A Chat With The President of OPA | Noah W Smith | Episode 1226
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Noah W. Smith is an artist, educator, and community leader based in Portland Oregon. Noah creates work focused on material expression and experimentation in electric kilns, making naturally inspired functional works. He is also the owner of Heirloom Ceramic Studios and the current President of the Oregon Potters Association.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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. Hello and welcome to episode number 1,226 of the Potter's cast. So stoked we get to hang out together today. Now, before I go any |
| 0:25.2 | further, I do want to apologize right up front here. I mean, who knows? Maybe everything's fine. |
| 0:31.5 | But the issue is that normally I'm at my home studio, recording studio, and I am doing all my recordings there but I'm |
| 0:41.7 | kind of behind and I need to get caught up and so I've been down at at Clayworks quite a bit so |
| 0:48.4 | I thought I would I would try this out and see if I could do do my recordings here and I don't think that I'm going to get |
| 0:56.3 | the same quality of recording right now but we'll see maybe this is amazing I mean I'm |
| 1:01.8 | I don't know we'll have to listen to it together and see and see how it goes but |
| 1:06.9 | hopefully next week I'll be back in my studio and everything should be good. |
| 1:18.8 | Okay, before we go any further, this weekend, we've got an event going on at Clayworks right here where we're going to be having a pop-up sale for, basically, you know, for Mother's Day, |
| 1:25.2 | but we're going to have people's work for sale. It'll be my work, Jennifer's work, we'll have all of our teachers, you know, for Mother's Day. But we're going to have people's work for sale. |
| 1:28.2 | It'll be my work, Jennifer's work. |
| 1:30.2 | We'll have all of our teachers will have their work here. |
| 1:33.1 | We're also going to have some of our members are going to have their work. |
| 1:36.0 | So if you like to swing by and get one of those beautiful items for Mother's Day or just for yourself, you know, both reasons are perfectly acceptable. |
| 1:48.7 | So if you want to be able to do that, come on by. |
| 1:50.6 | I would love to be able to see you, show you around the studio, and then also show you |
| 1:54.2 | some of the work that everybody's been making. |
| 1:56.7 | Okay, so that's happening. |
| 1:58.4 | Now, we've got on our website, if you go to our website like for today, scroll down a little bit, |
| 2:04.1 | there's a little link there that says Clay Call. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paul Blais, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Paul Blais and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

