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THE POTTERS
Kazu Oba and Yuka Oba of O’baware
▸ Kazu and Yuka Oba’s romance began with clay. In 2015, Kazu—a Japanese-born Boulderite who apprenticed with Colorado sculptor Jerry Wingren and Japanese potter Takashi Nakazato—was visiting Fukuoka, Japan, and walked into a ceramics studio where Yuka was teaching. (Kazu was on a mission to buy clay for a “guerrilla pot-throwing” performance, during which he sets up a kick wheel on the street and throws pots.) After their fateful