A Lifetime In Clay | Lucien Koonce | Episode 1158
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Lucien M. Koonce, a North Carolina native, earned BFA and MFA degrees in Ceramics, studying under notable professors. Lucien founded Horsepen Kiln Studio, living in pottery-rich regions of NC before relocating to Massachusetts in 2008. Lucien's wood-fired ceramic works, both functional and sculptural, are exhibited nationally and internationally.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:02.0 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.0 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.0 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to episode number 1,158 of the potter's cast. |
| 0:23.5 | Good night are we having a good time over at Clay Works? |
| 0:29.0 | Oh my word. |
| 0:30.8 | We have, well, we've been working on it for a while. |
| 0:34.6 | You know, I started the process, I should say, Jennifer and I started the |
| 0:39.7 | process about, oh, good night. What was it like in beginning of April? Something like that. |
| 0:47.4 | It was, end of March. It was relatively soon after my eye removal when I started looking quite seriously. |
| 0:56.2 | We were looking before that anyhow for like someplace to be able to lease, to be able to get |
| 1:01.9 | into. And we discovered this one building. And it was, it was not love at first sight, |
| 1:10.6 | but definitely like potential at first sight, but definitely, like, potential at first sight. |
| 1:17.4 | So we started working on it in terms of like seeing what we could get in there. |
| 1:23.9 | And if the, the owner of the property would allow it to happen, so on and so forth. |
| 1:29.4 | And until the papers were signed, we couldn't really talk about it. But, but he did give us |
| 1:39.4 | permission. At one point, he said, when we were like waiting to sign papers, he said, |
| 1:45.0 | hey, hey, don't let me stop you. |
| 1:47.3 | Get in there and do what you want to do. |
| 1:49.5 | And so we did. |
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