The President of NCECA | Shoji Satake | Episode 1108
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Shoji Satake, born in Kyoto, Japan and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, earned a BA in Studio Art and Government from The College of William and Mary (1996) and an MFA from Indiana University (2004). He is an associate professor of ceramics at Rhode Island School of Design. Shoji is also president of the NCECA Board of Directors. His work has been exhibited internationally. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, and fly fishing.
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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 | Hello and welcome to episode number 1,1008 of the Potter's cast. |
| 0:21.8 | I am really stoked that we are hanging out together today. |
| 0:27.3 | I wanted to kind of give you a little bit of an insight, |
| 0:29.7 | a couple of things that have happened just this week |
| 0:33.4 | that I thought you might be interested in. |
| 0:35.5 | You may not be interested, but I'm just going to go ahead and tell you anyhow. |
| 0:39.7 | And this is kind of a little bit crazy because I had no idea that this was even a thing. |
| 0:44.7 | But you've heard of FeedSpot, I'm sure, over the years. |
| 0:49.9 | But the FeetSpot just reached out to me and they said that they had looked at my profile on |
| 0:57.2 | Instagram, which is, you know, at PD plays, that it had been selected as one of the top 100 ceramic |
| 1:04.9 | art influencers on the web. |
| 1:07.0 | In fact, the crazier thing is that they put me at the 16th spot, number 16 in the world, |
| 1:17.9 | which cracked me up. I just found that was pretty amazing and kind of, I got to say, |
| 1:24.0 | it's just a bit of an honor. But also, the website itself, the Potter's cast, has been on one of the top 100 lists. |
| 1:34.1 | And so I'm just kind of blown away by all of that. |
| 1:36.5 | And that has to go back to me saying thank you to you because that's, that really does come down to a result of of um of your influence |
| 1:47.7 | and also your of your being involved in the potters cast so a big thank you to you guys but i thought |
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