Finding a Place of Your Own | Dan Tomcik | Episode 574
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Tomcik is a wood fire potter and pizza maker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dan received his BFA from California University of Pennsylvania. He worked as an apprentice at the Baltimore Clayworks Noborigama, and as summer staff at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. Daniel is currently the Studio and Grounds Manager at Touchstone Center for Crafts, where he is working to cultivate a community of wood-firing enthusiasts.
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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. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.0 | And it's episode number 574 of the Potter's cast. |
| 0:19.3 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome to the show. Now, don't forget that just around the corner we are going to be thinking about going to NSECA because NSECA is coming up in March I know that's |
| 0:32.0 | like you know four and what's that six months away something like that it's not that far out though |
| 0:36.7 | when you start thinking about planning out a year and if you are thinking about going there is a workshop that i |
| 0:45.2 | would like to go to and attend it would be a brush making workshop with troy bungart and if you are |
| 0:54.1 | interested in that i would say reach out to troy bungart. And if you are interested in that, I would say reach out to Troy Bungart on Instagram |
| 0:58.9 | and ask him about a brush-making workshop that he will be putting on there at Bancica. |
| 1:07.0 | And yeah, just check it out. |
| 1:09.0 | Ask him about it. |
| 1:10.1 | And he's kind of putting plans together and I thought |
| 1:12.8 | it'd be good to let him know about various people to be thinking about wanting to do that, to go to |
| 1:18.5 | his workshop. He does amazing brushes. He makes these brushes where when you do these gestural |
| 1:25.1 | strokes with the brushes on your ceramics, |
| 1:27.9 | it's to die for. |
| 1:29.7 | And he makes them just out of so many great different types of fur from animals. |
| 1:35.2 | So, yeah, check it out. |
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