Renting The Kiln Out | Mark Stedman | Episode 868
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
After a twenty-year layoff, in 2019 Mark Stedman had the opportunity to buy out a retiring potter's studio. Suddenly Mark's home was full of glazes, kiln, wheel, and clay. Now Mark spends evening and weekend hours on his back patio teaching, creating, and firing work for himself and friends.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's cast. |
| 0:02.0 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.5 | 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 | Hello, my friend, and welcome to episode number 868. 868. |
| 0:22.9 | Boo ya. |
| 0:24.0 | Loving it. |
| 0:25.0 | Loving it being on today's episode. |
| 0:28.2 | Today we've got a great potter coming on. |
| 0:31.4 | But first off, I just wanted to kind of give a little bit of a recap because I went |
| 0:35.2 | out of town this past weekend and had the greatest |
| 0:38.5 | time. My wife and I, we drove up from here in Vancouver up to the other Vancouver, also known, |
| 0:47.1 | which a lot of people call the lesser Vancouver, you know, the one in Vancouver, British Columbia. |
| 0:51.7 | They call that the lesser Vancouver. |
| 1:32.5 | Well, okay, no one's ever said that. But anyhow, in fact, most people rarely, like if you're not from this area, most people don't even know that there's a Vancouver, Washington. But you say, you're from Vancouver, and they also, oh, I love Canada. Yeah, yeah, me too. But that's not where I live. I live down in Washington State, down at the bottom of the state. But anyhow, my point is we drove up there and we stopped at Circa on the way up there, Circa pottery, which is a great little gallery in Bellingham, Washington, where they've got a number of potters in there. In fact, we just had one on the show last week, one of the pottersner, Becky Laird. |
| 1:40.4 | And my wife is in the gallery there also. |
| 1:44.3 | She has her work up there. |
| 1:45.8 | And it's like about, like four hours north of us. |
| 1:49.5 | So, you know, like you don't just hop in the car and run up there. |
| 1:52.5 | I mean, you can, but it's a drive. |
| 1:55.3 | Plus it's on the other side of Seattle, so you've got to be careful of traffic and so on and so forth. |
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