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The Potters Cast

It's More Than A Hobby | Madison Potratz | Episode 914

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Careers, Business, Arts, Visual Arts

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Madisen Potratz is a potter based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who earned a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison is the founder of Good Art for Good, a pottery business with a mission to support nonprofits and charities in her local community.

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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.

0:14.1

What up, what up.

0:15.7

Welcome to this episode of the Potter's Cast.

0:18.8

And which episode is it?

0:20.5

Well, this is episode number

0:22.4

914. 914 of the Potter's cast. Yes, welcome to the show. Now, we've got a very cool show

0:35.0

coming on today, but before we get there, I've got two things I want to tell you about.

0:40.9

Number one, we've got another Potter's class coming out on March 4th.

0:49.5

Now, it's going to be a cool class because what we're going to be doing is going back to some of the basics of making cylinders, specifically handbuilding, and it's going to be about building mugs and planters.

1:03.8

But truly, the basic form of much of the ceramics that we make really does start with that with that cylinder. And so our teacher,

1:13.6

Jeff Rotman, is going to be helping us to be able to go back to that basics of making those

1:20.6

perfect cylinders in a repeatable fashion so that you can have consistent work. And then also we're going to be doing a

1:28.7

handle study. Like who doesn't want to figure out how to make a better handle for their pots?

1:33.6

So anyhow, that's coming up. It's going to be on the 4th of March, which is about, was that,

1:38.7

two weeks or so out? And if you want to get to that, you can go to the potter's class. And right there at the top,

1:45.6

it'll say our next class. And you can, and it's got all the details there. So check that out.

1:51.5

I'd love for you to be able to get into that. So making mugs, planters, and a study on handles.

1:59.8

That's what we're doing.

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