Published by Flip Learning, 2024. Paperback, 215 pages. $24.95
Chris Staley taught ceramics at Penn State University for 38 years while pursuing a regimen of gallery exhibitions, international travel, being a visiting artist at every major craft school in the US, as well as lecturing at a variety of venues worldwide. As University Laureate during the 2012–23 academic year, he visited each of Pennsylvania’s 16 State Universities, making presentations including a series of short YouTube videos based on his class, “Teaching Art and Life.”
Chris Staley’s prodigious and varied pottery output for forty-plus years authenticates the commentary he offers to learners of all levels of experience. The student-teacher synapse is the core of his book, Teaching Art and Life, as well as the reciprocity of teaching and learning.
