A Renaissance Potter | Matt Wassenaar | Episode 1115
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Matt Wassenaar makes pottery all year long and sells it for 7 weekends at his booth in the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. After meeting Warren MacKenzie decades ago Matt took to heart his philosophy - make pottery for function and affordability. In 2001 Matt and his wife bought a booth at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and started selling their work. Selling at the festival has turned into sales of 2,100 pots in 7 weekends.
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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. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello and welcome to episode number 1,115 of The Potter's cast. And Sika is about to start. It is around the corner. It's not too |
| 0:26.6 | late to get your tickets. I wish with all my heart I could be there. Now that I am where I am with |
| 0:33.8 | my recovery, I feel like I probably could have pulled it off maybe, but I still don't feel |
| 0:40.5 | I could be the wisest thing to do is to travel with my eye the way that, well, my lack thereof |
| 0:45.5 | the way that it is right now. So probably best that I'm not going, but nonetheless, I just |
| 0:52.0 | wish with all my heart I can be able to be there with you allall and to see it but now if if you have never been to Enseca it |
| 0:58.8 | really is a worthwhile event it should be a bucket list thing it should be one of |
| 1:04.4 | those things where you say I'm gonna be at Enseca this year I've heard I've |
| 1:08.9 | heard that Hebrew people around the world |
| 1:11.7 | will say stuff like, |
| 1:13.0 | next year in Jerusalem. |
| 1:14.5 | I think that's what we should be saying this time of year. |
| 1:17.4 | Next year, if you can't make it, |
| 1:19.0 | next year at Enceca. |
| 1:22.0 | That would be kind of the thing for a potter to to get to any ceramic artist and it's not just |
| 1:30.3 | functional partists it's art it's artistic part pottery it's sculptors it's uh performance ceramics |
| 1:37.8 | i'm telling you that there's just anything that would be ceramics is going on there and amazing shows. |
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