I’ve been working in clay for 24 years, and all this time, wheel throwing has been my obsession. I delight in making a series of pots which feel related like family, and I vacillate between black and white work and exploring color. I have a background in painting, and I have always been an athlete, both inform my ceramic work. More recently I have been exploring functional vases and bowls, but function has never been my main interest. I see the clay as a primal source material in which I can express whatever I desire, and creating functional pots isn’t always my intent. Creating ceramic objects that hold mystery, individuality, and a sense of the sacred is my goal.
https://hechoamano.org/artist/heather-bradley

Kat Kinnick

A Creative Excuse is a reason to build relationships with artists and talk about how art actually gets made. Hosted by Santa Fe–based couple Frank Rose, a gallerist and curator, and Kara Duval, an artist, dancer, and bodyworker, the podcast is an open-ended conversation with artists from New Mexico and beyond. Each guest is in the midst of - or has just completed - a body of work for an exhibition, so the work, the doubts, the obsessions, and the everyday realities of creative life are all part of the exchange. Presented by Hecho a Mano, A Creative Excuse is less about answers and more about paying attention: to process, presence, and the strange, necessary act of making things.