Forty Yea Beauty and inspiration surround Richard Bresnahan every time he unlocks the basement door at Saint Joseph Hall and walks into The Saint John’s Pottery studio, which resonates with voices from its living history and potential for the future. Forty years. Fifteen Johanna Kiln firings. Countless lives enriched. They’ve all blended together over four formative decades in which Saint John’s University’s artist-in-residence built something special from the ground up, literally from the clay
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of Central Minnesota. “People will offer you a window,” Bresnahan said. “Br. Dietrich (Reinhart) opened up a very big window for me to walk through. Fr. Michael Blecker opened up a window of the vision for me to walk through and actualize my dreams. “And to actualize your dreams is something that’s incredible for you to do.” Those dreams have brought international renown to Bresnahan, to the studio and to Saint John’s.