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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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.
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WIlliam Duvall | Episode 641
William Duvall is a potter originally from the east coast. William moved to Seattle after college and turned his basement into a studio. Then William started bringing his work on the road!
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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.
If you have never jumped through the hoops of doing commission work, or even if you have done a ton of it, you may be wondering, “How should I be doing this?” Christian walks us through some of his do’s and don’ts of doing commission work. To listen in to this conversation, click HERE.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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