Episode 003: Courtney Martin
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05/26/20 • 60 min
Courtney Martin is a Spruce Pine, NC-based studio potter specializing in wood fired goods. She talks about her influences of geometry and the pottery of Mata Ortiz, which based a pottery style on the archeology of Casas Grandes in Chihuahua, Mexico. She also touches on pirates and parenting while working as a full-time craftsperson. With Courtney, we get a glimpse of the sea change in wood fired ceramics being pioneered by women.
See more of her work at www.courtneymartinpottery.com and on Instagram @courtneymartinpotter.
Courtney’s craft crushes include Holly Walker, Anni Albers, Daniel Garver, and Eleanor Anderson
Some resources mentioned in the episode are Penland School of Crafts, STARworks, Spruce Pine Potters Market, and Cousins in Clay.
Courtney Martin is a Spruce Pine, NC-based studio potter specializing in wood fired goods. She talks about her influences of geometry and the pottery of Mata Ortiz, which based a pottery style on the archeology of Casas Grandes in Chihuahua, Mexico. She also touches on pirates and parenting while working as a full-time craftsperson. With Courtney, we get a glimpse of the sea change in wood fired ceramics being pioneered by women.
See more of her work at www.courtneymartinpottery.com and on Instagram @courtneymartinpotter.
Courtney’s craft crushes include Holly Walker, Anni Albers, Daniel Garver, and Eleanor Anderson
Some resources mentioned in the episode are Penland School of Crafts, STARworks, Spruce Pine Potters Market, and Cousins in Clay.
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Episode 002: Beth Homa-Kraus
Beth Homa-Kraus is a Minneapolis-based birch bark weaver. Beth introduces filthy basket talk, weaver fever and some very important bark removal techniques. She touches on the usefulness of trying new crafts and how important harvesting and processing material is to the final product. Adventures with skunks, floating down the Mississippi as a basket missionary, staining baskets with wine, and her guinea pig, Kip are woven into her story.
See more of her work at
www.homa-style.com and on Instagram @birchbarkbeth. She LIVEstreams basket weaving on Instagram at 7PM Central Time.
Beth’s craft crushes include April Stone and Dennis Chilcote.
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Side Projects: "The Hand: At the Heart of Craft"
Welcome to Side Projects, a space dedicated to interesting essays and thoughts, and also a place where we share current happenings at craft schools for those looking for classes or scholarship opportunities. Our first project is dedicated to reading an excerpt from Bruce Metcalf's essay, “The Hand: at the Heart of Craft.” We reflect on the essay, but mostly just wanted to give y’all some food for thought. We hope you enjoy it!.
Our source for the episode is Bruce Metcalf’s article “The Hand: At the Heart of Craft”, American Craft, August/September 2000, Volume 60, Number 4
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