Nearly 30 Years of Teaching | Doug Jeppesen | Episode 1172
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Doug Jeppesen earned a BA in Art History and a BFA in Art with an emphasis in ceramics from the University of Tulsa, and MFA from Northern Illinois University. Specializing in wood firing, Doug's work has appeared in numerous national juried and invitational exhibitions across the United States and he was a panel member during the International Wood Firing Conference hosted by Northern Arizona University, and at the 2nd European Wood Fire Conference hosted by Guladagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Skaelskor Denmark.
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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 | Episode number 1172 has just a begun. |
| 0:19.7 | I am in the midst of trying to get ready for our next big event, |
| 0:25.6 | which is going to be the Clark County Open Studios that I applied for back in, I don't know, March, April, May, sometime in there, got accepted, and now here we are |
| 0:39.2 | trying to cross the finish line. I'm glazing work. I am making work. And I feel completely |
| 0:47.7 | inadequate. I know I don't have enough work for the Clark County Open Studios. We are stop 18. We are stop 18, but there are 51 |
| 0:59.0 | jury artists here in Clark County that are in this. They're not all potters or ceramicists, |
| 1:06.7 | but there are a number of us in the show. There's also some amazing oil painters. |
| 1:13.7 | There's fabric artists. |
| 1:15.5 | There are metal workers, but just incredible artists. |
| 1:19.7 | And I was blown away at the quality of art this year. |
| 1:25.4 | Super amazed. |
| 1:26.5 | And for me to be in it, I got to tell you, they probably |
| 1:30.3 | chose some poor judges this year to be able to put me into the show. I'm just joking. They're |
| 1:38.4 | really amazing judges. I don't know who they are, but I'm just going to say that they're |
| 1:42.8 | amazing judges because the |
| 1:44.6 | rest of the artists are incredible, and they just had a lapse of judgment when they let me into it. |
| 1:49.7 | But, you know, like I said, we are in the 18th stop, and so if you are in the Portland, Vancouver |
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