Decades Doing Clay | John Tilton | Episode 956
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
John Tilton was a graduate student working toward a Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Florida when he was introduced to clay as an artistic medium in 1968. John subsequently took up Ceramics as a profession, earning his M.F.A. in Ceramics from the University of South Florida in 1972. John has gone on to teach classes in Mathematics at the University of Florida and in Ceramics at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, FL. John has been an independent studio artist since 1972. In 1978, he moved into a spiritual community, where he and his wife, Anne, still live and maintain their studio.
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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. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello, and what a fascinating conversation we have today for episode number 956 with Paul Blaze, your host. We've got John |
| 0:24.3 | Tilton coming on the show today. And man, what an amazing story that he has. For one, the man's |
| 0:33.0 | been working in clay for decades, not just like a decade, not just like two decades. I mean multiple |
| 0:43.0 | decades. And he is an incredible potter. And I just love this conversation we had. And his |
| 0:51.7 | attitude, one of the things that he said during our conversation, which I feel |
| 0:56.2 | like it just summed it up so well, he said, talking about clay and about life, he just said, |
| 1:02.5 | it's just been enough. And I love that simple, but very profound approach to life. |
| 1:11.5 | It's just absolutely amazing. |
| 1:13.4 | And he's got an incredible story about like where he lives and the community he lives in. |
| 1:18.9 | And yeah, it's pretty crazy. |
| 1:21.0 | It's pretty crazy. |
| 1:22.0 | Cool, I would say. |
| 1:23.7 | So I really want to jump in this conversation that we had with John Tilton, but first we're going |
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