Raku Ho'olaule'a 2024

Attend an authentic Japanese tea ceremony demonstration conducted by Ms. Akiko Ono, Kyoju (Professor) of the Urasenke School and a member of the Urasenke Hawaiʻi Association. After the ceremony, master ceramic artist Yukio Ozaki will teach you how to make your own tea bowl. Clay, tools and bisque firing will be provided.

Sunday, February 25, 11:30 - 3 PM · SOLD OUT 

Tea Ceremony, 11:30 - 1 PM

Tea ceremony rules:

• Wear clean socks
• Remove accessories, and cover shoulders and knees (no shorts or tank tops)
• Tie back long hair.

Maximum attendees: 15, all tickets are sold

Tea Bowl Workshop, 1:30 - 3 PM

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Ceramics Studio
Art Bldg, 2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822

Instructor: Yukio Ozaki

Maximum attendees: 20, all tickets are sold

REGISTER FOR TEA CEREMONY AND WORKSHOP

Take a trip through the creative process with these ceramic artists, clay craftsmen and gentle giants Don Ellis and Randy Brodnax. Don and Randy are two of the most respected and entertaining ceramics instructors working today. They have incredible energy and passion in their teaching, and all with amazing humor that reaches students on many different levels.

Guest Artists Lecture

March 18, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Don and Randy will present and discuss their work, after a potluck dinner.

Windward Community College
Ceramics Studio in Hale Palanakila

45-720 Keaahala Rd, Kaneohe, HI 96744

This is free and open to the public, and no registration is required.
Please bring a potluck item.

5:30 PM - Potluck
6:30 PM - Lecture

Guest Artists Demonstration

March 19, 5:30 PM - 8 PM

Don and Randy will demonstrate their signature raku techniques in throwing and surface design after a short potluck dinner.

Windward Community College
Ceramics Studio in Hale Palanakila

45-720 Keaahala Rd, Kaneohe, HI 96744

This is free and open to the public, and no registration is required.
Please bring a potluck item.

5:30 PM - Potluck
6:00 PM - Demo: Wet Clay followed by surface design

Guest Artists

Don Ellis 

Currently a professor and a Fine Arts Department Chair at San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico and has been a Ceramics educator since 1986. He is known as a master of Alternative Firing techniques and copper matte glazes and has spent over 30 years mastering these special techniques. His work is featured in Alternative Kilns and Firing Techniques and Mastering Raku.

Randy Brodnax

Randy is a life-long potter and educator from Texas and Louisiana. He creates functional pottery, large decorative vessels, and clay sculpture. His creations are images of nature, animals, and fish, and he is a master on the potter’s wheel.  A Louisiana native, Randy has retained much of the Cajun joie de vivre with which he was raised and incorporates that into his entertaining and informative demonstrations which are not to be missed.  

Thursday, March 21 - Sunday, March 24

Registration closes on Friday, March 8

Raku Hoʻolauleʻa is focused around a weekend of communing, glazing and firing ceramic artworks by the beach at Camp Mokulēʻia.  Participants are organized in groups, each with their own kilns, equipment and glazes. Jurying of artwork for the exhibition will take place at the beach on Sunday morning prior to striking camp. Participating artists must register in advance with Hawaiʻi Craftsmen, and the public is invited to visit and watch the firings all weekend.  

Camp Mokulēʻia

68-729 Farrington Hwy, Waialua, HI 96791

https://www.campmokuleia.org

PROSPECTUS

It’s the year of the dragon, and this year’s shirt is designed by the amazing Bryce Myers. Available in short sleeve, long sleeve and tank top.

Visit the online store to order your shirts: https://www.hawaiicraftsmen.org/storefront

Orders need to be placed by March 1

During the The HEART of Honolulu Street Festival in Chinatown, the public is invited to get “hands on” with raku in this family friendly activity! Participants get to glaze ceramic tea bowls under the direction of Hawai’i Craftsmen members, see them fired using the raku process, and take their finished tea bowls home that day. 

Saturday, April 13, 10 AM - 2 PM

$15 per bowl, includes blank tea bowl, glaze, and raku firing.No reservation required, but supplies are limited, so come early!

Artworks selected by the jurors at the campout will be on display in an exhibition at The Arts at Marks Garage for the month of May. 

Friday, May 3, 6 - 8 PM, First Friday Opening Reception

Friday, May 31, 6 - 8 PM, Final Friday Reception

Raku Hoʻolauleʻa Exhibition 2024

May 1 - 31, The ARTS at Marks Garage

1159 Nuʻuanu Ave, Honolulu