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The Potters Cast

Being In A Tourist Town | Michelle Valigura | Episode 877

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Business, Careers, Arts, Visual Arts

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Michelle Valigura is a sculptor, with a primary focus on ceramics. Her background designing for stop motion animation (including Elf, and the Simpsons) and her love of mid century design have built a foundation for a strong sense of color and aesthetics that can be seen translated in her work. In 2007 she formed her own design company Switcheroo, which led to licensing her work to to Disneyland, Kidrobot, Paradise Toys, and other art brands. She has exhibited her work, lectured and taught workshops at galleries, museums, and universities worldwide. In 2019 Michelle moved back to her roots in the Pacific Northwest where she opened Basalt that functions as her working studio and showroom in downtown Cannon Beach. Along with her work she features other artists and crafts of locals and people she has met in her career that she admires.

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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 host,

0:12.2

Paul Blaze. How do Mr. Magoo? Welcome to episode number 877 of the Potter's cast.

0:23.7

So my wife and I like to do something occasionally.

0:26.3

Like we will just bust out and go to the beach.

0:31.4

We love the beach.

0:33.0

And the ocean is not near us, but it's kind of close to us. I mean, we can get there in like an hour

0:41.6

in 15 to 30 minutes or so. You know, we just get in the car and we'll just drive out to the

0:49.1

beach and we'll just have a great time. Now, the Oregon Beach and the Washington Beach is not like the beach that I grew up

0:58.1

with in San Diego. San Diego, it's, it's, you know, you go there to, you know, to surf, to swim,

1:05.8

boogie boards, snorkel, spear fishing, running, all that type of stuff out on the beach. The beaches in

1:14.1

Southern California are completely different than the beaches up here. The beaches up here

1:19.5

are amazing landscapes. Will the forests come right down to the edge of the water or to the edge of the cliff,

1:28.9

however it would be.

1:30.0

And then there's, we'll have these beautiful sandy beaches, but it'll be windy and

1:34.5

cloudy and sometimes rainy and stuff, but it's really beautiful.

1:40.6

And it's just so, so calming and soothing to the soul to show up there and to smell the ocean air,

1:50.6

to smell the seaweed and to hear the cry of the seagull.

1:56.9

It is just so good.

2:19.4

It's so good. Well, anyhow, a couple of weeks ago, it was a Sunday and we had been working all, you know, I'd been working for like three weeks straight. And it was just busyness for the longest time.

2:25.5

So I was taking a weekend off where I was having no obligations and, you know, like I worked in the house, you know, that type of stuff.

2:27.5

But Sunday morning comes around and we said, hey, you want to just go to the beach?

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