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The Potters Cast

Her Journey Into Slip Casting | Jennifer Spring | Episode 905

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Visual Arts, Arts, Business, Careers

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Spring's goal is to make life more enjoyable with ceramics that feel great to touch and hold. Most of Jennifer's work goes through the filter of, "does the texture feel inviting?". Ceramics is one of few art forms that can be held and Jennifer is continually looking for opportunities to enhance the sense of touch.

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0:00.0

This is the Potterscast.

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.

0:14.3

You've just come to episode number 905 of The Potterscast.

0:20.7

Welcome to the show. Now, I wanted to just take a minute and

0:26.5

mention to you that we've got a new class coming out for the Potter's class, and it's

0:32.9

going to be with Helen Beard, and it's called Handmade Stories. And this is, this is her second class. And check

0:43.5

this out. The last class that we did with her was an introductory course about how to do some of

0:50.2

the drawings on clay that she does. And this is kind of that next level that she's going to be

0:56.0

teaching. She's going to be teaching us how to do kind of those fine lines that are really hard to

1:01.9

be able to pass on from from a drawing to clay. And she's going to be using stained impregnated paper and showing us how to do all of that.

1:14.2

So it's going to be some good stuff. Now that's going to be coming up on February 4th, which is a few

1:21.5

Saturdays from now, and we're going to be doing it at 6am Pacific Standard Time. But if you're not sure when that is, on the page that

1:30.7

shows that it's going on, there's a little time zone converter. You can check that out. Yeah.

1:37.6

So if you want to check out that class, go to the pottersclass.com and right there at the top of the list it will say our next class and it'll say

1:50.0

right there the potters class handmade stories. Helen Beard explores painting on clay. So come and check that out.

2:00.7

Now today we've got Jennifer Spring coming on the show,

2:04.1

and she is doing some slipcasting. She's one of those people who slipcasts, and there was a time

2:12.0

when I would talk to people about slipcasting, and the idea was, is that, oh, well, it's not real ceramics. This was

2:19.8

a while ago. But that's not really the case anymore because what slipcasting does from

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