DENVER (AP) — The class began playfully enough, with instructor Jennifer Hellier kneading a ball of light brown clay and rolling it between the palms of her hands.

But then, as she and four college students manipulated the medium with their fingers and a set of tools, the process morphed into a highly technical lesson on the muscles of the human body.

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