Mary caroline richards

Prolific potter, poet, painter, essayist, translator, and educator Mary Caroline (M.C.) Richards (1916 – 1999) was born in Weiser, Idaho and grew up in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from Reed College and received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, later receiving an honorary doctorate from Kings College, Pennsylvania. In 1945 she joined the faculty at the legendary innovative, interdisciplinary Black Mountain College, where she taught writing, translated plays, danced, studied pottery and founded The Black Mountain Review. She was also on the faculty of the University of California, the University of Chicago, and the City College of New York and taught at the Creative Theology program in Oakland, CA. Her many books include the classic Centering (1964), The Crossing Point (1973), Toward Wholeness (1980), Imagine Inventing Yellow (1991), and Opening Our Moral Eye (1996). In her later years she joined the Camphill Village community with disabled adults in Kimberton, PA (“Kimberton Hills”).