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Jenny creates her original forms by either slip casting or wheel throwing. Smith for the archives of american art, smithsonian institution. Susan peterson began studying ceramics at mills college in the 1940s and went on to write numerous books on the art of working clay and the. Sometimes it is altered and can function as sculpture. She was the valedictorian of 1943 senior class of grand island, nebraska senior high school.
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