Being In The Community | Alesia Allen | Episode 987

Alesia Allen | Episode 987

Originally from western Massachusetts, Alesia Allen got a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in fashion design! Alesia began her pottery journey in 2012 after she randomly decided to visit an open house at a pottery studio in her hometown. Alesia ended up taking several handbuilding classes with one of the studio owners and realized soon after starting the classes that clay was going to be her life. Alesia moved to Phoenix, AZ in 2014 and quickly found a new studio to call home and began doing arts and crafts shows around the Phoenix metro area.

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Someone once said, Look at your friends and you look at your future. And I’m wondering is finding a community key for your growth? For you to becoming that better potter, a better business potter, was that key having those friends?

I mean if I hadn’t met the people that I had met at the exact time that I met them my life would be completely different. It is so important in the people I have met sort of me becoming the artist that I am now.

Another quote is a rising tide raises all boats and I am curious about that did working with other really talented artists did that help you to improve and aspire to better work?

Definitely. I was seeing some people doing some really, really amazing stuff and a lot of people experimenting with different things and I was lucky to be able to get in on some of the group activities like raku firing and stuff like that. There were many opportunities to try different things.

Practically have you been able to ask directions about the business aspect of your work?

Yes, I think that the people that I was around, being more experienced, helped me with things like pricing, which is still probably the difficult part. Or just how to set up a booth at a craft show and how to have a good cohesive presentation at a craft show and that kind of thing.

Do you see yourself as a mentor?

As a mentor? I don’t know, I always see myself as being the mentee because I have generally been less experienced in a lot of ways. Like a lot of people that I know in ceramics they have college degrees in it so I think I have a hard time seeing myself as a mentor and not a mentee.