A Philosophy of Teaching | PJ Hargraves | Episode 960
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
PJ Hargraves is originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is currently teaching, technician-ing, and maintaining an active studio practice in Northeast Ohio. PJ holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and loves making playful and joyous pottery, and sculptures.
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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. |
| 0:14.5 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Potter's cast, |
| 0:19.6 | and this just happens to be episode number 960. |
| 0:24.1 | Yes. |
| 0:25.3 | Now, we've got a very cool dude coming on the show. |
| 0:29.1 | His name is PJ Hargraves. |
| 0:32.7 | Now, you might recognize him as someone who was on the show back when I was doing the, what was it, |
| 0:39.8 | the Enseca, this past Enseca episodes where I was doing the pop-up episode, where I went to |
| 0:47.9 | various pop-ups around Enceica, and I was interviewing the various artists that were there. Well, PJ was one of them. |
| 0:56.8 | And so I was super stoked to actually get him on the show to have him talk, like have a full |
| 1:02.8 | episode, have him talk through a full episode. And it's a great conversation. Now, he's also a |
| 1:08.6 | tech and a teacher, which means that he's got some really interesting ideas |
| 1:14.0 | on the philosophy of teaching. And I know that we have a number of people who are in that |
| 1:19.5 | mode of their ceramics, you know, because you are trying to make your life revolve around ceramics, |
| 1:27.2 | therefore you are also teaching and making |
| 1:30.7 | it happen by doing that. So I thought this would be a great conversation to have. So this was |
| 1:36.4 | phenomenal talk with PJ Hardgraves right after this work from our sponsor. |
| 1:41.8 | Quality. The standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind, the degree of |
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