Muncie Potter Is The Art Teacher She Never Had

Indiana Artisan Carol Burt has been scraping and painting her creations for nearly 20 years.

“In 2001, I took my first pottery class. The thing I liked about it the most – I liked to draw and paint,” says Carol, who studied art as a graduate student at Ball State University. “When I found out I can draw and paint on top of the clay, it made it a lot more fun.”

And she’s been doing it ever since. She loved it so much, she turned it into a small side business.

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• Source: Indiana Public Radio
• Via: Max Lewis

Young students are usually surprised to learn their teachers have a life outside of school – families, talents, volunteer gigs. For an art teacher in Muncie, her life as an Indiana artisan is the reason why she enters the classroom every day.

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