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Naomi Peterson creates cute objects that invite consideration beyond the inanimate. Naomi mixes bright colors and soft patterns with hard materials to investigate the emotive potential of functional things. Using her traditional ceramic background as a lens to view material and process, Naomi builds forms layer by layer, often integrating analog and digital methods. Naomi is a full-time ceramic artist based in Houston, TX. https://ThePottersCast.com/1250

Nicole Kluba is the owner of Kluba Ceramics and lives in the town of Seagrove, North Carolina. Seagrove is a small, rural town which also happens to be the pottery capital of the US. Nicole has grown up in Seagrove and has been exposed to pottery not only in the community, but in her family as well. Before Nicole began creating pottery full time in March 2024, she worked in emergency services for four and a half years until she left at age 23 to pursue pottery as a career. https://ThePottersCast.com/1249

Joe and Emilie Bott are the owners and operators of The Tilted Kiln and the creators of Clay Con West, which they founded in 2018. Joe and Emilie are passionate about bringing the clay community together through creativity, education, and connection. When they are not working in the studio or organizing events, Joe and Emilie enjoy spending time with their family and sharing their love of ceramics with others. https://ThePottersCast.com/1248

Esther Drone is a potter and ceramic artist based in Langford on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Esther has facilitated a variety of groups as a pottery instructor. Esther's work is predominately functional and is currently available in a variety of shops in the Greater Victoria area. https://ThePottersCast.com/1247

Ceramics has granted Madison Smith the unwavering power to transform a simple pile of dirt into an external force of her subconscious. Madison creates sculptures to connect to her disorderly childhood and construct wares to spread joy. Madison's overall themes include the magic of childlike wonder and the undeniable reality of the life she has been forced to reckon with. https://ThePottersCast.com/1246

Jordan Gale is a ceramic artist working at the intersection of sculptural and functional pottery. Jordan's embrace of organic textures attempts to blur the line between utility and expressive form. Born and raised in Eastern Iowa, Jordan attended the University of Iowa, where he was introduced to pottery. Jordan currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. https://ThePottersCast.com/1245

Yoon Hee Kim is a Korean ceramic artist and educator based in the United States. Through Yoon Lab Ceramics, Yoon creates contemporary Moon Jars inspired by Korean heritage and nature. Yoon teaches wheel throwing internationally and online, helping potters create taller, stronger forms while sharing the mindfulness found through making. https://ThePottersCast.com/1244

Jordan Munro. founder of High Country Art, is a ceramic artist based in rural Yellowhead County, Alberta. A graduate of Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Munro creates wheel-thrown pottery decorated with hand-drawn and screen printed imagery inspired by animals, landscape, and rural life, fired in a natural gas kiln. https://ThePottersCast.com/1243

Wade was born in Nashville, Tennessee and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan by former opera singers. Wade earned a BA from Western Michigan University and an MFA in ceramics from Michigan State University. Wade has exhibited internationally and received the NCECA Emerging Artist award in 2018. He teaches at The University of Alabama. https://ThePottersCast.com/1242

Michelle Grimm approaches clay with curiosity, experimentation, and patience. Shaping by hand, Michelle explores diverse glazing and firing techniques, often incorporating organic materials and research. Embracing unpredictability, Michelle's work balances control and surrender. The resulting vessels—both functional and sculptural—are original forms that reflect a connection to nature, history, and the elemental forces of making. https://ThePottersCast.com/1241

Jacqueline Wei is a Los Angeles–based architect and part time ceramicist. Jacqueline established Wei.ware in 2018 as an extension of her architectural voice. Influenced by brutalism, Jacqueline's ceramic work explores structure and sensory experience through intentional studies of form, scale, and texture, translating architectural ideas into tactile objects. https://ThePottersCast.com/1240

Karyn Gabriel is a San Francisco Bay Area artist with a BFA from the University of Michigan and post-baccalaureate studies in ceramics at Oregon College of Art and Craft. Grounded in pattern as a visual language, Karyn's sculptures are inspired by structural references from architecture to textile construction. Pared down, elemental forms expose a slightly brutal beauty while emphasizing the interplay between surface and structure. https://ThePottersCast.com/1239

Bethany Yorgason is a ceramic and resin artist inspired by the natural world. With over a decade of experience in pottery and about 5 years with resin, Beth found it so profoundly interesting and amazing to preserve nature through incorporating real flowers, insects, and organic textures into her work. Beth loves creating pieces that are slightly unsettling, but in a way that you can't help but see the beauty in it —each one completely unique. https://ThePottersCast.com/1238

Michelle "Meesh" Ramadan is a potter chasing joy, color, and expressive play in clay. After recently moving from her home studio in Melrose, MA to Montpellier, France, Michelle is navigating the adventure of rebuilding her ceramics practice and letting curiosity lead the way. Michelle loves teaching, throwing big bowls, tiny vases, and sculpting whimsical pinch-pot sculptures. https://ThePottersCast.com/1237

Shelby Trahan is the owner of Jacques' Pottery Shop in her hometown of Welsh, Louisiana. Shelby graduated from McNeese State University in 2018 with a Bachelor's in Art and opened her studio the following July. Shelby creates mostly functional dinnerware pieces. Shelby is passionate about using her studio to bring clay to others. https://ThePottersCast.com/1236

Rob and Debbie Rivett are a collaboration between thrower and artist making contemporary wheel thrown porcelain slipware. Rob enjoys the challenges that throwing with porcelain present and seeks to emphasize the characteristics of the clay by creating sleek, flowing forms which become a canvas for Debbie to paint on. Debbie brings her love of walking and appreciation of often overlooked areas of grass land to life in her lively landscape paintings. Using a combination of brushwork and Sgraffito, Debbie's experiments with slip see her using it in a unique and painterly way which captures the swaying grasses of the field margins in England. https://ThePottersCast.com/1235

Carter Pasma is a potter and educator currently working as the studio manager at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Carter earned his BFA in ceramics from the University of Wisconsin–Stout, and his MFA in ceramics from Utah State University. Carters's work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, in 2022 he was recognized as one of Ceramics Monthly's Emerging Artists of the Year. Carter's ceramics practice and educational insights have been featured in multiple issues of Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated, where he was recently highlighted on the cover. https://ThePottersCast.com/1233

Elisa Dalle Molle began pottery during a challenging time, finding calm and connection through clay. After moving to Ireland in 2020, Elisa launched a sea-inspired ceramics business. Though now working full-time, Elisa continues creating and teaching pottery as a self regulating practice, sharing its therapeutic power with others through mindful, creative classes. https://ThePottersCast.com/1232

Richard Wright has made pots for 30 years. Living in Lenoir North Carolina, Richard is a full time potter. Previously a Physical Therapist, Richard continues to use his hands but in a more craft centered way. Richard's work is considered Catawba Valley traditional pottery, where the potters use native clay with an attention to form. Richard lives with his wife of 29 yrs, has 3 children, and lives in a home from the 1800s. https://ThePottersCast.com/1231

Chloe Abla Baigent is a self-taught ceramicist based in Tasmania, Australia. Combining her horticultural career with her creativity in clay, she designs and builds unique homewares including hand basins, tiled furniture, decorative wall art, and garden sculptures — all inspired by the natural world and a commitment to sustainable living. https://ThePottersCast.com/1230