153 - Choosing Clay Over Comfort

Sinclaire Marie describes a gradual but decisive shift from charcoal drawing into ceramics, driven less by strategy than by a growing sense that her earlier work no longer felt honest. She traces her deepening commitment through atmospheric firing—raku, wood, soda—and the formative role of access, noting how losing university kilns after graduation forced her into electric work while she built a parallel career in arts administration. Working at a small nonprofit meant teaching, curating, and sustaining community programs, often at the expense of her own studio practice, even as she continued making pots at home and discovered the power of sharing clay through outreach work like teaching in a local jail. That tension—between supporting art and making it—eventually clarified what was missing, leading her back to wood firing, additional study, and ultimately a residency at Queen City Clay. What emerges is a portrait of commitment shaped through interruption, persistence, and a slow recognition that without clay, something essential was absent.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.Support Loose Leaf Transmissions on Patreon at patreon.com/LooseLeafTransmissions.Follow us on Instagram: @loose.leaf.transmissionsmicro/Maker is a production of Loose Leaf Transmissions: Made for All Ears. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.