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Raphaela Seck | Episode 710
Raphaela Seck is a potter living in the south west of Devon in the UK. Raphaela first started pottery at an evening class and has been hooked ever since. After completing 2 apprenticeships Raphaela went on to manage a community studio and teach weekly classes. Raphaela now makes pottery full time from her home studio. Raphaela’s work is calm, elegant, and tactile.
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Dwayne Nii-Teiko Sackey | Episode 709
Dwayne Nii-Teiko Sackey’s work leaves a trace of a fluid, organic process and a human set of hands. Windswept trees, cold blue bodies of water, and lichen covered granite boulders intrigue and informs Dwayne’s artistic palette. Gentle curves, textured surfaces, and meandering lines speak through Dwayne’s art. Atmosphere, expressive brush strokes, and simple glazes mimic the timelessness of nature. Dwayne earned his BFA from Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2019. Merit-based scholarships supported him: the Gregori Jakovina & Larry McDonald Scholarship, the Ellice T. Johnston Scholarship, and the OCAC Community College Scholarship. In 2019 Dwayne showed at the Multnomah CountyJustice Center, and he is a recipient of the 2021 studio potter grant for apprenticeship alongside his mentor Chris Baskin.
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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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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.
