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The Potters Cast

Hook 'Em In | Rita Vali | Episode 1103

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Careers, Visual Arts, Business, Arts

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Rita Vali creates joyful pottery that blends modern design with a mid-century vibe, inspired by her love of the intricate details she finds in nature. Rita makes her pottery with others in mind, as she believes people are connected through the use and display of thoughtfully hand-crafted objects. Rita's career as an artist is made full by teaching various classes where she shares my craft.

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0:00.0

This is the Potter's Cast.

0:02.0

A podcast home for potters everywhere.

0:05.0

It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business.

0:08.0

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

0:11.0

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

0:14.0

You're listening to episode number 1,1003 of the Potter's cast. Welcome to the show. Hey, we went ahead and did it. We got ourselves a new class for the Potter's class. You can reach it by going to the pottersclass.com. That'll get you there. But also, if you just

0:39.9

go to the show notes page for today, you will see up at the top of our website. There is a tab called

0:46.8

the potters class, and you can jump into that right through there. But anyhow, we've got

0:52.1

Emily Bouvet-Boclair coming on the show. And I have to just say,

0:58.2

I hope I'm saying her name right or correctly. I think I'm close. I think I'm close. She's going to

1:04.2

be a guest on the show in just a matter of a couple, like a week or two. And so I'm looking forward to

1:09.8

having her as a guest,

1:11.2

but also she's gonna be teaching this class.

1:14.4

She is gonna be teaching a class called Explorations of Form

1:19.0

through coil and Pinch Technique.

1:22.0

The beautiful thing about Clay, as you already know,

1:25.8

is that pinch technique or coil technique, anybody can do it. But to do it well

1:33.4

and to create a form that is really attractive, that on the other hand, is a little bit more

1:40.7

challenging. So what Emily does, who is an expert in this area, she creates

1:47.5

some of those gorgeous forms, and she's going to be focusing on a specific form that we're going

1:52.3

to be doing that kind of starts out small, goes out large, and then comes back in thin,

1:59.1

and then goes back out again. And that is really tough to do.

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