In order to celebrate Earth Day the CCHS fine arts department put on a demo on what their programs have to offer.  The main event of this was a Raku Firing which is an ancient form of pottery from japan. Throughout the day, while the kiln was burning, classes would come to see the process, while students were there they could check out other demonstrations done by students to show off what the department has to offer, such as drawing temporary tattoos with a pen that mimicked a tattoo gun, block printing t-shirts, blacksmithing, welding and chalk drawing. Now we can go to our interview with an active member of the art club, Nita Wougamon. 

Nita Wougamon: raku is an ancient Japanese technique of firing clay where you get the kiln up to 1,800° and you put it in there for like 30 minutes and then you take it out and temperature shock it with the normal temperature. then you put it in like a trash can or something flammable  with flammable paper inside and it creates this chemical reaction because the paper catches on fire and then close the lid and keep it in there until it’s done for like 5 minutes and then you take it back out and it becomes all cracked and pretty 

there’s so many art classes and not everyone gets to take them so this is an experience for everyone to get to try something they haven’t done before. I’m going to do blacksmithing soon .

we’re doing screen printing for t-shirts, chalk, blacksmithing, welding, oh and tattooing.