Building Pottery While Building Stories | Anshula Tayal | Episode 1212
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Anshula Tayal is a Portland-based ceramic artist creating functional pottery for everyday use, with each piece serving as a canvas for storytelling. Inspired by Indian art and architecture, textile traditions, and regional folk forms, her wheel-thrown and hand-built work explores surface decoration as a way to share cultural narratives.
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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. |
| 0:08.7 | 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 1,212 of The Potterscast. Super stoked that we are hanging together today. We are having a return |
| 0:27.1 | guest this episode, and Chula Tayal, and she is an amazing potter. I met her last year at the ceramic showcase here in the Vancouver, Portland |
| 0:41.6 | area. Well, typically most people say Portland, Vancouver, because Portland's the bigger city, |
| 0:46.8 | but Vancouver's the more significant. What? Because I live here. Significant to me. Anyhow, |
| 1:13.1 | and Chula was on the show, and so we decided that in that episode, because it was a short little interview by her booth that was like about five minutes long, I wanted to get her on here and just do a full episode. And she's an amazing artist. Just incredible. So I'm super stoked to be able to have her on the show. Before we |
| 1:18.2 | get there, don't forget next week starting on Wednesday, the 25th through the 28th, I think |
| 1:25.6 | it is. Anyhow, starting Wednesday through Saturday, there is the |
| 1:29.8 | National Enceica. It's the 60th anniversary, and it's not too late. Somebody just wrote me saying, |
| 1:37.0 | hey, this is last minute, but I'm going to Enceca. And I was pretty pumped because she's awesome, |
| 1:42.6 | too. So I'm looking forward to seeing people there. |
| 1:45.1 | And if it's in your means, I would love to be able to see you at it in Sika. |
| 1:50.9 | Okay. |
| 1:51.7 | Now, back to today's episode. |
| 1:55.5 | So this was a great conversation. |
| 1:57.5 | We talked about building pottery while building stories, and that's basically |
| 2:03.6 | the experience that we get as we talk with Enshula. So let's jump into this conversation that I had |
| 2:12.4 | with Anshula Tayol right after this work from our sponsor. Let me tell you about bushcraft pottery tools. |
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