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Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast features weekly interviews with ceramic artists from around the world. Host Ben Carter talks with potters, sculptors, and designers about their creative practice. www.talesofaredclayrambler.com
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ben Carter makes ceramic practice legible through conversations that connect materials and technique with identity, education, business, and daily studio life.
Tales of a Red Clay Rambler follows ceramic work from the kiln room into questions of form, teaching, livelihood, and artistic identity. Ben Carter conducts interviews that let practical knowledge and creative thinking share the same table, giving guests room to describe both…
A kiln relay sits beside queer ceramic form; your pottery brain gets both the mechanics and the meaning.
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A reflective pottery conversation where animal forms, gallery limits, and personal vulnerability open onto community and self-inquiry.
This episode moves past studio process and into animals, vulnerability, and the practical work of showing art in public. A clay show in November 2020, with only six people allowed in the gallery at a time, stands out as a clear example of how artists still make room for…
Brad Klim uses china painting, repeated firings, and grounding oil to turn porcelain into a sharp study of beauty and climate impact.
Brad Klim's conversation with Carter stays with the handwork: china painting, the slow build of color, and the way Klim turns wildlife, disposable plastic products, and corporate logos into images that pull the eye before they let go. The process is the point.
A focused studio conversation about surface, place, and the craft of looking.
Ruth Easterbrook's conversation with Carter stays close to the work itself, with place and studio choices carrying much of the weight. The strongest passage comes when Philadelphia parks, the Wissahickon, spring wildflowers, and Longwood Garden are tied to the way she looks and…
Fluid surfaces and functional pots meet the limits of studio time.
This episode treats surface as more than decoration: water-etched vine-scroll patterns, gold accents, and the pull between a vessel feeling precious and staying usable.
A patient, process-first conversation about sculpture, symbols, and work shaped by change.
Derek Reeverts' conversation keeps its focus on figure sculpture, symbols, and the work behind them, from tools and labor to a Midwestern work ethic.
A thoughtful look at how Alfred's ceramic influence moved through teachers, students, and schools.
This episode treats Alfred ceramic history as a living chain of people and habits, not a tidy institutional summary. Faculty visits, summer school, high school art teachers, and MFA graduates all show how the influence moved outward, with recollection doing most of the work.
A clear eyed studio conversation about why unfamiliar clay can change everything.
The episode keeps its focus on what happens when familiar studio materials stop behaving the way they should. It moves from old Korean pots to coarse iron rich clay, refractory kaolin slip, pinholes, and the kiln's cooling phase, and it does so in a plain, useful way.
A grounded kiln talk that turns repair, safety, and firing problems into studio wisdom.
Theo Uliano and Carter spend this episode on the practical side of kiln work: buying a new kiln, sorting out poor firing, and tracing the problems that show up when heat stops behaving.
Art historian Tamar Avishai interviews critics, curators, and writers about single paintings and ideas.
Jennifer Dasal narrates art history's overlooked lives, from Picasso's police file to Rauschenberg and Twombly's romance.
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament interview artists about their materials, biography, and process.
Cinematographer Roger Deakins and James Deakins interview film crew about the craft behind specific shots.
Robert Bound interviews artists and reviews new film, book, and music releases with critics.
Sound art from places, recordings, and memory.
Alfred becomes a lineage, not a landmark.
A kiln firing goes sideways, and the conversation gets practical fast.
History matters here.
Beth begins with sketches.
History stays close to the hand.
The event becomes a clay map.
Wax refuses to behave.
"Openings are the worst time to look at art." That plain studio line sends the conversation into what installation really has to survive: bodies drifting, benches filling, gallery staff hovering, viewers getting nervous, and the awkward math of how many people a work can take.
Theo Uliano treats kiln repair like work that deserves respect.
Education comes before profit here.
The guest starts with commitment.
The clay talk gets pleasingly hands-on.
Form carries the voice.
The guest begins with change.
Porcelain gets treated as a scale problem.
Ed Eberle's figures feel alone, even when they share the same surface.
The palette keeps getting wider.
The account moves toward industry, and the scale gets serious fast.
Hampton changed the size of what felt possible.
Neutral spotting sounds simple.
Animal figures changed the room.
Material decisions carry weight.
Surface comes first.
Gold changes the pots.
A shared casting practice sits at the center.
The excerpt starts with a symbol.
Episode 539 stays close to the surface, in the most literal way.
Fan culture turns into a studio question here.
Porcelain becomes the central problem.
Neutral spotting starts as a hands-on problem.
A podcast featuring interviews with ceramic artists from around the world, discussing their creative practice.
Host Ben Carter interviews ceramic artist P.J.
Host Ben Carter interviews ceramic artists about their creative practice and work.
Host Ben Carter interviews ceramic artists about their creative practice.
Host Ben Carter interviews ceramic artist Nicole Gugliotti about her creative practice.
Guest host Malaney Barnett interviews Lydia Thompson, Ashlyn Pope, and David McDonald about ceramics from the Black Diaspora.
Host Ben Carter interviews three members of Clay Matters about sustainable practices in ceramic studios.
Host Ben Carter interviews ceramic artists about their creative practice, with this episode featuring his wife Melissa for the 500th episode.
Host Ben Carter interviews ceramic artists from around the world about their creative practice.
Host Ben Carter interviews ceramic artist Catherine White about her wood-fired vessels, painting, pottery, and movement practice.