This profile of ceramic artist Wayne Ferguson is as much about an approach to life as it is about an approach to art. In this video segment, he explains how a teacher’s interest—and the clay that teacher gave him—helped him through his troubled teenage years and how his work helped him deal with a car accident that robbed him of sight in one eye.

Note: Ferguson is also featured in the Visual Arts Toolkit Responding to Art segment “The Artist’s Point of View, Part 2.”