Making Connections With Art | Michal Karen Gelman | Episode 948
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Michal Karen Gelman makes contemporary functional ceramic homeware. Michal finds herself drawn to the functional, but at the same time, she sees the material, as she touches the evergreen. Michal is fascinated by this connection. She loves to take a surface, a clay sheet, fold it, gives it a capacity, and create a container. plays with the rough and the delicate, the horizontal and the widthwise, movement versus stillness. What attracts and drives Michal forward, is the contact with the material itself, the traditional forms, and the way to unravel it. Freefolding is Michal's studio brand.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:02.0 | 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. |
| 0:14.2 | Welcome to episode number 948 of The Potter's cast. |
| 0:22.5 | Happiness just flows through my veins and through my heart and into my brain because |
| 0:29.7 | we've got another episode out. |
| 0:31.7 | And today's guest, oh my goodness, free folding ceramics, some people that I dearly love, they are huge fans of today's guest, Mikhail Garan, Mikhail Garin Galman. |
| 0:46.3 | Now, just like I struggled right there, I stumbled when I introduced her also. |
| 0:51.7 | It's so embarrassing, but, oh my goodness, free folding ceramics |
| 0:56.6 | is amazing. And I love her art. I love her creations. And she's a person that is making |
| 1:06.2 | connections with her art. And literally just around the world, people are just connecting with her |
| 1:12.4 | and think that she makes work that connects with them personally. |
| 1:18.6 | And so I really appreciate this conversation. |
| 1:23.9 | Now, we talk about some kind of some fun, fun ideas as we go through this conversation. |
| 1:30.3 | One is we get her story, which is kind of the way that the Potter's cast works. |
| 1:35.5 | But also we talk about that idea about making connections and building community through her work. |
| 1:42.5 | And I love that that's a reality, along with the rubber meets the road |
| 1:47.9 | type of a thing, or as I should say, mud meets the bat. But the idea about how even while |
| 1:55.9 | having this need of building community, there's still that idea of you got to still pay the bills. |
| 2:03.5 | And so I love just how real and authentic this conversation is. |
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