A photo of me at Arrowmont in 2023, seated at a table, examining a decorated clay pot with intricate designs made by renowned Nigerian potter Ladi Kwali. The background contains a white board and a clipboard with visible notes. We were in one of the ceramic studios on campus.
Yesterday, a woman told me she saw #LadiKwali build a large pot at Arrowmont School of Craft in Tennessee in the 1970s. She told me that when Kwali was finally done, she danced and danced, joyously around her pot—a detail I hadn’t heard before.
I believe […]
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