Make Ceramics

Catherine is an audio storyteller with a background in art based in Oakland, CA, where they produce and host Material Feels, a podcast exploring the intimate relationship between artists and their materials. They began working with clay as a teen and considers the ceramics studio another version of home. They've worked as a fine art framer, gardener, ceramics instructor and art supply copywriter; their writing has been published in The New York Times, WIRED, The British Medical Journal, Leonardo Magazine and Art Dog, an art supply industry blog.

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Hi everyone. Listening to Catherine Monahon talk about ceramics got me thinking about my own creative pursuits. Their world is tangible. The clay is gritty or buttery.  Catherine talks about the physical elements in it and the way you work it to make all the particles align. Listening to them describe the qualities of the material made me realize that I create in a much more abstract way. 

 

Sound waves are of course physical but I don't think of them that way. I do use my hands but most often on a keyboard or a mouse. I produce artifacts but they're mostly digital. People who create with touchable materials must have a different experience when they create and I'm curious about it. 

 

Catherine was a great bridge between the physical and the abstract because as a podcaster, and storyteller as well as a ceramicist they know how to speak of the solid and intangible in ways that I can understand and find fascinating. I hope you agree. Here's the interview.

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