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Mairi Stone | Episode 707
Mairi Stone’s work is all about trying to express her love and reverence for the beauty of the earth. The oceans are a major inspiration but the whole of nature’s forms, textures, and colours influences her. Mairi uses porcelain paperclay and often fuse glass into the pieces.
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Paul Briggs | Episode 706
Paul Briggs grew up in the Hudson Valley of Newburgh, NY. Paul’s first ceramics class was in high school. Paul’s creative process is pinching, and slab-built vessels,\ and his work is informed by art making as a spiritual practice. Paul is an Artist-Teacher at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design
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Vivi Araya-Gamboa | Episode 705
PEZ COCINADO is all about Vivi Araya-Gamboa’s imagination, love and respect for the ocean. When Vivi was a little girl her mother let her draw on the walls of Vivi’s room since that where peces y peces!!! Then on papers and when Vivi went to the university with CLAY. REMEMBER!!! MORE FISHES, LESS PLASTIC!!!!
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Morgan Levine | Episode 704
Morgan Levine makes functional slipware out of her Brooklyn studio. Morgan’s work references a long history of marbleized patterns across different mediums and around the world. Each piece records the reaction between Morgan’s gesture and the colored slips’ movement.
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Erin Killian | Episode 703
Erin Killian is a ceramicist and writer based in Southern California. When she’s not wrangling her three young boys, you can find her in her backyard studio making simple, functional pottery. Before she moved West, she was a journalist with NPR in Washington, D.C. and has written for the Washington Post and Fodor’s Travel.
Styling one’s pictures in today’s social media posts has become an important part in the marketing approach for social media. Morgan talks about her approach to styling and gives her inside perspective on styling. To listen in on this conversation click HERE.
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Ann & Jim Ruel | Episode 702
Ann Ruel started creating pottery as a tribute to the traditions and dynamics of the “family” as witnessed from her own experiences and acted out on the pottery through symbolic images found in nature including birds, flowers, bees etc. As Ann has grown, she now does custom work for other people who relay their own experiences and trust her to illustrate their stories for them.
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Nicole Pepper | Episode 701
Nicole Pepper is a West Seattle Ceramic Artist, wife, and a mother of 3. Nicole has pursued a career in ceramics since 1995 where she graduated from Western Washington University with a BFA in Ceramics with a second concentration in Fiber Arts. Nicole’s hope is to bring work that is warm, functional, and delightful.
One of the skills of a business person that needs to be mastered is the ability to switch gears. The truth is that outside forces can change the rules of the game. If one refuses to change, then one is choosing to be unsuccessful. Nicole talks about how she had to change gears if she was going to continue being in business.
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Today we celebrate 700 episodes of The Potters Cast! This episode is all about the small victories that the listeners have found through the advice and stories of all the amazing guests of the show.
Below are some of the people that shared their stories.