"You Gotta Wear A Lot Of Hats" | Caleb Zouhary | Episode 630
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Caleb Zouhary was born and raised in northwest Ohio, where he first discovered his passion for clay in high school. After receiving his BFA in Ceramics at Ohio University, Caleb pursued post baccalaureate studies at East Carolina University and worked as an artist in residence at St. Petersburg Clay Company, primarily focusing on soda-fired functional pottery. Under the instruction of Elmer Taylor, Caleb received his MFA in Ceramics from the University of North Texas in 2014. Caleb's graduate thesis explored the relationship between functional pottery design and food presentation, and it was during this time he began to experiment with layering glazes and resists, techniques which have persisted in his work and continue to be the foundation of his signature abstract surface designs. With support from his wife Casandra, Caleb owns and operates a community retail pottery studio and spends much of his time working in his personal studio in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | And it is episode 630. |
| 0:17.9 | So welcome to this episode of The Potter's Cast. And I've got a cool dude coming on the show for you today. |
| 0:26.6 | It is Caleb Zuhary. And if you have not seen his work on the Instagram, oh my word. Beautiful work. |
| 0:36.4 | Super good work. And I'm excited to bring this conversation to you because of that, but also because we talked about a couple of really cool ideas. The first one was a quote that that Caleb said, and you'll hear that in the conversation. |
| 0:59.6 | He said, you got to wear a lot of hats. |
| 1:03.1 | And he's talking about running a business and talking about, you know, getting your business up off the ground. |
| 1:09.2 | How many different things you have to do |
| 1:11.8 | in order for your business to thrive now that's one idea the next thing is is that we talked |
| 1:19.0 | about the artists approach to success and I know that we can all define success differently |
| 1:26.3 | and that's okay because there's no cookie cutter on that |
| 1:31.0 | and Caleb has his own perspective on that so we end up talking about that so let's jump into |
| 1:39.3 | this conversation that I had with Caleb Zuhary right after this work from our sponsor. |
| 1:45.5 | What's that? |
| 1:46.7 | What did you say? |
| 1:47.7 | You don't know who makes the best trimming tools and the best carving tools on the planet? |
| 1:53.9 | Let me tell you who it is. |
| 1:56.0 | It's diamond core tools. |
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