Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: A pottery and ceramic art podcast
526 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 252 ratingsTales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast features weekly interviews with ceramic artists from around the world. Host Ben Carter talks with potters, sculptors, and designers about their creative practice. www.talesofaredclayrambler.com
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72: Sam Clarkson on surfing and using plant-based fuels
August 05, 2014 12:42 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with studio potter and educator Sam Clarkson. Known for his functional pottery, he has shown his work across the United States and lectured in numerous art organizations including the Penland School of Crafts. In addition to his studio career he teaches at Cabrillo College. In the interview we talk about surfing, the similarities between teaching and coaching sports, and Clarkson's research into plant-based oil firing. ...
71: Alleghany Meadows on keeping studio life a priority and living in Nepal
July 22, 2014 11:42 - 1 hour - 69 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with studio potter and gallery owner Alleghany Meadows. Known for his functional pottery he has exhibited across the United States and lectured in numerous venues including the Penland School of Crafts, Alfred University, and the Archie Bray Foundation. In addition to his studio career he is a founding partner of the Harvey Meadows Gallery, the Art Stream Nomadic Gallery and the Studio for Arts and Works. Along with...
70: Garth Clark on CFile and the evolution of ceramics in the gallery world
July 03, 2014 16:05 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast, I have an interview with Garth Clark. A noted critic, provocateur, and advocate for ceramics, Clark founded the Garth Clark Gallery with his partner Mark Del Vecchio in 1981. Over the next three decades the gallery became the flagship for contemporary ceramics in America. Clark has authored more than 60 books on ceramics and lectured at over 100 major venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Victoria and Albert Museu...
69: Live in Berkeley- Whitney Smith on crafting your story through social media
June 24, 2014 16:50 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast, I have an interview with Whitney Smith. Inspired by the natural world and the floral patterns of Art Nouveau, Whitney produces a variety of functional pottery in her Oakland, CA studio. In addition to being a full-time potter Whitney has been a devoted blogger since 2006. Her direct and humorous writing style has drawn a world-wide following to her blog, This Artist's Life: Life in and Out of the Ceramic Studio. In the interview we...
68: Live from NCECA- Carole Epp, Michael Kline, and Adam Field on Virtual Clay
June 18, 2014 22:06 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have a panel on social media featuring Carole Epp, Michael Kline, and Adam Field. The discussion covers a broad range of topics including self censorship, branding, and staying power. Virtual Realities, Material World was taped live at the 2014 NCECA conference in Milwaukee, WI. This podcast features the question and answer session that occurred after our individual presentations. To see a video of our presentations please visit the...
67: Carter Gillies on the five stages of learning
June 13, 2014 05:36 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast, I have an interview with Carter Gillies. A potter, educator, and devoted blogger, Carter maintains a home studio in Athens, Georgia. I discovered his blog a few years ago and he quickly became one of my favorite writers. He regularly tackles both the everyday and the extraordinary aspects of an artist's life. In the interview we talk about Carter's background in philosophy, his theory about the five stages of learning, and how selli...
66: Diana Fayt on creating meaning through symbols and storytelling
June 04, 2014 03:14 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast, I have an interview with Diana Fayt. With a background in painting and drawing, Diana uses scrimshaw techniques to create rich compositions filled with folkloric images and symbols of cultural identity. As the child of immigrants, travel, maps, and cultural mythologies have been a large part of her creative life. Through a lifetime spent traveling the world, she has acquired a unique sense of the role of culture in shaping personal narrat...
65: Ron Meyers on finding one's voice and how retiring energized his career
May 29, 2014 16:12 - 1 hour - 58 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast, I have an interview with Ron Meyers. Known for his highly decorated terra cotta forms, Ron has been a major influence in American low fire ceramics. He uses expressive painting and sgraffito drawing to create images of fish, birds, and other animal motifs that often have human characteristics. During his extensive career in ceramics he has taught at the University of South Carolina (1967-1972) and the University of Georgia (1972-1993). He...
64: Michael Simon on intuition and a lifetime of truth seeking in ceramics
May 20, 2014 16:56 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast, I have an interview with Michael Simon. After studying at the University of Minnesota in the late 1960's, Michael set up a studio in the Athens, GA area where he has been making pots for more than 30 years. From shallow round bowls to complex squared boxes Michael developed a unique approach to matching form with decoration. His images of fish, birds, trees, and other nature-based motifs are simple in their geometric orientation but bold ...
63: Best of Season Two of the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast
May 14, 2014 01:38 - 53 minutes - 49 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have the Best of Season Two. This compilation episode covers a wide range of topics including dealing with fear in the studio, wading through nostalgia to find authenticity, and balancing family life with an art practice. A huge thank you to all the listeners that took the online survey and emailed their favorite episodes from the last year. It has been a pleasure to produce the show and I look forward to starting Season Three in the nea...
62: Molly Hatch on the factory as a tool and breaking into the design world
April 30, 2014 15:54 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with Molly Hatch. Trained as a potter her career straddles the boundaries between art, craft, and design. From her home studio in Northhampton, MA she creates prototypes that are replicated in factories and sold through major design labels. While employing the labor of the factory she continues to push the aesthetic of the hand in her ceramic, fabric, and home ware designs. In addition, she maintains a foothold in the a...
61: Julia Galloway, Kristen Kieffer, & Michael Kline on trends in studio pottery
April 23, 2014 04:08 - 1 hour - 57 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have a panel discussion with Kristen Kieffer, Julia Galloway, and Michael Kline on current trends in ceramic design. Our wide-ranging conversation looks at the effect of the internet on the way we see design, the pressures on young artists to succeed, and dealing with the restless personality of the artist. Kristen Kieffer is a potter living in Baldwinville, MA. For more information about her work please visit www.kiefferceramics.co...
60: Mark Hewitt on the value of the apprenticeship system
April 16, 2014 20:53 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with Mark Hewitt. Born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, to a family who worked for Spode China manufacturing, Hewitt has been around ceramics his entire life. During college an encounter with Bernard Leach's "A Potter's Book" set him in the direction of studio pottery and towards the apprenticeship system of education. A major proponent of the system Hewitt spent years training with both Michael Cardew and Todd Piker. Upon f...
59: Ben Owen III on the history of Seagrove and the art of story telling
April 09, 2014 15:48 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with Ben Owen III from Seagrove, NC. He has been potting since the age of eight and is the sixth generation of the Owen family to work in clay. In addition to a childhood steeped in the family pottery tradition, Owen has a ceramics degree from Eastern Carolina University and has traveled overseas to study ceramics. In our interview we talk about the history of Seagrove, the art of story telling, and becoming an advocate...
58: The Owens Family on the history of Jugtown Pottery
April 01, 2014 17:56 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with Vernon, Pam, and Travis Owens. They run the Jugtown Pottery in the Westmoore community just outside of Seagrove, NC. Jugtown's history stretches back to 1917 when the founders Jacques and Juliana Busbee started buying pots from local North Carolina potters to sell in their tea room in Greenwich Village, NYC. Although Jugtown has gone through many transitions in it's nine decade history the Owens family has been a m...
57: Sid Luck on whiskey, war, and the evolution of the Luck tradition
March 26, 2014 22:57 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with fifth generation potter Sid Luck. With his wood burning groundhog kiln he continues a family tradition of pottery making that has existed in the Seagrove, NC area since the early 19th century. Sid started making pottery for JB Cole in 1957 and though he has practiced other professions he has never stopped making pottery. He has been named a living treasure of North Carolina and is a recipient of the NC Heritage awa...
56: Live from the NC Potter's Conference: Brian Jones on Pottery, Podcasting and Posterity
March 18, 2014 04:32 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have a live episode taped at the North Carolina Potter's conference. The episode features myself and Brian Jones presenting on Pottery, Podcasting and Posterity to a wonderful audience at the Sunset Theater in Asheboro, NC. In the interview we talk about creative competition, social media as ceramic advocacy, and developing a podcasting style. Brian Jones is a ceramic artist and podcaster based in Portland, OR. He was an early motiva...
55: Lisa Orr on the influence of Betty Woodman and color synesthesia
March 05, 2014 01:29 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with ceramic artist Lisa Orr. Based in Austin, TX she makes colorful earthenware pottery reminiscent of a garden in full bloom. She has developed a unique method of turning pots in bisque molds on a potters wheel. This achieves a softly manipulated form, which is then colored with runny translucent glazes. In the interview we talk about the influence of Betty Woodman, color synesthesia, and Lisa's documentaries on Mexic...
54: Lisa Stinson on the creative tension that comes from collaboration
February 28, 2014 01:17 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with ceramic artist and educator Lisa Stinson. I had the great pleasure of studying under Lisa at Appalachian State University. In the interview we talk about her teaching philosophy, why its so hard to make a good pot, and the creative tension that comes from collaboration. You can see more of Lisa's work at the Appalachian State University faculty gallery. To subscribe to the Red Clay Rambler podcast on iTunes ple...
53: Tommy Frank on pop culture and questioning masculinity
February 20, 2014 05:12 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with ceramic artist Tommy Frank. His current body of sculptural work uses the childhood piggy bank to address consumption and power in the American economy. His pig armies fill gallery spaces asking the viewer to question how we teach children the value of hoarding in our society. In addition to his studio practice Frank is the studio manager of Red Star Studios in Kansas City, MO. In the interview we talk about pop c...
52: Live in Asheville: Josh Copus, Alex Matisse and Lindsay Rogers on farm-to-table and ceramics
February 12, 2014 04:34 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have a live episode featuring Josh Copus, Alex Matisse, and Lindsay Rogers. Our discussion centers around the crossover between farm-to-table dining and the ceramic world. In the interview we talk about the basics of farm-to-table, the search for authenticity, and designing site specific ware for a restaurant setting. Josh Copus is a studio potter and co-founder of the Clayspace Co-op in Asheville, NC. www.joshcopus.com. Alex Matisse i...
51: Michael Kline, Kyle Carpenter, and Ron Philbeck on making a living as a potter
February 04, 2014 06:09 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I am featuring a panel discussion on the nuts and bolts of making a living as a potter with Michael Kline, Kyle Carpenter, and Ron Philbeck. The conversation covers a wide variety of topics including building an audience, saving for retirement, and dealing with health insurance. Michael Kline maintains a studio in Bakersville, NC. Along with making pottery, he teaches workshops and maintains the popular ceramics blog www.sawdustanddirt.c...
50: Matt Jones on Country Funk and the NC pottery scene
January 30, 2014 02:45 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with potter Matt Jones. During his time as an apprentice potter, Jones was deeply influenced by Mark Skudlarek, Todd Piker, and the British studio pottery lineage that traces back to Michael Cardew. Jones currently maintains a studio in Sandy Mush, NC where he wood fires functional ceramics that draw inspiration from 19th/20th century American pottery, and other forms of ceramics that could be loosely defined as "folk" ...
49: East Fork Pottery with Alex Matisse, John Vigeland, and Connie Coady
January 22, 2014 17:20 - 1 hour - 93.2 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with the members of East Fork Pottery; Alex Matisse, Connie Coady, and John Vigeland. Alex founded the pottery in Madison County, NC after training with both Matt Jones and Mark Hewitt. East Fork Pottery's strongly thrown functional forms and slip-trailed motifs reference English slip ware, southern American ceramics, and an aesthetic that has become intimately linked with North Carolina. In the interview we talk ab...
48: Emily Galusha on developing a leadership style
January 10, 2014 00:36 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with Emily Galusha. She is the Director Emeritus of the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, MN. She has contributed to the NCC organization in many ways including service on the board of directors and seventeen years as the executive director. Under her leadership the organization changed locations, increased membership, and expanded its ceramic programing on a regional and national level. In the interview we talk abo...
47: Sarah Jaeger on the desire to create meaning through objects
December 25, 2013 00:44 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with Sarah Jaeger. Known for her highly decorated porcelain pottery she has maintained a studio in Helena, MT since 1987. Her functional pottery has been exhibited widely and she has taught workshops throughout North America. Before becoming a potter Sarah studied literature and this early influence is reflected in her eloquent writing about hand made. "Despite the material abundance of our culture, it seems to me ...
46: Steven Hill on working the workshop circuit
December 16, 2013 17:11 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with Steven Hill. A potter for over forty years, Hill has transitioned through many phases in his ceramic career including selling at art fairs, having gallery exhibitions, and managing a community studio. Hill was the founder of Red Star Studios in Kansas City, MO and is now a member of 323 Clay in Independence, MO. Hill is a much sought after workshop instructor who has taught in schools and craft institutions across ...
45: Live from Minneapolis: Linda Arbuckle, Doug Casebeer, and Alleghany Meadows on mentorship
December 07, 2013 05:17 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have a panel discussion featuring Linda Arbuckle, Doug Casebeer, and Alleghany Meadows. Our discussion centers around the variety of forms that mentorship can take in the life of an artist. We discuss how objects, travel, and relationships with other artists have influenced each of the panelist's artistic development. Linda Arbuckle is a studio potter and Professor of ceramics at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. You can fin...
44: Meredith Host on low brow culture and design nostalgia
November 28, 2013 04:47 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with ceramic artist Meredith Host. Her functional pottery is inspired by a myriad of disparate influences including mid-century modern furniture and patterns taken from the stippled surfaces of toilet paper. She is a full time studio artist and entrepreneur based in Kansas City, MO. In the interview we talk about creating art that walks the fine line between attraction and repulsion, drawing inspiration from low brow c...
43: Martha Grover on mining personal history for inspiration
November 15, 2013 15:45 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with Martha Grover. She creates gestural porcelain pots that reference botanical forms and the female body. She says of the work, "I think of the fluid visual movement around a piece, as a choreographer would move dancers across a stage. Transmitting desire - there is a sense of revealing and concealing, a layering of details that serves to catch our attention immediately and then the details draw us in, to make a close...
42: Chef Paul Berglund on farm-to-table and the benefits of serving local food
November 07, 2013 20:25 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with Paul Berglund, who is the executive chef at the Bachelor Farmer in Minneapolis, MN. Since 2011 the restaurant has garnered high praise for its Scandinavian inspired cuisine. In 2012 it was named to Bon Appetit's Hot Ten List of best new American restaurants and was nominated for the prestigious James Beard Award for best new restaurant in America. In the interview we talk about the farm-to-table concept, the ben...
41: Evelyn Craft Belger on establishing a mission statement for an art organization
October 29, 2013 17:26 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with Evelyn Craft Belger. She is the executive director of the Belger Arts Center and Red Star Studios in Kansas City, MO. Evelyn has been instrumental in the growth and display of the Belger Arts Collection, a private collection of thousands of contemporary art works, that is managed by the Belger Foundation and housed within the Belger Arts Center. In 2010 the foundation partnered with Red Star Studios to expand their...
40: Live from KC: Cary Esser, Tommy Frank, and Meredith Host on the business of Art
October 19, 2013 18:24 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have a panel discussion featuring Cary Esser, Meredith Host and Tommy Frank. Each panelist is a ceramic artist that balances their art career with a business oriented profession. Our discussion centers around how creativity is an asset in the business world. Cary Esser is a professor and chair of the ceramics department at the Kansas City Art Institute. You can find our more about her architectural tile and sculpture at www.caryesser.com...
39-2: Richard Notkin on Vietnam and developing a collector base
October 11, 2013 16:57 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have a double episode featuring ceramic artist Richard Notkin. Known for his protest art Notkin has approached a variety of subject matter during his career including the folly of war, the nuclear age, and global warming. His teapots and tile work can be found in numerous museums around the United States including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design. In the interview we tal...
39-1: Richard Notkin on establishing a visual language
October 11, 2013 16:49 - 1 hour - 64 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have a double episode featuring ceramic artist Richard Notkin. Known for his protest art Notkin has approached a variety of subject matter during his career including the folly of war, the nuclear age, and global warming. His teapots and tile work can be found in numerous museums around the United States including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design. In the interview we tal...
38: Steve Lee on shaping culture and the Archie Bray Foundation
October 04, 2013 16:23 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with ceramic artist Steve Lee. At first glance his porcelain ceramics appear to be traditional Asian vessels but a closer glance reveals pop culture icons and contemporary subject matter. He says of the work, "The pieces I create appropriate elements of form, decoration, color, image and material that are distinct to a particular culture or history. The viewer is left to construct the context and narrative of the object...
37: Bobby Silverman on contemporary ceramic design
September 26, 2013 18:33 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with ceramic artist Bobby Silverman. Throughout his multifaceted career he has been an educator, designer and maker. He currently manages Alsio Design, a Brooklyn based company that produces ceramic tile for the residential and commercial market. In the interview we talk about developing a ceramic design company, the pros and cons of ceramic higher education, and the relevance of the traditional pot in contemporary s...
36: Tara Wilson on sustaining a career and putting down roots
September 20, 2013 00:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with wood fire potter Tara Wilson. The fly ash patterns on her functional pottery often reference the worn surfaces of geologic formations while her altered forms display a sense of volume often found in the animal world. She says of the work, "The rich surfaces of the vessels represent the natural world. Nature also inspires form, in some cases quite literally, as river rocks become saucers. Other pieces speak of this ...
35: Mel Griffin on the roots of creativity and the animal side of human behavior
September 12, 2013 13:35 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with ceramic artist Mel Griffin. Her functional pottery and large scale tile work use animal and landscape imagery to talk about human behavior and the way we relate to our surroundings. She says of the work, "Making and drawing allow me to investigate fluid and profound relationships between the body, handmade objects, and landscape, both inside the home and out in the world. Through imagery and metaphor, line and clay...
34: Chris Pickett on mid-century modern and the power of habit
September 04, 2013 16:52 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with ceramic artist Chris Pickett. His slab built pottery consists of inflated sculptural volumes decorated with saturated colors and low relief patterning. He says of the work, "With the appearance of being freshly constructed, the fullness of form allows these vessels to evoke a sense of play and ease. The generous volumes are metaphors for our own bodies that reference both the comforts of physical intimacy as well a...
33: Eva Champagne on the many interpretations of her hybrid sculpture
August 22, 2013 15:55 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with ceramic artist Eva Champagne. Her hybridized biomorphic sculptures highlight the infinity variety and unifying order that occur within the natural world. She says of the work, "By synthesizing abstracted formal references to animals, plants and geologic sources, I create intentionally ambiguous ceramic sculptures that exist in the fluid margin between categories. My aim is toward something composite that will chall...
32: Courtney Murphy on her approach to pattern and form
August 14, 2013 15:19 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with potter Courtney Murphy. Her functional earthenware draws from a variety of influences including "simplified abstractions of nature, children's artwork, folk art, mid-century modern forms and shapes, as well as textiles, patterns and historical pots." She maintains a studio in Missoula, MT were she is an artist-in-residence at the Clay Studio of Missoula. In the interview we discuss our mutual love for Western ...
31: Mel Griffin, Matthew McConnell, and Peter Christian Johnson on climbing the career ladder
August 07, 2013 15:48 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I am featuring a panel discussion on ceramic career paths with Mel Griffin, Mathew McConnell, and Peter Christian Johnson. The conversation starts by questioning the premise of an established career ladder in ceramics and evolves into a discussion about success, living a mobile life, and creating your own career path. Mel Griffin is a potter based in Helena, MT. For more information on her work please visit www.melgriffin.com. Mathew McCo...
30: Sean O'Connell on developing self critique
July 31, 2013 05:42 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with potter Sean O'Connell. I met Sean in 2010 while he was making five hundred plates for the Salad Days Residency at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts. He used the lobed plate form as a canvas to experiment with hundreds of pattern solutions for surface decoration. I admired his methodical approach to such a monumental assignment. I continue to see the same dedication to visual inquiry in his current body of functiona...
29: George McCauley on making films and the evolving nature of student/teacher relationships
July 24, 2013 06:37 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with artist and Renaissance man George McCauley. Over his 45 year art career he has made pottery, mixed media sculpture, metal work, as well as being a cowboy, carpenter and movie producer. His self described "casual" approach to art making highlights the emotive quality of gestural mark making and loose brushwork. In the interview we talk about developing a unique artistic voice, the evolving nature of student/teacher ...
28-2: Adam Field on apprenticing in a Korean Onggi Pottery
July 17, 2013 15:20 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with potter Adam Field. Based in Durango, CO Adam produces a wide variety of functional ceramics ranging from intricately carved porcelain forms to massive Korean Onggi jars. He says of the work, "I am fascinated with antique artifacts, the way they can speak of mastery of lost peoples, places, and cultures. This inspires me to create works that both radiate history and capture my own place and time." In the interview ...
28-1: Adam Field on social media and developing a market for your work
July 17, 2013 15:12 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with potter Adam Field. Based in Durango, CO Adam produces a wide variety of functional ceramics ranging from intricately carved porcelain forms to massive Korean Onggi jars. He says of the work, "I am fascinated with antique artifacts, the way they can speak of mastery of lost peoples, places, and cultures. This inspires me to create works that both radiate history and capture my own place and time." In the interview ...
27: Matt Kelleher on cultivating curiosity
July 09, 2013 06:08 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with potter Matt Kelleher. He designs utilitarian ware with a keen eye for the architecture and edge quality of his hand built forms. He combines layers of poured slip with the soda firing process to create rich translucent surfaces that capture the mood and density of the Western NC landscape he now calls home. In the interview we talk about cultivating curiosity, escaping the boundaries of the artist statement, and ...
26: Merran Esson on capturing the passage of time within an object
July 02, 2013 05:06 - 1 hour - 127 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with ceramic artist and educator Merran Esson. Her recent body of work springs from her two week excursion to a remote part of western New South Wales, Australia. She says of the trip, "I have always had an affinity with the land, having spent my childhood on a farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, however, the geology and vastness of this recent exploration has brought a more organic resolve to this work. My in...
25-2: Vipoo Srivilasa on breaking into the international art market
June 25, 2013 04:27 - 1 hour - 88 MBThis week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with sculptor Vipoo Srivilasa. After immigrating from Thailand to Australia Vipoo has used ceramic sculpture to explore the similarities between his native and adoptive cultures. Over the past 16 years Vipoo has developed a body of porcelain figurines that mixes the blue and white traditions of East Asia with contemporary symbols of Australian identity. His work has been described as "a playful blend of historical Figur...