Joan Lederman - The Soft Earth
Channel: Ilya Fischhoff
Date: 2012-02-14

This interview is with Joan Lederman, a ceramic artist who uses glazes that are sediments from the ocean floor drawn from scientific research. These samples are thousands of years old and are drawn from experiments run by her neighboring Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. One of her sediments is drawn from the time of dinosaur extinction. Her current show at Georgetown University is called Where the Seafloor Melts: Ocean Mud, Ceramic Change, and Connected Minds. http://apps.cndls.georgetown.edu/projects/joanlederman/