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Randy is a colorful little guy who likes to sing show tunes at the top of his lungs (usually while in the car).

The Monsterpot Story

December 11, 2022

The Monsterpots are what you’d call a staple in my Kest Pottery shop. In marketing parlance, it’s called a “signature item” that I make all the time and it’s a unique thing. One might call it a branded work and in doing so, I betray the fact that I’ve been doing waaaaayyyy too much research about marketing.

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Trolls, terra cotta. 2020

When you have everything you need....

November 18, 2022

We artists beat ourselves up for not being able to make a living at our art. We get depressed when we're not making as much money as we need to live solely on our art. But I'm telling you that's okay. That you're doing *any* artistic endeavor at all is success--- the success is in the doing. And in an ever-increasingly capitalist industrial world, making art from one's own hands is a radical and subversive act.

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In Creativity, Art Education Tags Kate Northrup, Money A Love Story, making money in art, scarcity, abundance

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