Introducing my new show: REAL LIVE HUMAN THERAPIST with Gretchen Winterkorn!

Find it wherever you listen to podcasts!

I’m Gretchen Winterkorn, Psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience and real live human being with 41 years of struggle. Welcome to my anti-advice column podcast where I share my own personal struggles and how I work with them every week.

My intention with this podcast is to:

• Heal the myth of the split between mentally healthy and mentally ill people
• Reduce shame in seeking mental health support by sharing my mental health challenges as a mental health professional
• Inspire you with ways to work on/consider your own challenges
• Get curious about/question this role of therapist I occupy and all the benefits and challenges associated with it
• Follow the show so you will be notified when a new episode goes live. 

Learn more about Gretchen via her website www.gretchenwinterkorn.com

How an urgent need to make can lead to simple, accessible tools and methods.  Open pit fire the wild clay you harvested and processed with us earlier in the Season - if you don't have land, use a trashcan!  Can your earthenware make the transition to becoming ceramic?  Emily shares her artistic process and methods as a ceramic artist.   

This is Part 3 of a three-part making exercise over the season of the show – harvesting wild clay (Ep 2), processing wild clay (Ep 11) and firing your wild clay in an open pit (Season finale and Part 3).

About Emily: 

Emily Brownawell is a New York based ceramic artist. She earned her MFA in Ceramics at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Grants and fellowships include the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Technical Assistant, Andrah Scholarship, Research and Creative Projects Award, Bolton Scholarship, and the Virginia Fuller Prize.  She has exhibited at the Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Williamsburg Arts and Historical Center, and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.  

Raised by oceanographers across the street from an intertidal region of Long Island Sound, the marine ecosystem played a powerful role throughout her childhood and continues to inform her practice through visual inspiration and systems of organization. Her work focuses on the physicality of the landscape. In her practice, the ceramic process represents a transformation of natural materials into objects of culture and records of time. Through ceramic sculpture and installation, she explores various relationships between natural and synthetic processes. 

www.emilybrownawell.com

instagram.com/emilybrownawell/

Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

What clay are you from?  Process the wild clay you harvested alongside us in Episode 2 with Andrew Sartorius at the Oki Doki studio.  Turn a bucket of land chunks into a beautiful, silky, moldable clay.  Exploring different relationships to clay bodies.  Andrew shares what it takes to live and work as a full-time artist and the legacy of making passed down from his parents.   

This is Part 2 of a three-part making exercise over the season of the show – harvesting wild clay, processing wild clay (Part 2) and firing your wild clay in an open pit (Season finale and Part 3).

About Andrew:

Andrew Sartorius is the program manager at the Oki Doki studio and a full time wood fire potter living in Germantown NY with his fiancé and fellow ceramic artist Tanya Lee Hamm, and his pup named June.

https://www.andrewsartoriusceramics.com/

https://www.theokidokistudio.com/

Connect with Andrew on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/asartoriusceramics/

Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com