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Frank & Julie Korb | Episode 1031
Frank and Julie Korb began Korb Pottery in the summer of 2022. Frank is an artist and visual art educator and Julie is a pharmacist by day and potter in her time off. Korb Pottery makes functional, colorful, and expressive everyday tableware and houseware ceramics.
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How has communication improved since you guys started working in clay together?
Julie: I feel we have more in common to talk about rather than, How was your day at work? Now we have something that we have in common that we can discuss in many different ways.
How do you maintain your individuality in your work?
Frank: Well for me the throwing has become a lot easier so the forms have really been what I have come up with but a lot of it is in conversation with Julie. What is working really well? What do you want to glaze? So a lot of times the forms are mine but I go to her for some inspiration about what should I be throwing right now?
Do you see each other’s influence in the making process? Like does Frank show up in your work? Do you show up in Frank’s work?
Yes, I think, I will see a color or a shape that I really like and then I will say, Okay Frank, now make this. Or I will see something he has glazed and it’s very structured and I will kind of take that idea and make it my own and make it looser.
What’s got you excited in the studio?
Frank: Just the making. Getting down into my studio every morning before school. Getting up super early to just put my hands in the clay and make. It’s the process, for me it’s the process.
What’s got you challenged in the studio right now?
Julie: Frustrated that I can’t center clay. One day I can do it and the next day I can’t. I am not going to give up.
Books
Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel
Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Contact
https://frankkorb.com/korbpottery/
Instagram: @korbpottery
Thanks Paul and ALL of the friends of the Potter’s Cast and Korb Pottery for the wonderful conversation and support. Julie and I have really enjoyed the positive conversations and feedback! Thanks to all of you! We wipe the mud from OUR hands and give you a big high five..