ROASTED
RAKU CERAMICS
A fundraiser with an outdoor raku ceramic firing, dinner, live music and entertainment.
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Event Info
More details for Roasted 2025 COMING SOON!
Bring the family and friends out to the Springfield Art Association campus (700 N. 4th Street. Springfield. 62702) for this unique fundraiser. This is a ceramic raku event. You will glaze a pot and fire it in an outdoor kiln, and it is ready to take home that night. |
WHAT ARE YOU DOING AT THE EVENT? Before the event, artists, students, and volunteers create over 400 ceramic pots in our Prairie Earth & Fire Studio. You'll choose one of those pots and then glaze it with colors of your choice! Next, the pot is taken to outdoor Raku kiln, which is where the pot comes to life. Raku is not only a technique to quickly set the glaze and introduce unique crackling and metallic sheens, but it offers a show of fire, smoke and glowing red HOT POTS. The entertainment includes a live music, fire breather, Make Truck art project, and pumpkin painting. As the evening progresses and the sky darkens, the stars come out, the kiln fires glow and aflame into the heavens, and the smells of smoke and BBQ fills the air! |
WHAT IS RAKU?
The Raku technique is essentially when glazed ceramics are taken from the kiln while they are still glowing red hot and are then placed in a material that would be able to catch fire, such as sawdust or newspaper. This technique is used to starve the piece of oxygen, which creates a myriad of colors including metallic finishes within the glaze.
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WHAT'S FOR DINNER? While the pots are being fired in the outdoor kilns, enjoy a delicious barbeque dinner. 
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PROCEEDS BENEFIT This is a fundraiser designed to generate operational income for art education, interpretation at Edwards Place historic home, art outreach and programming. It allows us to keep our classes and programs at a low-cost to the community and helps us offer free art outreach events and programs where we service community groups and organizations each year. 
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