This is the Potters cast.

A podcast home for Potters Everywhere.

It's a community of Potters dedicated to grow their business.

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

And look at this.

Right before your very ears, episode number 737 is coming to life right now as we speak. And I am excited that you and I

are hanging out together today. And I wanted to just give you a great big thank you from the

bottom of my heart to the top of my heart and to both sides of my heart. I am so stoked because

you have made the Potter's cast one of the top 30 podcasts in the visual arts category. I mean,

there's thousands of them out there around the world in the visual arts category of podcasts out there.

And to put this in that place, I'm just so stoked.

So a great big, huge, huge thank you for that.

Now, we've got a really amazing potter coming on this show.

Kristen Van Potter, almost said Potter, but it's

Kristen Van Patten. That is the name. And Kristen is an amazing, astounding potter. And I, now,

I've titled today's episode, An Artist, Making Pottery.

And I did that very specifically because, you know, it's interesting when, you know,

some people like to make distinctions between art and craft and all that.

And I get it.

There's, you know, it's good to have definitions. And it's, it's kind of like saying

all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares, right? And so maybe, maybe all

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