An Artist & Her Sketchbook | Maria Diletta Rondoni | Episode 887
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Maria Diletta Rondoni is an Italian artist based in Umbria, Italy. After graduating at the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia in 2012-majoring in painting–her artistic research explored possibilities from different materials, such as ceramic, metal working, and glass. Maria Diletta focused her interest in clay taking ceramics classes in Deruta where she learned ancient techniques such as Etruscan bucchero and terra sigillata. In 2017 Maria Diletta studied porcelain techniques at the Ceramic Art School "Romano Ranieri" in Deruta and at the FACC-Faenza Art Ceramic Center, Faenza, Italy. Over the last few years Maria Diletta traveled to Europe, Sri Lanka, and Australia. These travels inspired her aesthetic vision. Maria Diletta's artworks belong to private collections in Italy and abroad.
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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 887 of the Potter's cast. Welcome to the show. Hey, we've got a new class |
| 0:25.5 | coming up and it's going to be, check this out, our first class where we're going to be doing |
| 0:30.9 | an actual Potter's Wheel class. This is going to be an awesome class, but it's specifically being taught by Shika Joshi. |
| 0:40.9 | And you may recall her from one of the episodes over the summer. |
| 0:44.6 | It was actually in August. |
| 0:46.3 | We had Shika Joshi on this show. |
| 0:49.4 | It was like episode number 858. |
| 0:52.6 | And we talked about her journey into ceramics and how she didn't even realize she was |
| 0:58.7 | creating a career, but ended up having a career in ceramics. |
| 1:04.1 | And she makes those beautiful pots that are fired in an electric kiln, but look like they've been fired in a wood kiln. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, it's unbelievable. |
| 1:15.3 | So, she's going to be teaching us about faceted and altered Unomys. |
| 1:22.5 | Now, Unomis, if you've been around the ceramic community, which I'm sure you have been, it's that beautiful, |
| 1:28.3 | it's that beautiful Japanese everyday tea drinking cup that's got no handle. And it's, |
| 1:36.9 | the idea was, is that you could be able to drink the tea and not only experience the aroma and the flavor of the tea, but you could also experience |
| 1:48.5 | the heat of the tea to your hands. And, you know, on these cold mornings and you are looking |
| 1:55.2 | for something nice and warm to get your body going and your hands to feel good, that you know me's the cup |
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