SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ZAK FOSTER
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SEAMSIDE host Zak Foster explores the inner work of textiles with various textile artists. In each episode, we seek to understand how working with fabric helps make us more human.
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MEMBERSTORY with Wendy Muir
Welcome to MEMBERSTORY, a new series of bonus interviews that bring you real-life stories from the NOOK. These conversations have been a great way to get to know some of folks that make the NOOK so special. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Wendy Muir from Adelaide, Australia.
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HOW TO SAY YES TO HIGH-VOLUME JOY with textile artist Russell James Barratt
Russell James Barratt and his wildly joyful quilts make me want to lasso the UK and bring our two countries closer together. His work is loud and colorful, his demeanor is gentle and composed, and those two sides of Russell make for an imminently enjoyable friend to chat with.
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BACKSTITCH with Coulter Fussell
It’s been a year since Coulter Fussell and I first chatted here on SEAMSIDE. In that conversation, we talked about the South and family history, the role of community in her work, and how she maintains hope in the face of conflict. You can find that first conversation, HOW TO WORK WITH WHAT YOU’VE GOT, in your feed below in March 2023.
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BONUS Convo with Tyrrell Tapaha
We talk about Tyrrell's newest work along with three artists he thinks everyone should follow
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HOW TO TEND THE FLOCK with weaver and sheepherder Tyrrell Tapaha
Tyrrell, a sixth-generation Diné weaver and sheepherder, will tell you there’s nothing in his work that specifically belongs to him. And while it may be true that there’s nothing new under the sun and that all artists draw from deep wells of collective experience, I can’t help but think that there is something special about Tyrrell’s work—the use of text, the collage-like shifts in weaving patterns, the subject matter—that sets his work apart.
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GENERATION: Eroding Foundations and Making It Right
Time continually marching forward. Each new day just piles on top of yesterday and gets buried further back in what we have come to call history.
I think there's a problem with thinking about time that way, and that's what we're exploring today on SEAMSIDE. I'm going to share with you a quilt that I made called Generation. It's part of the Southern White Amnesia, a body of work that I've pulled together in the last couple years, exploring the stories that Southern White families tell each other and the ones they don't.
Customer Reviews
Feels like home
I find myself listening to Seamside when I need some creative and likeminded company in my studio. It feels SO comforting hearing other textile artists share stories of their practice. It’s like I’m genuinely hanging out with them. Zak is so generous to create such a warm space for his guests. And the guests they bring “home” to Seamside are always giving Zak the same love and endless adoration that he gives them. Zak gives his guests so much breathing space when they’re sharing their work, and he always responds with so much care. One of the best feelings, is when I’m listening along, and finding relatable points, and also discovering new ways of creating and sharing that I can put into my own quilt stories. I’m so grateful this Podcast exists, and how the expansive knowledge from this textile community is shared like we are all family. I love coming home to Seamside.
- Samuel Luke
Inspirational
Zak has such a gentle an thoughtful way of interviewing. These talks between creative souls are deeply inspiring and stimulating for those who create in any format. They leave me with ideas and motivation that are so helpful to my own making. Thank you.
Phenomenal!
I can not recommend this podcast highly enough. Especially the COSMIC PHENOMENA episode! Happy-making and inspiration packed … and just brilliantly human. 6/5!!