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Paulus Berensohn, a Dancer Who Pivoted to Pottery, Dies at 84 By  JONATHAN WOLFE JUNE 22, 2017 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Email More Save Photo Paulus Berensohn making pottery in the 1990s.   Credit Ann Hawthorne Paulus Berensohn, a dancer, potter and teacher whose slower, quieter, more mindful approach to pottery influenced a generation of artists, died on June 15 in Asheville, N.C. He was 84. His death, at a hospice, was confirmed by his sister-in-law, Alison Jarvis, who said the cause was a stroke. Mr. Berensohn was perhaps best known for the book “Finding One’s Way With Clay” (1972), a guide to making pinch pots that blended instructions for making these simple clay bowls with reflections on art, the environment and spirituality, and that advanced the idea that creativity was universal. He spent nearly 40 years affiliated with the Penland School of Crafts in Bakersville, N.C., about an hour northe...

Today Paulus will be laid to rest in a cardboard coffin, and go back to the earth. I have a copy of this movie.  So grateful his words are here for anyone to hear and to remember his message..... I just rewatched this, with a feeling of gratitude and delicious warm memory of my beautiful friend.  Rest in peace....

I have this card hanging in my little studio, that Paulus sent me, I don't remember when.  I always keep it there, pinned to the side wall, a daily reminder of this sweet man....  I hadn't looked inside it in a while, and I did today, when I made this little altar for him as he goes into the ground today.  I opened the card and saw this poem rewritten just slightly by Paulus.... Last Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did And what was it you wanted? To call myself beloved.  To feel myself beloved on this earth and of this earth. To sing and dance on it. Raymond Carver but that is the way Paulus rewrote it, and this is how Carver wrote it: last fragment indeed! Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

My beloved friend, teacher, encourager and so much more to so many people has passed.  He was loved by many people, and in body will be missed, though his presence will always be with me.  I met him when I was 23.....and I would say he was the first person who ever told me that what I was doing was ok, and to continue on the path I was going.  I didn't really need to hear that, but it felt so good to be seen by a stranger, acknowledged, encouraged.  He was a special poetic spirit who always welcomed me with love and I will really miss him.  I was lucky to be at Penland as a resident artist for three years and have a chance to spend hours working together .....meeting him at different points in my life was a great gift.  Last night I was awake in the middle of the night and I heard an owl calling, which was nearly unusual.... and I thought it's Paulus..... as alive in the spirit world as he was in life. From Debra Frasiers Facebook page.... Paulus Bere...

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I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it. Rilke

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-40163836 Llanfoist crash: Tributes to arts figure Peter Goodridge 5 June 2017   From the section South East Wales These are external links and will open in a new window Share this with Facebook   Share this with Twitter   Share this with Messenger   Share this with Email   Share Image copyright FAMILY PHOTO Image caption Mr Goodridge is survived by his wife Melanie Brown and his children Scarlett and Gregory Tributes have been paid to a "monumental" arts figure in Wales who died following a road crash in Monmouthshire. Peter Goodridge, from Abergavenny,  died on 1 June  after a single vehicle collision in Llanfoist. The 61-year-old's company ArtWorks transports art throughout the UK and across the world. His family said he would be greatly missed by the artists, curators and technicians he worked with. They said the National Museum in Cardiff had its flag at half-...

there is a cookie i have always remembered from when I was a child.  my father's secretary's mother made them. She was from Uruguay, but maybe originally Romania... I'm not sure.  They were simple and simply delicious and I've never been able to forget them.  Thanks to facebook I tracked down her granddaughter and she sent me the recipe.  Today I tried it for the first time.  The dough is very soft, and tender.  Maybe it could use a bit more flour, but I got it to work.... :) 2 cups flour 1 cup sugar 1 stick plus 2 T butter 1 T milk 1T lemon juice 1 tsp. vanilla 1 tsp. baking powder 3 eggs beaten, and save some to brush on top.... put it all together roll out, cut shapes, bake at 350 till done 15-20 min. (this took longer in my oven) I didn't have more directions than this, so I beat all the wet ingredients together, and then refrigerated it to stiffen it up..... rolled it out, and you can see the results below.  Understated, and sub...

I started this in February and finished on June 3!  Maybe I should start next year's Valentine right now and I'll have it done by February 14.... !!!

Enrique Martí­nez Celaya: Studio (2012) from L.A. Louver on Vimeo .  I love this artist.

This is my cousin speaking.  

Matt Wedel: Athens (2013) from L.A. Louver on Vimeo . In case you missed seeing him lecture last night at Kent State like I did..... a second chance to glimpse his world.