Arlene Shechet in "Secrets"

In this preview from the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 7 episode, Secrets, artist Arlene Shechet reflects on her interests in clay as a material.

Shown at work in her Woodstock, NY studio in early 2014, the artist describes a freedom in working with clay because of the material’s “lack of beauty in its raw state.” “Because it has no character, I can make anything,” says the artist. “It’s just there to be invented.”