The Potters Cast

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Kathy Catlin | Kings Creek Pottery | Episode 38 Sep 02, 2014

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Kathy Catlin calls herself a Part Time Potter With A Full Time Passion! Located in rural upstate New York, you can find Kathy in her barn studio most weekend and vacations from her full time job as a High School Social Worker. Kathy creates functional stoneware pottery made on the wheel, which she claims is the key to her sanity!

Gillian McMillan | Gillian McMillan Pottery | Episode 37 Aug 28, 2014

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Gillian Mcmillan grew up in rural England, attended teacher training college in London, taught there for some years and then emigrated to Canada. After a year's teaching in Montreal she headed west, to Vancouver. She married Alan, an archeologist, they bought the 1914 house where they still live in Port Moody and had two sons. Meanwhile Gillian was taking pottery classes, teaching pottery and selling her work at craft fairs. At age 48, she was accepted at Emily Carr College of Art & Design and earned her BFA in Ceramics. Now, twenty years after graduating she has become known for the colourful jugbirds she sells at galleries on Granville Island and at Vancouver Airport.

Louise Gelderblom | Art Worker | Episode 36 Aug 26, 2014

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Louise Gelderblom is a self taught ceramicist with a background in design and photography. Louise lives in Cape Town, South Africa and has a teaching and production studio where she makes large hand built sculptural vessels. Louise is very much part of the low tech designer/maker tradition that makes work from her part of the world so distinctive.

Leah Reena Goren | Leah Goren Ceramics | Episode 35 Aug 21, 2014

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Leah Goren is an illustrator and surface pattern designer living in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated in 2012 from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in Illustration. For the past 3 years she has been working on translating her illustration style into hand-built ceramics.

Ann Van Hoey | Ann Van Hoey Ceramics | Episode 34 Aug 19, 2014

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Ann Van Hoey was born in 1956 in Belgium, where she lives and works. Many times awarded in international competitions, her work is exhibited in major galleries and her pieces are in the collections of international museums. Her works, of great simplicity and elegance, are extremely impressive in their perfection, their fragility and their featherweight appearance.

Joe Ottaway | Oxide Clay Art | Episode 33 Aug 14, 2014

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Joe has been a full time Ceramics Teacher in Tertiary Education in Australia and a practising potter for over 30 years. During this time he has shown in numerous exhibitions and his ceramics work is represented in private and public collections in Australia. Last year he set up a private Pottery School in Brisbane called Oxide Clay Art.

Susan Simonini | Susan Simonini Ceramics | Episode 32 Aug 12, 2014

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Susan Simonini is an Australian artist currently working in the medium of clay. Susan has a background in painting and printmaking, with a degree in Fine Art. She uses varied techniques to create a range of both functional and decorative ceramics. When not in her studio you can find Susan down the beach riding her skateboard!

John Neely | Utah State University | Episode 31 Aug 07, 2014

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John Neely talks clay from both the perspective of an educator and an entrepreneur.

Julia Paul | Julia Paul Pottery | Episode 30 Aug 05, 2014

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Julia Paul talks about branding, hiring employees, and how to move your prices from average to premium.

Gina Feddersen | Isola Bella | Episode 29 Jul 31, 2014

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Gina Feddersen tells of her love of nature and its inspiration for her creative life.