'"Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay" follows Christopher Benfey's exploration of America's rich craft tradition through the lens of his family history. With his mother's North Carolinian roots in folk pottery, his father's harrowing flight from Nazi Europe, and his connection to the iconic Bauhaus artists Josef and Anni Albers at Black Mountain College, Benfey weaves a personal narrative that is at once a memoir and a tribute to the aesthetic spirit that shapes America. His story moves across time and memory, piecing together the fragments of his ancestry into a mosaic that reflects the diverse landscape of American art and culture.'