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I've updated this website to include my current sense of myself in this emerging world.  Ceramics section is here as a resource.  I stopped making pots in 2016.
                                                                                                                           
—Joan Lederman, March, 2021


As a potter with an indigenous soul, who has worked in a technological age, I've straddled worlds and always consulted natural systems.  My essence is about continuing the work of nature in the human world.
"Not a time for heroic individual efforts but a time for communities of cultivation."
                                                                                                                —Peter Senge

I've done more of the former and am ready for the latter.  I'm not shaping clay these days but I continually shape ideas.  As we're emerging into a post-covid-19 world, I hope to see us redesigning inter-dependent systems of healthcare, education, economic development and governance -- in ways that promote social and environmental justice for the benefit of All. 

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lederman@capecod.net or joan@thesoftearth.com