Blocked creativity is real and you may have seen this in your life. But how can you get past these blocks and get back to your creativity? Emily takes this subject on gives us her insights on getting past blocks to creativity. To listen in to this conversation, click HERE.
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A Gardener Makes Garden Sculptures | Dustin Gimbel | Episode 642
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Dustin Gimbel | Episode 642
Dustin Gimbel is a Sculptor and a landscape designer with over 20 years in the field of horticulture. Dustin’s current exhibition SCULPTURA BOTANICA at Sherman Library and Gardens combines a lifetime passion for plants and a more recent obsession with ceramics. Dustin started working with clay in January of 2016. Dustin has a home studio in Long Beach CA.
A Color Blind Art Teacher Makes Colorful Pots | Christian Bailey | Episode 640
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Christian Bailey | Episode 640
Christian Bailey is a dirty hairy potter in the piney woods of south Mississippi, with a BFA in Sculpture and MaED from the University of Southern Mississippi. Christian shows high school students the wonders of art. Christian’s work is a smorgasbord of layers, functional, sculptural, color, imagery, and process.
The Story of the Bathroom Studio | Sarah Hussaini | Episode 639
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Sarah Hussaini | Episode 639
Not Work Related is the ceramics brand of Sarah Hussaini. Trained as an architect, Sarah wanted to create pieces that represented a departure from the stoic nature of the architecture office. She built NWR to be explorative, flexible and playful, with the idea that the objects in your life should incite happiness and maybe even a smile.
Living in a New Culture | Carragh Amos | Episode 638
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Carragh Amos | Episode 638
Carragh Amos is from Auckland, New Zealand. Carragh holds a BFA Hons from Elam School of Fine Arts. Her practice moves between fine art and functional craft, with pieces influenced by historical pottery of the wider Asian region. Current work celebrates process, labour, and action through hand-built ceramics.
A Print Maker Making Pots | Jenny Pope | Episode 637
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Jenny Pope | Episode 637
Jenny Pope enjoys the company of animals in life and in artwork. Invasive, endangered, and mythic animals uncurl from Jenny’s imagination in the form of woodcut prints. Most of Jenny’s prints are “color-reduction woodcuts” which means she takes one block of wood, draws an image onto the block, carves, then prints. Each printed color comes from carving away the previous layer so when Jenny is finished, all that is left of her wood block is the last color that was printed. Jenny can never remake an image unless she re-carves a new piece of wood. The prints are very limited edition, not a typical Kinko’s reproduction.
Jenny’s ceramics are all handbuilt, handpainted, and carved. It was natural for Jenny to go from carving wood to carving clay. And, it’s much softer. Jenny has always had an entrepreneurial spirit and loves having a woman-owned business. Jenny feels lucky to be able to share her work and ideas with you.
An Evil Master Plan for Social Media with Jenny Pope
Jenny doesn’t just use social media- she makes social media work for her. She has a plan to use various platforms as tools to help her as an artist to make a living. In this conversation she gives an overview of her strategy. To listen in to this conversation, click HERE.
A New Podcast! | Leah & Channing Smithson | Episode 636
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Leah & Channing Smithson | Episode 636
Visual Artist Leah Smithson and Specials Procedures Technologist, Channing Smithson, partnered together to found the creative collaborative CLSS Studio. Leah and Channing strongly believe that purposeful art and design improves our lives. Leveraging both Leah’s many years in the arts field and Channing’s medical experience, they use their distinctive perspectives, through fine art & ceramics, to transform environments into spaces that nourish inspiration, because genuine, passionate people can change the world.
Art & Traditions | Tyler Lansing | Episode 635
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Tyler Lansing | Episode 635
Tyler Lansing am an artist. Tyler’s journey is not to conquer the mountain and reach the summit. That aspiration is a tremendous amount of effort for an evanescent sensation of accomplishment. Tyler finds his inspiration in every step of the journey. Embracing his connection with the earth as a Diné. Tyler is the remnant of an enduring and resilient people. His journey is to share his story and creations with you.
Experimentation | Noam Rosenberg | Episode 634
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Noam Rosenberg | Episode 634
Noam Rosenberg is a clay & ceramics Israeli artist. Noam earned his BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem with honors. Nowam owns the NORO brand – common art Inspired by nature, urban environment, & architecture. Noam’s love for gardening and the flora world influences his work and his experience as a visual designer enriched his art work with attraction to aesthetics, beauty, and patterns. In his Instagram account Noam demonstrate the processes of creating his works