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Morning Talks: The Carbondale Clay Center and the power of art

KDNK | By Mike Lemmer,
Marilyn Gleason
Published September 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM MDT
The Carbondale Clay Center sits on the last block of Carbondale's Main Street.
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The Carbondale Clay Center sits on the last block of Carbondale's Main Street.

It was just this time of year in 1997 that a mix of artistic passion and mud was molded by loving hands into the Carbondale Clay Center. Since then the elemental art form of ceramics has had a vibrant home on the last block of Carbondale's Main Street, where established artists, students, children and others exhibit and create. Matt Eames directs operations at the Clay Center, and he joined Mike Lemmer in the KDNK studios yesterday.
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Mike Lemmer
Mike served as the News Director for KNUJ Radio in Southern Minnesota for over a decade before moving to the Roaring Fork Valley in 2014. His duties with KDNK vary with whatever is needed of him, including news reporting, engineering, live broadcasts, high school football play-by-play, and hosting ALL MiXED UP every other Saturday starting at 10pm.
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Marilyn Gleason
Marilyn Gleason is the graduate of CU Boulder's journalism school. She started her radio career in the Roaring Fork Valley at KAJX in Aspen, then came to KDNK in 2000 as the station was in the early stages of forming a local news program. Marilyn returns to direct a growing news team at KDNK.
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