He Spoke To My Soul | Israel Davis | Episode 1163
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Israel "Izzy" Davis is an artist, professor, and head of ceramics at Central Michigan University. Izzy has taught over 50 workshops and has been included in over 100 exhibitions. Izzy produces functional and non-functional works ranging in content from personal narratives, observations, and fun. Izzy lives with his wife and twin daughters in Grand Rapids, MI.
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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. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello and welcome to episode number 1,163 of the Potter's cast.'s cast i did in fact take two weeks off i thought that i |
| 0:26.5 | could do everything but i honestly can't it is amazing how much work it takes to get a brand new |
| 0:34.2 | business up off the ground and rocking and rolling. |
| 0:38.3 | And especially a brick and mortar building, I had no idea the intense time constraints |
| 0:49.1 | that are required for, I should say time requirements that are required for putting together the brick |
| 0:56.2 | and mortar with Clay Works, Vancouver. It is, it's just kind of, it's kind of radical. It's a lot. |
| 1:03.7 | That's not to say I'm bummed by it. I'm super happy about it. I'm super stoked because we've had |
| 1:09.0 | our first classes. We're now having classes. We've had a |
| 1:14.4 | water color class, which my wife taught a couple weeks, couple Saturdays ago. And then we've had |
| 1:22.5 | our first clay class, which was on last Monday, and then we had our second clay class, |
| 1:31.5 | which was last Tuesday, both of our teachers, Jess Jonah and Frank Eager are both teaching. |
| 1:39.7 | And then I did our very first happy hour, which is kind of a down and dirty class, which is, you know, you get some friends together. |
| 1:48.9 | And it's a B-Y-O-B. |
| 1:50.8 | You know, we can't provide any drinks ourselves. |
| 1:53.3 | But it was a B-I-Y-B, and they came and they got to play on the wheel for a couple, for like an hour or so. |
| 2:02.0 | And it was just, it was just a lot of fun. |
| 2:04.6 | So, yeah, this is our second week. |
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