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The Potters Cast

Upping the Potters Game | Keith Hershberger | Episode 582

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Business, Careers, Arts, Visual Arts

4.9592 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Keith Hershberger is a potter living in Philadelphia who has made a living working in clay for over 20 years. In 2011 Keith founded the Highland Park Pottery Tour, a neighborhood based tour where ceramic artists invite the public into their homes and studios to view and purchase their work.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Potter's Cast.

0:02.0

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.

0:14.1

Hey, welcome to episode number 582 of the Potter's cast, and I had the best evening today while I was hanging out with a friend of

0:24.1

mine. So I've got this new friend, Brittany, who is a relatively new potter, but she's killing it.

0:30.7

I'm telling you what, if you saw her work, you'd go, wow, that stuff is sweet. She's doing a great job.

0:36.3

Well, we went over to her house like a couple weeks ago, and she didn't have hardly any

0:42.3

ceramics made, but she had a show coming up this coming Friday night that she was

0:49.1

trying to get all of her pots ready for this sale.

0:52.3

So anyhow, she ended up just cranking out a ton of work

0:58.6

and got it all done. And then she was saying that the next thing to do was it was time to sand the

1:04.3

bottoms of her pot so she'd have niceness because she's making, she's using this really groggy clay.

1:10.2

That's so awesome looking. It's speckled and it's beautiful. she's using this really groggy clay that's so awesome looking.

1:12.0

It's speckled and it's beautiful.

1:13.7

And it does this interaction with the glaze that it's put, that's put over top of it.

1:18.5

That just, ugh, it's beautiful.

1:20.3

So she's killing it.

1:21.6

I'm telling you what, really nice work.

1:24.5

So I had seen her like on Sunday morning and I said, well, you should come over to my house

1:30.1

and use my studio sander by Forrest Middleton and check it out. And so she came over because she

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