A Return to the Original Clay Podcaster | Brian R Jones | Episode 759
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Brian R. Jones grew up in Syracuse, NY and is now an artist living and working in Portland, OR. He has been a resident artist at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME and The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA. He has earned degrees from The New York State College of Ceramics (BFA) and Southern Methodist University (MFA). He was a presenter at the Utilitarian Clay VI: Celebrate the Object at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in September 2012. In 2013, Jones was selected as an Emerging Artist by the National Council on the Education in the Ceramic Arts.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast, 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 759 of the potters cast, and I'm so excited we are hanging out together today but |
| 0:25.0 | guess what I'm more excited about it is the potters class and that is something that I'm so |
| 0:31.8 | stoked about because we've got a new potter's class coming out where we're going to be learning how to make Karanuki |
| 0:39.9 | with Supatra Marsh. And I'm so stoked about this. Now, the thing that we're going to be making |
| 0:47.5 | during class is this tea set. You know, there's going to be a teapot and some cups, little tea |
| 0:53.5 | cups, little yonomi's. But, oh, good night. They're going to be a teapot and some cups, little tea, teacups, little yonomi's. |
| 0:55.4 | But, oh, good night. They're going to be beautiful. Now, the word, the word Kurunuki is, you know, |
| 1:00.9 | to hollow out, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong. You know, someone want to correct me. Hey, |
| 1:05.9 | go right ahead. So I understand the word to be. Anyhow, what she's going to do is walk us through |
| 1:13.2 | that process and learn what the things are that we do to go about, how to make and hollow out |
| 1:22.8 | and carve the outside of a piece. Now, that information, though, she's going to be focusing on a couple of teacups and some, |
| 1:30.7 | and the teapot itself. |
| 1:33.6 | That skill can then be taken and applied to other things, such as mugs or plates, |
| 1:40.7 | and an array of a number of other things that you may want to put into your repertoire. |
| 1:49.4 | But anyhow, she is an amazing ceramicist, and I'm really excited to be able to spend time with her in this class specifically. |
| 1:58.1 | That is coming up in just a couple of weeks. |
| 2:00.0 | It's going to be on the 28th of |
| 2:02.3 | August, Saturday morning. And if you want to sign up for that class so you can join it and be a part |
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