Regional artists are recruited — artists that could bring a distinctive mood or a vibe that is not necessarily trying to teach art with a capital A.

He was such a good teacher.

There's a lot of technical stuff in ceramics, and, you know, he was just right there, hands-on, whenever you needed him — or when you didn't.

He loved teaching.

They loved being his student — that energy, kind of no bulls**t. I sort of think about everything in my life as an extension of my weaving practice.

I weave cloth, but I also weave community, and I weave story, and I weave ideas.

The best way to keep a legacy alive is to keep it in dialogue with young artists, and that's still very much happening today.

It's a continuum, and I feel so incredibly honored to be sort of part of that legacy.