The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

By the time most of us become adults, we have stopped making mud pies in the back yard. But for potter Kassie Smith of Moscow, Ida., the activities of childhood have morphed into the artisanship of adulthood.

"I get to play in the dirt every day, and it's awesome," the artist says.

Smith, who holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Idaho, juggles a number of pursuits in her career as an artist: she is a ceramics technician and instructor at Washington State University. When she's not doing that, she is instructor and studio manager at the pottery studio at the Dahmen Barn in Unio...