Going Big In India | Neeti Gokhalay Kheny | Episode 1213

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Neeti Gokhalay Kheny | 1213

Neeti Gokhalay Kheny is a ceramic artist and former graphic designer whose practice is inspired by nature, particularly the ocean and its fragile ecosystems. Drawing from shells, corals, and anemone-like forms, Neeti creates sculptural works marked by intricate ornamentation and architectural sensibilities. Neeti’s work explores reverence as resistance, inviting reflection on ecological fragility, conservation, and our evolving relationship with water and shared responsibility.

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Building Pottery While Building Stories | Anshula Tayal | Episode 1212

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Anshula Tayal | Episode 1212

Anshula Tayal is a Portland-based ceramic artist creating functional pottery for everyday use, with each piece serving as a canvas for storytelling. Inspired by Indian art and architecture, textile traditions, and regional folk forms, her wheel-thrown and hand-built work explores surface decoration as a way to share cultural narratives.

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Going At It Since The 70’s | Caryn Newman | Episode 1211

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Caryn Newman | Episode 1211

Caryn Newman creates functional stoneware and porcelain ceramics with a focus on timeless, accessible design. Caryn trained in traditional Japanese production techniques during a two‑year apprenticeship with Richard Bennett at the Great Barrington Pottery in the 1970s. Caryn later co‑founded Crow Hill Pottery in Abbot Village, Maine, and established Willowood Pottery in 2012.

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A Potter In Argentina | Diego Armentano | Episode 1210

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Diego Armentano | Episode 1210

Diego E Armentano is an Argentine ceramic artist and potter based in Buenos Aires, where he lives and works. Diego practice operates within contemporary ceramics, combining functional and sculptural work to explore clay as territory, landscape, and scale, grounded in material thinking and conceptual inquiry rooted in making.

This episode is different from any episode we have done in that we had an amazing translator, Maria Cecilia Silva. She helped Diego and I communicate and it was so incredible to have her on the show to help out. So a big thank you goes out to Maria.

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Making Pots Together | Brian & Naomi Menkis | Episode 1209

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Brian & Naomi Menkis | Episode 1209

Brian and Naomi Menkis are husband and wife potters who make wheel thrown, functional, and beautiful forms for daily enjoyment. Firing in both oxidation and wood/soda kilns they explore the receptivity of clay to the mark of the potter – from its ability to take the subtlest impression of a delicate flower to the way it records the path of a flame through the kiln.

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Culture On Ceramics | Tracie Griffith Tso | Episode 1208

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Tracie Griffith Tso | Episode 1208

Tracie Griffith Tso works in her studio at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia. Featured works include a hand-built koi pitcher with maple and bamboo painting on rice paper; a stoneware bamboo pomegranate platter with birds symbolizing longevity, resilience, and abundance, cone 6, electric-fired; and a brown stoneware giant panda teapot with bamboo blossom and sculpted detail, cone 6, electric-fired.

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Five Avenues To Mentor | Amber Faktor | Episode 1207

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Amber Faktor | Episode 1207

Amber Faktor is the sensitive-souled ceramicist behind Sunfish Studio.  Over a decade ago Amber traded city life for clay, coastlines, and the grounding rhythms of island life.  When Amber is not making pots, teaching workshops, or mentoring fellow tender-hearted makers, she’s likely puttering on her little homestead beside the sea.

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Doing Public Installations | Diamando Koutsellis | Episode 1206

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Diamando Koutsellis | Episode 1205

Diamando Koutsellis is an Australian artist with a 30-year career in public art, exhibition practice, and community collaboration. Working nationally and internationally with diverse and marginalised communities, she creates inclusive, site-responsive artworks. Diamando now leads The Australian Ceramics Association, producing The Journal of Australian Ceramics. The organisation supports over 1,500 members by connecting, elevating, and promoting Australian ceramics, while Diamando continues her own active arts practice.

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It’s Kind Of Like Falling In Love | Janelle Peterson | Episode 1205

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Janelle Peterson | Episode 1205

Albany, Western Australia artist Janelle Peterson creates whimsical, sometimes melancholy doll like sculptures of animals, robots, figurative lamps, and budgerigars. Rooted in childhood imagination, her characters wander gentle storybook worlds where little birds guide the lost, affirming self worth, protection, and the freedom to be uniquely oneself.

 

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BuschKraft Tools: A New Way Of Doing Tools | Nicholei Bucsh | Episode 1204

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Nicholei Bucsh | Episode 1204

Nicholai Busch is a potter and the founder of BuschKraft in San Diego, California. Stoneware and porcelain pieces balance function with modern design and are often finished with carving, slip, or illustration inspired by ceramic art traditions from around the world. Beyond ceramics, BuschKraft designs and produces high-quality pottery tools.

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