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The Potters Cast

A Hobbiest Who What She Is Doing | Megan Shawkey | Episode 1067

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Careers, Visual Arts, Business, Arts

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Megan Shawkey is a potter in central North Carolina whose work focuses on a modern functional style. With over a decade of wheel throwing experience, her work explores themes of contrast through rounded forms with geometric surface design and bright bold glaze colors.

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0:00.0

This is the Potter's Cast.

0:01.9

A podcast home for potters everywhere.

0:05.4

It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business.

0:08.8

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

0:11.1

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

0:14.1

Hello and welcome to episode number 1067 of the Potter's cast. Wow, what a weekend. October 1st, and well, we usually record

0:31.2

these the day before the episodes go out, but what a weekend that the East Coast had,

0:36.7

lots of prayers and thoughts going out to that

0:39.4

side of the country and what they're going through with that hurricane that came through

0:45.1

and just devastation going on over there.

0:48.4

So, yeah, we want to keep them definitely in your thoughts and prayers.

0:53.7

We'll try to do some maybe a little bit of follow-up stuff on, you know, this next Thursday's

1:00.5

episode.

1:02.2

And, but right now it just looks, looks like it was a horrible weekend.

1:06.3

A lot of people's lives are being turned upside down.

1:09.0

So, wow, pretty brutal.

1:13.1

Today we've got Megan Shockey coming on the show, and she's an amazing artist. I just love her

1:20.5

work, and I love that she's got an attitude of being like a hobbyist, and she totally gets what she's doing

1:33.8

and the lane she's in. And yeah, she's got just a great story. And I'm excited to be able to share a

1:40.0

story with you. So I'm not going to spend a lot of time here at the beginning because I just want to

1:45.2

kind of jump into this. And so let's jump into this conversation that we had with Megan Shockey

1:49.9

right after this work from our sponsor. They say when you improve your work, you're kind of bringing

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