Work While You Have the Light
Conversations with working women over seventy who refuse to be stopped by outdated assumptions of the roles of older women in society today. We discuss gender, equity, ageism, race and relationships in both the workplace and society.
Work While You Have the Light
Lana Wilson - Ceramicist, 80
Lana Wilson is a studio potter who lives in Berkeley, California. Lana was recently introduced to us by a family member and we were immediately compelled by her extraordinary ceramics. Each piece expresses her unique vision of the world--they are organic, personal and beautiful.
She has given more than 150 workshops on the ancient pottery technique of handbuilding that involves creating forms without a pottery wheel at institutions including Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, Mendocino Art Center, and Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts. She has taught workshops in Mexico, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.
Lana has been featured in Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated magazines, and for twenty years she wrote a column for Clay Times magazine. Her work has been in more than 185 exhibitions and appears in over fourteen books.
She is the author of Ceramics: Shape and Surface, which includes extensive instruction on the electric glazes she has developed.
Lana is eighty years old.
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