Everything Was Worth It A The End Of The Day | Bilyana Yankulova | Episode 750
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Bilyana Yankulova was born and raised in Bulgaria. Bilyana is an established pottery, graphic and visual artist with 30+ years of experience. Bilyana graduated from an Art High School specializing in ceramics; however Bilyana also received classical training in painting, drawing, and sculpture. Later on Bilyan went to obtain her MA in Ceramics from the National Academy of Arts-Sofia in Bulgaria. Bilyana moved to the United States in 2005 and has been residing in Los Angeles, California. Currently, Bilyana mainly makes her pottery using a throwing technique; however she does like to also use the slab method of building. In the past Bilyana has worked with many different clays, techniques and recently, she has been enjoying working with porcelain and creating all kinds of things from beautiful jewelry to everyday use mugs to bigger sculptures and pieces great for interior and exterior design. All of Bilyana pieces were created with both aesthetic and functionality in mind. Bilyana uses lead-free underglaze and glaze and fires everything at cone 5 and 6.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast, a podcast home for potters everywhere. It's a community of |
| 0:06.4 | potters dedicated to grow their business. We're picking up where the art degree ends. I'm |
| 0:11.4 | your host, Paul Blaze. Welcome to episode number 750 of the Potter's cast. I've got a really cool guest coming on the show today, |
| 0:23.2 | Billy Anna Yankalova. Now look at, I say it perfectly right there. Perfectly. And yet, |
| 0:30.4 | when we start the episode, you will hear me trip all over that name. And it is completely |
| 0:36.6 | embarrassing because when I come to these episodes |
| 0:39.9 | and I'm recording someone's name I always take the time to practice someone's name before |
| 0:47.3 | I actually say it out loud. When we hit the go button, man, my tongue just failed me horribly. |
| 0:58.1 | So anyhow, we got through it, but it's Billiana Yankalova. |
| 1:01.7 | Now, if you haven't heard of Billiana, it may be because you are not from her home country, Bulgaria, |
| 1:09.3 | where she was quite successful as a potter. I mean, she had |
| 1:14.8 | employees, her stuff was being shipped all over the country, all over Europe, and man, |
| 1:21.3 | what a story. And then she had an opportunity to immigrate to the United States. |
| 1:30.6 | And the stories completely changed. She went from highly successful to exceptionally obscure. |
| 1:36.8 | So it's always impressed me. |
| 1:41.5 | People who have that kind of courage to just pack up and change cultures, change |
| 1:47.2 | countries. It just takes so much courage to do that. And in the end, from what Villiana says, |
| 1:56.5 | everything was worth it at the end of the day. And I'm so impressed by that. |
| 2:03.4 | So you're going to have a great conversation here of someone who has immigrated |
| 2:09.7 | from Europe to the United States, and her story is really fascinating. |
| 2:16.9 | So let's jump into this conversation with |
| 2:20.4 | Billiana Yankalova right after this word from our sponsor. Hey, I'm going to skip the music |
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