SEPT 20th, 2025 | RAKU Firing Event & RiverFest 2025
Location:
54 Main Street
Cummington, MA
Time:
10am – 4pm
Difficulty level:
All-levels
Fee:
$50
EVENT OVERVIEW
Project Art invites you to a special RAKU firing event this fall with Sergei Isupov and Kadri Pärnamets. From 10am-4pm on September 20th, 2025, pre-bisqued ceramics will be glazed on site and then placed in the Raku kiln one after the next throughout the day. While one group of works are fired, the next group of participants will be at the glazing station in preparation for the firing. Participants will watch the firing process and see the results within their reserved time slot.
Open to participants age 16 and above, to students of all levels of experience.
This event coincides with the Cummington RiverFest 2025.
REQUIREMENTS TO PARTICIPATE
PLEASE READ THOROUGHLY FOR SIZE AND MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS EVENT.
FEES
Tuition for the firing is $50 per person, due at the time of the event.
Tuition will be accepted via Cash or Check (paid to Project Art, 54 Main Street Cummington, MA 01026).
MATERIAL & FIRING GUIDELINES
Attendees may bring no more than FOUR pieces
Pieces must be no larger than 6×6”
Pieces MUST BE made using RAKU clay WITH GROG (grog allows for high-stress and rapid temperature changes. The clay does not have to be high fire clay).
All pieces MUST be BISQUE FIRED prior to arrival.
GLAZING
Between 10-3pm, participants will spend 1 hour glazing prior to their firing slot. The glazing table will open at 10am, using Raku glazes provided with the final glazing slot at 2pm.
REGISTER FOR A GLAZING TIME SLOT HERE
HOW TO REGISTER
ATTENDEES MUST REGISTER FOR A FIRING TIME SLOT ahead of time. Firing slots are available from 11-4 on the hour with 10 slots per hour.
REGISTER FOR A TIME SLOT HERE
CONTACT US
Please email info@projectart01026.com with any questions or for more information. To talk on the phone, please send an email with your phone number and preferred time to receive a call, and we will call you back.
RiverFest celebrates our local waterways, bringing together the community and regional visitors for creative and educational activities, and supporting the growing public art collection within the Cummington Cultural District, a rural cultural hub in the Western Mass Hilltowns. Join us on Saturday, September 20, 2025! (Rain Date: Sunday, September 21).
RiverFest is a family-friendly, participatory celebration of the wild and scenic Westfield River that runs through the heart of Cummington. Throughout the festival, artists, humanists, and scientists share their practices and knowledge as a frame for hands-on, experiential, and sensory experiences for participants across a variety of means of engagement, including workshops, walks, guided movement, performances, and public artworks. Projects explore themes around the river, cultural and historic uses & meaning, climate change & the future, creative relationships with water and flow, and related habitat and ecosystems.
RiverFest will cap off the Year of the River 2025 for Cummington Cultural District’s programs. The Westfield River is the Cummington Cultural District’s backyard, flowing behind the buildings and houses that line Main Street, our celebrated rural arts destination. In 2025, the CCD will bring our backyard front-and-center, making the Westfield River that runs through the heart of town the focus and site of our programmatic work.
