The Potters Cast

Cam Waller is a Japan-based, Black American ceramicist interested in using craft and natural materials to subvert expectations and explore various themes, including communication, identity, and value systems. Cam received their MFA in Ceramics at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2022 and is currently pursuing their Ph.D. http://ThePottersCast.com/926

Alex Olson makes pottery and works as a freelance photographer in Brooklyn, New York. Alex fires most of his faceted and textured functional pots in wood and soda kilns. Alex studied studio art at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he focused on ceramics, photography, and woodworking. http://ThePottersCast.com/925

Matt Robinson's love of yoga leads to his introduction to clay. A friend and fellow yogi (who has a BFA in ceramics) teaches wheel-throwing classes at a local community studio. After hearing her mention it off-hand at the yoga studio over the years, Matt was finally intrigued enough to give it a shot in 2019. It was love at first spin! A few years later, now with a tiny basement laundry room/pottery studio combo, Matt still finds ceramics just as intriguing and delightful. http://ThePottersCast.com/924

Julie Harbers is an Orlando, FL based potter who splits her time between two community studios as a teacher and staff member, and her own backyard home studio. Julie makes functional ware with colorful surface designs using colored slips, underglazes, and glazes. http://ThePottersCast.com/923

Andy Ward hand builds pottery from natural materials using primitive tools. Andy personally gathers and processes all the raw materials he uses for his pottery. Andy's work is a product of the earth, a piece of the Southwest desert, inspired by the ancient potters who came before. http://ThePottersCast.com/922

Sherród Faulks creates beautiful things that help you cultivate moments of joy, connection, and love. DEEP BLACK is a modern minimal home décor brand where functionality and intention are at the heart of every handmade piece. Here, beauty reigns supreme. Catch Sherród in The NY Times, Great Jones, Business of Home, and more. http://ThePottersCast.com/921

Claire Ireland produces elegant hand-built sculptural forms on different scales - collectable objects, inspired by her studio's location in the grounds of a historical steam museum in London UK . Claire's working practice as a ceramic sculptor is changing and is drawn to a more minimal and reductive strategy, simplifying structures, but constantly enhancing and developing the surface. http://ThePottersCast.com/920

Lexie Lynn Burke is a painter turned potter. Lexie is adding a little artwork to functional mugs to help people to enjoy their mornings just a little better. Inspired by what she sees from day to day (especially pop culture) and often mug illustrations change with the seasons, Lexie's portraits are her favorite challenge. Lexie also loves an illustration with a black outline to make it pop. Lexie rarely repeats an illustrations, so every piece is unique. Works full time as a senior accountant, Lexie pursues her passion on the side. http://ThePottersCast.com/919

Lea Sagman is a translator and a potter. While on a vacation to Greece Lea, her husband, and friends, each said what he would like to do after retirement - Lea's dream was to become a potter. Two years passed before she took the first pottery class and was immediately hooked. What started as a hobby gradually became an important part of Lea's life. Pottery is at times comforting, at times frustrating, at times therapy – always fulfilling. http://ThePottersCast.com/918

Adero Wllard is originally from New York City and currently lives in Chicopee, MA. Adero received a BFA at Alfred University an MFA at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and was a Salad Days artist in resident at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine. Adero has over twenty-five years as a ceramics artist and has been featured in a number of discussion panels, publications, books on ceramics, and has exhibited work nationally and internationally. Adero is committed to equity and inclusion work, and while a visiting assistant professor in ceramics has been a faculty co-facilitator for IDEA lab an anti-racism and anti-bias program at Alfred university. Adero is a co-founder of the non-profit outreach organization POW! Pots on Wheels since 2014 and is committed to diversity and anti-hierarchical approaches to teaching in the field of ceramics. For Adero it is all about a love for clay, nature, community, history and learning and sharing knowledge of the handmade with others. http://ThePottersCast.com/917

Brett Wulc is a studio potter from Portland, OR. Brett has been working with clay for 14 years and has always had a focus on wheel thrown pots. Throwing functional dinner ware and filming is his process all along the way. http://ThePottersCast.com/916

Wesley Brown is a ceramicist working in East Stroudsburg, PA. Wes holds a BFA from Bowling Green State University and an MFA from Indiana University-Bloomington. Through a combination of hand building and wheel throwing Wes creates vessels in clay that are a meeting place for both the sculptural and functional. http://ThePottersCast.com/915

Madisen Potratz is a potter based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who earned a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison is the founder of Good Art for Good, a pottery business with a mission to support nonprofits and charities in her local community. http://ThePottersCast.com/914

Dylan Bowen makes slip decorated earthenware using both traditional and contemporary materials and techniques. . Dylan works on a small but ever-changing range of shapes, large platters, bowls and carved forms. The clay is thrown, cut, carved or handbuilt, the slips are poured trailed or brushed on. Dylan's work has its roots in traditional slipware but with many contemporary influences. Bowen aims to capture some of the dynamism and spontaneity of the making process in the finished work. http://ThePottersCast.com/913

Bianca Pintan is an artist born and raised in Brazil, now based in the coastal town of Byron Bay, Australia. Following a captivating inner-call and intuition Bianca began her journey into creating ceramic art. Having always worked hands on, the art of ceramics came naturally to Bianca, as though her hands had memorized these movements before. As a self-taught artist Bianca uses this to her advantage, being open to receive inspiration rather than searching for it, exploring the realm of ceramics with a playful curiosity. Bianca's pieces are all hand-built, a unique technique used for the classic shapes she is creating. Bianca allows the clay to guide her into whatever shape is wanting to be birthed, creating an exceptional relationship with her medium. Playing with the textural elements of shape and light, Bianca's pieces tell a unique story each time you view them. http://ThePottersCast.com/912

Christy Culp lives in western Pennsylvania and began her work with clay at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she earned her art teacher certification in 1991. Since 1997, Christy has been teaching ceramics and art classes at Deer Lakes High School. Through her teaching Christy hopes to pass her passion for clay and creating to her students. When not teaching, Christy can be found in her renovated barn studio on the small berry farm she and her husband share. Her work is directly influenced by life on a farm and her love of cooking. Christy's goal is "to bring beauty and joy to the everyday ritual of eating and drinking." http://ThePottersCast.com/911

Milla Istomina was born and raised in Kazakhstan. Milla moved to the USA in 2013 and has been residing in Los Angeles, California. Milla took her first pottery class in 2018 at the Barnsdall Art Center. What started as a weekend hobby quickly turned into a monthly membership at a communal studio. Mist Ceramics was born, and experimenting with clays, techniques, glazes and styles has begun. Just like many people across the globe, Milla lost her full time job on the marketing team of an arts organization when the COVID pandemic struck. It was time to make a path for oneself and take risks, so Mist Ceramics slowly became Milla's main project. Mist Ceramics practice explores various techniques and genres while executing the neverending battle of trained wheel thrower versus self-taught hand builder. http://ThePottersCast.com/910

Nic Torres runs a podcast called Shaping Your Pottery to help potters to discover their unique voice. Nic has been making pottery for 5 years and he knows how hard it is to develop your unique voice in pottery. That is why it is Nic's mission to help potters find theirs. http://ThePottersCast.com/909

Betsy Morningstar loves yellow, donuts, and her cat, Vesper. Betsy's hobbies include making peanut butter, carrying her cat up into her loft studio, and smiling. Betsy is a full time high school art teacher near Baltimore, Maryland. Betsy started creating porcelain notebook papers out of a need to find and see importance in each day, and to communicate outside of herself in a physical way. Each porcelain paper features journal notes and fleeting moments from a day in Betsy's life, now forever special and permanent. The notes vary on the emotional spectrum of life, but all are significant moments Betsy never wants to forget. They are Betsy's brain and her heart in physical form. http://ThePottersCast.com/908

Julie Spako and I lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and twin boys. Julie started with ceramics in High School and continued to get a minor in ceramics from Syracuse University in 1995. Julie makes high fire stoneware and porcelain serving and dinnerware. Julie loves pattern and surface texture. Julie handbuilds all of her pieces. This allows Julie a freedom in form, and the ability to concentrate on the surface design. http://ThePottersCast.com/907

KuuPottery is a small batch pottery studio and learning space created by Kassandra "Kuu" Guzman. Each piece is made on the wheel with hand sculpted handles. Most know for The Curvy Amphora and Boinggg! Handles, Kuu has been featured on Showtime with @ziwef, Design Milk and The Freye Museum Shop. http://ThePottersCast.com/906

Jennifer Spring's goal is to make life more enjoyable with ceramics that feel great to touch and hold. Most of Jennifer's work goes through the filter of, "does the texture feel inviting?". Ceramics is one of few art forms that can be held and Jennifer is continually looking for opportunities to enhance the sense of touch. http://ThePottersCast.com/904

At Llanddona Beach Pottery Rhiannon and Paul Gash have a totally tactile and haptic studio. Rhiannon throws earthenware pots, glazed with oxide glazes that Paul and Rhiannon make together. Rhiannon is visually impaired. Guide-dog Bailey helps out around the studio. http://ThePottersCast.com/904

malo is the pottery studio of Emilie Brichard who divides her time between two French cities, Paris and Saint-Etienne. Emilie came to ceramics through her interest for tableware. When Emilie became a potter after years working as an architect, she naturally chose to focus on utilitarian ceramics, designed for an everyday use. http://ThePottersCast.com/903

Jonah Fleeger is an emerging ceramic artist originally from Northwest Indiana. Jonah attended a small boarding school called Verde Valley School, in Sedona, Arizona, which is where his love for ceramics first started. In 2013, Jonah received his BFA in ceramics from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since then Jonah has completed post-baccalaureate programs at The University of Colorado Boulder and Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. In 2019, Jonah received his MFA in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design. Jonah was a resident artist at the Morean Center for Clay in Florida and a long-term resident artist at Cobb Mountain Art & Ecology Project in California. Currently, Jonah is creating, teaching and starting his own studio in Northern Arizona. http://ThePottersCast.com/902

Mark Myer is a taxidermist by day and potter by morning. Mark currently works out of his basement studio creating functional work while incorporating carved patters and 3d printed stamps. Through his work Mark hopes to inspire others to stay creative in their own way, even if it means waking up an hour early. http://ThePottersCast.com/901

We did it! 900 episodes! I am so thankful to have reached this milestone for The Potters Cast. I am sure you will agree, the secret sauce to The Potters Cast is the amazing guests that have come on the show. And this last 100 episodes is no exception to the amazing list. In this episode we look back to some highlights of some of the most watched episodes of the last 100. http://ThePottersCast.com/900

Maximilian Gureev started ceramics at the age of 35, mostly self taught without any previous art education. Since University Maximilian was working with children as a side job funning summer camps and a studio where there was always a creative process in this environment. In spring 2022 Maximilian left Russia with one big bag filled with ceramic glazes, plaster, and moulds to become full-time ceramic artist. http://ThePottersCast.com/899

Dale Doering is a Colorado native and live in Loveland, Colorado, and has spent 40+ years in the construction industry building and remodeling homes. Dale took a pottery class in High School and made a few pottery pieces. About 15 years ago Dale got a chance to take a pottery class in Grand Junction Colorado and was introduced to the pottery wheel. In 2019 Dale set up a pottery studio at home. Using his middle name Allen Pottery was born. http://ThePottersCast.com/898

Born and bred in NYC, William Reardon attended The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and studied Ceramics and Architecture. After graduating Will worked in the music industry but returned to start New York Stoneware In 2013 - an urban production pottery focused on everyday objects and tableware. http://ThePottersCast.com/897

Avé Rivera is an artist based out of Connecticut making pots and illustrations that celebrate her love of fantasy, cute things, TTRPG (Table Top Role Playing Games) and all around general nerd stuff. Her art also explores a range of feelings--especially anxiety-- with a dose of humor. http://ThePottersCast.com/896

This episode is a little different from anything that we have done before. Carol Long makes a lot of work, sells a lot of work, and therefore ships a lot of work. When Carol and I were finished recording her episode (episode 894), we continued our conversation. The focus of our conversation was her shipping work practices. Because her work has so many breakable parts, she has had to be very conscientious with her packing methods. So we hit the record button again and talked packing. http://ThePottersCast.com/895

Born in 1965, Carol Long was raised on a farm in Stafford County, Kansas. She draws influence from plant and animal life. With joy, whimsy and beauty as her goal, her work continues to evolve as she experiments with new ways of expressing these qualities of her surroundings. She enjoys learning from other contemporary artists while keeping an eye on historical ceramics. http://ThePottersCast.com/894

"My aim is to elevate everyday objects, to make the ordinary just a little more extraordinary." Juliann Roush is a Northern Michigan based ceramic artist. Juliann began studying pottery in her senior year of college at Eastern Michigan University in 1989 as a way to "kill" some time, but became hooked on the medium. Juliann continued her ceramic education at City College of San Francisco from 1992-1997 where she honed her skills and worked as a lab tech. Initially Juliann's career trajectory was in International Marketing and Japanese, however keeping her hands in clay has always been a high priority side hustle. Finally in 2019 after moving back to Michigan, Juliann took the leap and became a full time potter. Juliann is a self proclaimed maximalist. Most of her work is handbuilt with slabs and has a very distinct style using lots of texture and bright colors. Often Juliann's work has a positive encouraging message, giving a little insight into her cheerful personality and joy of making and sharing her methods. http://ThePottersCast.com/893

Heather DeJack is the owner of The Golden Opal. Heather is a self taught potter who makes slab built ceramic Tolkien inspired mugs! http://ThePottersCast.com/892

Andres Montenegro was born in Lima, Peru and moved to Florida in 2004. Andres began working with clay at Seminole State College and graduated with a BFA in Ceramics from the University of Central Florida in 2016. In May 2019 Andres received his MFA from Bowling Green State University, specializing in three dimensional studies in ceramics, and sculpture. During his MFA studies Andres taught his first college level classes. Teaching college level for the first time, Andres realized working with clay and teaching was a two part passion. After graduating, Andres has been working as a Ceramics Adjunct Professor at Daytona State College in Daytona Beach, and at Jane's Art Center in New Smyrna FL. He sells his work locally and nationally through his online store and galleries. Andres currently resides in Daytona Beach, Florida. http://ThePottersCast.com/891

Janina Myronova is a ceramic artist born in Ukraine and living in Poland. In 2012 Janina received her MFA from the Department of Ceramic Art at Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts (Lviv, Ukraine), an MFA from the Department of Ceramics and Glass at The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Wroclaw, Poland) in 2013, and her PhD from the Department of Ceramics and Glass at Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in 2019. Continually developing her work and practice, Janina has attended numerous residencies including opportunities' at the New Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum (New Taipei, Taiwan), Clayarch Gimhae Musem (Gimhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea), Lefebvre and Fils (Paris, France), the Polish Sculpture Centre (Oronsko, Poland), and the International Ceramic Research Center (Guldagergaard, Denmark). http://ThePottersCast.com/890

The Potters Class: Hand Built Tea Pot with Jeremy Randall Click HERE to join the class. Jeremy Randall Ceramics was officially started in 2009, with energy placed on making, showing, and selling work nationally and internationally. Retail shows in the New England area have been a new venture with pleasant results, and being able to have personal interactions with my audience has been wonderful. Thank you for visiting, and hope to see you at a show or out in the ceramic world in the future. http://ThePottersCast.com/889

Chris Locke grew up in northern Virginia and wasted a lot of time trying not to be an artist. Chris took a lot of art classes and finally woke up and got a degree in art. Chris finally fell in love, moved to Austin, started teaching, and rediscovered his love for pottery. Chris built a studio and is now chilling. http://ThePottersCast.com/888

Maria Diletta Rondoni is an Italian artist based in Umbria, Italy. After graduating at the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia in 2012-majoring in painting–her artistic research explored possibilities from different materials, such as ceramic, metal working, and glass. Maria Diletta focused her interest in clay taking ceramics classes in Deruta where she learned ancient techniques such as Etruscan bucchero and terra sigillata. In 2017 Maria Diletta studied porcelain techniques at the Ceramic Art School "Romano Ranieri" in Deruta and at the FACC-Faenza Art Ceramic Center, Faenza, Italy. Over the last few years Maria Diletta traveled to Europe, Sri Lanka, and Australia. These travels inspired her aesthetic vision. Maria Diletta's artworks belong to private collections in Italy and abroad. http://ThePottersCast.com/887

Erica Davidson is a ceramic artist and co-owner of Circa Pottery in Bellingham, Washington. Erica creates handmade ceramic vessels and focuses on surface design that is inspired by the cycles of the natural world, folk tales, block printing, and botany. Erica enjoys the physicality of translating her inner life into functional vessels. http://ThePottersCast.com/886

Maggie Frampton is an English potter who trained 50 years ago. 10 years later Maggie's family got together to start Folly Pottery which is still going today, despite Maggie actually retiring three times! Now Maggie is celebrating 2 anniversaries this year by returning to some of the things she made back in the 80's

Lee Wolfe has been a studio potter for 40 years. Lee's ceramic work emerges from the organic beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains where she lives in Asheville, North Carolina. The voluptuous forms and the woodland creatures in Lee's pottery are totemic; intended to bring into your home the wild inexplicable magic of awakening to a bird's lyrics, eating from the garden and falling asleep under a moonlit blanket. http://ThePottersCast.com/884

Curious Clay, founded by Jannalyn Bailey, was born out of an intense love of the handmade form and the desire to make attainable art objects. As a former painter, the presence of the artist's hand in Jannalyn's works is very important to her. Both the clay form and the glaze application retains the gesture from Jannalyn's hand. Being somewhat self-taught, Jannalyn's work is primarily slab-built with some element of hand forming/sculpting. Jannalyn hopes her works can live in new homes, and be a part of the slower moments in the day, whether it's your morning cup of coffee or afternoon meditation. Jannalyn finds great joy in creating one of a kind pottery, and her hope is that that joy comes through. http://ThePottersCast.com/883

Julia Claire Weber, founder of Julia Claire Clay is a part-time studio potter, full-time mama, and part-time gallery manager at Odyssey Clayworks in Asheville, NC. Prior to her long-term artist in residence at Odyssey Clayworks, Julia was studio manager of Clayspace in Erie, Pennsylvania and graduated with a BFA in ceramics from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Author of "The Beginners Guide to Wheel Throwing", Julia's biggest professional accomplishment to date!

Nicole Pangas is a full time artist and studio potter living and working in Detroit, Michigan. Nicole has been a studio artist for over 30 years, and an Etsy Seller since 2010. Nicole earned her BFA in ceramics, printmaking, and painting from The Cleveland Institute of Art. Nicole studied drawing and ceramics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and stone carving, poetry, and photography at the LaCoste School of Arts in LaCoste, France. Nicole moved to Detroit after her studies to become Artist-in-Residence at Pewabic Pottery where she also worked as master potter and ceramics instructor. Nicole's work has encompassed the realms of printmaking, painting, collages, handmade tiles, sculpture, pottery, and drawing. Nicole was introduced to art first as a draftsman while in high school. She found her love of clay as an art major at the Cleveland Institute of Art. http://ThePottersCast.com/881

Paulina Gobiecka, born on the 13th November 1987 in Warsaw, is a ceramic, sculptor, and ceramic instructor at the Garden of Arts ceramic studio in Warsaw, Poland. Paulina has graduated from Sculpture Faculty, The Academy of the Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2015. At the moment Paulina is building her own wood-fired kiln. http://ThePottersCast.com/880

Kate Marotz currently lives in Marshfield, WI where she shares a studio with her spouse. At UW-Stout Kate earned a BFA in Ceramics and BS in Art Education. Kate pinches pots combine sculptural qualities with functional objects and preserves the handbuilding process on the finished terra sigillata surfaces. http://ThePottersCast.com/879

Currently residing in Las Vegas, Constance Stotzer graduated from California College of Arts and Crafts with a BFA and a major in sculptural ceramics. After a few years teaching special education Constance transitioned into becoming an Art Specialist in elementary school. Constance was involved with the foundation of Clay Arts Vegas, a local ceramic studio and loving clay community. Currently, Constance is a high school ceramics instructor. http://ThePottersCast.com/878

Michelle Valigura is a sculptor, with a primary focus on ceramics. Her background designing for stop motion animation (including Elf, and the Simpsons) and her love of mid century design have built a foundation for a strong sense of color and aesthetics that can be seen translated in her work. In 2007 she formed her own design company Switcheroo, which led to licensing her work to to Disneyland, Kidrobot, Paradise Toys, and other art brands. She has exhibited her work, lectured and taught workshops at galleries, museums, and universities worldwide. In 2019 Michelle moved back to her roots in the Pacific Northwest where she opened Basalt that functions as her working studio and showroom in downtown Cannon Beach. Along with her work she features other artists and crafts of locals and people she has met in her career that she admires.