An Intentional Direction Full of Discovery | Kieu Tran | Episode 942
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Kieu Tran was born in Can Tho, Vietnam and is a first generation Vietnamese American artist based in Oakland, California. Kieu creates elegant, sensuous, biomorphic ceramic sculptures that meditate on love, connection and belonging. Her sculptural practice spans across ceramic, wood, marble and bronze. For studies, Kieu obtained a bachelor's degree in art history from UCLA and studied art while living in Italy and Germany. In 2014, Kieu followed an intriguing pull to Silicon Valley where she learned to code in 2014 and soon after became a full time software engineer. On a parallel path, she also developed a serious ceramic art practice. Immersing in the two practices side-by-side, Kieu eventually realized that she was always meant to be an artist. In January of 2021, Kieu left tech to pursue her passion of becoming a full time artist. Her ceramic sculptures have since been received with excitement and she has cultivated a growing following of enthusiastic collectors worldwide.
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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. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.4 | Hello and welcome to the Potter's cast. |
| 0:19.2 | This is episode number 942 of the Potter's cast. So stoked, |
| 0:27.1 | we are hanging out together today. Now, I want you to know that you probably notice that there |
| 0:32.0 | was no episode last week and fully intended, fully intended to, but I had a technical problem with the Potter's |
| 0:42.7 | cast. I had two interviews back to back to where they did not get recorded correctly. |
| 0:50.5 | It was such a bummer. It is such a bummer. I've got to have those guests back on the show at some point, but, oh, good night. |
| 0:58.5 | That's so embarrassing. |
| 0:59.8 | It's so embarrassing when things like that happen. |
| 1:02.6 | So anyhow, well, anyhow, we're back at it. |
| 1:06.0 | We're back at it. |
| 1:06.6 | And today we've got Q Tran coming on the show, and she is an amazing sculptural potter. |
| 1:14.5 | Makes amazing work. |
| 1:16.3 | I've got it for you over on the show notes page because you may want to come over and look at her work before we get the show going. |
| 1:22.7 | You'd go to the potterscast.com forward slash 942. |
| 1:27.0 | And then you can get to the show notes page to be |
| 1:28.8 | to look at her work because it is amazing. Now, I will give you that URL again at the end of the |
| 1:35.2 | show, but just so as we get into the show now, you know, you can maybe if your hands aren't muddy, |
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