A pottery student works with a mound of brown clay on a potting wheel in a Glen Echo pottery class. "This will be a bowl or a cylinder," said Glen Echo summer camp pottery instructor Linda Johnson.

Behind his Los Angeles sushi restaurant, he had two potting wheels and a kiln, and whenever he had a few minutes, he would be at the wheel, forming a lump of clay into a bowl or plate.

Project Jericho’s annual Summer Arts Camp saw students learning a variety of skills, from how to work on a potting wheel to pastel painting in June to create works that will live on beyond the ...

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