Building a Teaching Studio | Lissa Claassens | Episode 657
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Lissa started her professional journey with clay working in the studio potteries of Kolonyama in Lesotho and Mapepe Craft in Henley-on Klip. Lissa has owned her own craft shop and worked in a non-profit organization giving therapeutic outreach pottery sessions to vulnerable people. Lissa sculpts figuratively, lately focusing on themes exploring her own childhood in South Africa. She is also a production wheel thrower and teaches pottery lessons to adults and children in her Hout Bay studio in Cape Town. Making for the film industry has been an exciting new departure. She recently made lamps and idols for the Troy series and 'smashables' for Warrior 2, both filmed in South Africa. She is now producing online workshops via private YouTube videos on different techniques to reach a worldwide audience. Lissa studied Social Anthropology and African Languages at the University of Cape Town and studied Ceramic Science at the Witwatersrand Technikon. She is a second-generation potter.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, you did it. |
| 0:15.2 | You arrived in episode 657 of the Potter's cast, and I just want to say, good job. |
| 0:21.5 | I know that it was a good job for our guests to show up and be a part of the Potter's cast, |
| 0:26.6 | and I'm super excited to be able to bring to you Lisa Klossens, but before we get to her interview, |
| 0:32.2 | I want you to hear something. |
| 0:34.5 | I was so excited because this past weekend, did the Krista Koon's Spoons of her name is Mud on Instagram. |
| 0:46.2 | We did a class together. |
| 0:48.2 | And actually, she did the class. |
| 0:49.9 | I just watched. |
| 0:50.8 | And it was amazing. |
| 0:52.5 | It was amazing. I heard so many great things back from people |
| 0:58.5 | about that class and yeah, it was just great. Here's what one person said. It was an experience |
| 1:06.1 | I'll truly cherish forever and pretty darn near seamless, especially considering it was the first one. |
| 1:16.1 | She's right about that. It was pretty dang near seamless, and she was right that that was our first one. |
| 1:22.9 | And it was phenomenal. And I just really appreciated that she thought it to be so critical or so important |
| 1:29.1 | that it was like something that she would cherish forever. So that was, that was, you know, |
| 1:33.8 | special to me. Now, the great thing about this also is not just that we had the class this past |
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