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The Potters Cast

A Story Teller To Bridge The Gap | Kaneez Zehra Hassan | Episode 1199

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Careers, Visual Arts, Business, Arts

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Kaneez Zehra Hassan (Zia) is a Pakistani-American ceramic artist based in Utah. Zia hand-builds vessels that explore identity, memory, and cultural inheritance. Influenced by archaeology, Sufi philosophy, and wabi-sabi aesthetics, Zia creates forms that honor endurance and the quiet histories held within everyday objects.

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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. Hello and welcome to episode number 1,199 of The Potterscast. We are one episode away of episode number 1200. It's like right there.

0:28.7

This week, we're going to be hitting it. Wow. Anyhow, I'm really stoked about that. That's coming up in just a couple of days. I remember when we were first

0:40.1

starting the podcast, I never dreamed we would get to, you know, 1,200 episodes, I mean,

0:47.2

let alone 1,000, let alone 500. I remember when I hit 300, how that was kind of such a big deal.

0:54.0

There was so many, I was, I went to Enceica

0:56.5

and I was getting a bunch of congratulations on hitting episode 300, and it was a big deal.

1:04.2

And here we are, you know, nearly a thousand episodes later, 900 episodes later. And I think this is,

1:10.7

this is crazy. So, yeah, episode number

1:14.9

1,200, here we are. Speaking of Enceca, Enceca is around the corner. It's going to be in Detroit,

1:23.3

Michigan this year, and it's going to be amazing. It's happening March 25th through the 28th. And if you

1:31.1

haven't got yourself set up for that, it's not too late. You know, to get an Airbnb. Maybe get a

1:37.4

couple of friends meet you, share an Airbnb together, maybe a hotel room and then then go to the, go to the whole conference.

1:47.2

And this is going to be a special one because this is the 60th anniversary of Enceka.

1:53.0

60 years of doing conference.

1:55.1

It's amazing.

1:56.4

I'm so, I'm so blown away by that.

1:59.2

60 years.

2:00.5

Wow. Anyhow, so that's coming up. I'm going to be there.

2:04.8

I'd love to be able to see you there. I'm going to be doing some stuff with them in the podcast

2:09.5

room. There's a podcast room where there's going to be all sorts of events going on in that room.

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