“A Way of Thinking With Your Body”

On a Wednesday afternoon in March, the basement of Adams Hall is quiet as Ellie Swigle sits in the back of the ceramics room, molding clay on the top of a spinning wheel. What used to be nothing more than a wet clump is on its way to becoming a piece of pottery.
Adams Hall. Photo from Record archives.
Swigle, a junior majoring in psychology, said she has found joy in making pottery ever since her first high school ceramics class.
“It's a different type of learning than I get to do in any of my o...