The Digs Chicago: A Community Studio Story | Fawn Penn | Episode 1132

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Careers, Visual Arts, Business, Arts

4.9 • 590 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Fawn Penn is a ceramic artist working in Chicago. In 2020, Fawn co-founded The Digs Chicago, a non-profit community ceramics studio home to 100 artists. In 2024, Fawn founded Old Friends, a contemporary art gallery. Fawn graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA (2020).

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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.
0:08.0	We're picking up where the art degree ends.
0:11.0	I'm your host, Paul Blaze.
0:14.0	Hello and welcome to episode number 1,132 of the Potter's cast.
0:23.4	I have been having just a tremendous time with my new eye.
0:28.0	It's been, it's been amazing.
0:30.6	I'm just, I'm just loving, looking in the mirror and seeing me looking back at me.
0:37.1	It's just amazing. You want to hear
0:40.5	something really funny about this. I've had three separate people that have guessed which
0:49.8	eye is the real eye and they guessed the wrong one.
0:55.8	They guessed the left eye when it's the right eye, and I just think that's amazing.
1:03.1	It's such a real-looking eye that a real eye looks fake.
1:06.9	What?
1:10.1	Yeah, so I get to point out which one is which.
1:12.7	Because, like, and I'll move my eyes back and forth.
1:15.9	And they just have a hard time guessing.
1:19.5	So anyhow, it's a 50-50 shot right now because they do look.
1:23.9	It does look so authentic.
1:25.9	And it's hand-painted.
1:27.4	That's the crazy thing this is not like
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