A Potter's Creativity | Emily Armstrong | Episode 643
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Emily Armstrong grew up on Long Island, New York and moved to Portland Maine in 2011. Emily graduated from the Maine College of Art in 2015 with a BFA in Ceramics. Emily currently works out of a community studio (Running With Scissors) and works full time in Portland's booming restaurant industry.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast, a podcast home for potters everywhere. It's a community of |
| 0:06.4 | potters dedicated to grow their business. We're picking up where the art degree ends. I'm your |
| 0:11.6 | host, Paul Blaze. Hey, hey, welcome to episode number 643 of the Potter's cast. Welcome to the show. so excited to be spending time with you as we keep |
| 0:25.0 | working with our clay you know what I mean I am really stoked about some cups that I've been |
| 0:30.6 | making I've been making this series of cups for the last few weeks that I just I just love them |
| 0:36.4 | really tall tumbler type, very cool cup. So I'm pretty stoked |
| 0:42.2 | about them. Anyhow, so I'm hoping that you've got something in your studio that you're really stoked |
| 0:46.8 | about, that you are like just pumped. Can't wait to be able to make the next batch of. You know what I |
| 0:51.4 | mean? I mean, I'm, I'm kind of neglecting mugs. I need to get back to some |
| 0:57.5 | mug. I get some of those mugs cranked out. But yeah, these tall cups, man, I just, I'm just |
| 1:03.2 | digging them. Anyhow. So, yeah, what are you stoked about? What are you excited about making? |
| 1:08.4 | Well, I'm excited about today's episode also. |
| 1:11.2 | Today we've got Emily Armstrong coming onto the show, and we are going to be talking |
| 1:17.1 | about a Potter's creativity, and that's phenomenal. |
| 1:24.3 | Now, one thing that I wanted to mention is that this episode is going to be |
| 1:30.4 | dedicated to Steve. That's Emily's dad. And you'll hear that, you know, as we talk about this later |
| 1:37.6 | in the show, but this episode is dedicated to him. And so, yeah, there you go. But Emily's on the show, right? And we're going to talk about |
| 1:46.6 | that Potter's creativity. So let's jump into this conversation I had with Emily Armstrong |
| 1:51.5 | right after this work from our sponsor. I have to admit that I'm a fan of seagulls. And so when I saw |
| 1:57.2 | this seagull carved into the face of a mug, I was nothing but happy. This is what Blue underscore Ceramics wrote. |
| 2:03.7 | A little derp seagull mug I made today. |
| 2:06.9 | I love it so much. |
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