A One-Handed Potter Living in a Two-Handed World | Jill Leary | Episode 555
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Jill Leary is a practicing artist and NYS certified art teacher. Jill has a BFA in Fine Arts, concentration in Ceramics and a BA in Art Education from Syracuse University as well as a MS in Fine Arts. Jill worked for Brewster Central Schools for 11 years as an Art Teacher until she had her two daughters. Jill now owns and runs Railyard Arts Studio.
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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. |
| 0:08.8 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:13.6 | Well, here we are in episode Triple Five. |
| 0:16.7 | That's right, episode number 555. |
| 0:20.6 | It's like a landmark when you get those three numbers all in a row that are related to each other as in identical twins. What? Or triplets in this case? 555 triplets. So good to be able to hang out with you today. And I'm hoping that your Labor Day weekend, if you were in the United States, was well. |
| 0:38.3 | And if you're outside of the United States and you had a work day, like just a regular Monday, |
| 0:43.2 | hey, I hope it was good for you too. A regular work day for you. Yeah, like that. We are here with |
| 0:49.5 | Jill Leary this week. And I'm pretty excited to bring this episode to you because she is a person |
| 0:57.0 | who is a go-getter. She is getting things done, making her ceramic dreams, her art dreams |
| 1:04.8 | come to life, no matter what the obstacles. And one obstacle is not really something that is something that is in the way, but it's |
| 1:14.8 | something that's missing. |
| 1:16.3 | She is a one-handed potter, and she is living in a two-handed world, and none of that |
| 1:23.1 | has been able to slow her down. |
| 1:25.1 | She has just chased down her dreams regardless. |
| 1:28.9 | And so she has built a community slow her down. She has just chased down her dreams regardless. And so she has built a community around her ceramic dreams and her ceramic work. And I love this about Jill, |
| 1:35.5 | that she is just going for it. So we're going to jump into this conversation we had with Jill |
| 1:41.7 | Lerry right after this word from our sponsor. Okay, we've all heard of |
| 1:45.9 | rectangle and we've all heard of round, but what happens if you cross round with rectangle? What do you |
| 1:54.3 | get? You get the rounded rectangle and that's exactly what GR pottery forms did with those two shapes. |
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