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The Potters Cast | Pottery | Ceramics | Art | Craft : A Return to the Original Clay Podcaster | Brian R Jones

Brian R. Jones grew up in Syracuse, NY and is now an artist living and working in Portland, OR. He has been a resident artist at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME and The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA. He has earned degrees from The New York State College of Ceramics (BFA) and Southern Methodist University (MFA). He was a presenter at the Utilitarian Clay VI: Celebrate the Object at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in September 2012. In 2013, Jones was selected as an Emerging Artist by the National Council on the Education in the Ceramic Arts.

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05/05/2025

He Won A Potters Wheel… And He Does 3D Printing | Ike Lobel

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Ike Lobel | Episode 1030

Ike Lobel is a Ceramics major at Suny New Paltz. Ike’s work focuses on the use of 3D printing in ceramics and the potential results of it. Ike has been working with clay for the past 16 years, in this time Ike has developed his style focusing on high precision and creating results that respect both the history of ceramics but also technological advances.

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Why 3D? What is the draw towards 3D?

I think it is something born inside me but I was watching Youtubers from when I was six building things with 3D printers with plastic. I think it just left something inside me and having my two worlds combine in printing clay it was just meant to be.

How does 3D printing lend itself to more creativity?

Well I have really bad handwriting. Most people cannot read it. And so being able to design something on a computer and then have it come into the real world is kind of magical and it’s nice that I do not have to worry about what my hands do and instead I can just worry about transmitting my brain to the computer and the 3D printer.

Do you see the irony of you pursuing 3D printing and you won a potter’s wheel?

Yeah, we’ve been thinking about this for awhile. My family is like, What are you doing with a potter’s wheel? I think it’s going to be co-ownership between me and my dad.

How does taking a break from ceramics help you be a better ceramicist in the future?

I think in school there is so much pressure for it to be graded and you are always trying to make work for your professors and that’s a lot of pressure and so I think taking a couple of years off and letting it reignite the love for ceramics could be amazing. And then I could start making ceramics for myself again instead of for a grade. I miss making mugs and stuff just so I could give them away.

What is the first thing you are going to do when you graduate?

I am graduating on the 19th and the first thing I am going to do as ironic as it sounds I am going to drive home and build a wheel. (laughter) I haven’t been home in five months so I am excited to go home and build that wheel.

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Advanced 3D Printing with Grasshopper by D. Diego Garcia Cuevas

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02/05/2025

Island Life Potters | Britt Whitaker & Craig Britton

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Britt Whitaker & Craig Britton | Episode 1082

Craig Britton & Brittany Whitaker are ceramic artists currently residing on San Juan Island, WA. Craig and Britt’s collaborative work is inspired by nature and often includes hand-painted flora & fauna motifs. However, Craig’s current body of work explores texture, materiality, and the creation process.

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What is the process of getting supplies out to you? There is no Georgie’s there so what’s it like?

Britt: You know, anytime we do a show in Seattle after we set up the booth one of us will make a run to a pottery supply store to kind of make up for the fact that shipping can be pretty expensive to get things sent here.

Does the tourist season make the rest of the year possible? Those short months in the summer?

Craig: Not usually. We tend to do shows in Seattle and surrounding cities in the wintertime. And do more things on our website and online to make up for those times.

What is something Britt, for you, that you can only get on the island and what is something that you cannot get on the island?

Britt: I guess for me one of the things that I love about living here is just although it is a small island there’s so many different trails that I can take the dog for a walk on year-round. It might be rainy in the winter, but I love that I can drive ten minutes in any direction and have a pretty beautiful trail to take the dog on.

How about something you can’t get on the island?

Britt: Let’s see, I guess food can be limited, although there are a lot of great local farms here and in the summer there’s so much fresh produce, it’s great. We are also spoiled having spent time in California where there is fresh produce year-round. Sometimes I notice the produce in the winter can be hard.

Craig what kind of packing is required to go to show from where you are to a Tacoma show? What is that like?

Craig: It’s usually about a week out we are getting ready for a show like that. We are getting all of our bins ready to hold all of the wares we are going to take because if you forgot something on the island, there’s no coming back. You can’t just pop back to the house to get something. So it’s a lot of preparation and just making sure we have everything we need before we leave the island.

Last question. Do you ever get Island fever?

Craig: No.

Britt: No, I guess the only thing that comes to mind is just missing the sunshine in the winter. That is the only time I feel like I want to get off the island, maybe mid-January and you haven’t seen the sun in what feels like a year. Other than that it is pretty manageable to be here.

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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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21/04/2025

Audacious | Marlaina Mathisen | Episode 1124 – The Potters Cast

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Marlaina Mathisen | Episode 1124

Marlaina Mathisen is a proficient wheel throwing artist who loves to share her understanding of the wheel to others. Marlaina’s personal work focuses primarily on wheel thrown and altered forms ranging from functional works of art to organic sculptural centerpieces. Currently Marlaina teaches a variety of classes at The Digs in Chicago, Fine Line Creative Arts Center in and supplying and managing a pottery gallery in Door County Wisconsin called Ephraim Clayworks. Marlaina’s 5 year plan is to continue diligently working towards establishing her own pottery studio.

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Your approach seems audacious, thinking bigger and going bigger. I wanted to ask you a few questions so I could learn to better myself and to follow a little bit down that road that you have been on. So first off, I’m curious, how do you move forward when fear is trying to hold you back?

That’s such a good question and thank you for saying that, that means a lot to me. I haven’t always felt audacious or bold. And I think that one of the biggest things I could ever say about fear is that when you have courage, courage could not exist without fear. So if you want to be courageous you must be afraid and in that I think you can kind of find gratitude for being afraid. Because being courageous doesn’t mean you are going to do it fearlessly. It means that you are doing it through being scared.

What does that do mean for a comfort zone? Living in a comfort zone versus stepping out of a comfort zone?

I think that you really can know if you could give one percent more most of the time. But you often can lie to yourself. And I am just saying this from personal experience. I think that’s one thing pottery has taught me is that I can try again to make a larger pot for example, and it has adapted me to failure which translates to all of life.

What is the difference between blind faith and bold planning?

I am not going to say that I know for sure. I am still always a student and I am always learning. A quite that has really stuck with me on that specifically is that you can have faith or you can have fear and both require you to believe in something that you can’t see. So which one is going to lift you up? Which one is going to give you the most air underneath your feet? Which one is going to help you attack this challenge more? It’s going to be faith.

How important is taking the time to plan and learn?

I love this question because I am have been talking a lot about this quote to people, You can’t learn to swim by reading about water. And that is just like talking about the importance of action and not getting stuck in the planning phase or stuck in the reading phase. Which is so important but at the end of the day if I don’t take any steps myself I won’t have anything to pivot from. The more effort the more valuable the outcome is to you.

Is part of being audacious also part of fighting against the status quo?

Yikes. I don’t know. Maybe. I think there’s a part of me that loves being challenged and having to prove myself. Like when I was a little girl people were like, She can’t do that, she’s a little girl. And now sometimes people are like, She can’t do that she’s a girl. And I’m, Oh yeah, I love that you said that cuz now I am going to go a hundred times harder.

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How to be an Adult in Relationships by David Richo

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18/04/2025

Writing For Potters | Shana Salaff

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Shana Salaff | Episode 1094

Shana Salaff is a potter, painter, writer, and teacher who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she teaches at Front Range Community College. Originally from Toronto, Shana has also lived, worked, and studied in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Fullerton, California. Shana has participated in residencies in Fort Colllins, Bali, and Maine.

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When you write an article does the process start from you or does the magazine throw out calls for articles?

Definitely it comes from me. I don’t think I have been asked…oh, I was asked once to do a review. But in general I am the one throwing ideas at the editor.

Do you do your vast majority of research before you present it to the magazine or does that come after the idea has been excepted?

Yeah, I want to be paid for my research so it’s usually an idea that I present and then I put the time in for the article.

How do you go about writing a proposal for an article? Is there a format that one should follow?

I don’t think I followed a regular format. I think there are on the website, the Ceramic Arts Network website or the individual websites of Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated, I think there may be a contribute button or something you can click on to submit. That’s not how it worked for me though.

When you write up an idea how may paragraphs are you writing for the abstract?

What’s happened with me is that I developed a relationship with Jessica Knapp and most of the time we communicated by email. I think we had a phone conversation early on. She had liked my work and asked for my website and then she chose two pieces that she asked me if I would write about. I think the fact that I had my grad school thesis on there and she could tell that I could write helped.

In general, how long do you need to write an entire article?

Once I sit down and do it, it doesn’t take that long. I tend to procrastinate that part a little bit. It really depends on the article. When I am making the item that I am illustrating the steps and the how to, I usually make the item first and then while I am making it I can let my mind kind of percolate and I start writing after I feel I’ve got the item well enough along and photographed.

After it has been written is there any need for you to be promoting the article? After it has hit the press?

I probably should. (Laughter) I don’t. I am usually too busy. I probably should, now that there is Instagram…I think I have probably done some Instagram posts on an article, the more recent ones.

What has been a favorite response to one of your articles? Do you have one?

I do. This year in fact, I received an email from a woman, her name is Kristy J. Smith, and she’s writing her memoire. And she said, I found your work and your piece in the article you wrote for Pottery Making Illustrated. And it was about this vase that I called a Mocking Jay vase because I was listening to that is the studio, the Hunger Games sequel book. And in the article I talked about creating space for flow to happen. So learning ways and tricks to tamp down the part of your mind that gets anxious and inhibits creativity. And she and I had a conversation that was just so wonderful. Her book came out and she has a picture of my vase in there and talks about how it effected her. So that was a pretty amazing moment for me.

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Breath by James Nestor

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17/04/2025

Best Friends Bought A Potters Wheel | Danielle Lane & Lara Irwin

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Danielle Lane & Lara Irwin | Episode 1116

Danielle Lane & Lara Irwin’s Instagram profile says, Two besties throwing like girls. And that explains their relationship perfectly- Danielle and Lara are best friends who make pottery together in Victoria, BC Canada. It all started when Danielle and Lara decided to buy a potters wheel together. Now they are making ceramics together and they wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Do either of you go to the studio to make by yourselves or is it always together?

Lara: It’s our favorite to be together, I think, for both of us, but sometimes it’s necessary when you are trying to fill an order to geo and get the pots done.

Do you make a certain amount of inventory to bring to each show?

Danielle: Absolutely. We definitely have to set aside time in our work schedules to do that. That usually looks like a couple of days a week. Making goals, we need ten bowls for this and ten for this.

Danielle what’s the favorite piece that Lara makes that you love?

Danielle: That is a hard question. I love everything Lara makes. I am really so impressed with Lara’s skill of throwing on the wheel. I would almost describe her style as soft, the pieces have this soft look to them and I can just never quite reach that so I would say every piece she throws. I am just always blown away.

Lara, what’s the favorite piece that Danielle makes that you love?

Lara: Yeah, that is such a hard question. I think she knows what I am going to say. She is really excellent at sgraffito work and her glazing. It is so stunning and beautiful and she has this incredible patience for it as well. She spends so long making these gorgeous landscapes of sgraffito work. They are usually the first thing I show other people. It is just so stunning.

What is the piece that you wish you could make but your skills are not quite there?

Lara: We haven’t tried the tea pot yet. So I think one day we are going to take that on. I would really love to make a lamp. I see that a lot on Instagram, people making lamps.

Danielle: Lately I’ve been really into large vases. I think we are really starting to hone in to throwing with bigger amounts of clay. I don’t know, maybe we will need a bigger kiln because our stuff is getting bigger and bigger.