This is the Potter's Cast.

A podcast home for Potters Everywhere.

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

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

Welcome to episode number 997 of The Potter's cast.

Welcome to the show.

I'm really excited about the spotlight that keeps getting shown or focused on ceramics.

You know, just this past week, People magazine put out an article about Kendall Jenner and Haley Bieber, where

I think the title was titled, something like, like they seal their friendship with the pottery

class. And then it goes on to explain about how these two took part in a pottery class together and showed off their crafting skills in a post on Instagram.

And so the two of them basically showed off what they were doing.

Now, I'm kind of curious about this for us as people who have been in ceramics for a while.

And my curiosity is this, is that

does this put ceramics in a better light when celebrities are jumping in on it? I've kind of

heard mixed reviews from that in the past, you know, where

where people will get upset that some superstar ends up doing pottery and they get all this

attention. And then the people who've been slogging away in the trenches for years with no major

attention, all of a sudden this other person brings like gobs of attention.

It's like, and it feels a bit of a deflation of their efforts.

Whereas other people feel like, oh, this puts a highlight on the, on the, the, the industry, on the makers that are all out there,

and brings a certain level of interest that before this may not have been reached before.

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