Firing my tea bowl
made it look like a new star
in the Milky Way.
- Robin Lampman
Raku is a type of hand-shaped pottery traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremonies. Join us at the Raku firing with Ceramic artist Darren Corona in Maker Park to learn more about raku, to watch it being fired, to participate in a tea ceremony, and to write haikus. We will celebrate the beauty and the simplicity of these three interrelated arts while sharing the magic of the moment around the fire.
Each participant can take a bowl back home after the workshop. Limited spots. RSVP is required.
*Rain day: (Sunday) May 1, 2022, 10am-noon
Darren Corona has been working with clay for over 30 years. Since moving to Staten Island in the early 2000s he has been a teaching artist leading workshops and seminars in multiple disciplines, He hosts Raku workshops that happen throughout the year.
Robin Lampman is a published poet and an educator with 35 years of experience teaching in universities, high schools, and elementary schools. She has a Master’s Degree in Bilingual Education and has taught literature in two languages in public schools in New Mexico, Texas, and New York as well as at the University of Monterrey in Mexico and the American School of Madrid in Spain. She has also taught English as a Second Language to adults at the University of Texas in Austin and at the El Paso Community College in El Paso. Texas. She produced a volume of poetry by eighth-graders in East Harlem which was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and published by the Big Read. For the last several years she has been teaching writing classes for The Noble Maritime Collection. She developed and taught an adult class on Poetic Forms and taught classes on the reading and writing of literature in two languages. Robin is currently teaching a class on writing poetry at the Hill Street Community Garden as well as conducting the Shakespeare Reading Group at Art on the Terrace. In addition, she is Editor in Chief of Unspoken Word, an online international literary magazine. We are proud that Robin is on board of Tea Arts & Culture as our Poetry and Tea Program Director.