Artist Margaret Boozer reflects on her life's work digging, studying, and offering clay. "Using local clay is a way to experience place, to learn something about the earth. I use it almost as a found object, for the historical, cultural, and geological resonance that particular clays bring to my work."

"I love teaching; I consider it part of my creative work. But after ten years in a less-than-satisfying position as adjunct professor at a local art school, I needed to do it differently. So in the fall of 2002, I started Red Dirt Seminar; I imagined part-graduate school, part-business-of-art incubator."