Making The Most Of An Apprenticeship | Anthony Carrillo | Episode 1221
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Anthony Carrillo began his pottery journey in San Diego, CA and is now apprenticing with Simon Levin in Illinois. Anthony's past year has been centered around wood firing, kiln building, and developing a comprehensive body of work. Anthony has assisted in two train kiln builds and helped design and build two small wood-soda kilns. Anthony's playful altered forms display expressive gestural movement and applied textures that interact with the atmosphere in the kiln.
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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. |
| 0:14.4 | How did my friends? |
| 0:15.6 | And welcome to episode number 1,221 of the Potter's cast. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm kind of stoked today because we are going to be having Anthony Carrillo on the show today. |
| 0:28.2 | And the title of today's episode is called Making the Most of an Apprenticeship. |
| 0:33.4 | So I'm pretty stoked to be able to do this. |
| 0:37.2 | But before we get to that, I wanted to mention just a couple of things. |
| 0:41.4 | First off, in just a few days, here in Portland, Oregon, we're just north of there in Vancouver, Washington. |
| 0:50.8 | But in Portland, Oregon, about, you know, 10, 15 minutes from our house, there is going to be one of the biggest ceramic pottery sales. I think in the world, |
| 1:03.0 | at least that's what I was told last year. I used to think it was like on the West Coast, |
| 1:09.3 | but I've been informed last year that, no, it's in the world. |
| 1:13.9 | Anyhow, we are going to be having a booth there. |
| 1:16.6 | When I say we, it's not me personally, Jennifer, my wife, she is going to be having a booth there. |
| 1:23.9 | She is Amblewood Studio on Instagram, but she's also the owner of the new studio here in |
| 1:33.5 | Vancouver, called Clay Works of Vancouver. And we, I'm super excited that she's going to be |
| 1:41.2 | at the ceramic showcase this year because she's, she's amazing. And she's going to be doing the ceramic showcase this year because she's amazing. |
| 1:46.2 | And she's going to be doing it with a friend of ours, Jess Joner, and they're going to be doing a booth together. |
| 1:53.9 | I think it's booth 45. |
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