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 2026 Raku Events

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New This year: Upgrade your pumpkin to a Jack-o-lantern!  Look for the upgrade button when you register for a day/time

Glaze-your-own ceramic pumpkin 
Join us at Chilly Hollow Brewery for a fun relaxing time with friends and family getting creative and walking away with a one of a kind pumpkin.  Register for a day/time to come glaze a ceramic pumpkin thrown on the wheel by Carrie Althouse.  Enjoy an array of colors, while taking in the view of the Blue Ridge Mountains and be amazed at the quick 30-40 minute firing process.  Then, best part... walk home with your project all in under 2 hours.

Click HERE for more details 

​Ticket - $60
pumpkin registration
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Come build a raku snowman with Carrie Workshop
Join Carrie Althouse at Chilly Hollow Brewery for this exciting beginner to intermediate workshop and create a one of a kind raku snowman.  This is a 2 part class. The first part is the making process a Chilly Hollow Brewery with instruction from Carrie.  The second part is coming back to Chilly Hollow on one of the raku firing days, glazing your piece and watching it go through the firing process.  
9/23  6pm-8pm
This class is all inclusive and includes clay, instruction, glazes and firings.  Please read the registration process very carefully as you will need to register for a regular pumpkin time slot (see above) and enter a coupon code to take off the $60 firing fee.
Ticket - $75

Snowman  registration
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The Potter's Raku Day  
​October 16 4pm & 5pm

This day is for Potters & pottery students only.  
Bring your handmade bisqued raku piece or pieces, use our studio glazes and learn from Carrie all bout raku as you watch your pieces go through various stages in the kiln, watch as Carrie pulls them out of the kiln red hot and learn a little behind the scenes of what's happening in the reduction chambers.  Each ticket is for a 4" x 4" x 8" spot in the kiln.  Register for as many spots as you'd like.  If your piece exceeds the 4" diameter, please register for another ticket.  Maximum height to fit in the kiln is 8".  No raku experience necessary,  Pieces must be made with an even 1/4" - 1/2" thickness using raku clay (Soldate 60) or any other clay that has a high grog content.  Pieces are subject to approval before firing for the safety of other pieces in the kiln.
Ticket - $25

Potter's day registration
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We'll be seeing ya in October!

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