Keeping Tests Going | Eric Ordway | Episode 952
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Eric Ordway is a potter and teacher currently living and working in Columbia, MO. Eric makes wheel-thrown and altered pots that are finished in high, atmospheric kilns. Eric's work is influenced by his blue-collar roots, his interest in spirituality, and fantasy. Eric recently was nominated as a 2023 Emerging Artist by Ceramics Monthly.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the potters cast. |
| 0:02.0 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.5 | 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 | Welcome to episode number 952 of the pot Potter's cast. |
| 0:21.2 | So stoked, we are hanging out together today. |
| 0:24.8 | Yes. |
| 0:26.1 | Yes. |
| 0:27.2 | Now, we've got a really cool potter coming on the show today. |
| 0:31.3 | Today we talk shop. |
| 0:33.5 | We talk about keeping tests going. |
| 0:36.5 | We talk about atmospheric work. We talk to Eric Ordway. And he's an |
| 0:42.9 | amazing potter. He's got some great pots on the show notes page that you may want to just come and |
| 0:47.7 | check out before we get into this episode, which is going to be at the potterscast.com forward slash 952. Yeah, come and check out |
| 0:57.2 | his work. I think you would love looking at it. In fact, maybe once you look at his work, |
| 1:01.7 | you may want to follow him on the Instagrams. Yeah, become a friend of his. Like, comment a lot |
| 1:07.4 | on his posts. The next thing you know, he's going to be having you over for hot dogs, barbecuing. Yeah, that kind of thing. So anyhow, no, he's a great potter, and I think you would really like this conversation. I think you'll love his work. So I'll give that URL again at the end of the show because, you know, I always do. That's the format. That's the way I behave. It's like I got some |
| 1:28.8 | kind of syndrome going on to where I can't break rank. Yeah, well, anyhow, I have a great |
| 1:35.6 | conversation with him. So let's jump in this conversation that I had with Eric Ordway right after |
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