The Potters Cast

Jessie lazar makes functional ceramics for the home and table. Mostly wheel thrown, mostly gas fired, Jessie makes clean precise forms with painterly glazes meant to elevate humble items in your dail…

Sarah Anderson is a traveling ceramic artist, teaching ceramic workshops across the country in a renovated Shasta camper with her dog Pip. After graduating from Ball State University with a sculpture…

Tim Clark, also know as The Half Blind Potter. Tim lost the vision in my left eye in Dec of 2020 and discovered pottery in late spring of 2021.  Ceramics has played a huge role in Tim's recovery and …

Roshni Senapati makes hand-built sculptural vessels which include stitched and knotted silk threads and cloth drawn from old family saris. Using two materials allows Roshni to explore family narrativ…

Bennett Graves is a potter based in Pittsburgh, where he’s been managing Fireborn Studios (alongside owner Dan Vito) since 2018. Bennett's work consists primarily of wheel-thrown porcelain, decorated…

John Neely is an alumni of The Potters Cast. Way back in the very beginning of the show John agreed to come on to The Potters Cast. Episode 31. John suddenly passed away this week. In tribute to John…

Gillian Martin is a Melbourne-based artist working primarily in ceramics. Gillian holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Ceramics) from Monash University and has a background in photography, a practice that …

Hamish Jackson is a potter from England, and he started potting at Winchcombe Pottery in the Cotswolds. Hammish got married to his lovely American wife, Lauren and moved to the states about six years…

Beth Harden is a functional potter working out of her home studio in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Beth’s artistic journey is driven by curiosity, caffeine, and the determination to exp…

Nastia Calaca has always been dreaming of becoming an illustrator, creating intricate illustrations, reinventing beloved book characters, and writing new versions of her favorite stories was all part…

Fawn Penn is a ceramic artist working in Chicago. In 2020, Fawn co-founded The Digs Chicago, a non-profit community ceramics studio home to 100 artists. In 2024, Fawn founded Old Friends, a contempor…

Chelsea Erdner is the artist behind Bombabird Ceramics. Chelsea has been working with clay for over two decades, but left her job as a graphic designer in 2017 to pursue Bombabird full-time. What sta…

Jesse Hamerman started Beginner Ceramics in 2021 after not touching clay for 21-years, which he had studied in college. For Jessie it felt like a fresh discovery of the medium and his true self. Crea…

Amy Lee fell in love with rocks and clay at age two. While studying GeoEnvironmental Science, pottery became Amy's passion. Alongside a multi-decade IT career, Amy has built and supported creative co…

Harlinah Teoh creates botanical ceramic art based on the plants she encounters while hiking in the Australian landscape. Born in Sydney, Harlinah lived in Darwin, Tokyo, and Singapore before making h…

Welcome to America's largest clay focused art show. It happens every year in Portland Oregon. And thousands of people show up to check it out and buy pots. I got to be there as an "Artist's Assistant…

Jenny Cartee is a potter living in the mountains of western North Carolina. Jenny makes mugs and other functional pots that she sells at our local farmers market and coffee shops. Jenny's husband, He…

Ana Shioshita is a potter working in Vancouver Canada. Ana was lucky enough to grow up in Boulder Colorado around a lot of clay from a young age. Ana has spent the last decade designing for film, and…

Marlaina Mathisen is a proficient wheel throwing artist who loves to share her understanding of the wheel to others. Marlaina's personal work focuses primarily on wheel thrown and altered forms rangi…

Brighton, U.K. based ceramicist, Nicola Gillis makes functional tableware. Nicola takes inspiration from the East Asian use of tableware, a specific purpose for each vessel and where pleasure is draw…