“I’m from Puerto Rico. We moved here in 2012. Things on the island were getting really hard. My husband’s sister was living here. We had been visiting since 1996 and we always liked the area. We enjoyed the changing of the seasons and just hanging around downtown....
“I love Goshen. In Goshen, people are aware of art. Where I’m from, nobody cares. They don’t know. When you talk about art, people have no idea what you’re talking about. They just think that art is realistic portraits. They don’t know anything else. Here, people know...
“After college, I moved to Goshen and I was inspired by all the local established potters, so I interned with Justin Rothshank. I really was inspired by his studio practices. He’s such a hard worker but also he can be a dad so he inspires me to be a better potter and...
“Goshen has been a remarkably accepting place to kind of establish what we do. It’s also just a very welcoming environment, which is not as easy to find as you would imagine. That has been by far the biggest motivation – just the fact that Goshen is open to...
