Taking The Leap | Megan Sward | Episode 969
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Largely known for her elaborate colanders, Megan Sward is a studio potter based in Western Massachusetts. After earning a BA in Studio Art and going to graduate school, Megan worked for conceptual artist Tom Friedman. After working in Tom's inventive and prolific studio for a few years, she moved on to build her own pottery studio. With special attention to repetitive designs, balance, and durability, Megan creates work that feels soothing and inspiring to live with.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:02.0 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.0 | 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 | Welcome to episode number 969 of the Potter's cast. And I'm so stoked we are doing an episode together today. Yeah, we got one in last week. |
| 0:30.8 | Hopefully we can be back on track of here on out. I'm feeling pretty good for the most part with my surgery. |
| 0:40.5 | I actually say with my eye, you know, I'm not, I don't think I'm having any more surgeries. |
| 0:45.7 | We're just kind of waiting for eyesight to improve in my one eye, and that could take months. |
| 0:52.7 | So yeah, yeah. Anyhow, it's, it, it is, it is a long |
| 0:59.2 | process. I mean, I have to think about it, like if I had a muscle that had been, you know, |
| 1:02.9 | cut in half, it's, it would take a while for that thing to feel good again. And that's kind of |
| 1:08.8 | the way my eyeball is, because it kind of went through that |
| 1:11.0 | kind of trauma so it is it is kind of that process of just letting it heal all the way and then the |
| 1:17.6 | surgery the second surgery of you know kind of re-inflicting so to speak the pain once again but um yeah |
| 1:25.8 | we're just kind of waiting for the headaches to go away and for the kind of |
| 1:30.2 | that eye orbital, that eyeball type pain to go away. And it's getting better and better. I guess |
| 1:37.8 | week in, week out. Week in, week out. So when you, there you go. It is interesting to kind of walk |
| 1:43.9 | around and to realize that my depth perception is totally different now. |
| 1:53.2 | And so that's a little bit, it's going to take some getting used to. |
| 1:58.9 | So, yeah, I don't think that's going to, I don't think my depth |
| 2:03.3 | perception necessarily will improve. I think I'll get used to what it is now, and then we'll figure it |
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