Why Make? Podcast

Why Make? Podcast
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Why Make? Podcast

monthly conversations with makers exploring creativity and why they make

  1. MAR 24

    Why Make? Episode 68: What a Ferris Wheel Ride it has Been with Miranda Jones

    This episode of Why Make? is brought to you by Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.Thanks to Haystack to becoming our first sponsor and partner. Haystack currently has open spaces in select Square ONE Workshops for beginners and Summer 2025 Workshops! Spaces in workshops and housing are limited, and applications are processed on a rolling, first-come, first-serve basis. Applications for these open spots will be open the public starting Wednesday, March 26. To see workshop details and to apply, visit haystack-man.org or go to haystack-mtn.org/summer-workshops-details#workshops-how-to-apply On this episode of Why make we continue our conversations from the 2024 Emma International Collaboration in Big River, Saskatchewan This time Miranda Jones. Miranda is primarily known in the art world for her paintings of animals but she is so much more than that. I saw her mostly in the metal fabrication area with plasma torch in hand but she could also be found in Tiny Shiny the jewelry workshop as well as the painting area. Miranda is a longtime participant in the Emma Collaboration and also sat on the Emma board, so a great person to talk to to get the length and breath of this hard to describe event. Here is my conversation with Miranda, we start with a silly reference to her honorary citizenship from New Zealand I refer to as her Kiwiness. Miranda is in fact a Canadian citizen and resides in Saskatoon but was originally from Australia.

    27 min

  2. 12/30/2024

    Why Make? Episode 67: What If with Michael Hosulak

    In this episode the last episode of 2024 a special treat, the first of our many recorded interviews from the Emma International Collaboration which took place in August of 2024. This conversation is with Michael Hosulak the brainchild behind Emma though he takes no credit for being founder. We talk about two of the many pieces Michael was involved in making during Emma and also talk about the beauty that is “cocktail hour” and the “junk pile”. Sit back and listen as we contemplate the possibilities of “What If”.

    19 min

  3. 12/10/2024

    Why Make? Episode 66: Making Basket Casket with Ellie Richards

    In this episode, we are returning to our “Mind of a Maker” mini series with furniture maker and sculptor Ellie Richards This story starts with an idea that was brewing for years before Ellie began making the piece we talk about in this episode, and that idea was a fascination with the fantasy coffin practice that exists in Ghana. Fantasy coffins, as the word implies, are fantastical, large, hollow, sculptural forms built almost entirely with hand tools that can be just about anything from a jet plane to a tomato… basically trying to capture a person's passions as they pass on and they are, quite simply, then buried in it, a practice far different from our western views on death and burial. She was encouraged to pursue her exploration of fantasy coffins by the artist Eric Adjetey Anang, a descendant of the original Ghanaian coffin makers. Eventually Ellie started to consider how to use these skills to create an object of her own design, and in this edition of Mind of a Maker, Ellie walks us through the process from inspiration to the final construction of her piece titled Basket Casket.

    27 min

  4. 11/07/2024

    Why Make? Episode 65: Bonding with Jack Larimore

    In this episode of why make I talk with sculptor, furniture maker and educator Jack Larimore about how his background in landscape architecture. What led him down the path to discovering a love of design and eventually making furniture. Furthermore how a lack of a formal education In the arts really allowed him to explore sculptural ideas with few preconceived notions. Then we get into a deep dive about in his most recent exhibition called Bonding that was held at Rowan University in the spring of 2024.

    38 min

  5. 09/18/2024

    Why Make? Episode 64: Percussionist Jim Roberts

    On this episode of Why Make we have Jim Roberts a percussionist, producer, artist and educator who resides in Chapel Hill NC. Jim plays the drum set, djembe, congas, and has many recordings under his belt. He has just finished a 17 year teaching stint at Elon University where he taught percussion and directed the Elon World Percussion Ensemble. Jims journey in percussion dated to his earliest years playing in band  class to marching band to drum and bugle core to African music traditional fiddle music and so much more. Please join us for a percussive journey with Jim Roberts

  6. 08/30/2024

    Why Make? Episode 63: Impressions of Emma

    In this episode my first impressions of the of the Emma International collaboration, which took placeJuly 31 to August 8 in Big River Saskatchewan. I you need a little more background on Emma take a listen to episode 59 of the podcast “What is Emma” When I returned from Why Makes great adventure to Emma earlier this month and knew that upon returning I needed to sit and collect my thoughts about my experience before they started to drifted away. This short episode is just that a collection of thoughts about having attended my first artist collaboration. I promise you there will be much more to come.

  7. 07/17/2024

    I want to Paint the Moon with Steve Fishman

    In this episode we introduce the first in our Mind of Maker series inside of the Why Make Podcast. With our guest Steve Fishman. Steve is a printmaker and a painter in many mediums, as well as being skilled with pen and ink and the mighty pencil. He is also a teacher and someone who really knows how to think about the process of making art. So journey back with me a little bit to May of 2023 and I'm thinking about how to put some new elements in the podcast and I come up with the idea of trying to follow the thought process of creating a specific piece of art. And the name that came to me for that was Mind of a Maker, which I stole directly from the Anthony Bourdain PBS series Mind of a Chef. And I'm also thinking of this as being a hybrid project as well, both a podcast and a short film, because of course after making one film I have mastered the medium. So the first thing I need is a guest slash guinea pig to try out the idea, someone who will not mind if I waste their time and flail around. And that would be my good friend Steve Fishman, who I've spent endless hours talking art and art making. And he was more than a willing victim. I also knew that he had recently completed work on an exhibition of moon inspired paintings and that those were part of a much larger ongoing series of paintings. And as Steve and I are both fond of saying, "Bob's your uncle." I had a subject and the topic for my experiment. Sit back and listen as Steve regales you with tales of painting the moon

    35 min

  8. 06/28/2024

    Why Make? Episode 61: Jonathan Byrd, Part 2

    Episode 61 of Why Make? is the conclusion of our conversation with Carrboro, NC musician Jonathan Byrd, who, along with being an award winning song writer is also a story teller, a poet, a photographer,  a painter, a teacher and now a student in Physics at North Carolina State University. Enjoy Part Two of our wide open discussion on a host of topics from song writing to physics with Jonathan Byrd.

    41 min
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    monthly conversations with makers exploring creativity and why they make

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      Why Make? Podcast
    • Years Active
      2019 - 2025
    • Episodes
      70
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