Life in a Cincinnati pottery studio as its owner, ceramic artists and friends walk their clay paths. Will things break? Of course. It’s a pottery studio.
Spring Fair is this Saturday! Also, artist in residence Autumn McKay describes her experience at this year's NCECA.
Tracy Iliff, longtime organizer of the Spring Pottery Fair, stops by "Clay at Our Core" to drop all the details of this amazing event. More than 40 ceramic artists from around Cincinnati will show you what they've got, and you will find yourself compelled to bring it all home with you.
You don't have to imagine the car trip to Salt Lake City with Laura Davis, Erika NJ Allen and Hannah Bundschuh. It really happened, to go to NCECA, and the Cult Pastor explains her revelations along the way.
"Clay at Our Core" takes you across the Ohio River to talk with Austin Deal, the programming director at the Baker Hunt Art and Cultural Center, a cool place with a rich history in Covington.
Core Clay teachers Aaron Kent and Mike O'Neal team up for a three-week class that will show you how to make transfers with the silk-screening process and then apply the transfers to your pots. Another skill for your tool kit!
About six months ago, Core Clay stalwarts Sam Jayne and Saya Amend brainstormed on how to make clay more accessible, no matter what you bring to the wheel or the worktable. One big result: They've compiled a handbook on best practices, and it's free to anyone who wants it.
Last week's optimism about the pug mill was short-lived, but Hannah Bundschuh brings an update on the repairs, and we think this time, it'll take. For now.
The Cult Pastor and Vern Lash tell the tale of the pug mill.
The newest employee at Core Clay, Emrys Falco, shares with "Clay at Our Core" how they came to clay: "It saved my life." The power of art in one person's life.
Abby Fadel of Goshen, Kentucky, is the current DAAP co-op student at Core Clay from the University of Cincinnati. She's doing a lot of cleaning at the moment, but she's glad to be here.
In which Anne ruminates about QuickBooks taking over the world, but also reminds that a Core Clay gift certificate is always a welcome gift for a mudbug.
Core Clay's own Vern Lash discusses her pet portrait class (closed now, but running again in July!) and muses on the meaning of sculpture for her.
No artist interview, but updates on the pug mill, the washing machine and the new slate of "next step" classes at Core Clay.
Core Clay's own Sam Buganski and Sam Jayne discuss their collaborative show, "Looking," opening Saturday, Feb. 1. in the Mason Gallery. It's about seeing seen, and about being there for each other.
Studio member Cassandra Jones, blind since before she was 10, has developed a practice at Core Clay to find the artist inside her.
Core Clay turns 20 years old in 2025, and the podcast kicks off a yearlong commemoration of all the people who make the studio such an amazing place. That means you, mudbug.
A longtime pal of the Cult Pastor, Lex Jahne is a fiber artist in Cincinnati who just had a trunk show in the Mason Gallery. She offers some times on how to make those kinds of shows work for the artist .
Studio member Ken Lay came to Core Clay earlier this year with more than passing knowledge about ceramics. But his hobby was restoration. Now he's discovering how to make ceramic art himself.
Catching up on some stray threads: why is Wrapped so weird, who puts a white couch in a pottery studio, some studio notes. Also, the gallery looks amazing. (Note: White couch pictured is for entertainment purposes only, not illustrative of couch discussed .)
A longtime friend of the Cult Pastor, Russ Laycock is a Cincinnati contractor who has given his expert touch to our home in peace-loving Norwood. He built our lovely podcasting studio in the old cash vault.
Core Clay studio manager Emily Hobart has a passion for making ceramic jewelry. She's teaching a three-week course on the skill and technique of this form. Also, you can see her work in the Mason Gallery Store.
Recycling our midfire clay is a massively labor-intensive process, but Hannah Bundschuh and Vern Lash make it look easy. But it's not.
Robyn Singerman explains what's happening to the Mason Gallery of Crafts and Fine Arts and the gallery store. The goal: Make the corner of Montgomery Road and Hudson Avenue in peace-loving Norwood THE arts destination.
A Core Clay studio member, Sara Petticrew is a regular participant in the free Clay Club events. She says she finds consolation in her clay practice.
The series of conversations with Core Clay artists in residence continues with Payne Fleming, who is spending her gift of time exploring in clay how to live with chronic illness.
If you want people to see your pottery, and to buy it, you have to get good at social media. Core Clay studio member Jessica Connor discusses how she leveled up her Instagram for her Overbrook Clay pottery. She's got tips for you.
Another in the conversations with Core Clay's artists in residence: Gabriella Bourgeois
They finished their six-week beginner wheel-throwing class. What did they learn? (Hint: Not as much as the teacher.)
Studio member Mark Young describes his journey from youth minister to bourbon salesman to ceramic artist. Also featuring Moose,
Saya Amend (pronounced AY-mend) comes to Core Clay on an internship from the University of Cincinnati with some insights into how ceramics studios can better adapt so that everyone can use them and feel welcome in the community.
One of our new artists in residence, Autumn McKay, discusses her path into ceramic art and what she would like to accomplish her one year at Core Clay.
It's a tough thing to say good-bye to someone who has grown and matured as an artist right before your eyes. But our own Alondra Biberos drops in with the podcast for something of an exit interview. Yeah, that's what we call it now.
Your clay pal went mano a mano with stupid old COVID-19, so no artist interview this week, but some excellent news bits about awards and upcoming classes.
Potter Bonnie McNett of Loveland's Whistle Stop Clay Works, and a longtime friend of Core Clay talks about her path to becoming a ceramic artist and teacher beside the Little Miami River.
Studio member and Core Clay teacher Emily Dake has a day job -- running the innovative Indigo Hippo, a store that recycles and repurposes art supplies. Core Clay donates some of our pugged-with-love reclaim to Indigo Hippo.
Aminata Chaim, a student at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, is bringing her bubbling personality to Core Clay as a short-term artist in residence.
Studio member Erika NJ Allen says residencies don't have to a year long, or even a month long. She says she got a big bounce in her art from two weeks beside Lake Huron in Michigan.
“It's less about what we're making. The class is built around what skills are we learning per week, and then we have the freedom to design the objects as we see fit.”
Your clay pal does almost all the talking, mudbug, as she submits to the same grilling she gives all guests of “Clay at Our Core.”
A high school art teacher and friend of Core Clay, Sarah Horn talks about the three-week course she'll lead in August on putting images on clay.
Kansas City potter Meredith Host shares with the podcast her techniques for making surfaces the real standout of her pottery.
“With clay,” says Alexa Blanchard, “you can venture out and do so many different things.”
Nancy Sowder, bringing branches of her life together to make mid-range glazes with Speedball
Artist in residence Zania Teman explores her love of insects in her Mason Gallery exhibition.
Studio member Beth Loudenberg describes the value of her three-month artist's residency at Core Clay. For one thing, she built big.
Glaze Wizard Mason Deane describes making a glaze with the cremains of our pal Nicholaus Westerkamp, to be used at a special Clay Club May 21.
Sam, a manager at Core Clay, went to North Carolina for a two-week residency and found that a change of scenery challenged him.
Plus, one more big plug for the Spring Pottery Fair, and one for a special Clay Club: Ashes to Ash Glaze.
Confused about selling at market? Give a llisten to a guy who's done them all and does them well: Dennis Allen of Lebanon, Ohio.
Trish Mclennan, co-chairwoman of the 23rd annual fair, breaks it all down for you: Don't miss it! East Walnut Hills will rock with all the art.
Our own Sam Jayne reports on how Clay Club helps you expand your clay horizons.
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