Craftsmanship

Harriet Salmon
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Harriet Salmon interviews fabricators and craftspeople who assist in the production of contemporary artworks. This podcast will document fabricator’s experiences to shine a light on the amazing breadth of talent in the field and to capture this particular moment in the art world. We're interested in conversations about hierarchies within craft vs. concept, questions of intellectual property, trends of de-skilling in art, wealth disparity, and the conflict felt by many fabricators between working in art production and being artists in their own right.

  1. 23/01/2021

    Episode 14 - Caitlin Riordan: Room Tone

    Caitlin Riordan is a master printer who trained with Peter Pettengill at Wingate Studios located in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Caitlin started off in printmaking with a B.F.A. from the Maine College of Art and went to work with Peter in the multiple plate aquatint etching studio. There she printed with many artists including Louise Bourgeois and Walton Ford. After Wingate, Caitlin went to work at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where she currently is Head Printmaking Technician and Visiting Instructor in Print. Along with artists and educators Kelley Driscoll and Grayson Cox, she founded and runs PIE (or Pratt Institute Editions), a program which invited artists to campus to publish a print with the resources at the school and in collaboration with the students. Caitlin’s favorite tool is either her collection of glass telephone pole insulators or a Le Deuil etching press.

  2. 14/12/2020

    Chelsea Culpepper: Sticky Wax

    Chelsea Culpepper is an artist, fabricator and project manager at Workshop Art Fabrication foundry in Kingston, NY. Workshop was started by Andrew Pharmer and Vincent DiDonato in 2015 after they’d worked together for over 17 years at Polich Tallix foundry and provides an intimate and “boutique” experience; offering artists services including metal casting and fabrication, mold and pattern making, project development and management, patina and paint applications and conservation and restoration. Chelsea began working for Workshop shortly after they opened as a recent BFA graduate from University of Alabama, Birmingham and trained in the wax room - later becoming a trusted artist liaison for artist such as Frank Benson, Kiki Smith and Huma Bhabha. Her favorite tool is a broken chad.

  3. 14/11/2020

    Vanessa Hoheb: The Discipline of Ego

    Vanessa Hoheb has filled many roles in the fabrication world; from enlarger to mold maker, teacher to facilitator, artist representative and liaison, production and project manager- she is ultimately an artisan. She talks with me about growing up in her father, Bruce Hoheb’s enlarging studio and learning the ropes with some of the giants of the New York art world. After decades working closely with artists at Polich Tallix Foundry, Vanessa now works with blue chip artist to realize complex projects with Workshop Workshop Art Fabrication foundry in Kingston, NY. Her favorite tools is a steel sculpting spatula.

  4. 01/02/2020

    Episode 11 - Nellie Davis & Kelsey Knight Mohr: Soft Material Manipulation

    Nellie Davis and Kelsey Knight Mohr are both Textile Fabricators and printmakers specializing in silkscreen printing. With decades of combined experience in stitching, tufting, draping, embroidery, pattern making, puppetry and costume design, they have worked with many artists, including Jim Hodges, to realize large-scale textile artworks. We discuss the excitement and tensions created by the textile renaissance in contemporary art, the misconceptions surrounding the term “fiber artist,” the challenges of translating from two dimensions to three and the technical skill required to add movement to fabricating intrinsically sculptural objects.

  5. 30/11/2019

    Episode 10 - Ivin Ballen

    Ivin Ballen is a co-founder of Lenscloud, a Brooklyn based 3D scanning technology business that specializes in custom solutions for high volume data capture using a custom built, portable unit. A former mold maker, Ivin now specialized is digital file generation for artist, companies and events and is currently working with MIT's Immersion Lab on a photogrammetry scanner for high-speed avatar creation. Ivin talks about the hardware and software that he and his two business partners developed, it’s possible role in the art world and how technology can help artists be more playful.

  6. 04/11/2019

    Episode 09 - Amy Jacobs: Master Collaborator

    Amy Jacobs is an artist and extremely skilled paper maker who works with the nonprofit Dieu Donné as their Co-Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator. She works with the institution to serve established and emerging artists through the collaborative creation of contemporary art using paper making. Amy talks about the vast potential of paper, from making a simple sheet to pulp painting to mold making and the rewards of collaborating with artists such as Ursula von Rydingsvard, Anne Hamilton, Jim Hodges, Erin Riley, and Carrie Moyer. Amy’s favorite tool is a good pair of sharp tweezers and the Fogg It nozzle.

  7. 30/09/2019

    Episode 08 - Brooklyn Research: Anthropomorphic Data Sets

    This episode is an unedited recording of a talk series called Tradecraft done in partnership with the nonprofit Brooklyn Research. I interviewed the three founding members of Brooklyn Research; Alex Dodge, Ezer Longinus, and Johnny Lu, on starting a fabrication company that specializes in interactive systems, prototypes and technological experiences. We discuss the conservation concerns that come with digital art, working with corporate clients vs. fine art clients and how Brooklyn Research has transitioned into an nonprofit serving its community with membership space and programming.

  8. 31/08/2019

    Allyson Vieira: Ancients

    Allyson Vieira is an artist, educator and author of the book “on the Rock” (Soberscove, 2019), an oral history project documenting the experiences of the marble carvers working on the restoration of the Acropolis in Athens. Allyson talks about the physical and political history of the site itself and walks us through the step-by-step process of repairing a broken block of marble. She details tool, technique and material continuity on the project and tracks how many of the skills span huge and complicated histories. Her favorite tool is her Dewalt angle grinder and from the book, the specificity of the marble carving chisels.

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Harriet Salmon interviews fabricators and craftspeople who assist in the production of contemporary artworks. This podcast will document fabricator’s experiences to shine a light on the amazing breadth of talent in the field and to capture this particular moment in the art world. We're interested in conversations about hierarchies within craft vs. concept, questions of intellectual property, trends of de-skilling in art, wealth disparity, and the conflict felt by many fabricators between working in art production and being artists in their own right.

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  • Creador
    Harriet Salmon
  • Años de actividad
    2019 - 2021
  • Episodios
    14
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