Opening Our Moral Eye

Opening Our Moral Eye: Essays, Talks & Poems Embracing Creativity & Community

M. C. Richards’ extraordinary career, spanning half a century, stretching from the artistic community of Black Mountain to her work in pottery, painting, poetry, and teaching, is an occasion for the celebration of life and of the particular life of Mary Caroline Richards, exemplary twentieth-century Renaissance woman, passionate thinker, and philosophical artist.

This new collection by the author of the timeless classic, Centering, explores themes such as the deep sources of creativity, creating wholeness through lifelong learning, Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf education, the sacredness of nature, imagination and authenticity. With four color plates showing new paintings and a substantial collection of new poems.

About the Author

Mary Caroline Richards (1916-1999) lived several simultaneous lives, as potter, teacher, essayist, poet, and painter. She received a doctorate in English literature from the University of California at Berkeley, and honorary doctorate in humanities from King’s College, New York. She wrote several books, including the classic Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person and Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America.