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The Potters Cast

From School to Instagram | Amy Burnham | Episode 661

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Visual Arts, Careers, Business, Arts

4.9591 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Amy Sunshine Burnham is a Pacific Northwest artist who works diligently to balance many roles in her life. Amy has built a career and a life navigating the triad of her roles as mother and wife, full-time high school ceramics educator, and potter. Amy's personal explorations in clay are always inspired by process. Amy's work is most often represented by colorful and functional explorations in agateware and the intensity of anagama woodfiring process.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Potter's Cast.

0:02.0

A podcast home for potters everywhere.

0:05.5

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

Okay, so here we are in episode number 661 of the Potter's cast.

0:20.6

Welcome to the show, and I'm hoping that you had a restful weekend,

0:26.0

because this is being released on Tuesday, as you know, the Tuesday. But it's the Tuesday after

0:31.2

Labor Day weekend, which for some of you, this is kind of like the first day of the week for you,

0:35.7

because you had a great three-day weekend.

0:39.0

You know, Labor Day here in the United States, because I know we're listening to around the world,

0:42.6

is one of those federal holidays that we celebrate here, usually on the first Monday of September.

0:49.4

And it was like the creation about for the labor movement and was designed to be dedicated to

0:57.5

social and economic achievements of American workers.

1:01.0

And it was kind of one of these union holidays that were put together to celebrate the

1:08.0

laborers in the union.

1:10.1

And so, yeah. And so we get to celebrate work,

1:14.5

work and the workers of the United States. So it's a good thing. It's a good thing, you know.

1:20.7

So the great thing about it, though, for most of us is that we're not really all that

1:24.8

interested in the work part of it. We're more interested in the celebrating the day off from work part of it. And so for a lot of us, it was a day of like going and have an extra barbecue or going to the lake or to the beach or something like that and being with family and friends. And so that's a really good thing. I'll tell you what we did in our household. We just took the day off.

1:45.2

Like I didn't go to work.

1:46.7

I just had a down day, relaxed.

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