A Community Business | Dyana Fiediga | Episode 794

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Business, Careers, Arts, Visual Arts

4.9 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Dyana Fiediga is a full time potter living and working in beautiful Hood River, Oregon at the Clay Commons, a community ceramics studio located downtown Hood River. Dyana has a BFA from Ohio University, where she focused on Art History and any medium of art she could get her hands on. In 2010 Dyana met Jeremy Noet of Bluewater Pottery at the Bellingham Farmers Market. Dyana worked in his studio until 2016, when she moved into making pottery full time. Dyana enjoys creating pots that are whimsical, political, and sometimes flippant. Inspired by the natural world around her, Dyana's background in plants and permaculture, and her love of being in community, she is a lover of questions and growth and has created a classroom and studio space to hold wheel throwing and handbuilding classes that are open to the community and small groups.

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0:00.0	This is the Potter's Cast.
0:02.0	A podcast home for potters everywhere.
0:05.5	It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business.
0:08.7	We're picking up where the art degree ends.
0:11.2	I'm your host, Paul Blaze.
0:14.2	Hello, hello, and we've just entered into episode number 794 of The Potterscast. And we are going to be talking to a very cool potter today.
0:26.7	I call her very cool because she lives relatively near to me, like within a short distance.
0:34.7	In fact, she's practically neighbors with a lot of my family living up
0:38.5	in Hood River, Oregon. And I am, you know, just a short drive away from there. So that's why I say
0:45.2	that this is pretty fun. There's actually quite a few great potters out in that area that are
0:52.2	making some really sweet work. And so I'm excited to be able to get one of them
0:58.0	onto the show today. I've got coming on the show, Diana Fidega, and she is, like I said, a person
1:07.0	who is a potter out in Hood River. But not only is she a potter out in Hood River,
1:12.4	she is a potter who is in the process of making other potters. She runs a community,
1:20.6	it's a community center that she runs. She conceived it and thought of it herself and got
1:26.3	the thing going because there was a vacuum there where there was nothing happening.
1:31.6	And so she put this business together and it's growing even though there's been a pandemic and she's doing well.
1:40.7	So I'm pretty excited to be able to get this story of hers going and before you.
1:46.2	So let's jump in this conversation I had with Diana Fidega right after this word from our sponsor.
1:55.0	So when you're doing slab work, what kind of tricks do you need to be able to stop the warping?
2:00.7	Well, over at GR Pottery Forms, they've
2:03.6	got a whole section on their website to talk about how you prevent warping. And he gives us a bunch of
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