Janet Leach: Potter

Janet Leach’s childhood in Texas through the Roaring Twenties and the Depression imbued her with resilience and numerous practical skills, initially acquired on her grandparents’ self—sufficient farmstead. At nineteen she took a Greyhound bus to cosmopolitan New York and soon found work as a sculptor’s assistant. During the war she worked on Staten Island, welding the hulls of US—Navy destroyers. After discovering pottery, she met Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada at Black Mountain College in ...