The Maker's Playbook
The Maker's Playbook
Rebecca Ickes Carra
Ep 722: Bursts, Not Balance (Finding Your Own Creative Rhythm) with Shalya Marsh
1 hour 25 minutes Posted Jul 26, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
Shayla Marsh
Meet Shalya Marsh
Algorithms and Visibility
Consistency Beats Novelty
Ceramics Origins and Training
From Sculpture to Grad School
University Tech Lab Years
Pandemic Pivot to Pots
Stencils to Tool Business
Press Plates Launch Dirty
Marketing Versus Making
Wearing Many Hats
Cycles and Hiring Help
Studio Renovation Crunch
Heating Clay Spaces
Launch Dirty Logistics
Showing Imperfect Process
Cyclical Studio Practice
Start Clay Anytime
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Send us Fan Mail Many makers treat consistency as the goal and cyclical creative rhythms as something to fix — but Shalya Marsh, of Shalya Marsh Studios, has built a three-decade career on making, unmaking, and remaking herself: sculptor to potter, employee to entrepreneur, solo maker to (almost) business owner with an assistant. Her conversation digs into whether "balance" is really the wrong word for what most working makers experience, and whether cyclical bursts of energy — not steady dai...