How Awesome is It to Be a High School Teacher | Frank Eagar | Episode 619

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Visual Arts, Careers, Arts, Business

4.9 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The knowledge Frank Eagar has gained through not only producing art, but teaching art, and has broadened his knowledge regarding how and why art has been produced through the centuries. As a ceramic artist all of Frank's pieces from a simple cup to a sculpture are a small representation of both himself and his experiences. Teaching art has given Frank the privilege to increase others knowledge and appreciation of art, by showing and teaching the depth of being that goes into the creation of individual pieces. As a ceramicist, Frank believes in producing both functional as well as sculptural pieces. The beauty and simplicity of functional ware is timeless, and yet still carries the fingerprint of its creator long after he is gone. Frank also enjoys making 3D ceramic sculptures. Though these are a more complex representation of Frank, he enjoys creating these pieces from birdbaths, to fountains, even to a figurative sculpture because of the versatile qualities of the clay. Frank always enjoys experimenting with shape, pattern, color, and form in my pottery. Currently, the distortion of basic shapes and play upon its actual or created lines either in a whimsical or obtuse manner are a recent creative focus of Frank.

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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.
0:13.9	Hey, y'all.
0:14.4	Welcome to episode number 619 of the Potter's cast.
0:18.4	And I've got a couple of things I would like to talk to you about before we hit the go
0:23.9	button for the rest of the show.
0:26.9	The first thing is that we have a special bonus episode that we're going to do this weekend.
0:36.2	So Saturday morning, you can wake up and
0:40.0	download a special episode where we're going to be talking about Kinsugi, which is that
0:49.5	special practice of taking a broken plate and then using Japanese lacquer and gold and putting it back
1:01.3	together again. And so we're going to be doing a special episode about that. And it's going to have
1:08.0	a little bit of a significance also because this is also,
1:12.7	uh, for people around the world, it is the Easter weekend.
1:18.8	And so usually most people would have all sorts of events like Easter egg hunts and they
1:26.4	would have community events and they would go to
1:29.2	church on Sunday and all things we're not really supposed to do right now if you are in in some
1:37.2	big metropolitan areas. I realize out in the country that there might be a different way of doing things but for a lot of people, a lot of the planet, they're not going to be celebrating Easter together.
1:51.0	So, kind of the thought was, is that this conversation that I had would be a little bit of a special treat because one, the person we're talking with,
2:02.7	which I'm not going to reveal who it is quite yet, is a famous artist who has worked
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