Between the Stokes: Recent Episodes
Billy Ritter
A podcast about Wood Fired Ceramics, it’s community of makers and the stories they share about the fabric and contemplations of it all. Podcast Host Billy Ritter 77
In this episode Brinsley Tyrrell shares a compressed and highlighted version of his life as a aspiring sculptor in England. His journey throughout the decades is better than fiction. In part one we learn about the challenges he faced as a young immigrant to the United States, how he met the love of his life, and also his vast career as an professor at Kent State University.
In this episode Jennifer, a MFA graduate student at Kent State University, shares her story about growing up in Texas and the road of thoughts and inspiration that have brought her to now. You can find her on Instagram https://instagram.com/jennifermasleyclay?igshid=1mghpg7ggfcyj / web: https://www.jenniferirenemasley.com/
In our circle of wood fired potters, Kabir has always been a real beacon of knowledge to all of us along this path. He truly is an exceptional ceramicist who has traveled the globe and learned from some of the greatest in our field. Beyond that, he’s an amazing cook. Unfortunately we didn’t get into Kabir’s culinary delights that he always prepares during the firings, perhaps though in a second episode down the road. I asked him to recommend a sound track at the end of the episode and he sent me this track: https://youtu.be/wGuxDjSZtmU
Ryan is one of the elders at the Brinsley Tyrrell Wood Fired Institute. He has been a part of almost all of the last 50 firings there. I think you’ll enjoy as Ryan shares with us his discovery and journey through creativity and clay.
Nicolin Haines, a fellow Kent State University Alumni has been firing with us at the Brinsley Tyrrell Institute for the past five years now. In this episode we talk about pottery, wood firing, creativity, and the fate of the creative universe. Find out more about Nic at: www.nicolinbhaines.com
Aside John Miyazawa (the co-host of this show), Derek was one of the first potters I met and instantly became friends with as a graduate student at Kent State University in 2009. This conversation takes John and I back to a moment where the three of us first worked together during a wood firing of the Anagama (Kirk-a-gama) kiln at KSU in 2011. Moving forward, Derek shares the story of where life has taken him since his graduate studies, into the present where we discuss the present covid-19 pandemic and talk about how that is transforming all of our lives as makers and artists. Find out more about Derek Thomas on Instagram @poeticwax