A Vision Followed The SMART Way | Chelsea Erdner | Episode 1131

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Careers, Visual Arts, Business, Arts

4.9 • 590 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Chelsea Erdner is the artist behind Bombabird Ceramics. Chelsea has been working with clay for over two decades, but left her job as a graphic designer in 2017 to pursue Bombabird full-time. What started as a business focused primarily on functional production work has evolved to explore symmetry, clean lines, texture, balance, and repetition. Chelsea enjoys pushing the boundaries of the materials she works with — often piecing multiple wheel-thrown objects together to achieve balance and harmony in a finished shape or adding complex flourishes to a simple form. Since the beginning of Bombabird, Chelsea has prided herself on work that is not only beautiful, but meant to last. She has produced and sold thousands of pieces to folks all over the country, including selling through retailers like Food52 and Schoolhouse Electric. Chelsea's business has seen a lot in its eight years—studio moves, a pandemic, the birth of her first child—but she still wakes up every day feeling incredibly fortunate and inspired to do this work.

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0:00.0	This is the Potter's cast.
0:02.0	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.
0:14.3	Well, I hope you had an amazing weekend.
0:16.9	You know, it was a great weekend this past weekend.
0:19.3	It's a weekend that is celebrated around the world as being the weekend that is right before episode number 1,131 of The Potter's cast.
0:33.0	What?
0:33.7	How come people are celebrating that?
0:35.8	Because it's going to be a great episode.
0:38.7	Yeah.
0:39.5	And there's this other thing that was celebrated too, you know.
0:42.3	I don't want to act like nothing else was going on in the world other than the
0:46.5	anticipation of episode number 1,131.
0:50.3	There was also Mother's Day being celebrated.
0:54.0	Yeah, Mother's Day was being celebrated. I know that many
0:57.1	countries, you know, including the United States, Canada and Australia and a number of countries in
1:03.2	Europe and Asia, they all celebrated. I don't know all the ones, but I'm just saying they all
1:09.5	celebrated Mother's Day. And then there's around the ones, but I'm just saying they all celebrated Mother's Day.
1:11.7	And then there's around the world, most countries have got some kind of way to honor mothers.
1:17.2	You know, like there's other dates that are celebrated like March, March 21st, March 8th.
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