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The Potters Cast

She Makes Beautiful Work & She Teaches Clay | Lindsay Scypta | Episode 540

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Business, Careers, Arts, Visual Arts

4.9592 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

As an artist, potter and designer Lindsay Scypta is deeply interested in textile pattern, Victorian etiquette, architectural tracery, and the history of the table. Lindsay began her ceramics investigation in high school and continued into college, completing a BFA in Art & Design from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. For two remarkable summers Lindsay immersed herself in the artist community at Anderson Ranch Art Center as a summer intern, filling her ceramic toolbox with techniques and tools. Finally after two years as an artist-in-residence at Ashland University, Lindsay arrived at The Ohio State University where she completed her MFA in ceramic art. Lindsay was blessed with the opportunity to follow her thesis research to England, where she visited the Wedgwood Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Brighton Palace. Some influences over the past years have been the softness of tufted Victorian sitting room chairs, and the architectural motifs and quatrefoils of European Gothic cathedrals. Following graduate school Lindsay spent one year as an Artist-in-Resident at Clay Art Center in Port Chester, New York. Currently Lindsay is an adjunct ceramics professor at Owens Community College in Perrysburg, Ohio. Working strictly with porcelain clay, the work is thrown, trimmed, altered and decorated, then fired to cone six in an electric oxidation atmosphere. Lindsay ism still continuing to push her ideas and am excited to incorporate new research into her studio practice!

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.

0:11.2

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

0:14.2

Wow, episode 540 is in the house.

0:19.2

Welcome to the Potter's cast. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the Potter's cast.

0:21.9

Welcome to the show.

0:24.0

Welcome to happiness.

0:25.6

What?

0:26.5

I love coming to happiness.

0:30.1

Well, listen, today we've got a really cool potter that I want to be able to introduce you.

0:36.5

Her name is Lindsay Sipta and she is, well,

0:41.7

first off, she's a great potter, but here's the gig. She is all about building community.

0:49.9

She teaches Clay and she's working as a community college professor and she is rocking it.

0:58.8

And she's got a great story.

1:00.5

She got a great story.

1:01.4

So let's jump into this conversation I have with Lindsay Sipta right after this word from our sponsors.

1:07.6

Have you ever made a wonky rimmed bowl or a funky rimmed plate? Well, those are way hard to trim

1:15.5

unless you've got the 14 inch foam trim bats, which is a foam bat with a one inch thick

1:22.5

foam top that is designed specifically for the wonky rims. and you can get it over at Diamond Core Tools.

1:29.7

They are the love that you've been missing in your studio.

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