Reading List

  • A Theory of Craft – Function and Aesthetic Expression
    Howard Risatti

    Craft – An Inquiry into the Origins and Ture Meaning of Traditional Crafts
    Alexander Langlands 

    The Unknown Craftsman – A Japanese Insight in Beauty
    Sōetsu Yanagi

    Why Art Cannot Be Taught
    James Elkins

    The Creative Act: A Way of Being
    Rick Rubin 

    Free Play – Improvisation in Life and Art
    Stephen Nachmanovitch

    Craft – An American History
    Glenn Adamson

    How Art Can Be Thought – A Handbook for Change
    Allan deSouza

    Talking Art – The Culture of Practice & the Practice of Culture in MFA Education
    Gary Alan Fine

  • Clay and Glazes for the Potter
    Daniel Rhodes

    Stoneware & Porcelain – The Art of High Fire Pottery
    Daniel Rhodes

    Wood-fired Ceramics – Contemporary Practices
    Coll Minogue and Robert Sanderson

    Kiln Book – Materials, Specifications & Construction
    Fred Olsen

    Shapes from Out of Nowhere – Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection
    August Editions

    Kintsugi – The Poetic Mend
    Bonnie Kemske

    The Teabowl – East and West
    Bonnie Kemske

    Wild Clay – Creating Ceramics and Glazes from Natural and Found Resources
    Matt Levy, Takuro Shibata and Hitomi Shibata

  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    Robert M. Pirsig

    The Idiot
    Elif Batuman

    The Essential Rumi
    By Jala ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

    The Alchemist
    Paulo Coelho

    All Boys Aren’t Blue
    George M. Johnson

    Tick Mirror
    Jia Tolentino

    Demon Copperhead
    Barbara Kingsolver 

  • Attention – Beyond Mindfulness 
    Gay Watson

    How Emotions are Made – The Secret Life of the Brain
    Lisa Feldman Barrett

    The Body Keeps the Score – Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
    Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.

    The Myth of Normal – Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture
    Gabor Maté

    Gut – The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
    Giulia Enders

    The Village Effect – How Face-To-Face Contact can make us Healthier and Happier
    Susan Pinker

    No Bad Parts – Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
    Richard C. Schwartz 

    You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For
    Richard C. Schwartz

    I – Minds – How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring our Brains and What to do About It
    Mari K. Swingle

    The Runaway Brain – The Evolution of Human Uniqueness 
    Christopher Wells

    The Hand – How its use shapes the brain, language and human culture
    Frank R. Wilson

    Nonviolent Communication – A Language of Life
    Marshall B. Rosenberg

    Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
    Pema Chödrön

    How to Do Nothing – Resisting the Attention Economy 
    Jenny Odell

    The Art of Is – Improvising as a Way of Life
    Stephen Nachmanovitch

    Hallucinations
    Oliver Sacks

    Radical Compassion – Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
    Tara Brach 

    How to Change Your Mind – What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence
    Michael Pollan

    In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts – Close Encounters with Addiction
    Gabor Maté M.D.

    The Better Brain – Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression, and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition
    Bonnie J. Kaplan PhD and Julia J, Rucklidge PhD

    The End of Mental Illness – How Neuroscience is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping People Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorders, ADHD, Addictions, PTSD, Psychosis, Personality Disorders and More
    David G. Amen MD

  • Thinking in Systems 
    Donella H. Meadows

    The Hidden Life of Trees – What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
    Peter Wohlleben

    Gathering Moss – A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
    Robin Wall Kimmerer

    Braiding Sweetgrass – Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
    Robin Wall Kimmerer

    Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
    Merlin Sheldrake