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Clay is Medicine | Nala Turner | Episode 708

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Nala Turner | Episode 708

Nala Turner is a Brooklyn-based ceramics artist and creative art therapist, working primarily with themes related to race-issues, cultural identity, femininity, social stereotype, and popular culture perspectives. Nala has shown her work in various gallery, workshop, and press settings. Through clay-work, Nala aims to inspire her audience to recognize such culturally restricting barriers and transubstantiate the cultural representation of Black people.

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How to Get Lucky & Stay Lucky | Mairi Stone | Episode 707

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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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Letting Clay Have Clayness | Paul Briggs | Episode 706

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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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Less Plastic & More Fish | Vivi Araya-Gamboa | Episode 705

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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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Making Room for Creative Growth | Morgan Levine | Episode 704

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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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Grow Your Instagram Followers (and a rant about Etsy) | Erin Killian | Episode 703

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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.

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Running a YouTube Station | Ann & Jim Ruel | Episode 702

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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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A Pottery Business as a Service Business | Nicole Pepper | Episode 701

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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.

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How to Switch Gears with Nicole Pepper

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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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