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The Potters Cast

Character Maker | Tim McMahon | Episode 1153

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Careers, Visual Arts, Business, Arts

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Tim McMahon graduated from the Maine College of Art and Design (MECAD) with a BFA in Sculpture. He taught middle school art at North Yarmouth Academy for 15 years, before leaving the teaching world to pursue full time work in carpentry and ceramics. Tim lives in Portland with his wife and two boys. He creates all of his monster designs in his backyard studio.

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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.

0:14.3

Welcome to episode number 1,153 of the Potter's cast.

0:20.3

I am listening to a great book right now. It's called grit,

0:25.5

and it's phenomenal. But the reason that I'm bringing it up to you is because part of the book

0:33.1

is talking about Warren McKenzie. She did a study on his life and what it took to be

0:42.0

gritty to be able to become such an amazing potter and to do all the things that he's done.

0:47.9

And so it's really cool. You know, I'm just listening to away to this book, you know,

0:52.0

about, you know, learning how to have grit for my own life.

0:55.0

And then I hear Warren McKenzie talked about and I was like, whoa, this is like our world here.

1:01.6

And so I wanted you to know about it.

1:03.6

So check out that great book that I'm listening to.

1:05.9

I think you'll really love it.

1:07.3

Okay, I've got Tim McMahon coming on to the show today. Love his work. I think you're

1:13.7

going to love the conversation that we have. Love his work. And I got to tell you, his work is

1:19.6

amazing because he makes these incredibly fun and engaging characters. I've titled today's

1:27.0

episode, Character Maker. And that's what he's doing.

1:31.3

He's just making these incredibly cool characters that I think you will fall in love with. I know I have.

1:37.3

I have, and so we have a great conversation about his journey and ceramics. So let's jump into this

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