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The Potters Cast

She Found Clay at 13 | Aysha Peltz | Episode 523

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Business, Careers, Arts, Visual Arts

4.9592 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Aysha Peltz's pottery explores imagined space, scale and the poetic properties of the ceramic medium. She is a studio potter and faculty at Bennington College in Vermont. Aysha and her husband, Todd Wahlstrom, also own and operate StudioPro Bats. Aysha has taught at a number of schools and art centers including: Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Kansas City Art Institute. Aysha's work is in many collections including Huntington Museum of Art, where she received the Walter Gropius Master Award. Aysha received her BFA and MFA from Alfred University.

Transcript

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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.

0:14.1

Hey-ho and welcome to episode number 523.

0:20.3

There is a certain level of joy that is in my heart right now,

0:24.8

just knowing that we're in another episode together. And so a great big stokeness is in my heart.

0:33.0

Okay. Now, before we get started, I wanted to mention something that is coming up in a couple of episodes

0:40.0

ago when we had Ryan Kelly on the show in that episode, we talked about the event where I met him,

0:48.1

which was First Fridays. Here in Vancouver, Washington, we have this event called First Fridays,

0:52.5

where in Vancouver, down in the downtown,

0:57.5

we walk through the town and there's all sorts of different art galleries that are open,

1:02.8

and there's, you know, like, like what Ryan had was studio shows that are going on.

1:08.6

And so it's kind of a cool gig.

1:11.0

Well, the next coming up, first Friday event here in Vancouver, which will be June 7th,

1:21.8

I'm going to be participating.

1:24.3

I'm going to be doing a ceramic demonstration.

1:27.4

I'll have some of my pots down there

1:29.1

and I'll have, I'll have my new potter's wheel that I got. Did I tell you, I got a new Scott Kilns

1:34.8

Potter wheel. And I'm so stoked. It's awesome. It's awesome. If you want to see the unveiling of it and

1:42.0

the unboxing of it, it's on my, it's on my Instagram feed, and I posted it there. You can, and if you, you can't find it readily, just look up hashtag P-Blaze Potts, P-B-B-L-A-I-S, P-O-T-S, P-B-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-S, and you can find it a little bit more quickly

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