Article by Leah Lahtinen
Local Artists – August 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
To study the history of Karen LeBlond, a Westcliffe potter, is to study the history of pottery in Colorado. She learned her craft here, and grew as an artist even as her art grew and stretched.
When Karen studied at the Chicago Art Institute, she found the pottery program there “meager,” she says. Everything she learned about contemporary pottery was in Boulder at the University of Colorado and Boulder Parks and Recreation, under world-renowned teacher Betty Woodman, who was trying to assemble a coterie of potters at the Parks and Rec.