Failure - Vol. 39 No. 2 | Studio Potter

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Summer/Fall 2011

Failure - Vol. 39 No. 2

Editorial: The Uses of Failure; Instructions for Failure by Catherine White; Failure Makes Great Reclaim by Martina Lantin; Firing the Imagination by Susan Tunick; The Willingness to Fail by Rob Barnard; Teapot Improv by Sue Grier; Fear of Failure as a (Gasp) Positive Indicator by Richard Notkin; Come Fail Away by Simon Levin; Lesson Learned by Cynthia Shevelew; The Shape of Failure by Fred Herbst; more articles by Vince Montague, Rachel Garceau, Jocelyn Howard, Del Harrow, Elizabeth Cohen, Betsy Levine, Rostislav Eismont, Graham Marks, Paul McAllister, Gail Kendall, Erin Lambers, Brian Molanphy, and Terry Gess. (Not currently available in print.)

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Failure Makes Great Reclaim

Martina Lantin

There is a small irony in asking functional potters to comment on the use of something many of us try to avoid.

Fear of Failure as a (Gasp) Positive Indicator

Richard Notkin

In 1966, when was graduating from high school on the south side of Chicago and headed for the Kansas City Art Institute, I remember telling my friends and classmates - quite unabashedly - that my goal was to become as famous as Pablo Picasso.

Come Fail Away

Simon Levin

A language teacher once told me that in order to learn a new word you have to forget it five times. What I love about this statement is the idea that forgetting is integral to learning, an inseparable part of the journey to acquire knowledge.

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