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Ceramic artist Joan Takayama-Ogawa segment

Season 16 | 8m 38s

Ceramic artist Joan Takayama-Ogawa is a professor at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. Joan uses her work in clay to respond to the ongoing climate emergency. Segment from SCIENCE episode

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