The Impact of NCECA | Erin Shafkind | Episode 1218
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Erin Shafkind is an artist, writer, and educator living in Seattle, WA. Erin studied art and earned a BA and teaching certificate at California State University, Humboldt and received an MFA from Lesley University's College of Art and Design in Boston. Erin has been teaching art in Seattle Public Schools since 1998. These days Erin hand-builds and throws on the pottery wheel using stoneware and porcelain and occasionally works with earthenware clay bodies. Erin writes about art and artists for national magazines and local galleries.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Potterscast. |
| 0:01.9 | A podcast home for Potters Everywhere. |
| 0:05.4 | It's a community of Potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.7 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.1 | Hello and welcome to episode number 1,218 of the Potter's cast. |
| 0:21.5 | I think I mentioned the other day that I was just living with a cough that won't go away. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm telling you what, it is, I just had to stop myself from coughing right there. |
| 0:36.1 | It's just not left. |
| 0:38.5 | It's just lingering. |
| 0:41.0 | So, I mean, I'm feeling pretty good. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm feeling pretty good. |
| 0:44.2 | But, man, that cough from Enceca, it is a cough that just doesn't want to let go. |
| 0:50.7 | Well, hopefully, hopefully by next week. |
| 0:53.6 | Hopefully by next week I'll be okay. |
| 0:56.3 | But, you know, this week, oh, my word, it is a kick in my backside. |
| 1:02.3 | Anyhow, I had a great time at Enseca. |
| 1:06.9 | It was just like two weeks ago, right? |
| 1:10.0 | And one of the things that i love to do is to find people |
| 1:16.2 | i've never met before and and talk to them and this is one of these things where i was getting |
| 1:22.8 | off of the airplane in chicago not chicago but Detroit. And when I got off the airplane in Detroit, |
| 1:32.6 | I was wearing my claywork shirt for, you know, the clay work clay studio here in Vancouver, |
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