The Ethic of Work & Play | Ayla Mullen | Episode 817
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Ayla Mullen has a BA in Environmental Political Theory and Ceramics from Marlboro College, and completed a 2 year apprenticeship with Ellen Shankin in Floyd, VA. Now a full time studio artist, Ayla makes wheel-thrown functional pottery with botanically inspired surface designs. She recently hiked the Pacific Crest Trail and moved her home and studio to Bellingham, WA.
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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. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to episode number 817 of the Potterscast. |
| 0:20.3 | I am so happy to be doing this episode with you because we've got a |
| 0:25.7 | great Potter coming on to the show that we get to talk with. But before we do, I wanted to |
| 0:31.7 | mention that this past weekend we had that great class. It was part two with Rhonda Willers and we did the part two of |
| 0:41.5 | Terrace Cigilada. So that was this past weekend. Now coming up soon, we're going to be having a new |
| 0:48.6 | class coming out with Susan Halls who wrote a book on animals and figures and its sculpture. And so we're going to be |
| 0:58.0 | doing a class on sculpture. And I'm so excited to be doing this. And what's beautiful about this, |
| 1:04.6 | it's kind of like what she's going to teach us is like, you know, like, you know when you got |
| 1:08.9 | scrap clay leftover, she's got a way of making |
| 1:13.2 | miracles out of leftovers. So I'm really looking forward to this class. So keep your eyes open, |
| 1:23.0 | your ears open. I will be putting a thing up on the potter's class here soon, but also I'll be letting |
| 1:31.9 | you know about it next week to fully let you know what's going on. So yes, so I'm so excited |
| 1:40.0 | about this class. So that is coming up just around the corner. Now, back to today's episode. |
| 1:46.8 | We've got Eila Mullen coming on the show, and she's going to talk about the ethics of work |
| 1:53.0 | and play, because there is a ethics about that, like working in what your ethics like for working working and then also what are your ethics like for |
| 2:04.2 | playing and how those two mixed together is kind of a very interesting story she also talks about |
| 2:10.1 | how she walked yes i said walked from from Mexico to Canada. |
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