“A good life is found only where the creative spirit abounds, where people are free to experiment and create new ideas within themselves.”

Joyce Lovelace, Who Was Aileen Osborn Webb? http://www.craftcouncil.org/magazine/article/who-was-aileen-osborn-webb, July 25, 2011, American Craft Council

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