I came to Civitella to participate in the first NEA funded Ceramic Residency. I had the amazing fortune to work with a local ceramics factory, Cotto Etrusco. While at Cotto Etrusco I developed an entire new body of work. Making ceramics in Italy taught me unexpected...
MY GENERATION My generation sat on the brim of the ocean, waiting for the tide to bring something in. My generation was populated with boozehounds and pillheads, crude clowns and bedspreads stained with the neon dreams of cocaine fiends, I mean the diamond flooded...
Civitella Ranieri was a parenthesis in my daily life that will unlikely be repeated, and one that was entirely positive, both personally and professionally. I worked, I made friends, and I felt immersed in an environment of generosity and of intelligent comprehension...
