Clay At Our Core: A Pottery Podcast

Mar 03 2025 128 ep. 23 mins 6

Clay At Our Core: A Pottery Podcast artwork

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.

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Episode 128: How clay saved Emrys Falco's life

Mar 03 2025 38 mins

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.

Episode 127: Abby Fadel, finding her way into pottery

Feb 24 2025 19 mins

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.

Episode 126: Into the snow

Feb 17 2025 7 mins

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.

Episode 125: Vern Lash and the power of sculpture

Feb 10 2025 27 mins

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.

Episode 124: Studio update

Feb 03 2025 5 mins

No artist interview, but updates on the pug mill, the washing machine and the new slate of "next step" classes at Core Clay.

Episode 123: The Sams and the art of "Looking"

Jan 27 2025 26 mins

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.

Episode 122: The insight of Cassandra Jones

Jan 13 2025 21 mins

Studio member Cassandra Jones, blind since before she was 10, has developed a practice at Core Clay to find the artist inside her.

Episode 121: Laura Davis, how did you do this?

Jan 06 2025 27 mins

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.

Episode 120: The dancing threads of Lex Jahne

Dec 23 2024 25 mins

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 .

Episode 119: Ken Lay and the restoration of discovery

Dec 16 2024 23 mins

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.