Recycling our midfire clay is a massively labor-intensive process, but Hannah Bundschuh and Vern Lash make it look easy. But it's not.

Robyn Singerman explains what's happening to the Mason Gallery of Crafts and Fine Arts and the gallery store. The goal: Make the corner of Montgomery Road and Hudson Avenue in peace-loving Norwood THE arts destination.

A Core Clay studio member, Sara Petticrew is a regular participant in the free Clay Club events. She says she finds consolation in her clay practice.

The series of conversations with Core Clay artists in residence continues with Payne Fleming, who is spending her gift of time exploring in clay how to live with chronic illness.

If you want people to see your pottery, and to buy it, you have to get good at social media. Core Clay studio member Jessica Connor discusses how she leveled up her Instagram for her Overbrook Clay pottery. She's got tips for you.

Another in the conversations with Core Clay's artists in residence: Gabriella Bourgeois

They finished their six-week beginner wheel-throwing class. What did they learn? (Hint: Not as much as the teacher.)

Studio member Mark Young describes his journey from youth minister to bourbon salesman to ceramic artist. Also featuring Moose,

Saya Amend (pronounced AY-mend) comes to Core Clay on an internship from the University of Cincinnati with some insights into how ceramics studios can better adapt so that everyone can use them and feel welcome in the community.

One of our new artists in residence, Autumn McKay, discusses her path into ceramic art and what she would like to accomplish her one year at Core Clay.

It's a tough thing to say good-bye to someone who has grown and matured as an artist right before your eyes. But our own Alondra Biberos drops in with the podcast for something of an exit interview. Yeah, that's what we call it now.

Your clay pal went mano a mano with stupid old COVID-19, so no artist interview this week, but some excellent news bits about awards and upcoming classes.

Potter Bonnie McNett of Loveland's Whistle Stop Clay Works, and a longtime friend of Core Clay talks about her path to becoming a ceramic artist and teacher beside the Little Miami River.

Studio member and Core Clay teacher Emily Dake has a day job -- running the innovative Indigo Hippo, a store that recycles and repurposes art supplies. Core Clay donates some of our pugged-with-love reclaim to Indigo Hippo.

Aminata Chaim, a student at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, is bringing her bubbling personality to Core Clay as a short-term artist in residence.

Studio member Erika NJ Allen says residencies don't have to a year long, or even a month long. She says she got a big bounce in her art from two weeks beside Lake Huron in Michigan.

“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.

Plus, one more big plug for the Spring Pottery Fair, and one for a special Clay Club: Ashes to Ash Glaze.

Confused about selling at market? Give a llisten to a guy who’s done them all and does them well: Dennis Allen of Lebanon, Ohio.

Trish Mclennan, co-chairwoman of the 23rd annual fair, breaks it all down for you: Don’t miss it! East Walnut Hills will rock with all the art.

Our own Sam Jayne reports on how Clay Club helps you expand your clay horizons.

Core Clay’s contingent to the annual pottery conference returns exhilarated about what they witnessed.

For the senior at Cincinnati’s School of Creative and Performing Arts, the future could mean pottery … or firefighting.

Erika NJ Allen, a Core Clay artist in residence, tells her remarkable journey to clay

Seems easy, the wedding favor. But Debbie and Monica Phipps learned otherwise. Here’s how they made 160 trinket dishes for Monica’s wedding.

Donita Parrish Debono makes connections between her legal work and her clay art.

Leslie Hutchings Miller is a potter in Worcester, Massachusetts, who needed some clay. She came all the way to peace-loving Norwood for it. Also, she’s my old pal.

Roundtable talk with two Core Clay artists who are good at selling their art. You can be, too!

Studio members Noah Desch, Randy Folz and Dana Makstaller offer tips and tricks to marketing your pottery.

Artist, teacher, social media queen Alondra Biberos lifts the curtain on her first solo show, at the Mason Gallery.

Core Clay photographer Robin Singerman gives some tips to improve your photos of your wares. Watch those shadows!

Laura Davis, owner of Core Clay, gives her state of the studio address as the podcast marks a year.

Lily Malone uses her clay practice to explore techniques and designs. She made her brother a sake set, too.

Molly Kavanaugh just finished her first beginner hand-building class, and she has some thoughts.

Learning to be patient with others and with herself is a big lesson for Rosie Bentley in the studio.

In which we hear Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Song of the Potter.” For our patron saint, Nicholaus Haar Westerkamp.

How studio member Noah Desch married his clay skills and his cooking skills. Also: details on the Nicholaus Westerkamp memorial Dec. 28 at Core Clay.

Studio member Nick Robson balances her weekdays as a senior at Wyoming High School and her weekends as a Core Clay member. Also: Nicholaus Westerkamp.

Like many new potters, Cosmo Philpott says his practice teaches him the virtue of patience.