October 30, 2024 • 24 mins
On this episode of The Downtown, we talk to Jaime with Catalyst Creative Arts. Catalyst will be hosting the Eclipse Pottery Exhibition starting this Friday, November 1, and going all the way through November 10th.
We also hear local music from Zakk Magnum with “Fallen Love.” This song debuts to the world today on all streaming services. Enjoy!
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
Welcome to Downtown Art.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You by our own sens.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Listen media.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I am really John and today we talked to Jimmy
with Catalyus Creative Works. CATUS will be hosting the Eclipse
Pottery Exhibition starting this Friday, November first, going all the
way through November tenth. You are not gonna want to
miss this Friday. They will have a reception afterwards. But
we'll get all that here in a second with Jamie.
But first here is some new and local music from
(00:48):
Zach Magnum with Fallen Love.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
She tends on looking and I love the floor. I
can't be out and she tried to down strapped with
ease my mind is Fred advising and.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Lend me.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Love the night. I just want to love, quickly say
out over the fire, sid, I just.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Want to feel.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
She went, I don't said, wouldn't me? I followed you
or two? I can't know, but she found such.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
A diase because she was so more and that I
said you.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
With me.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Love that I just.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
A great way, said the Fus side Crisis the Ship step.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I would like to welcome back to the show Jamie
with Catalys Creative Arts.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
How are you doing today, sir I'm doing really good. John.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
So we're in your new location and you've been here.
You just talked about it almost two years, which is
absolutely insane. It felt like it wasn't even two years
ago that we had talked. I know, how was the
new space treaty?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You know, it's going really great.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I mean, I like the building that we had over
on Division.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
It was very unique.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
But you know, the rent is more affordable over here,
and it's much quieter street with the stop sign right
on the corner.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And I've got some great neighbors.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Like Person's Dance Studio, the Theater, sixth Lounge, and until
you know, January, the museum was here too, right kind
of across the street. So it's been great.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
So Catalys Creating Arts is hosting the Pottery exhibit, which
is happening in November first through November tenth, showcasing for
local artists, one of which is a UTA student. And
you're having a reception this Friday, November first, right after
the exhibit.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Tell us more about this.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
So, yes, we have four local artists and they're all
potters to our full time to work, and it's like
a hobby that they really want.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
To you know, evolve into something more.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
And so I've known these people for a little bit
more than a year now, and we've been kind of
kicking around this idea for a while. And so we
decided that we could transform the studio and not do
any classes for a couple of weeks and transformed into
a gallery. And so that's what we're going to do.
From the November Firth through the tenth We have gallery
(06:51):
hours every single day. People can purchase pottery here from
any of the four potters, and we'll be here so
that people can kind of meet them and talk about
pottery stuff or talk about art or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, we will have the.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Gallery will be open for ten days and purchases can
be picked up at the end. We do have a
system of QR code system. People can make purchases on
their phone while they're here. But it's really just about
showing pottery to people, doing some kind of an art
thing here in downtown Arlington. That's really kind of like
our main goals. Obviously I want to sell all my pieces,
(07:34):
but you know, more more than anything, the inspiration behind
the exhibit was just trying to get a group together
and to do something we don't really see in downtown
and just kind of promote some art, promote them ceramics,
which we all love, and that's what we decided to do.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
So you talked before about how you guys have a
monthly meeting that you do for it. Did this idea
kind of spawn from Can you talk about that for
us so that people who want to come to these
meeting can check it out.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yeah, So we have a pottery social. We call it
Final Friday Pottery Social because it's on the last Friday
of every month January through September, and it's open to
anyone and basically from seven to nine we just kind
of sit around and we talk about different pottery techniques
(08:27):
or tools or products or people.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Sometimes we try to reverse engineer pieces.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
People might buy pieces from or have collective pieces from
potter's well known potters, and we.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Bring them in here and we kind of do like
a show and tell and we just kind of sit
around and drink and.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Meet new people. I guess that's the main thing. I
do have a lot of people coming. It's been growing
every month.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
We usually have i'd say between fifteen and thirteen fifteen people.
I would say about.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Eight or nine of those are usually kind of like
the regulars, and it's been a great group and we
just kind of sit around and just nerd out on
pottery stuff. But we do get people that come in
and and say, hey, you know, I'm I'm I just
moved back to Arlington or or whatever, and I'm just
(09:18):
looking to meet people and I love art. But is
it okay if I call them even though I'm not
a potter? And of course we're like, yeah, it's just
if you don't mind just you know, talking about pottery.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Come on.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
And actually it's funny. We met several people that have
been coming every month that are just artists. Once a
tattoo artist, one's a painter. And you know, we just
had our speed painting competition right in a couple several
weekends ago over at Division Brewing, and you know, all
these people know about it because I talk about the
competition coming up, and this painter I actually decided to
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join the competition.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
And she won.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Well, yeah, she's an amazing painter. Obviously, speed painting is
a little bit different than a painting. Yeah, but you know,
she she's a recent.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Graduate from college.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
She went she's not lived here for a few years,
and then she just moved back. He's like, I want
to meet people. And you know, our speed painting competition
is three rounds and the people advanced by audience vote.
So she did really well. I mean she made always
the end and they you know, she painted that hippo. Yeah,
you know, I forget his name. It's a key move.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I can't remember what it is, something like that. But
I didn't know about it for long at time, and
the yeah, I didn't even know about it until then.
My wife's like, are you kiddy? Be it's everywhere.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
But but we had we had a really good competition,
and the crowd, the crowded divisions always great, So yeah,
this is a fun night.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, you've done multiple things over a division.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Wade again is doing absolutely amazing things over there as well,
and you know, he's so open to art and he's
a big fan of art obviously. He you know, opened
basically his own music venue and then he had a
great pizza place there as well.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So and I love the fact that you go out
there and you are you're not.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Just doing the art shows in the real wars here,
because maybe people don't know about this place, but if
they just happen to be popping individually what is this
and then they just happen to see all this is
like oh crap.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So thank you for.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Doing that as well, because you know, you're bring art
to outside.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
You know, to people who just happening maybe running across it.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
That's exactly what we try to do. We've been doing
the competition since twenty one. Yeah, March with twenty one
was our first one, and we decided that, you know,
we can do a lot of things at the studio
projects and workshops and art classes, but let's do something
on an unsuspecting audience at a cool hangout somewhere else
(11:42):
to try to build because part of our mission is
to try to build art culture in our community, and
so one of the things that we do is those competitions,
and so.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's why we do that. It's been and it's a
lot of fun. We love doing it.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
It's great for the artists that we help that we
find at the competition that we just had, I think
almost every single painting. So we had eight painters first round,
then we went to five, and then we went to three.
Almost all of those paintings sold at night at the
during the competition.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
It's good support, it's good community building, and it's good
for people who just want to go hang out at Division.
All of a sudden, see, they thought we were a band,
Like like every time we go down, they're like, what
do you guys do? What are you going to play tonight?
And we're like, now we're setting up a speed painting competition.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Everybody's like what, yeah, what speed paint Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, I mean they were used to having bands there,
so that I can understand it.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
So tell us more.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
About the sculptures that people can, you know, purchase, about
how many each artist is going to have, about how
many pieces do you think?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
So I'm not exactly sure yet. Okay, I have my
load in here now, is that what I'm looking at it?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
So those are people we're still kind of arranging, trying
to figure out the space. We just finished clearing out
things out of here yesterday to kind of transformed the
classroom into a gallery instead. And he's got a few pieces,
Haley has I guess there's some that are not unboxed.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I do see. She brought a couple of boxes.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
So in the next day or two, maybe even tonight,
there's going to be more sort of arranging and laying
things out.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I think I have maybe sixty pieces, and so.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
I think that everyone's probably going to have like between
thirty and forty pieces something like that.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I don't really know.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
And so we're just kind of work on our arrangements
over the next couple of days and then build out
the web store system because customers can come in and
make a purchase and then they can pick up on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So we're going to have a little QR code on
every piece. Yep, that's what we're going to work on
the next couple of days. Yeah. Yeah, I'm really excited.
We're all really been We've been really kind of geeking
out about it. And I don't know, if you know,
August sixteenth, I broke my wrist.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I did not know that, So, you know, we hustled
all summer to get summer camp done.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
We did nine weeks of the camp.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
I went to cresta Bute for a bike trip at
like a bike festival and had a really bad crash
and fractured the big bone right at the top right
before the wrist got like an in place fracture, but
it was like a centimeter crack, and so that.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Put me like a month behind.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I was going to say yeah, because and I was
really that's all I could think about. As soon as
I hit the ground, I was like, oh my gosh,
what have I done? Besides you know, knowing that my
wife was gonna kill me.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
So I've just been like working like crazy every single
day since I.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Got my cast off. And I'm still a little bit stiff,
but you know, I got lucky. It didn't like break.
It couldn't. I just had to keep it still for
like maybe six weeks in a cast. And then you know,
right now I'm just.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Kind of dealing with like the the whatever's left from
the edema in my joint.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But at least I could I could do pottery.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I didn't have anything done before that because we were
just trying to get summer camp done.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You did all of this since then. There might have
been just a couple of pieces.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
You see, I've used like almost the same glaze and
on each piece, and so prior to making everything, I
had decided, all right, I'm gonna do all my pieces
like this. So I might have had like four pieces done.
The blue one was one of them.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
But out and that other bottle if they were the green.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
But other than that, I had just a few pieces
of these, and so I decided I wanted to do
everything like that one and all of that is new.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
So I've just been really working like crazy. Man. That's impressive.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I mean I don't know how to do one, let
alone that many that quickly.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Congratulations.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Well thanks, yeah, yeah, we're really looking forward to it.
I hope that Arlington respect Well. I've been sitting on
my computer just like mining emails and going back through
all my contacts and talking to like all the wheel
Wars people that we've had out in the last few years,
and you know, just trying to find any kind of
pottery person or art person that I know about to
try to come out or try to spread the word
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about it.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
We've got some good contacts at UTA now, so they were.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Able to post some stuff for us and you know,
some other folks like that to try to help out
and hopefully this can be a good event for everybody.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
So the people do come out, obviously they can buy
the stuff, but let's say they.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Get inspired and want to start making pottery theirselves. You
guys do do classes.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yeah, we do and then you obviously do multiple other
kinds of medium art classes.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
But tell us more about the pottery classes that people
could take.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
So we do several kinds of pottery classes. We have
sort of a regular rotating type of classes for handbuilding, yeah,
which is not on the pottery wheel, And a lot
of people don't think about handbuilding techniques when they think
about pottery.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
You just think about the wheel, right, I mean, it's
so visual, it's iconic. So we offer kind of a
regular rotation of those things. And then I do private
lessons on the wheel.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
And we have multiple different packages packages of private lessons.
It could be a group of up to four people.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
It could be.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Someone who just wants to do a single ninety minute lesson.
It could be someone who wants to do like a
six hour package that we spread into multiple lessons and
then they learn how to do We could focus on techniques,
so that one was really a package that we use
to sort of accommodate or tailor the learning interests of
that person. Some people want to learn how to do
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pottery at home, so they come and they take that one,
or they want to learn certain techniques, and then we
offer continuing education for people who've been through a package
like that, they can come in and do studio time.
And we kind of have several different packages or not packages.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
We have a base.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Price that's with some material and instruction type of things
added in, so we can do some studio time.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
But I don't have a.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Facility like some pottery facilities have lockers and access and.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Student people can go in, you know at midnight or whatever.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
It's not a share space you can do right, yeah, right,
But we do have some continuing students and so we're
you know, we've been blessed with a lot of good
pottery pottery lesson business and we're going to continue to
do that. So hopefully we do get some inspired people
from what we're doing with Eclipse and and you know,
maybe they'll come back for for learning.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Right, And you guys also do other art classes.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
It is a holiday time and you know, I remember
being in our class where we at our own Christmas order,
which I was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, so you guys do a lot of things like
that as well. Yeah, so we're available for parties.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
You know, people want to have a private event with
their families coming in before you know what it's going
to be Thanksgiving and before you know what, it's going
to be the holidays. It's going to go by so
quickly it always does. But we already have most of
the holiday schedules out there. If people want to attend
a class or make gifts at a class, you know,
(19:16):
they can see those out on our calendar which is
at Catalystcreative Arts dot com. There's a full time calendar
out there. November December is already out there. Classes also
make good gifts. They want to give lessons or classes
as a pottery, I'm sorry if they want to give
it as a gift Christmas gift, we do give them
(19:39):
sort of like an email PDF you know, that they
could use to give to as notifying someone of what
the gift is.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, because I know that there are a lot of
parents for you know, whether they be kids or even
adults that you know, or even the you know, the
parents themselves, they need new hobbies or they want to
try new things. And you know, art is something that
everybody needs to try at least once if they haven't
done it in a long time. So you know, you
guys are definitely the best place.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
To do that. So in addition to the pottery exactly.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
We have glass, we have some fabric stuff that we
do several kinds of painting. So you know, if someone's
interested in learning or trying something new, you know, they
should just look at the calendar. They can see all
that stuff. And then so we talked a little bit.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You had the mural outside which somebody had won that competition,
and then you're doing it again in January.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, we're doing it again.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
So we put together a little space on the outside
of one of our walls.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Building walls.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yes, we installed a temporary wall that we could put
on a mural that we can remove.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And so in April last year. This year, in April,
we awarded that to an.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Artist that had We had a group of artists apply
for or submit an idea, submit their work to be selected.
We had sort of a committee of people, my neighbors
and the people that helped fund the project from the
museum deciding looking at all of the applications. And we're
getting ready to do that call again because we want
(21:13):
to do it twice next year. So this year we've
done it since April. Starting in January, we'll want to
have another selection happening where we have this.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It's eight x twelve eight feet by twelve feet. It's
a good size.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
It fits right between the windows on our side that
faces Pursus Dance Studio. And so we're going to do
that selection again and then we'll do it again, probably
at the end of June something like that.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
That's awesome, Yeah, and then you know you're going to
try to find a place for that art, so that
way it done just get thrown away.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I think we're going to pull it down and hold
on to the panels because they're easy enough the way we.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Built it to take them down and keep them for
something else. There may be some other interest or something
else we can do with these, especially maybe after next
year we have several more, or if we get to
continue doing this, it becomes a thing and maybe they
can be displayed somewhere.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
We're kind of toying with some ideas like that, but
we are going to hang on to this one right
as you should.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, because again it's heart and not you going to
trash it. That makes my sense.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
People are going to be shocked when you see that
the you know that the Mustang is.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Gone, Yeah, and be like, oh my gosh, where'd that
mural go? But you know, we'll hype it up and
we'll we'll let.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
You know, yeah, almost like a finale kind of party,
saying bye to it.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
And then that's a good idea. Yeah, yeah, okay, that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
And then obviously once it's done, it's like a christening.
You get like a boat, you break a bottle of
champagne over or something.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Now again, if people want to come out, find you
guys online, you know, sign up for classes.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
How can they deal all with things?
Speaker 5 (22:49):
All of that information, the exhibition information, class information, all
that's on our website, Catalystcreative Arts dot com.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, Jamie, thank you so much for your time. And
I can't wait for this Friday and I think it's
gonna beautiful.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Thanks John, thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
So much to Jamie with Caavist Creative Arts. Again, definitely
come by this Friday, November first. They will have an
absolutely amazing pottery exhibition and also a reception following. And
also thank you so much to Zach Madlan with his
new song follow in Love. The song debut today you
heard it first and a debut for the entire world
on all the streaming platforms. He is definitely revitalizing himself
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for him. Now, why you're doing all the fun stuff,
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Welcome to Downtown Art.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You by our own sens.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Listen media.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I am really John and today we talked to Jimmy
with Catalyus Creative Works. CATUS will be hosting the Eclipse
Pottery Exhibition starting this Friday, November first, going all the
way through November tenth. You are not gonna want to
miss this Friday. They will have a reception afterwards. But
we'll get all that here in a second with Jamie.
But first here is some new and local music from
(00:48):
Zach Magnum with Fallen Love.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
She tends on looking and I love the floor. I
can't be out and she tried to down strapped with
ease my mind is Fred advising and.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Lend me.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Love the night. I just want to love, quickly say
out over the fire, sid, I just.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Want to feel.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
She went, I don't said, wouldn't me? I followed you
or two? I can't know, but she found such.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
A diase because she was so more and that I
said you.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
With me.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Love that I just.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
A great way, said the Fus side Crisis the Ship step.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I would like to welcome back to the show Jamie
with Catalys Creative Arts.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
How are you doing today, sir I'm doing really good. John.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
So we're in your new location and you've been here.
You just talked about it almost two years, which is
absolutely insane. It felt like it wasn't even two years
ago that we had talked. I know, how was the
new space treaty?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You know, it's going really great.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I mean, I like the building that we had over
on Division.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
It was very unique.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
But you know, the rent is more affordable over here,
and it's much quieter street with the stop sign right
on the corner.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And I've got some great neighbors.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Like Person's Dance Studio, the Theater, sixth Lounge, and until
you know, January, the museum was here too, right kind
of across the street. So it's been great.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
So Catalys Creating Arts is hosting the Pottery exhibit, which
is happening in November first through November tenth, showcasing for
local artists, one of which is a UTA student. And
you're having a reception this Friday, November first, right after
the exhibit.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Tell us more about this.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
So, yes, we have four local artists and they're all
potters to our full time to work, and it's like
a hobby that they really want.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
To you know, evolve into something more.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
And so I've known these people for a little bit
more than a year now, and we've been kind of
kicking around this idea for a while. And so we
decided that we could transform the studio and not do
any classes for a couple of weeks and transformed into
a gallery. And so that's what we're going to do.
From the November Firth through the tenth We have gallery
(06:51):
hours every single day. People can purchase pottery here from
any of the four potters, and we'll be here so
that people can kind of meet them and talk about
pottery stuff or talk about art or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, we will have the.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Gallery will be open for ten days and purchases can
be picked up at the end. We do have a
system of QR code system. People can make purchases on
their phone while they're here. But it's really just about
showing pottery to people, doing some kind of an art
thing here in downtown Arlington. That's really kind of like
our main goals. Obviously I want to sell all my pieces,
(07:34):
but you know, more more than anything, the inspiration behind
the exhibit was just trying to get a group together
and to do something we don't really see in downtown
and just kind of promote some art, promote them ceramics,
which we all love, and that's what we decided to do.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
So you talked before about how you guys have a
monthly meeting that you do for it. Did this idea
kind of spawn from Can you talk about that for
us so that people who want to come to these
meeting can check it out.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yeah, So we have a pottery social. We call it
Final Friday Pottery Social because it's on the last Friday
of every month January through September, and it's open to
anyone and basically from seven to nine we just kind
of sit around and we talk about different pottery techniques
(08:27):
or tools or products or people.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Sometimes we try to reverse engineer pieces.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
People might buy pieces from or have collective pieces from
potter's well known potters, and we.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Bring them in here and we kind of do like
a show and tell and we just kind of sit
around and drink and.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Meet new people. I guess that's the main thing. I
do have a lot of people coming. It's been growing
every month.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
We usually have i'd say between fifteen and thirteen fifteen people.
I would say about.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Eight or nine of those are usually kind of like
the regulars, and it's been a great group and we
just kind of sit around and just nerd out on
pottery stuff. But we do get people that come in
and and say, hey, you know, I'm I'm I just
moved back to Arlington or or whatever, and I'm just
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looking to meet people and I love art. But is
it okay if I call them even though I'm not
a potter? And of course we're like, yeah, it's just
if you don't mind just you know, talking about pottery.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Come on.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
And actually it's funny. We met several people that have
been coming every month that are just artists. Once a
tattoo artist, one's a painter. And you know, we just
had our speed painting competition right in a couple several
weekends ago over at Division Brewing, and you know, all
these people know about it because I talk about the
competition coming up, and this painter I actually decided to
(09:51):
join the competition.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
And she won.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Well, yeah, she's an amazing painter. Obviously, speed painting is
a little bit different than a painting. Yeah, but you know,
she she's a recent.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Graduate from college.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
She went she's not lived here for a few years,
and then she just moved back. He's like, I want
to meet people. And you know, our speed painting competition
is three rounds and the people advanced by audience vote.
So she did really well. I mean she made always
the end and they you know, she painted that hippo. Yeah,
you know, I forget his name. It's a key move.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I can't remember what it is, something like that. But
I didn't know about it for long at time, and
the yeah, I didn't even know about it until then.
My wife's like, are you kiddy? Be it's everywhere.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
But but we had we had a really good competition,
and the crowd, the crowded divisions always great, So yeah,
this is a fun night.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, you've done multiple things over a division.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Wade again is doing absolutely amazing things over there as well,
and you know, he's so open to art and he's
a big fan of art obviously. He you know, opened
basically his own music venue and then he had a
great pizza place there as well.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So and I love the fact that you go out
there and you are you're not.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Just doing the art shows in the real wars here,
because maybe people don't know about this place, but if
they just happen to be popping individually what is this
and then they just happen to see all this is
like oh crap.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So thank you for.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Doing that as well, because you know, you're bring art
to outside.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
You know, to people who just happening maybe running across it.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
That's exactly what we try to do. We've been doing
the competition since twenty one. Yeah, March with twenty one
was our first one, and we decided that, you know,
we can do a lot of things at the studio
projects and workshops and art classes, but let's do something
on an unsuspecting audience at a cool hangout somewhere else
(11:42):
to try to build because part of our mission is
to try to build art culture in our community, and
so one of the things that we do is those competitions,
and so.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's why we do that. It's been and it's a
lot of fun. We love doing it.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
It's great for the artists that we help that we
find at the competition that we just had, I think
almost every single painting. So we had eight painters first round,
then we went to five, and then we went to three.
Almost all of those paintings sold at night at the
during the competition.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
It's good support, it's good community building, and it's good
for people who just want to go hang out at Division.
All of a sudden, see, they thought we were a band,
Like like every time we go down, they're like, what
do you guys do? What are you going to play tonight?
And we're like, now we're setting up a speed painting competition.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Everybody's like what, yeah, what speed paint Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, I mean they were used to having bands there,
so that I can understand it.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
So tell us more.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
About the sculptures that people can, you know, purchase, about
how many each artist is going to have, about how
many pieces do you think?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
So I'm not exactly sure yet. Okay, I have my
load in here now, is that what I'm looking at it?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
So those are people we're still kind of arranging, trying
to figure out the space. We just finished clearing out
things out of here yesterday to kind of transformed the
classroom into a gallery instead. And he's got a few pieces,
Haley has I guess there's some that are not unboxed.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I do see. She brought a couple of boxes.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
So in the next day or two, maybe even tonight,
there's going to be more sort of arranging and laying
things out.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I think I have maybe sixty pieces, and so.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
I think that everyone's probably going to have like between
thirty and forty pieces something like that.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I don't really know.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
And so we're just kind of work on our arrangements
over the next couple of days and then build out
the web store system because customers can come in and
make a purchase and then they can pick up on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So we're going to have a little QR code on
every piece. Yep, that's what we're going to work on
the next couple of days. Yeah. Yeah, I'm really excited.
We're all really been We've been really kind of geeking
out about it. And I don't know, if you know,
August sixteenth, I broke my wrist.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I did not know that, So, you know, we hustled
all summer to get summer camp done.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
We did nine weeks of the camp.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
I went to cresta Bute for a bike trip at
like a bike festival and had a really bad crash
and fractured the big bone right at the top right
before the wrist got like an in place fracture, but
it was like a centimeter crack, and so that.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Put me like a month behind.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I was going to say yeah, because and I was
really that's all I could think about. As soon as
I hit the ground, I was like, oh my gosh,
what have I done? Besides you know, knowing that my
wife was gonna kill me.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
So I've just been like working like crazy every single
day since I.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Got my cast off. And I'm still a little bit stiff,
but you know, I got lucky. It didn't like break.
It couldn't. I just had to keep it still for
like maybe six weeks in a cast. And then you know,
right now I'm just.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Kind of dealing with like the the whatever's left from
the edema in my joint.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But at least I could I could do pottery.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I didn't have anything done before that because we were
just trying to get summer camp done.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You did all of this since then. There might have
been just a couple of pieces.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
You see, I've used like almost the same glaze and
on each piece, and so prior to making everything, I
had decided, all right, I'm gonna do all my pieces
like this. So I might have had like four pieces done.
The blue one was one of them.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
But out and that other bottle if they were the green.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
But other than that, I had just a few pieces
of these, and so I decided I wanted to do
everything like that one and all of that is new.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
So I've just been really working like crazy. Man. That's impressive.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I mean I don't know how to do one, let
alone that many that quickly.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Congratulations.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Well thanks, yeah, yeah, we're really looking forward to it.
I hope that Arlington respect Well. I've been sitting on
my computer just like mining emails and going back through
all my contacts and talking to like all the wheel
Wars people that we've had out in the last few years,
and you know, just trying to find any kind of
pottery person or art person that I know about to
try to come out or try to spread the word
(16:17):
about it.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
We've got some good contacts at UTA now, so they were.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Able to post some stuff for us and you know,
some other folks like that to try to help out
and hopefully this can be a good event for everybody.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
So the people do come out, obviously they can buy
the stuff, but let's say they.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Get inspired and want to start making pottery theirselves. You
guys do do classes.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yeah, we do and then you obviously do multiple other
kinds of medium art classes.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
But tell us more about the pottery classes that people
could take.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
So we do several kinds of pottery classes. We have
sort of a regular rotating type of classes for handbuilding, yeah,
which is not on the pottery wheel, And a lot
of people don't think about handbuilding techniques when they think
about pottery.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
You just think about the wheel, right, I mean, it's
so visual, it's iconic. So we offer kind of a
regular rotation of those things. And then I do private
lessons on the wheel.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
And we have multiple different packages packages of private lessons.
It could be a group of up to four people.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
It could be.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Someone who just wants to do a single ninety minute lesson.
It could be someone who wants to do like a
six hour package that we spread into multiple lessons and
then they learn how to do We could focus on techniques,
so that one was really a package that we use
to sort of accommodate or tailor the learning interests of
that person. Some people want to learn how to do
(17:48):
pottery at home, so they come and they take that one,
or they want to learn certain techniques, and then we
offer continuing education for people who've been through a package
like that, they can come in and do studio time.
And we kind of have several different packages or not packages.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
We have a base.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Price that's with some material and instruction type of things
added in, so we can do some studio time.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
But I don't have a.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Facility like some pottery facilities have lockers and access and.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Student people can go in, you know at midnight or whatever.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
It's not a share space you can do right, yeah, right,
But we do have some continuing students and so we're
you know, we've been blessed with a lot of good
pottery pottery lesson business and we're going to continue to
do that. So hopefully we do get some inspired people
from what we're doing with Eclipse and and you know,
maybe they'll come back for for learning.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Right, And you guys also do other art classes.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
It is a holiday time and you know, I remember
being in our class where we at our own Christmas order,
which I was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, so you guys do a lot of things like
that as well. Yeah, so we're available for parties.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
You know, people want to have a private event with
their families coming in before you know what it's going
to be Thanksgiving and before you know what, it's going
to be the holidays. It's going to go by so
quickly it always does. But we already have most of
the holiday schedules out there. If people want to attend
a class or make gifts at a class, you know,
(19:16):
they can see those out on our calendar which is
at Catalystcreative Arts dot com. There's a full time calendar
out there. November December is already out there. Classes also
make good gifts. They want to give lessons or classes
as a pottery, I'm sorry if they want to give
it as a gift Christmas gift, we do give them
(19:39):
sort of like an email PDF you know, that they
could use to give to as notifying someone of what
the gift is.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, because I know that there are a lot of
parents for you know, whether they be kids or even
adults that you know, or even the you know, the
parents themselves, they need new hobbies or they want to
try new things. And you know, art is something that
everybody needs to try at least once if they haven't
done it in a long time. So you know, you
guys are definitely the best place.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
To do that. So in addition to the pottery exactly.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
We have glass, we have some fabric stuff that we
do several kinds of painting. So you know, if someone's
interested in learning or trying something new, you know, they
should just look at the calendar. They can see all
that stuff. And then so we talked a little bit.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You had the mural outside which somebody had won that competition,
and then you're doing it again in January.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, we're doing it again.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
So we put together a little space on the outside
of one of our walls.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Building walls.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yes, we installed a temporary wall that we could put
on a mural that we can remove.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And so in April last year. This year, in April,
we awarded that to an.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Artist that had We had a group of artists apply
for or submit an idea, submit their work to be selected.
We had sort of a committee of people, my neighbors
and the people that helped fund the project from the
museum deciding looking at all of the applications. And we're
getting ready to do that call again because we want
(21:13):
to do it twice next year. So this year we've
done it since April. Starting in January, we'll want to
have another selection happening where we have this.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It's eight x twelve eight feet by twelve feet. It's
a good size.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
It fits right between the windows on our side that
faces Pursus Dance Studio. And so we're going to do
that selection again and then we'll do it again, probably
at the end of June something like that.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
That's awesome, Yeah, and then you know you're going to
try to find a place for that art, so that
way it done just get thrown away.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I think we're going to pull it down and hold
on to the panels because they're easy enough the way we.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Built it to take them down and keep them for
something else. There may be some other interest or something
else we can do with these, especially maybe after next
year we have several more, or if we get to
continue doing this, it becomes a thing and maybe they
can be displayed somewhere.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
We're kind of toying with some ideas like that, but
we are going to hang on to this one right
as you should.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, because again it's heart and not you going to
trash it. That makes my sense.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
People are going to be shocked when you see that
the you know that the Mustang is.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Gone, Yeah, and be like, oh my gosh, where'd that
mural go? But you know, we'll hype it up and
we'll we'll let.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
You know, yeah, almost like a finale kind of party,
saying bye to it.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
And then that's a good idea. Yeah, yeah, okay, that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
And then obviously once it's done, it's like a christening.
You get like a boat, you break a bottle of
champagne over or something.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Now again, if people want to come out, find you
guys online, you know, sign up for classes.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
How can they deal all with things?
Speaker 5 (22:49):
All of that information, the exhibition information, class information, all
that's on our website, Catalystcreative Arts dot com.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, Jamie, thank you so much for your time. And
I can't wait for this Friday and I think it's
gonna beautiful.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Thanks John, thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
So much to Jamie with Caavist Creative Arts. Again, definitely
come by this Friday, November first. They will have an
absolutely amazing pottery exhibition and also a reception following. And
also thank you so much to Zach Madlan with his
new song follow in Love. The song debut today you
heard it first and a debut for the entire world
on all the streaming platforms. He is definitely revitalizing himself
(23:28):
and I can't read to see what the future holds
for him. Now, why you're doing all the fun stuff,
Make sure to eat local, drink local, and let me
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