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Ceramics Envy at the Berkeley Art Center — I Want to Get My Hands into that Earthy, Messy, Squishy Clay

October 2, 2012 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Nancy Selvin's Large Pot with Green Base 2012. Photo by BF Newhall

 

I’m a writer, but whenever I visit my friend Nancy Selvin’s ceramics studio, I wonder whether I’d rather be working with something more tangible than words and ideas — like clay.

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