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A Community Business | Dyana Fiediga | Episode 794

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Dyana Fiediga | Episode 794

Dyana Fiediga is a full time potter living and working in beautiful Hood River, Oregon at the Clay Commons, a community ceramics studio located downtown Hood River. Dyana has a BFA from Ohio University, where she focused on Art History and any medium of art she could get her hands on. In 2010 Dyana met Jeremy Noet of Bluewater Pottery at the Bellingham Farmers Market. Dyana worked in his studio until 2016, when she moved into making pottery full time. Dyana enjoys creating pots that are whimsical, political, and sometimes flippant. Inspired by the natural world around her, Dyana’s background in plants and permaculture, and her love of being in community, she is a lover of questions and growth and has created a classroom and studio space to hold wheel throwing and handbuilding classes that are open to the community and small groups.

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She’s Sculptural. She’s Functional | Teresa Dorey | Episode 793

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Teresa Dorey | Episode 793

Teresa Dorey (BFA Concordia University 2018) is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her practice involves understanding the body through haptics and intimate interactions with objects, materiality and research. Dorey has participated in residencies, and been published and exhibited across Canada as well as recently in Milan, Italy during Design Week. She has been the recipient of various grants, most recently from Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

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A Physicist. A Ceramicist. | Hidea Mabuchi | Episode 792

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Hidea Mabuchi | Episode 792

Hideo Mabuchi discovered ceramics well after completing his formal education, but it has become something like a second career for him – one that Hideo strives to integrate and cross-pollinate with his teaching and research roles as a Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University.

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A Self-Proclaimed Glaze Hoarder | Andrea Swift | Episode 791

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Andrea Swift | Episode 791

Andrea Swift’s pottery journey began, first, with being a collector of it 25 years ago. As a collector, Andrea loved that everything she bought was one-of-a-kind.  After relocating due to her husband’s job, Andrea decided to take an 8-week class at a community studio to pass the time while waiting for math teaching positions to open up.  Andrea was instantly hooked and within the year, set up a small home studio in her basement and hasn’t looked back since.

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Work Like A Designer | Eleni Falangus Duffy | Episode 790

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Eleni Falangus Duffy | Episode 790

Pottery by Eleni is named after four generations of amazing women in the life of Eleni Falangus Duffy’s Greek American linage. All four share the Eleni namesake. Eleni’s mother was the first to put clay in Eleni’s hands, while the lush Puget Sound region was the first to inspire her heart for design.

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Still Learning | Christopher Watt | Episode 789

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Christopher Watt | Episode 789

Christopher Watt is a studio potter and educator specializing in the atmospheric-firing processes of salt-glazing and wood-firing. Currently based in Montana, Christopher’s work involves the production of wheel-thrown forms, preparation of local glaze materials and the resulting material evidence of the making and firing processes. Christopher was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, USA, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax, Nova, Scotia, Canada and a three-year diploma in Art, Craft and Design from Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.

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An Experimenter With Clay | Ido Ferber | Episode 788

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Ido Ferber | Episode 788

Ido Ferber was born 1989, Jerusalem, Israel. Ido pursued his education are received his BA in Industrial Design from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and graduated 2018. Ido is currently an MA student at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo Japan in the department of Ceramic Craft.

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Some Inspirations From Quotes | Diana Adams | Episode 787

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Diana Adams | Episode 787

SampleHAUS, founded by Diana Adams, got its start by creatively up-cycling interior design waste into eclectic home decor. While working at an interior design firm, Diana was always surrounded by beautiful fabrics and other materials that mostly ended up getting thrown away for various reasons as discontinuation or project surpluses. Diana decided to begin collecting these excess materials and that’s when SampleHAUS was born. Today Diana’s pottery has taken the spotlight, but it is funding her mission to reduce textile waste in the world.

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Making Work-Life Balance Real | Brigitte Richard | Episode 786

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Brigitte Richard | Episode 786

Brigitte Richard was born and raised in Nürnberg, Germany and has been a potter for 38 years. There Brigitte completed a three year pottery apprenticeship and worked in a ceramic studio for several years. Brigitte is now a studio artist focusing on functional ceramics in San Antonio, Texas.

 

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Mushroom Mug Maker | Haven Tunin | Episode 785

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Haven Tunin | Episode 785

Haven Tunin is a ceramic artist located in Franklin, Indiana. Haven currently attends Franklin College where she is a ceramics major. Haven hopes to have a studio of her own once she graduates. In her work Haven focuses on capturing textures seen in nature, and she also has a line of work focusing on female anatomy.

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