343: Celebrate Clay Week 2020 with Walter Ostrom on the conceptual potential of pottery

Today on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an
interview with Walter Ostrom. Originally recorded in the summer
of 2015 this interview is being rebroadcast in celebration of
Clay Week. I made a playlist featuring five archival releases
that relate to the themes of Clay Week. This episode fits with
Teaching Tuesday. Through his almost forty-year teaching career
at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design he upheld functional
ceramics as a conceptually rich medium that deserved equal
footing in academia. One of the early adopters of earthenware
Maiolica pottery in North America, Walter has been a major
influence on generations of ceramic artists. To hear the rest of
the themed episodes stream them from our website at
www.talesofaredclayrambler.com/resources/clay-week-2020-play-list.


 


On today’s Amaco Community Corkboard we have Clay Week Open
Studio, an international outreach event that celebrates clay,
community, and creativity. Join us this weekend October 9-11,
2020 for virtual demonstrations, lectures, and online sales that
are happening across the U.S. To find out more about Open Studio
visit www.clayweek.org/openstudio.