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
Ode to Seamside
The questions are deep & Zak’s voice is calm.
There is laughter and lightheartedness, as well as an exploration of the hardships and difficult sides to human life.
This show has helped me deepen my creativity.
Each conversation has kernels of wisdom and sparks of joy. & the episodes that are deep dives into Zak’s quilts are so inspiring and thoughtful. There is no podcast I would rather listen to.
Thank you Zak.
What a wonderful world to stumble into as a new quilter!
I’ve listened to 2 episodes and already have so many new ideas for quilts. They’re inspiring and heartfelt ❤️❤️ also when Russel mentioned PRINTABLE FABRIC in the latest episode that further stretched what’s possible with quilts. Thanks for what you do!
My first-ever review
Thank you, Zak, for this fabulous and always poignant podcast. I started listening in Oct. 2023 when I discovered quilting and have not missed an episode. Rating and reviewing because you always ask so nicely in your opening and I want everyone with an interest in textiles to know about this. MUST LISTEN!