Clay At Our Core: A Pottery Podcast
Life in a Cincinnati pottery studio as its owner, ceramic artists and friends walk their clay paths. Will things break? Of course. It’s a pottery studio.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 154
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Episode 74: Wibbles and wobbles with Lily Malone
Lily Malone uses her clay practice to explore techniques and designs. She made her brother a sake set, too.
00:23:04 |
Mon 22 Jan 2024
Episode 73: Molly Kavanaugh’s beginner’s mind
Molly Kavanaugh just finished her first beginner hand-building class, and she has some thoughts.
00:23:49 |
Mon 15 Jan 2024
Episode 72: Rosie Bentley, teacher and student
Learning to be patient with others and with herself is a big lesson for Rosie Bentley in the studio.
00:27:46 |
Mon 08 Jan 2024
Episode 71: Bon voyage
In which we hear Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Song of the Potter.” For our patron saint, Nicholaus Haar Westerkamp.
00:09:39 |
Mon 01 Jan 2024
Episode 70: From Noah Desch’s kiln into his oven.
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.
00:19:03 |
Mon 25 Dec 2023
Episode 69: Nick Robson and the moon jar. Also: a word about Nicholaus Westerkamp.
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.
00:29:19 |
Mon 18 Dec 2023
Episode 68: Cosmo Philpott and his Hawaiian Red
Like many new potters, Cosmo Philpott says his practice teaches him the virtue of patience.
00:27:57 |
Mon 11 Dec 2023
Episode 67: Freshly minted BFA Hannah Bundschuh
Back at Core Clay, Hannah Bundschuh is a ray of sunshine and a clay-pugging machine.
00:20:38 |
Mon 04 Dec 2023
Episode 66: Jean-Francois Paquay and the art of fire
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.
00:31:30 |
Wed 29 Nov 2023
Episode 65: When you look at Fountain Square, you see Phil Tworek
Phil Tworek, retired from landscape architecture, has come to clay, and he says he sees some parallels to the practices.
00:26:08 |
Mon 20 Nov 2023
Episode 64: Keep it clean, my mudbug
An all-studio notes episode on an eternal verity, and the answer to the question: Where are all the big towels?
00:06:22 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
Episode 63: Checking in with Artist in Residence Carla Thomas
What Carla has learned about clay, and about herself, during her residency at Core Clay.
00:23:23 |
Fri 10 Nov 2023
Episode 62: Time to fill the Mason Gallery and Store!
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 littl…
00:23:06 |
Wed 01 Nov 2023
Episode 61: Meet our newest artist in residence, Zahra Hooshyar
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.
00:30:00 |
Thu 26 Oct 2023
Episode 60: Miranda Dyson on realizing clay has lessons to teach
An art teacher in Cincinnati, Miranda Dyson found in Core Clay a place where questions are a part of the atmosphere.
00:18:57 |
Wed 18 Oct 2023
Episode 59: Dennis Allen plays music, does woodworking, plays with clay.
We’re always glad whenever Dennis Allen comes to peace-loving Norwood to share his insight into the clay practice.
00:26:25 |
Fri 13 Oct 2023
Episode 58: Change is a-coming to the glaze kitchen.
The Cult Pastor explains that reasons that Core Clay is swapping out formulations in the glaze kitchen. It’s quite a fascinating business story.
00:15:16 |
Mon 09 Oct 2023
Episode 57: Aaron Kent on finding his way in clay
Studio member Aaron Kent describes his singular artistic journey and what makes him want to work in clay.
00:26:53 |
Thu 05 Oct 2023
Episode 56: Dr. Stryker on how a clay practice makes you feel good
Shanna Stryker is a Cincinnati primary care doctor and a potter. She talks about one discipline can help inform the other.
00:27:45 |
Mon 02 Oct 2023
Episode 55: Emily Hobart and the pottery of memory
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.
00:25:58 |
Mon 25 Sep 2023
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