Searching for the Path | Brandon Pena | Episode 515
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Originally from Cedar City, Utah, Brandon Peña is a functional potter currently teaching high school ceramics classes at Box Elder High School in Brigham City, Utah. Brandon received a BFA degree from Utah State University in 2016. Brandon discovered his passion for clay after taking his first ceramics class in high school; he now finds joy being able to share that passion with his own students. Aside from Making pottery, Brandon is an avid skateboarder who puts just as much time and effort into increasing his abilities on the board as he does with making his pots.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. A podcast home for potters everywhere. It's a community of |
| 0:06.4 | potters dedicated to grow their business. We're picking up where the art degree ends. I'm your host, |
| 0:12.3 | Paul Blaze. Well, look at us hanging out together in episode 515. Welcome to the Potter's cast. |
| 0:19.9 | Now, today I've got a dude coming on the show that I'm really |
| 0:24.1 | stoked to be able to bring to you. In my Instagram feed, you know, I've got this, you know how |
| 0:31.2 | when you do bookmarks and you can go back to find specific things that you said, ooh, I don't |
| 0:37.1 | want to lose track of this. You know, it's from someone else's feed and you want to make sure you keep track of it. Well, I don't have a lot of those in my, in my book. I don't have a lot of bookmarks that I've saved and saying, ooh, I got to keep track of this one. But having said that, the guy that I am bringing you to listen to today, Brandon Peña, |
| 1:00.4 | he's one of the very few people that I bookmark because I love the cup that I saw in there so much. |
| 1:09.1 | In fact, I believe that it was this specific cup in my |
| 1:13.7 | bookmark that inspired me to reach out to Brandon Pena because it's such a beautiful cup. |
| 1:21.7 | It's a patriotic cup. It's a beautiful, it's got stars and stripes, but it's the way it was made. |
| 1:28.7 | It's the presentation of how it was made. |
| 1:30.9 | It's just, ah, it's the kind of cup where I look at it and I say, I could, I could have made that. |
| 1:37.4 | Not in the sense of like saying, you know, oh, any five-year-old can make. |
| 1:41.8 | That's not the point. |
| 1:42.8 | That's not what I'm saying. |
| 1:44.5 | I'm saying that I could have made that in sense of that the way he made that |
| 1:50.0 | resonated with the way that I like to make things. So I'm excited to bring this guy to you because |
| 1:58.0 | he's been this kind of subtle inspiration for me there's a |
| 2:02.3 | few people that have done that and this this cup has been one of them but i haven't said that |
| 2:07.4 | i've got a picture of uh of one of those cups on my on the show notes page today that you can be |
| 2:13.4 | able to check out this is a dude that is that is making a difference in the world. He's a |
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