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The Potters Cast

Clay is Medicine | Nala Turner | Episode 708

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Business, Visual Arts, Careers, Arts

4.9591 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Nala Turner is a Brooklyn-based ceramics artist and creative art therapist, working primarily with themes related to race-issues, cultural identity, femininity, social stereotype, and popular culture perspectives. Nala has shown her work in various gallery, workshop, and press settings. Through clay-work, Nala aims to inspire her audience to recognize such culturally restricting barriers and transubstantiate the cultural representation of Black people.

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0:00.0

This is the Potter's Cast.

0:02.0

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

Hey, y'all.

0:15.1

This is episode 708 of the Potter's Cats and a great big big huge welcome to the show so stoked that we are

0:24.4

hanging out together today now we got a really cool show going on today because we're going to be

0:31.6

talking to someone named Nala Turner and Nala Turner first off her pottery is wonderful. That is just to that's just

0:42.6

amazing work and if you want to see it it is over on the show notes page. But we also

0:48.6

talked about something that was really intriguing and I've I've said things about ceramics kind of along these lines in the past,

0:59.1

about how it's very therapeutic and so on and so forth.

1:03.5

Well, in this episode, we talk about clay is medicine,

1:09.5

and Nala is an art therapist who's you know trained art

1:14.7

therapist and she uses ceramics as a way to help bring healing to people's lives

1:21.7

and I find that just absolutely fascinating and so this is an interesting

1:25.7

conversation about going down that road of ceramics.

1:32.0

And I guess we could say down the road of artistry, of crafting, being in that place of where

1:41.2

you're being creative and working with your hands or with your feet or with

1:47.8

your elbows or with whatever you happen to be able to work with that it brings a healing to your

1:57.4

heart in your life and I really find that significant because don't we all

2:03.8

need a little healing in our heart? And at times, don't we need a little more than other times?

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