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If you can visit the studio, please contact me for an appointment: 508 540-5237 or email lederman@capecod.net.

From late January to early April my work will be shown at at Georgetown University. It will feature interdisciplinary tie-ins. More about the exhibit and related events: Center for New Designs in Leadership & Scholarship.



First Fired Sample
First Fired Sample

Above image is a spyhole into my kiln, where the first piece of marine sediment metamorphosed into it's molten form in 1996.

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Gaia's Glazes: Mysteries of Melting Sea Mud Revealed
Gaia's Glazes: Mysteries of Melting Sea Mud Revealed

A black and white paperback with photographs that, when possible, replace verbal descriptions. For shipping within United States, price includes shipping -- at checkout pick no shipping needed from drop-down menu. E-mail me for out of country mailing costs. Ask for quantity discounts. Click twice more to read contents page.


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Nature Article: Dendrites from the Deep
Nature Article: Dendrites from the Deep

Nature article


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Randy Bass Keynote
Randy Bass Keynote

How might a potter inform educators? Randy Bass created this presentation delivered at AAEEBL Annual World Conference in August 2010. AAEEBL stands for Association of Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning.

ePortfolios & Emergent Learning Ecologies

Image at the left from Randy's keynote was cited from John Seely Brown's "Minds on Fire."

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In Service to Integrated Education
Perry Playing Excerpt from "Hear Me Howling"
Perry Playing Excerpt from "Hear Me Howling"

Listen to Perry Lederman playing “Impressions of John Henry”

This gets to be here because a year after Perry's death Joan got the first sea-mud sample and by selling one of Perry's guitars, she was able to buy the kiln that has produced her work for 15 years. (And when she opens new firings she plays his music.)

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Joan at the Soft Earth
Joan at the Soft Earth

Harris Gaffin created this window into Joan's world: This link to a 4 minute video.

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WICN Radio Interview
WICN Radio Interview

This link if you'd like to hear a half-hour WICN interview between Joan and Mark Lynch, click to listen.

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What's With Fire?
What's With Fire?

This video of Jason at Rota came to me when I asked Jim Broda if underwater eruptions ever flowed in ways that incandescent magma could be seen.

Erupting (search for the red) Video

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Pots? Geological Journalism?
Pots? Geological Journalism?

Video clip here, thanks to Kathy Scheetz’ videography, and the serendipitous arrival of Jim Broda and Amy Nevala during an interview with Joan at the Soft Earth studio August 2007.

Turbidity video

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New England Home Article "Deep Sea Vessels"
New England Home Article "Deep Sea Vessels"

Cape & Islands Issue "celebrating fine design and architecture"

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Integrated Studies Timeline
Integrated Studies Timeline

This timeline is about ONE proposed scenario -- when we stop acting as if science and art are different and when we begin working with ceramic change in labs together. Timeline

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