pottery and raku is the firing technique.
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