The demos, classes, and the culture have been a incredible resource for learning the history of ceramics coupled with detailed information on working techniques. The Fall program offers the ceramic artist many benefits to grow, as you have seen. To summarize the whole trip in one sentence is a challenge, but here it goes. This program provided by the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in partnership with West Virginia University is a opportunity for the ceramic artist to begin shaping the future with the past. Speaking for all the students who have participated in this journey, our lives have been changed. We have a platform of ideas and techniques that will supply our ceramic creativity for the future. The Fall program in China is something that has changed our lives. We are thankful and humbled from the jouney abroad. Our hearts, eyes, and minds are opened wider.