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The Potters Cast

Making Art Work | Alex Olson | Episode 925

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Careers, Business, Arts, Visual Arts

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Alex Olson makes pottery and works as a freelance photographer in Brooklyn, New York. Alex fires most of his faceted and textured functional pots in wood and soda kilns. Alex studied studio art at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he focused on ceramics, photography, and woodworking.

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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.

0:08.7

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

0:11.2

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

0:14.1

Hello, welcome to episode number 925 of the Potter's cast.

0:19.8

We're thinking about taking a cool and mellow approach to the show from now on,

0:24.8

and we're going to be swinging your way every Tuesday and Thursday.

0:30.3

So keep your hats on straight because we're going to be having a good time.

0:37.3

Okay, maybe we shouldn't do that.

0:41.9

Listen, whether we are going to go mellow or go a little bit on the spastic side,

0:48.3

which I guess I'm a little bit on the spastic side, you know, I get it.

0:54.0

We're just going to have a good time because we're going to be talking about ceramics.

0:58.4

Now, one of the things we're doing with ceramics is this weekend.

1:01.6

There is a new class going on for helping us to be able to take better pictures.

1:09.9

It's called photography for makers.

1:13.1

And it is going to be a hoot to be able to go to this class and to learn from our teacher,

1:21.8

Kim Taylor. And it's, it's all about upping the game. I was just listening to a dude talking about his income,

1:31.0

and he was saying, with his business, he said, look, I didn't think that I was going to be able to do well with my business,

1:39.3

at least as well as this one guy, I'm injecting that part.

1:43.6

But then he goes on to say, but then I end up a

1:46.2

year later and I was doubling that income. Since then, I've doubled it. Then I've doubled it

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