She Started a Pottery Tour | Amy Song | Episode 938
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Amy Song is a ceramic artist working in Plainfield, IL. Amy holds a BA in studio art and ceramics from Hope College and fell in love with wood firing at Waubonsee Community College in 2013. In 2018, Amy founded River Song Pottery in Plano, IL. Since then, River Song has hosted its first workshops bringing nationally known potters to the area and is excited to be spreading the love of wood firing in the greater Chicago area. Amy is the lead organizer of the Northern IL Pottery tour, which was launched to celebrate and lift up the incredible work being created in the area.
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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 | Hey, welcome to episode number 938 of the Potter's cast. We're going to go talk with Amy's song today. And she is one |
| 0:28.3 | amazing, but also she was on our pop-up show that we did a couple of weeks ago from Enceka, |
| 0:36.9 | a few weeks back. |
| 0:38.5 | Anyhow, she was on that particular episode, and now I had her back on for a full |
| 0:43.4 | interview. |
| 0:44.5 | And what a fascinating person. |
| 0:46.8 | She started a pottery tour. |
| 0:49.9 | And I love this conversation because I feel like it's an opportunity to learn or to gain some |
| 0:57.6 | good insights on perhaps starting a tour in your area. Yeah. Yeah. So Amy has got some great |
| 1:06.5 | insights, has some really interesting, like some how-toes type stuff, like, you know, how long before |
| 1:14.6 | you start advertising the event, how long should you give yourself, and how did you decide |
| 1:21.4 | who can join the ceramic tour, things like that that we talk about. So really insightful stuff. So let's jump into |
| 1:29.6 | this conversation that I had with Amy's song right after this word from our sponsor. |
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