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The Potters Cast

A Blind Potter With Vision | Don Katz | Episode 1070

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Careers, Visual Arts, Business, Arts

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Don Katz is a blind potter based in Los Angeles, California. Don became blind due to bacterial meningitis in 2001. After waking up from a month-long coma he had to relearn to walk and feed himself and adjust to his sightless reality. What began as an introductory pottery course at The Braille Institute of Los Angeles, has now become Katz's obsession. Don's ceramics teacher once told him as he struggled on the wheel that "you are stronger than dirt," words he lives by today. Don appreciates feeling the clay take shape on the potter's wheel and how the touch informs the form. He enjoys creating unique handmade functional and decorative ceramic objects.

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0:00.0

This is the Potter's Cast, a podcast home for potters everywhere. It's a community of

0:06.4

potters dedicated to grow their business. We're picking up where the art degree ends. I'm your

0:11.6

host, Paul Blaze. Welcome to episode number 170 of the Potter's cast. I'm so stoked. We've got a show coming up, like an art show. I'm in it.

0:27.5

What? You're ready, Paul. How'd that happen? Well, I went ahead and applied to become a part of the Clark

0:36.3

County Open Studios, and I got accepted.

0:41.0

And I didn't know that it was that big of a deal, but apparently it is.

0:45.2

You know, if you listen to the last episode, we talked about that a little bit.

0:48.7

But, yeah, they only allow 50 people in there, and I'm, yeah, so I'm so honored.

0:57.3

Anyhow, that's going on in, is it like from today that's uh today's uh well this is going out in the 10th right so this will be let's see we got

1:05.4

the 12th the 19 no yeah the 12th the 26th and then the second so that's like three

1:14.6

Saturdays four Saturdays out for another fourth Saturday from today will be the actual

1:19.9

show when it starts but what's so cool is that people from from I think it's like a hundred and

1:26.1

50 different zip codes that's a lot of zip codes that

1:30.4

come to the the open studios from all over the place and and then we have our studios open like

1:39.2

my studio that's here in my my home as many of you have that same experience my studios here in my home, as many of you have that same experience.

1:46.0

My studio is here in my home, and so people will be coming through the studio.

1:51.5

I've got some work that's available for people to purchase, but also just kind of to show

1:57.5

what the studio looks like, what an artist, how they have their studio set up.

2:02.9

And then now I'm sharing my studio with my wife, right?

2:07.7

And we've got a three-car garage.

2:10.0

And so my studio is that single bay.

2:12.8

Her studio is a two-bay, but she's doing way more work than i am as we've already talked about that

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