Clay At Our Core: A Pottery Podcast

You don't have to imagine the car trip to Salt Lake City with Laura Davis, Erika NJ Allen and Hannah Bundschuh. It really happened, to go to NCECA, and the Cult Pastor explains her revelations along …

"Clay at Our Core" takes you across the Ohio River to talk with Austin Deal, the programming director at the Baker Hunt Art and Cultural Center, a cool place with a rich history in Covington.

Core Clay teachers Aaron Kent and Mike O'Neal team up for a three-week class that will show you how to make transfers with the silk-screening process and then apply the transfers to your pots. Anothe…

About six months ago, Core Clay stalwarts Sam Jayne and Saya Amend brainstormed on how to make clay more accessible, no matter what you bring to the wheel or the worktable. One big result: They've co…

Last week's optimism about the pug mill was short-lived, but Hannah Bundschuh brings an update on the repairs, and we think this time, it'll take. For now.

The Cult Pastor and Vern Lash tell the tale of the pug mill.

The newest employee at Core Clay, Emrys Falco, shares with "Clay at Our Core" how they came to clay: "It saved my life." The power of art in one person's life.

Abby Fadel of Goshen, Kentucky, is the current DAAP co-op student at Core Clay from the University of Cincinnati. She's doing a lot of cleaning at the moment, but she's glad to be here.

In which Anne ruminates about QuickBooks taking over the world, but also reminds that a Core Clay gift certificate is always a welcome gift for a mudbug.

Core Clay's own Vern Lash discusses her pet portrait class (closed now, but running again in July!) and muses on the meaning of sculpture for her.

No artist interview, but updates on the pug mill, the washing machine and the new slate of "next step" classes at Core Clay.

Core Clay's own Sam Buganski and Sam Jayne discuss their collaborative show, "Looking," opening Saturday, Feb. 1. in the Mason Gallery. It's about seeing seen, and about being there for each other.

Studio member Cassandra Jones, blind since before she was 10, has developed a practice at Core Clay to find the artist inside her.

Core Clay turns 20 years old in 2025, and the podcast kicks off a yearlong commemoration of all the people who make the studio such an amazing place. That means you, mudbug.

A longtime pal of the Cult Pastor, Lex Jahne is a fiber artist in Cincinnati who just had a trunk show in the Mason Gallery. She offers some times on how to make those kinds of shows work for the art…

Studio member Ken Lay came to Core Clay earlier this year with more than passing knowledge about ceramics. But his hobby was restoration. Now he's discovering how to make ceramic art himself.

Catching up on some stray threads: why is Wrapped so weird, who puts a white couch in a pottery studio, some studio notes. Also, the gallery looks amazing. (Note: White couch pictured is for entertai…

A longtime friend of the Cult Pastor, Russ Laycock is a Cincinnati contractor who has given his expert touch to our home in peace-loving Norwood. He built our lovely podcasting studio in the old cash…

Core Clay studio manager Emily Hobart has a passion for making ceramic jewelry. She's teaching a three-week course on the skill and technique of this form. Also, you can see her work in the Mason Gal…

Recycling our midfire clay is a massively labor-intensive process, but Hannah Bundschuh and Vern Lash make it look easy. But it's not.