The Kiln Sitters

This week we launch Season 2 with our hosts Marianne Chénard, Carole Epp, and Brendan Tang talking about their summer travels and a few upcoming events in Canadian ceramics. They end the episode shouting out their current "kaolin crushes": Judith Dubord , Heidi Mackenzie , and Trevor Novak.   Today's episode is brought to you by the following sponsors:   For the past 100 years, AMACO Brent has bee...

Marianne Chénard, Carole Epp, and Brendan Tang are back for season two of The Kiln Sitters . We are excited to continue our exploration of Canadian ceramics and are happy to report we will be switching over to a yearlong format this season. This means we will be publishing an episode every other Wednesday starting October 12th. You can find all of our episodes on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your f...

This week we wrap up Season 1 with a panel discussion featuring our hosts Marianne Chénard, Carole Epp, and Brendan Tang. They talk about the diversity of perspectives from which you can view Canadian ceramics and what to look forward to in Season 2. Today's episode is brought to you by the following sponsors:   For the past 100 years, AMACO Brent has been creating ceramic supplies for our communi...

This week we have the first live episode of The Kiln Sitters. Our hosts answer listener questions about making a career in Canada, the survival of digital communities after the pandemic, and unity within the greater North American clay community. Kaolin Crush: Cassils , Nancy Oakley , Kaitlyn Brennan Today's episode is brought to you by the following sponsors: For the past 100 years, AMACO Brent h...

This week's interview is a blend of French and English, and speaks to the hybridity explored in our guest's work. Marianne Chénard talks with Yanik Potvin about the role performance plays in his approach to ceramics, and his research methods, including collaborating with primates. In their broad ranging conversation, they also discuss marginal culture, punk music , and the need to rupture conventi...

This week on The Kiln Sitters, Carole sits down with Toronto based artists Japneet Kaur and Enas Satir to talk about storytelling in clay, as well as each artist's crossover practices in illustration, film and graphic design. Join the artists as they talk about vulnerability in art, the power of an object to further our engagement in narrative, and how immigration to Canada changed the trajectory...

This week on the Kiln sitters, Brendan sits down with the incredibly talented Mary Fox, an artist based on Vancouver Island in the town of Ladysmith. In the interview they talk about Fox's initial steps in the medium, to developing an amazing art career, finding love, managing illness, creating a legacy and so much more! To start the episode the gang sits down around Carole's wood fired test kiln...

L'Art de la Table translates as the art for the table, which beautifully describes the symbiosis of food as art that is Catherine Auriol's ceramic work. This interview introduces you to Catherine, a potter who has been working with clay for over 25 years, running her own store front in Montreal city Quebec, innovating within the Quebec ceramic scene, and recently collaborating with the best Canadi...

On today's episode, host Carole Epp sits down with one of her all-time Canadian clay heroes Judy Chartrand. This is a conversation 20 years in the making, as Judy was a graduate student at the University of Regina back when Carole was getting her start as an undergrad. Join the pair for an episode that will challenge your perceptions on inclusivity and address the strides we need to make to suppor...

Working in ceramics can be an ever evolving thing. For some of us we luck out with how we want to work in the material early, while for others it is an ongoing journey. Brendan sits down with Gailan Ngan to have a chat about that very journey. The conversation meanders from functional potter to sculpture to materials to abstraction to family.   Kaolin Crush Instalinks: matkaras.com @pastasaladbran...

Design is often a word that emerges in conversation when talking about ceramic objects. In this week's episode, Marianne sits down with internationally known designer Koen de Winter to discuss how his training in ceramics informed his career, and how working with clay was essential to his approach when working with other materials. Mr. De Winter was born in Belgium and now lives in Saint André Ave...

We're all seeking balance in our lives, looking for signs that we're on the right path creatively and professionally. This week the sitters had some laughs, possibly some tears, and stayed warm huddled up by the electric kiln to chat about how life tosses you into unexpected situations. All this was inspired by Carole's interview with Cathy Terepocki and Heather Bruan Dahl, two of Canada's #badass...

Inspired by this week's interview with Vin Arora, the sitters gathered around the flat-top wood kiln to chat about their clay journeys. Brendan met Vin in the early 00's and continues to be taken back by all the things he has going on; running his own production studio, making work for high end restaurants, being a great Dad, and most recently opening a ceramic teaching studio in East Vancouver, B...

For this inaugural episode of The Kiln Sitters our hosts share stories about their upbringings, ceramic education, and love for Canadian ceramics. They end with a lightning round of questions including their current "kaolin crushes": Sarah Pike, KC Adam, Dawn Pettigrew, and Marissa Y Alexander.   Today's episode is brought to you by the following sponsors:   For the past 100 years, AMACO Brent has...

Marianne Chénard, Carole Epp and Brendan Tang sit down with artists and makers of all ages from across Canada to shed light on the contemporary ceramic scene. You may have thought Canada was all polar bears and maple syrup, but we're serving up a heaping dose of artists you should really know about. From the coast to the prairies, the big cities and small communities; we're here to find out what m...