“It’s less about what we’re making. The class is built around what skills are we learning per week, and then we have the freedom to design the objects as we see fit.”

Your clay pal does almost all the talking, mudbug, as she submits to the same grilling she gives all guests of “Clay at Our Core.”

A high school art teacher and friend of Core Clay, Sarah Horn talks about the three-week course she’ll lead in August on putting images on clay.

Kansas City potter Meredith Host shares with the podcast her techniques for making surfaces the real standout of her pottery.

“With clay,” says Alexa Blanchard, “you can venture out and do so many different things.”

Nancy Sowder, bringing branches of her life together to make mid-range glazes with Speedball

Artist in residence Zania Teman explores her love of insects in her Mason Gallery exhibition.

Studio member Beth Loudenberg describes the value of her three-month artist’s residency at Core Clay. For one thing, she built big.

Glaze Wizard Mason Deane describes making a glaze with the cremains of our pal Nicholaus Westerkamp, to be used at a special Clay Club May 21.

Sam, a manager at Core Clay, went to North Carolina for a two-week residency and found that a change of scenery challenged him.