Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Carter Pasma | Episode 1233
Carter Pasma is a potter and educator currently working as the studio manager at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Carter earned his BFA in ceramics from the University of Wisconsin–Stout, and his MFA in ceramics from Utah State University. Carters’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, in 2022 he was recognized as one of Ceramics Monthly’s Emerging Artists of the Year. Carter’s ceramics practice and educational insights have been featured in multiple issues of Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated, where he was recently highlighted on the cover.
Clay Call
Lets hear from YOU! Click HERE.
SPONSORS
You can help support the show!
GRPotteryForms.com
Number 1 brand in America for a reason. Skutt.com
For all your ceramic needs go to Georgies.com
How are you balancing work with being a maker?
Right now, not very well. I think my studio practice is definitely suffering a little bit from working the 9 to 5, but just trying to keep my hands busy and just even still making in the gaps. I think that’s kind of what keeps me going. Grad school teaches you to be good at juggling. So I think that’s carrying over a bit.
Are you using school facilities as your studio?
I am, yeah. But we don’t have a soda kiln currently. I have one designed and priced out and basically like ready to build. I just need the A-OK to buy all of the materials and build it. So right now I’m kind of in a cone 6 rabbit hole.
Do you ever see yourself as being a studio potter?
My dream is kind of always been to be both a professor and then have my own studio and still have my own practice and continue to sell and show work. I think like seeing how Josh DeWeese did it and how he’s a professor and still like, I wouldn’t say everyone knows who Josh is, but a lot of people know who Josh DeWeese is and know his work. So I think I’ve kind of always aimed for something sort of like that.
What’s got you super excited in the studio right now? Something that you’re working on.
Right now, like I said, I’m kind of going down this cone 6 rabbit hole. But I’m a big fisherman and I’ve been doing these scraffito platters of fish that I’ve caught in my net. And if you look at my Instagram, that’s kind of the most recent thing on my feed. But I’ve been having a lot of fun just doing something different, getting out of my comfort zone and kind of all started with a demo pot for a class project, actually.
What’s got you challenged in the studio right now?
I think being out of my comfort zone. And I mean, ideally, I would still be soda firing if I could be. But not having a soda kiln kind of makes that hard. And I could be soda firing at USU like I have. They told me I could go up there and fire, but I think just pushing myself to do something different and be a little uncomfortable, trying to embrace it a little bit has been good.
Have you ever been published in any kind of magazine?
I have, yeah. A few times.
My real question is, what was that like for you?
It was it was very humbling in a way. growing up reading Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated, I always seen sort of like my clay heroes in those magazines. And then to get a couple articles published and then actually be on the cover of Pottery Making Illustrated, I was like, wait, what? Very surreal for sure.
Book
The Potter’s Workbook by Clary Ilian
Contact
Instagram: @cartersclay