Setting Roots And Growing The Art Career | Valerie Costanza | Episode 861
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Valerie Costanza earned a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts with emphasis in Ceramics from the Gwen Frostic School of Art inside Western Michigan University. While attending art school in Kalamazoo, MI (yes it's a real place!) Valerie found a passion for working with her hands and using materials from earth to make functional objects and sculpture. Upon graduation, her work moved all across the country, living and working nomadically in various states growing as an artist and maker. Now, nestled in Georgia, Valerie has officially opened her own humble ceramics small business - mind body clay ceramics & teaches the art of creating in clay to the public.
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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. |
| 0:08.7 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:15.0 | 861. |
| 0:16.3 | That is the number of episode that today's episode is 861. |
| 0:22.5 | And I just want to say, welcome to the potter's cast. |
| 0:26.4 | So thankful that we are hanging out together today. |
| 0:31.5 | Today, we are spending some time with Valerie Costanza, and she is an amazing potter, and she has been, |
| 0:41.0 | you know, rocking and rolling in her business and growing it. And we talk about that today. |
| 0:49.7 | And basically, we talk about setting roots and growing the art career. In fact, I titled today's episode that specifically because she was a bit of a nomad. |
| 1:00.5 | She just cruised around the world. |
| 1:03.2 | She did her own gig. |
| 1:05.1 | And then, you know, then she settled down. |
| 1:08.6 | And she started growing roots. |
| 1:10.4 | And she started growing her art career and it's |
| 1:14.6 | been good for her it's been very good for her and we talk about what that is to be able to grow |
| 1:21.0 | that art career with things like you know building multiple streams of of income or how valuable is growing a reputation |
| 1:30.1 | as a potter and things like that. Those are questions that I ask her. And you'll get to hear |
| 1:35.9 | her answers to them. Now, here's a basic note I wanted you to understand as we get into this, |
| 1:42.5 | is that she, I was in my my studio in my office |
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