Moving your workshops to an online format may be the next move for your business growth. In fact, all the cool kids are doing it. It seems like every time I go on Instagram I see that another of my favorite potters is offering a class online. Hamish gives us an over view of his approach to selling courses online. To listen in to this conversation, click HERE.
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Donna Gardner Striar | Episode 654
Donna Gardner Stiar fell in love with pottery at age 57 when she signed up for a wheel throwing class. Seven years later, Donna now handbuilds and hand paints fun, happy, and whimsical pieces that focus on making people smile!
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Jim Fazio | Episode 653
Jim Fazio started his career as educator after graduating from Illinois State University in 2012. Jim has been teaching for the past seven years and currently teaches Ceramics at a public high school in Illinois. “Ceramic Jim” started as a YouTube channel in March of 2018. Its original purpose was to provide support and enrichment opportunities for Jim’s ceramics students but as his passion for video grew, Jim rediscovered his first love: Ceramics. Jim specialize in colored porcelain. Though not a full-time studio potter, Jim is making pots and is doing so with intent and precision and is producing quality work of which Jim is proud of.
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Supatra Marsh | Episode 652
Supatra Marsh is the maker behind BLANK EARTH Ceramics. Supatra’s pottery takes inspiration from Asian ceramics and traditional handmade processes. Supatra specializes in ‘kurinuki’, the Japanese art of making slowly, carving pottery from a lump of clay to produce unique, one-of-a-kind pots.
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Tom Guell | Episode 651
Tom Guell of BlueGuell Pottery is a hobby potter living on the farmland of rural Wisconsin. Like many other hobby potters, Tom is trying to find the balance of juggling a full time job, spending time with his family, building a small pottery business, and pursuing other hobbies.
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Diana Kersey | Episode 650
Diana Kersey is a visual artist working exclusively in clay, from small studio pieces to large architectural installations. Diana’s public works have been commissioned by the City of San Antonio, VIA Metropolitan Transit, The San Antonio River Authority, and the City of Harlingen. Diana just completed a large private commission (over 650 square feet) for a new office tower in San Antonio, Texas. Diana earned an MFA in ceramics from Washington State University in 1997, and a BFA in drawing from Texas Tech University in 1994. She serves on the faculty at Northwest Vista College and owns and operates Kersey Ceramics LLC.
Diana has spent years working with committees in order to gather the stories needed to create her art that has been installed in the public arena. She talks about her experiences and the lessons she has learned in working successfully with committees. To listen in on this insightful conversation click HERE.
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Steve Irvine | Episode 649
Steve Irvine decided on his 16th birthday to spend his life as a potter. After 3 years as a ceramic major at Sheridan College Steve started his full-time pottery business at age 21 in an old church on the Bruce Peninsula in S. Ontario in 1974. Functional and one of a kind pieces sold through galleries and shops. This past year Steve has changed directions in his work from cone 10 reduction to cone 6 oxidation.
A rising tide raises all boats and that’s the principal of teaming up with coops to grow and sustain your business. Steve walks us through his experience as a member of a coop. To listen in to this conversation click HERE.
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Michelle Ettrick | Episode 648
Michelle Ettrick’s ceramic sculptures and vessels present stories and memories about her childhood, family, and her time and struggles as a homeless and disabled person. Michelle uses surface imagery to function as a diary to record people, places, and events. Drawings, Sgraffito, screen printing, and laser decals are used to create the portraits and or narratives on the surfaces to start conversation among the viewers. Weather Michelle draws flowers, animals, or people their is a story or memory on why she chose the drawing.
