Clay At Our Core: A Pottery Podcast: Recent Episodes
Anne Saker
Life in a Cincinnati pottery studio as its owner, ceramic artists and friends prepare for the big annual meeting of the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts in March 2023. Will things break? Of course. It’s a pottery studio.
Your clay pal went mano a mano with stupid old COVID-19, so no artist interview this week, but some excellent news bits about awards and upcoming classes.
Potter Bonnie McNett of Loveland's Whistle Stop Clay Works, and a longtime friend of Core Clay talks about her path to becoming a ceramic artist and teacher beside the Little Miami River.
Studio member and Core Clay teacher Emily Dake has a day job -- running the innovative Indigo Hippo, a store that recycles and repurposes art supplies. Core Clay donates some of our pugged-with-love reclaim to Indigo Hippo.
Aminata Chaim, a student at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, is bringing her bubbling personality to Core Clay as a short-term artist in residence.
Studio member Erika NJ Allen says residencies don't have to a year long, or even a month long. She says she got a big bounce in her art from two weeks beside Lake Huron in Michigan.
“It’s less about what we’re making. The class is built around what skills are we learning per week, and then we have the freedom to design the objects as we see fit.”
Your clay pal does almost all the talking, mudbug, as she submits to the same grilling she gives all guests of “Clay at Our Core.”
A high school art teacher and friend of Core Clay, Sarah Horn talks about the three-week course she’ll lead in August on putting images on clay.
Kansas City potter Meredith Host shares with the podcast her techniques for making surfaces the real standout of her pottery.
“With clay,” says Alexa Blanchard, “you can venture out and do so many different things.”
Nancy Sowder, bringing branches of her life together to make mid-range glazes with Speedball
Artist in residence Zania Teman explores her love of insects in her Mason Gallery exhibition.
Studio member Beth Loudenberg describes the value of her three-month artist’s residency at Core Clay. For one thing, she built big.
Glaze Wizard Mason Deane describes making a glaze with the cremains of our pal Nicholaus Westerkamp, to be used at a special Clay Club May 21.
Sam, a manager at Core Clay, went to North Carolina for a two-week residency and found that a change of scenery challenged him.
Plus, one more big plug for the Spring Pottery Fair, and one for a special Clay Club: Ashes to Ash Glaze.
Confused about selling at market? Give a llisten to a guy who’s done them all and does them well: Dennis Allen of Lebanon, Ohio.
Trish Mclennan, co-chairwoman of the 23rd annual fair, breaks it all down for you: Don’t miss it! East Walnut Hills will rock with all the art.
Core Clay’s contingent to the annual pottery conference returns exhilarated about what they witnessed.
For the senior at Cincinnati’s School of Creative and Performing Arts, the future could mean pottery … or firefighting.
Seems easy, the wedding favor. But Debbie and Monica Phipps learned otherwise. Here’s how they made 160 trinket dishes for Monica’s wedding.
Leslie Hutchings Miller is a potter in Worcester, Massachusetts, who needed some clay. She came all the way to peace-loving Norwood for it. Also, she’s my old pal.
Roundtable talk with two Core Clay artists who are good at selling their art. You can be, too!
Studio members Noah Desch, Randy Folz and Dana Makstaller offer tips and tricks to marketing your pottery.
Artist, teacher, social media queen Alondra Biberos lifts the curtain on her first solo show, at the Mason Gallery.
Core Clay photographer Robin Singerman gives some tips to improve your photos of your wares. Watch those shadows!
Laura Davis, owner of Core Clay, gives her state of the studio address as the podcast marks a year.
Lily Malone uses her clay practice to explore techniques and designs. She made her brother a sake set, too.
Molly Kavanaugh just finished her first beginner hand-building class, and she has some thoughts.
Learning to be patient with others and with herself is a big lesson for Rosie Bentley in the studio.
In which we hear Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Song of the Potter.” For our patron saint, Nicholaus Haar Westerkamp.
How studio member Noah Desch married his clay skills and his cooking skills. Also: details on the Nicholaus Westerkamp memorial Dec. 28 at Core Clay.
Studio member Nick Robson balances her weekdays as a senior at Wyoming High School and her weekends as a Core Clay member. Also: Nicholaus Westerkamp.
Like many new potters, Cosmo Philpott says his practice teaches him the virtue of patience.
When Jean-François Paquay is in his native Brussels, Belgium, he has a solitary art practice. When in Cincinnati, though, he throws in the community of Core Clay.
Phil Tworek, retired from landscape architecture, has come to clay, and he says he sees some parallels to the practices.
An all-studio notes episode on an eternal verity, and the answer to the question: Where are all the big towels?
What Carla has learned about clay, and about herself, during her residency at Core Clay.
Gallery Director Sam Buganski explains the reasons that no matter how shy, an artist needs to step into the marketplace. You learn a lot from the experience, Sam says, no matter how much or how little you sell.
The child of Iranian immigrants, a native of Morgantown, West Virginia, tells her story of her clay journey and how the path led to peace-loving Norwood.
An art teacher in Cincinnati, Miranda Dyson found in Core Clay a place where questions are a part of the atmosphere.
We’re always glad whenever Dennis Allen comes to peace-loving Norwood to share his insight into the clay practice.
The Cult Pastor explains that reasons that Core Clay is swapping out formulations in the glaze kitchen. It’s quite a fascinating business story.
Studio member Aaron Kent describes his singular artistic journey and what makes him want to work in clay.
Shanna Stryker is a Cincinnati primary care doctor and a potter. She talks about one discipline can help inform the other.
Pottery connects us to other people. And the past. The Core Clay studio manager recalls her grandmother as a painter at a pottery in Davon, England.
Accomplished in so many ways, Emily Kendall thought she’d give wheel-throwing a try. It was not what she expected.
Sam Jayne joined Core Clay this year as a teacher and studio assistant. His advice: Take a chemistry class.
Melissa Jose is a production potter who works out of her house and explains how she makes her space work for her.
At Core Clay, our sinks keep your clay journey flowing. Come along and listen to the task of keeping the water collections as good as possible for you.
Sharing shelves with another ceramic artist requires a foundation of friendship. Erin Saul and Emily Harmon describe the harmonious world on their shelves. Also: the story of Trinity!
Our new yearlong artist in residence brings his big pots and his baseball knowledge to the studio.
Carla Thomas: “I used to really, really worry over every piece I made. And I don’t worry about it anymore.”
Studio owner Laura Davis tells the rollicking story of how she set up the artist-in-residence program at Core Clay. Hint: It just kinda happened.
An artist’s residency can be a path to supporting an artist’s life. Current studio artist in residence Zania Teman talks about the value of her time at Core Clay. Also, news on how you can help our friend Nicholaus Westerkamp.
A software engineer by education, Savid Sun found his way to clay about a year ago, and now he’s mixing his own glazes.
By education, Scott Aleshire is a geologist. By inclination, he is a ceramic artist who makes kaleidoscopes. Scott explains how that happened.
You don’t need Instagram to see that cool glaze technique. Claire Pazynski dived right in.
Studio member George Hibben ponders the beer stein and how it has inspired his clay practice.
The Cincinnati ESL teacher discusses her first year in clay: “It just feels good to zone out and be creative.”
Esteemed Cincinnati artist Brenda Tarbell reflects on her jurying of our “A Bowl Lotta Love” show starting July 10.
The big Bailey gas kiln did not make temperature last night, which means postponement until July 14 of the studio’s anticipated First Friday firing with crystalline glazes.
Gallery Director Sam Buganski drops the info on the second-annual “A Bowl Lotta Love” show, July 20-Aug. 11
Rotator cuff and biceps repair surgery is no joke, when you are a wonderful potter such as Beth or a sportsball guy.
Artist in Residence Alondra Biberos reports on her assistantship at this month’s Women Working In Clay Symposium in Virginia.
Studio member Jessica Connor is fabulous on social media as Overbrook Clay. Although she is surprised to hear this observation.
Studio member Kendall Taylor tells the story of when the kiln gods declined to smile upon her. Spoiler Alert: happy ending!
Right out of the UC DAAP school, here comes Mason Deane, taking on the big job of Glaze Boss for Core Clay.
Studio member London Glover talks of citrus squeezers and a place of “hygge” in her world.
Core Clay’s kiln boss, Liz Given, is leaving us to go on an adventure. In an exit interview with the podcast, Liz talks about what she’s learned.
Core Clay’s membership director talks about how she landed in Cincinnati and how clay taught her non-attachment. Also, she says “woo woo.”
Mike O’Neal explains how he got into clay and how he inspires his students at Core Clay.
Tracy Iliff of the Clay Alliance drops all the information about the annual Spring Pottery Fair in East Walnut Hills, and she explains why beginning potters need to soak up the experience.
Studio member Nik Sylvan tells of their journey to clay. Also, Anne muses on how a pottery studio can ease the sting of a loss.
Donna Tukel came to pottery only recently, but her career in art prepared her for the challenge of clay: “It’s enhanced my life.”
Atlanta-area potter Rich Brown stops by Core Clay on his coast-to-coast journey to meet potters where they are.
The studio member who led the group that set up “Undercurrents” discusses the things we’ve learned.
Core Clay’s gallery director talks about the lessons he’s taking away from the NCECA conference.
The Cult Pastor makes suggestions for people trying to pull off an NCECA show: Treat it like a wedding. Plus, her hat tips to the Core Clay team.
I spend the day at the pottery hoedown and see the clay people having a big time in the Queen City.
Our pal Amy Pellagrino of Delhi Township, a former Core Clay artist in residence, has pulled off a cool feature for the NCECA conference starting next week.
Our esteemed studio manager talks about the gallery show Core Connections, featuring former artists in residence, getting set for NCECA.
Laura Davis offers an update on the preparations at Core Clay for NCECA. Plus — we are about to fire in reduction!
Studio member Nina Caporale talks about the members’ show and store we’ll have at Core Clay next month during the national potters’ convention in Cincinnati.
This week’s update from Sam Buganski about the gallery shows we’ll have here at Core Clay during NCECA next month!
The nationally renown sculptor shares his insight into our happy shack as he glazes the cool art he made here.
We are 42 days out from NCECA, and Gallery Director Sam Buganski describes the “phenomenal” work that will be on display. Hear the panic in his voice.
Laura Davis on her journey to pottery and to ownership of a pottery studio. Also, there’s a bonus word at the end for her students; 10 points extra credit!
Welcome to the Core Clay podcast, Clay At Our Core. We are a pottery studio in Norwood, Ohio. Come get ready for the big convention with us.