Makers of the USA
93 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago -Taking you on a journey through the lives of Makers. From cut and sew to woodworking to craft beer to consumer packaged goods and much more.
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Discovering the Artistry of Organ Building with Martin Pasi
December 28, 2023 14:33 - 1 hour - 67 MB[00:02:56] Organ building craftsmanship. [00:03:58] Organ building and inspiration. [00:10:37] Knowing music for organ building. [00:14:22] Perfect facility for craft. [00:20:53] The cost of organs. [00:21:43] Organ building as mechanical design. [00:27:11] Moon and farming practices. [00:30:43] Two temperaments in organs. [00:38:15] Organ pipes collapsing over time. [00:40:21] Organ builders and bone materials. [00:45:09] The gold leaf process. [00:48:06] The weight of the organ....
Nature's Influence on Art: A Conversation with Glass Artist Robert Adamson
December 08, 2023 19:33 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MB[00:02:12] Meditation and spirituality. [00:06:52] Eye-opening experiences in Colombia. [00:08:03] Colorful nature in Colombia. [00:12:24] Incorporating nature in glass art. [00:16:00] Artistic inspiration from family. [00:19:59] Getting into meditation. [00:25:38] Challenging glass projects. [00:29:38] Changing creative direction [00:34:21] Seattle becoming a glassblowing center. [00:36:10] Passing on glass blowing. In this episode, Kristan and Rob delve into the practice of medit...
Exploring the Artistic Journey: An Interview with David Syre
December 01, 2023 15:32 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MB[00:02:45] David Seery's artistic journey. [00:05:28] Selling milk at age seven. [00:08:00] Land investments in North America. [00:12:55] The elephant trailer. [00:18:03] How long does it typically take you to make a piece? [00:21:20] Dealing with pandemic challenges. [00:25:02] Wine making. [00:28:18] New stories wind their way. David Syre's artistic practice is deeply rooted in spirituality, with their strongest mentors being the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa. They believe that spir...
Crafting Culinary Knives: An Interview with Master Bladesmith Bob Kramer
November 21, 2023 17:29 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB[00:04:13] High school challenges and dyslexia. [00:09:23] Intriguing lifestyle at the country club. [00:13:38] Reconsidering life and taking risks. [00:18:40] Learning to sharpen knives. [00:19:13] Knife sharpening journey. [00:23:20] Science of steel and knives. [00:28:25] Making your own steel. [00:32:41] Making Japanese steel replica. [00:36:02] Understanding steel and challenges. [00:39:15] Overcoming failures in craftsmanship. [00:44:21] The story behind Transformation. [00:...
Inside the Legendary London Bridge Studio: A Journey Through Rock and Roll History
November 13, 2023 16:51 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MB[00:02:13] Exploring Seattle's local makers. [00:05:22] The history behind London Bridge Studios. [00:08:01] The London Bridge sound. [00:12:31] Rock and roll influence. [00:16:29] Local musicians in Washington. [00:19:13] Recording and releasing music. [00:22:10] Painting and creativity in music. [00:26:58] Painting as therapeutic during pandemic. [00:30:11] A spontaneous trip to Seattle. The pandemic has had a profound impact on the mental health of musicians and those in the e...
Model Airplane Creates A Unique Concert Experience, A Funksgiving You Will Never Forget
September 27, 2023 21:56 - 49 minutes - 45 MB"I think our craft is just fun, partying. It's about playing music that we love with people that we love. I feel like a place called home is kind of the best representation of what we do, because I think we are a family. No matter whether anybody's here or not, we are going to be just laughing our asses off having a great time smiling at what everybody's doing. It feels like home every time that we play on stage. I think that we provide that for people that come through....we've been best fr...
CHART Metalworks Highlights One's Beautiful Moments Through Charts & Maps Jewelry & Accessories
July 04, 2023 00:37 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MB"Most of our theme is maps and charts, we are map and chart people. So wherever that little corner of the world is special to you or to somebody you love or somebody wants to give well wishes to, we can pinpoint it down to a street address or we can design an entire country from an actual nautical chart, graphic, map topo, aerial map, aeronautical map, anything that's close to your heart," said Janice Sears, Owner of CHART Metalworks. Founded in 2008, CHART Metalworks has been handcrafting ...
Winterstick - Design & Handcraft Snowboards By Riders Straight From The Slopes Of Sugarloaf Mountain
April 19, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MB"Our craft is making snowboards with Winterstick snowboards. Winterstick is the oldest snowboard company in the world. It was started in 1972 by Dimitrije Milovich out in Salt Lake City and for the last 23 years, we've run our business out of Maine. I came on about six and a half years ago and I've always been a lifelong snowboarder. I've based my whole education and life around snowboarding. Somehow I ended up in a position where I actually get to design and make snowboards," said Rob Lu, P...
Steve Smith Keeps The Traditional Craft of Hand Hewing Alive
March 26, 2023 20:38 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MB"My craft is hand hewing, which is basically turning a log into a square beam using only an axe. It's a craft that's been around for thousands of years. Most of the old homes and barns and structures throughout New England were timber framed, and those beams were hewn just with an axe. So it's a craft that is not common anymore. But you can still learn about it through books or YouTube videos. And as soon as I learned about it, it just resonated. I just knew I was going to enjoy it," said St...
Gnykol Takes Recycled Leather & Tranforms It Into Rockstar Inspired Apparel
March 14, 2023 02:46 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MB" I define myself as a leather art wear designer so which means that I make one-of-a-kind pieces of art fashion using recycled leather. How I got into that -- long funny story but it really came down to my friend asking me in his driveway if I wanted to sew leather jackets together. My experience sewing before that was minimal. I had a sewing machine. My mom got me from Walmart and knew how to do some really basic straight stitches on jeans and didn't repair things. But I always had an inter...
Philip Costello Creates Sculptures & Carvings Through The Beauty Of Natural Wood
March 04, 2023 22:20 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MB"I guess in my particular case, the wood sculpture would be more of a definition of what I do. A traditional wood carver uses chisels and gouges only that are very specific. I've found that using some electric tools and sanding, I can sometimes bring the piece to the point that I like. So I'm more of a wood sculptor than I am a wood carver so to speak. A traditionalist would be a wood carver, I'm a wood sculptor. I've always been intrigued since a young child, I've always enjoyed drawing. My...
Chef Tara Cannaday Pairs Nostalgic Flavors With Delightful Surprises & Each Treat Includes A Secret Ingredient That Makes Her Craft Truly Special
February 04, 2023 03:01 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MB"I am a pastry chef, classically trained. I've been in food now for 14 years. I will say I've been cooking and baking since I was very little I grew up on a farm in Florida and always had really fresh produce and meat as well to use to cook with. And a lot of time with my mother in the kitchen," said Chef Tara Cannaday, head chef of Pot + Pan, "I was born in Florida and stayed there until I was 12 and then actually moved to New Hampshire, Southern New Hampshire with my mom and my brother. My...
Catherine Fisher Turns Her Beautiful Words Inspired By One's Personal Quest Into Physical Form
January 20, 2023 20:52 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MB"My craft is currently a collection of sustainable clothing, where each design springs from the meaning of a particular poem. I did an MFA in poetry. I went back to doing that when I turned 50. After my experience there I just started to see some of the poems in physical form as garments," said Catherine Fisher, poet and fashion designer who is located in Brunswick, Maine. Catherine is originally from Massachusetts and had quite the journey before starting her own business. "I went to a wo...
The Mallett Brothers Band Takes Historic Logging Shanties & Make It There Own
January 09, 2023 17:19 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MB"We probably owe it to the Portland music scene as an entity, mostly, you know, we all knew each other. It's a tight, tight-knit scene. It's a very supportive scene. There were a lot of great clubs that we all knew when we were getting started and we'd all been playing in the clubs and working in the clubs and spending every free second in places like Big Easy. So the scene was a great place to pull from. So when we started, we ended one project and we started writing songs. Me and Will and ...
Jen Brophy & Gloria Curtis Provide A Bespoke Experience That Involves Fly Fishing In The Northern Maine Woods
December 22, 2022 16:02 - 47 minutes - 43 MB"We run the Red River Camps up in Northern Maine, it's a traditional sporting camp. But that kind of means that our craft is sort of twofold threefold, actually, when we throw Gloria into the mix. The first is that we tried to craft the northern Maine experience for people, you know, maybe new people who haven't fly fish before, or new people who haven't even been to Maine before. We had some folks from Long Island the other week, they were great. So we try to kind of bring them in and give ...
Loren Found Her Escape From Her Full Time Career -- The Craft Of Beeswax Candles & CBD Oils
December 17, 2022 03:32 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MB"I love burning candles. I've always got one going and then I kind of you know started doing some research into how to live like a healthier lifestyle and how to kind of clean up your life. One of the articles that I read was like, oh, you know, candles that have paraffin in them are bad for you. So I never realized that and then I got down a rabbit hole. And this was, mind you at the beginning of COVID. I was like, you know, locked in the house, and I needed something to do other than work ...
Loren Lachapelle Found Her Escape From Her Full Time Career -- The Craft Of Beeswax Candles & CBD Oils
December 17, 2022 03:32 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MB"I love burning candles. I've always got one going and then I kind of you know started doing some research into how to live like a healthier lifestyle and how to kind of clean up your life. One of the articles that I read was like, oh, you know, candles that have paraffin in them are bad for you. So I never realized that and then I got down a rabbit hole. And this was, mind you at the beginning of COVID. I was like, you know, locked in the house, and I needed something to do other than work ...
Maine Guide Bri Dostie Takes Action In Removing Barriers & Amplifying Stories That Represent Human Diversity On The Water
December 12, 2022 18:34 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MB“I started through studio art and just being creative and wanting to spend some time outdoors and allow for that to be done in a very grounded and observational way. So I have studio art practice and I'm also a Maine guide. I've been an angler for a long time. But mostly that's a way again to be outside and be looking around and feeling very innately human surrounded by nature. So I guide people fishing and I also founded the Confluence Collective which is all about accessibility to the outd...
Mary Zambello Shows Her Love For The Maine Outdoors Through Her Designs & Woodworking Craft
November 27, 2022 20:31 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBWe've been in business for over four years and honestly, the craft of it has kind of progressed over time. When my husband and I started, it was literally just in our backyard. We had a bunch of pallets laying around and we were like, oh, we could make something cool with that. So he was like, just give me a little, you know, an afternoon and he used the jigsaw and he cut out a bunch of Maine signs. From there, we were like, well, this is amazing. Everyone from Maine loves being from Maine a...
Izzy Hutnak Builds Fly Rods That Are Works Of Art From The Colorful Blank to the Custom Grip to the Finished Reel Seat
November 18, 2022 23:13 - 24 minutes - 22 MB“I build rods for Maine Fly Company and I definitely fell out of touch with the outdoor industry through my late teenage years. Now that I've kind of settled down in Maine for a while and have a passion for fly fishing, I really wanted to get back into that community,” said Izzy Hutnak, rod smith for Maine Fly Company. Izzy grew up fly fishing as she was taught by her father and had gone across Maine to many ponds, rivers, and oceans to fish different types of fish. “I'm the oldest and my...
Lady Makers On The Fly -- Inspired By The Outdoors, Enjoy Swinging Flies & Craft Something Beautiful
November 12, 2022 02:01 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBWhen I first heard of fly fishing I always thought of it to be a man’s sport but when I looked into the history of the sport a bit I discovered that women have been involved in fly fishing since 1496 —the way anglers tie their streamer fliers is attributed to a woman and the ‘bait and switch’ method anglers use to catch billfish on the fly came from a woman. And a woman was one of the most prominent guides in Maine when Teddy Roosevelt fished here in 1878. The story of women in fly fishing i...
Patricia Daunis Crafts Jewelry That Is In Harmony With The Wearer
October 06, 2022 03:19 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MB"Well, I grew up in Auburn, Maine, and at 10 years old, I announced to my mother, I was going to the Rhode Island School of Design to be a fashion designer. I have no idea where I'd ever even heard of Rhode Island School of Design. But anyway, I did. And then, growing up in Maine, in those years, there was no art after sixth grade. So I took classes wherever I could. And anything in school from mechanical drawing to whatever was holding a pencil and or a paintbrush. So then I decided I did g...
Dynamic Duo, Matt & Lauren Tuggle, Create One-Of-A-Kind Pieces That Focus On Emotional Connection
October 04, 2022 03:24 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MB"We are jewelers and hand engravers. Well, more specifically, Matt is the jeweler and we're both hand engravers. He actually found his start in high school," said Lauren Tuggle. "Yeah, I was lucky to have a cool jewelry program in high school. We were fortunate to learn just a bunch of different techniques, we have a class where you would pick a different technique like enameling, piercing, or just some type of technique, and then you would kind of study that technique. Then you would teach...
Nick Noyes' Craft of Fine Jewelry Has Become A Lifeline - A Life Full Of Discovery & Creation
September 29, 2022 02:18 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MB"I had an amazing geology teacher that took us mining for crystals in Herkimer, New York for Herkimer diamonds, and fluorescent stones in Franklin, New Jersey, and this sparked a lifelong love of gemstones. I started collecting and mining all over the place including Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, kind of everywhere on the East Coast, even over to Arkansas. I had this huge collection of gemstones and I didn't know really know what to do with it...
Gerardo Gonzalez Handcrafts Inventions For The Hand
September 27, 2022 02:07 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MB"I wanted to be an artist so I went to school to study art, primarily painting those years ago. Then, over the course of my career as a student. Eventually, things started to change, and then I just sort of fell in love with the process of making miniature sculptures eventually leading into jewelry, which is what I currently try to make, I consider them miniature wearable sculptures," said Gerardo Gonzalez, fine jewelry artist based in New York City. Gerardo has won many awards for his uniq...
Steven Manchini, Lapidary Artist & Jewelry Designer, Has An Eye for Quality, A Drive To Keep Learning, & Has Fun Along The Way
September 22, 2022 02:08 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MB"I started making jewelry about 10 years ago, I'm 30 now, so I started around 19. A friend of mine, I had no idea that I would be led down the jewelry path. I don't have any family that's really ever done jewelry. I have some family that maybe have done some art stuff, but nothing really as a full-time job always as a hobby. A friend of mine brought home a wire-wrapped piece of jewelry from a music festival when I was 19. I was working full-time at the time and I was really excited to see it...
Derek Katzenbach Gem Cutter & Metalworker Looks At Gems Very Differently Due To His Background In Both Fields
September 21, 2022 02:16 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MB"I was actually going to school for marine biology at College of the Atlantic, in Bar Harbor and I was kind of not feeling the classes I was taking. I wasn't really interested anymore. I just got burned out with the sciences. I started just kind of looking at things and so I went to a gem show down in Massachusetts and I walked in and I was like, oh my goodness, I was just blown away by all of the different beautiful gemstones you could buy. I just started walking around and buying things. I...
Paula Crevoshay, The Queen of Color, Invites Us To Look At Nature With Renewed Awe & Wonder Through Her Jewelry
September 16, 2022 23:55 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MB“As a child, I collected costume jewelry, and I would put it in ice cream cone boxes because they were festive and colorful. When I continued on in my education, all of my teachers recognized my talent and my gift and they kept coming to my parents saying we think this child needs art lessons. My mother's friend has her master's degree in painting and she said that I can teach Paula. I started initially as painting and printmaking and drawing and sculpture more than I did jewelry and graduat...
Naomi Sarna, Is Known For Carving Gems With Inclusions & Using Them To Create Award Winning Jewelry Pieces
September 15, 2022 01:48 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MB"Not only am I an artist, but I'm a psychoanalyst and a medical hypnotist and in psychoanalysis, your earliest memories are considered very important. My earliest memory is making something with clay with my hands and as I was making this little thing, a little horsey or a cow or whatever it was. I was maybe four years old and I, I was thinking to myself, this is wonderful. It wasn't that I thought my horse was so beautiful. It was the process of making something with my hands that I enjoyed...
Hand Fabricated Jeweler, Matt Fischer, Inspired By Jam Bands & Shakedown Street Has A Passion For Gems
September 12, 2022 18:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MB"I would consider myself an artist before a jeweler but my medium is obviously metal. I started as a means to travel around with these bands that I like and make money on the side. That's when I was still doing wire wraps and everything like that. The main band I traveled around with was Phish. I did a bunch of years on tour with them and sold my wire wraps and just slowly transition into what I do now," said Matt Fischer, hand fabricated jeweler of Wolfmans Sun Designs. Matt's jewelry care...
The Big Find & Reveal - Celebrating 50 Years Of Finding The Largest Quantity Of Tourmaline Gem Rough In A Single Locality In North America
September 12, 2022 13:00 - 27 minutes - 25 MB"The Maine Mineral & Gem Museum is a fabulous place nestled in one of the most gorgeous little parts of Maine. We are a small town that focuses on a very particular part of Maine's history. Maine has had mining happen here since the early 1800s and we tell the story of that particular part of Maine's history and also a little bit about Maine's place in the universe as well. We are probably the only museum definitely in the state of Maine and probably the only one in the United States that te...
A State Of The Art Welding Center Attached To A High School Gives Students Skills For Future Careers
August 09, 2022 19:22 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MB“David Dorr, the Executive Director at Somerset Career and Technical Prep, approached myself along with the other surrounding schools to the tech center, and just asked, does anybody have any space and I happen to be in my office. I quickly responded and said, we have some space come on up. And I think within 24 hours, Dave and I were meeting in this area here, which was a combination of a little welding, a little fabrication kids worked on vehicles in here. And I said, how would this work? ...
Twelve Layers Of Sweetness Baked On Smith Island By Kathey Jones
August 01, 2022 02:30 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MB"I'd never heard of Smith Island, I'd always heard of Tangier Island. And when my kids were little, my husband said let's take the kids to Smith Island. And I was like, well, where's that? So he brought me here and I fell in love with the place," said Kathey Jones, owner and baker at the Smith Island Bakery. Kathey Jones grew up in Baltimore and always had a passion for baking. She didn't think she would venture out to this tiny island located in the Chesapeake Bay but it is now her home a...
Barry Koluch & His Family Know What Maryland Blue Crabs Are All About
July 19, 2022 02:43 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MB"My Dad took it to the commercial level. He grew up doing a more fun way to crab which is called trout lining. My Dad worked for the gas company, Baltimore Gas and Electric for years, and then he started taking into commercial with the pots. He’s being crabbing since the 90s. But growing up, he took both myself and my sister out. He used to supply other crab houses as we have now. We always talked about coming back and starting our own crab house. Then around 2008 - 2009, when the economy st...
Alternative Manufacturing Inc. Help Start Ups Take Their Initial Idea & Bring It To Life Through Innovative Technology
June 30, 2022 22:35 - 30 minutes - 28 MB"We were actually founded by two folks out of the engineering department of Digital Equipment. They were phenomenally big in computers early on, and had a very large manufacturing facility in Augusta just 10 miles from here. Throughout our history, we have had one big event that really moved us along, and early on at AMI was Stanley Toolworks. They're the Stanley tools that we still hear about and they were moving into electronics, and they had an electronic stapler. That couldn't just have ...
Annie Mahle, Captain, Chef & Maker, Knows How To Throw Together Delicious Meals In Tiny Spaces
June 16, 2022 17:30 - 53 minutes - 49 MB“First off I love that you're using that word, craft because it has to do with both the art and creativity, but also the intention and the precision behind it as well. So kudos to you for using that word. So I am a chef cook and I alternate back and forth between those two. But sometimes say I'm a cook that just makes good food. I'm also a writer and I write cookbooks. I also write my blog and I used to write a column for the Portland Press Herald for a long time,” said Annie Mahle. As you ...
Deanna Bogart Stews Up A Smoky Vocal & Prowness On The Sax & Keys That Is Pleasing To Everyone's Palette
May 17, 2022 17:12 - 1 hour - 63.7 MB"Whether you're a writer, a runner, a gardener, whatever it is, you have to have somewhere to put those things so that they don't stay inside of you and for me, whether I want it or not, it was music. It just saved me along the way and it still does. I find it really interesting and then I was trying to do other things, which were fine, but then other things kept coming from me musically. Even if I wasn't prepared, or I didn't think I was worthy of it. I would have to stop and say, Well, I r...
Kendal Brown Started His Career In Ministry & Pivoted Into A Nationally Known Candlemaker
March 13, 2022 23:26 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MB"So my craft is something that I call the contemplative process of candle making. The process of getting here or the route to getting to this place is a bit long and winded so I'll try to make it as brief as possible. I was an artsy kid, I was born in the bustling metropolis of Danville, Virginia. That's a huge laugh line for your listeners. It's not a bustling metropolis, but it's Southern Virginia right on the North Carolina border, and had a wonderful childhood. However, there wasn't an a...
From Musician to Crafter to Photographer, Erin Little Has A Unique Creative Palate
January 08, 2022 13:53 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MB"I am a photographer. I have been doing it at this point, for about 14 years and it's kind of evolved over those years. Right now I'm focusing on interior and architectural photography. But in the beginning, what inspired me, was to take it from a hobby to a more professional level. I just really fell in love with the digital world and I had been using film so everything just kind of opened up and seemed much more accessible in terms of what you could really do with the craft, it just seemed...
Séan Alonzo Harris' Creative Drive Stems From His Authentic Connection To His Subjects
January 03, 2022 19:58 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB"I asked for a tape recorder when I was seven years old, and I got a camera instead. I'm like, this is a tape recorder...my grandmother gave it to me and said you can record with that too. At the time, my parents had gotten divorced, and my parents were from DC and then we moved to Cambridge. The camera was a way for me to stay connected. I take photographs, I only use the camera when I went to DC. I never took photographs in Cambridge. I take all of these photographs and for some reason, I ...
Ron Furman Built A Fells Point Staple From The Ground Up & Its Legacy Continues Today
December 11, 2021 18:53 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB"When we took over it was a nice I guess disco. It was just a poor excuse for a disco I guess but that's what it was. But I was always into music. I loved music and that's what I wanted to do. So I started booking bands and you know, we went from local bands to regional bands to everybody. From Smashing Pumpkins to David Cassidy," said Ron Furman, owner and founder of Max's Tap House. Ron and his family are originally from Baltimore and at the age of twelve got into the Max's business. Fr...
Sam Sikkema Preserves & Captains The Largest Historic Ship In the U.S., Victory Chimes
November 23, 2021 02:05 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB"I would say my craft is the preservation of traditional sailing. And I think the thing that inspired me to start it was just a lot of my connection to nature as a kid and how sailing and doing it in a sort of, I guess I for lack of a better term, say more organic way, with less plastic and less technology and sort of just, you know, more wherewithal, and that sort of inspired me to go the route of traditional sail, it also sort of fell in my lap to a degree, like a lot of things that, you k...
Pete Ross Crafts Gourd Banjos, Ranging From His Own Design To Replicas Of Historic Instruments
November 15, 2021 03:31 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MB“I was always like a record store hound since I was in elementary school and so I started working record stores and I worked at weird indy stores. Yeah, like underground music they're cool back in the 80s. And yeah, and but those stores often had like a strong kind of roots music component as well and by chance I heard a recording that been a field recording of a fiddle and banjo player made in the 40 or 41 and I just put it on because I had to keep something playing in the store right. I wa...
Baltimore Native Brandon Woody Brings His Own Style of Trumpet Playing To The World
November 01, 2021 20:36 - 54 minutes - 50 MB"So my craft is music, I am a creator, I'm a composer, a bandleader. Those are like the main things that I'm focusing on but play the trumpet. I've been playing for about 15 years and how I got into it. I used to play the drums, I used to bang on pots. First, I used to bang on pots and pans when I was growing up. My mom and dad were still together and then I went to elementary school, the first instrument that I wanted to play was the drums. I had focused on that instrument for a whole year ...
Alison Thibault Brings The Craft Of Color To Vinalhaven
October 17, 2021 20:35 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MB“I'm able to make color by working with glass and the glass that I work with is fused dichroic glass, which I work in a kiln. But what really got me started was I had a pair of earrings that my Mom had given me years ago and I lost one. I was inspired to make a match for that earring at the same time that I was looking for a new way to find work to walk through my day,” said Alison. Alison was a commercial banker in Northern Virginia and she found that a nine-to-five job wasn’t her calling....
Dan Janssen Handcrafts The Finest Razors Out Of A Historic Mill In Baltimore
October 07, 2021 02:10 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB“I like to say that I make the world's finest razors pure and simple. I hand-turn wooden razor handles that fit modern cartridges like Gillette, Schick, and double edge blades. I'm still trying to get in Dollar Shave Club in Harry's but I'm so small, they don't know I exist yet. But one day, that's a good goal to have. I've always been a woodworker. More as a hobby. I was a social worker for 10 years in Maryland and I would come home every night stressed out from doing paperwork and meetings...
Andy Cook, Founder & Executive Director of Made in Baltimore, Shares His Passion For Makers
October 02, 2021 17:11 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MB“I'm an urban planner by profession and through my work as an urban planner for the city of Baltimore developed the Made in Baltimore program. So I would say that my craft is an economic development community organization. I’m also interested in all of the different types of activities that our, our member businesses do for their work. I do have a background as an artist, and through that work have done a good, fair amount of carpentry and screen printing and other types of things that a lot...
Sarah Sockbeson, Wabanaki Basket Weaver, Gets Tips On How To Start A Podcast
September 17, 2021 19:44 - 1 hour - 57.1 MB“I am a Penobscot basket maker. So I actually do come from a long line of basket makers. So it's in my family, and it was always something that I had an interest in. I think I was just an artist like I've always been an artist since I was just, I remember being four or five, six years old, and that's all I wanted to do was draw, color. So making things has always been my real true kind of desire and passion and so when I graduated high school, I planned to go to art school and that's what I ...
Nick Rossi's Fascination With Swords At A Young Age Inspired Him To Become A Custom Knifemaker
August 19, 2021 00:44 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBWhen Nick Rossi was starting to learn the craft behind knife making in the late 90s, early 2000s, there were not a lot of places around that you could go and learn how to do this, there were only a few seminars. He said especially in Maine, there was not a lot to help move you along through the craft. The luckiest part of his journey was meeting knife makers when he got a job in a retail cutlery store. These coworkers offered to show him the mistakes he was making and examine what he was wor...
Ramona Allen Goes From Reflexologist to Artist Due To The Pandemic
August 02, 2021 02:47 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBRamona studied psychology in college and focuses on crisis and trauma counseling. She has set out to be a trauma and crisis counselor and that led her to practice reflexology. It calms the nervous system opening the door for other treatments to work. She had a full schedule before the pandemic, seeing 15-20 clients a week. She shares that she was glad she picked up painting as giving all of her energy outward was taking a toll on her mental health. Painting was like self-care. She never co...