Of all of Kori’s artwork, the pottery came first. Kori has been a pottery since the fall of 1967, when she was still in high school. One of her classmate/friends had a dad who taught it at Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa. Probably she always played in the mud. But as soon as Mr. Wight set her to the potters wheel, the world went away, and there was just Kori and her clay. In college, three years later, it became her major, and she was allowed to be the student assistant for Mel Clark - Kauila Mel Clark ’68, and later he was to be the head Roshi at the Chozenji Daihonzan International Zen Temple in Hawaii. Mel and Kori developed the glazes that Kori uses today. Mel also encouraged her to follow her traditional ways, as no other at that point in her life could. Thanks Mel!