'It was a time of stress for me,' she recalled. 'And suddenly I found that not only was I able to finally master the wheel, but that I fell in love with it. Focusing on a piece of clay blocked out everything else in my life.' She began teaching pottery at the Craft Union. About six years ago, a student, Martin H. Mandelbaum, who owns a prosthetics service company in Port Jefferson, asked if she could teach young amputees in her basement studio. The arrangement fit into her theory about working with clay. Details here nytimes/1998/12/13/nyregion/pottery-as-therapy-a-workshop-to-revive-skills.html
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