Keeping The Balance | Becky Laird | Episode 866
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Becky Laird is a potter based in Kenmore, Washington. Becky thoughtfully creates work in her home studio with a focus on making functional ware that feels good to hold and use. The groundwork for Becky's pottery making was established years ago in Chicago where she had her first studio and taught classes for CLAY, Lill Street Arts Center, and Little Black Pearl. After returning to Washington, Becky continued to study ceramics while pursuing her education degree at Western Washington University. Becky's curiosity about color and detail is evident in her artisanship. Her work is decorated with organic hand-drawn designs that reflect the natural beauty of her surroundings.
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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. |
| 0:14.5 | Yo-ho, welcome to the Potter's cast. |
| 0:18.9 | We are nothing. |
| 0:20.2 | And I mean nothing but happy hanging out together today. |
| 0:25.2 | So stoked, this is episode number 8606 of the Potter's cast. Yes. Hey, I hope you had an amazing |
| 0:36.9 | Labor Day weekend if you're here in the United States. I know that that's not celebrated everywhere on the planet, but we do here in the United States. It means a three-day weekend for a lot of people. That was the case for me. Of course, three-day weekend meant that I worked in my bathroom upstairs doing tile. I am so close to having a tile |
| 0:58.1 | done. All I have is one little strip. One little strip. I just ran out of mud. Yeah, my thin set. |
| 1:07.2 | Oh, well, I'll finish that up probably on maybe Thursday this week, something like that. |
| 1:13.5 | I don't know. |
| 1:14.0 | But I can't do it this next weekend because I'm going out of town. |
| 1:17.9 | Yeah, we're going to be going up to Bellingham to be a part of the Circa sale that's going on up there. |
| 1:29.3 | And there's a big second sale going on on Sunday afternoon, which I think it goes from |
| 1:37.2 | 11 to 3 at Circa. |
| 1:39.4 | So you can check it out, you know, where it is and all that. |
| 1:43.1 | And I'm planning on being there. My wife has got |
| 1:45.9 | her stuff in that gallery, and I don't have my stuff in the gallery, but my wife does. So I'll |
| 1:53.0 | be up there. I'll be up there. And I'm looking forward to hanging out. I mean, I'm not going |
| 1:58.2 | there like as the Potter's cast or anything like that. I'm just some dude helping out his wife, you know, that kind of a gig, and I'm really excited about it. |
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