432: Takuro Shibata on developing local clays at STARworks ceramics

Today on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I talk with
Takuro Shibata, a working potter and Director of STARworks
Ceramics in Star, NC. In our interview we talk about settling in
North Carolina after a degree in chemical engineering and a
ceramic apprenticeship in Japan, and developing an aesthetic
using local materials fired in a wood kiln. We also discuss his
forthcoming book Wild Clay: Creating ceramics and glazes from
natural and found resources , which he coauthored with
Hitomi Shibata and Matt Levy. For more information visit
www.studiotouya.com.


 


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