We Talked About Collage | Daniel McCabe | Episode 1180
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Dan McCabe is a Chicago based potter and high school art teacher. Dan's work is largely functional ceramic pieces painted with a bold base layer of underglazes, then glazed and adorned with sepia tone decals of both his drawings and assorted vintage decals. Dan's work is busy and layered and teaming with life; intended on celebrating being alive! Bumping into clay at college, Dan's donned muddy paws for nearly 25 years now.
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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 | And just like that, boom! |
| 0:18.3 | Episode number 1,180 has just started. Super stoked about that because we've got |
| 0:26.1 | Daniel McCabe coming onto the show today. Love his work. I just do. And we talked about |
| 0:35.9 | collage and it was phenomenal. I think what he's doing is really cool. |
| 0:43.0 | And I'm hoping that you get some good, tight information from Daniel. But he's got a great story, too. |
| 0:52.0 | Like, it's just his journey into ceramics and then also |
| 0:54.9 | the collage portion of it. I love it. So let's jump to this conversation I had with Daniel |
| 1:02.0 | McCabe right after this word from our sponsor. Oh, you have got to see this beautiful plate |
| 1:08.4 | on Instagram by corina.comalus. clay. She has this beautiful plate on Instagram by korena.cowlis. clay. She has this beautiful |
| 1:14.3 | plate with patterns all over it and she said I've been holding onto this one. It's my favorite |
| 1:20.7 | plate from my last firing. Hashtag ceramic, hashtag GR pottery forms. It's totally totally true you can be making your next favorite |
| 1:31.1 | plate using GR pottery forms check it out GR pottery forms dot com Daniel McCabe welcome to the |
| 1:40.4 | potters cast hey hey thank you for having me. It's psyched to be here. |
| 1:44.8 | Well, I'm stoked to have you on the show, and I'm really glad that you would take some time out of your life to be able to do this. What part of the world do you live on? I live on the south side of Chicago, an urban potter. Oh, an urban potter. Nice. Nice. What distinguishes an urban potter from a country potter other than location? |
| 2:05.6 | Is there anything different than that other than that? That's the key factor for sure. |
| 2:14.5 | No, that's about a lifestyle. I don't know, lifestyle. |
| 2:18.8 | That's about, I don't have a cow. |
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