Make Do

By RelayArts Visual Arts Design

Make Do episodes

April 01, 2020 53: Stu-stu-studio
A whole room? A rented space? A tiny corner? There are lots of ways to set up a studio for the stuff you make. Not everything will work for all people, but there are a lot of things that can be good to think about.
45 min
March 18, 2020 52: Give In, Give Up, Let Go.
When do you give up on things? Or entire crafts? Basically, we try to answer the fundamental question: ”What IS fun?”
Links and Show Notes: We Draw Wednesdays
50 min
March 04, 2020 51: Thank... You?
We follow up on leaning into pretention, and then try to figure out how to accept compliments gracefully. Or at all.
Links and Show Notes: Julia's pretentious concert shot Bletchley Park Bletchley Park knits (Instagram) Myke Hurley's pots
50 min
February 19, 2020 50: To Write With Light
Photography! We talk about Tiff’s path to becoming a capital P photographer - and, of course, if photography is Art. Also why pictures with that white frame around them felt so much more fancy when you were a kid.
Links and Show Notes: Tiffany Arment Photography Fotografiska museum Fotografiska New York Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (Wikipedia) "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (PDF)
53 min
February 05, 2020 49: Little Boxes, All The Same
”Your brain is infinite, but your space is limited.” Tiff gets deep when we talk about organizing your materials. By function? By craft? By color? Bye bye?
Links and Show Notes: The Color Factory Anabelle Sophie Heller - @stringsandpedals
47 min
January 22, 2020 48: The Not-So-Distant Future
It’s time to dream and plan for 2020. Not in hindsight. Foresight.
Also: How do you find a new hobby?
Links and Show Notes: Contrapposto (Wikipedia) Beach Combing Magazine
37 min
December 25, 2019 47: Brain Potatoes
We talk about our year and what we’ve maybe learned. Sort of.
CW: This episode contains some discussion of mental health.
Links and Show Notes: Gifts for Knitters video Episode 18: The Myth of the Tragic Artist Simone Giertz’s Everyday Calendar How Andrew Wyeth Made A Painting (video)
45 min
December 11, 2019 46: A No-Good Heartbreaker, A Liar And A Cheat
It can be hard to get over the feeling that you’re cheating somehow, if you’re not doing Art exactly the way you think it ought to be done. Why is that?
Links and Show Notes: St Stephens Cathedral, Vienna Albertina Museum Julia's tiny wheel on Instagram @tiffarment on Instagram How artists on twitter tricked spammy T shirt stores "Alfred Drucker" is in fact Albrecht Dürer
49 min
November 27, 2019 45: A Safe Place To Get Lost
Studiomate Jamie is back to talk about her year of boldness and about vulnerability. Also: Borrow other people’s stuff!
Guest Starring:
Jamie Kay MacKenzie
Links and Show Notes: Tiff on Drawing Inspiration Noah Scalin on Art Supply Posse Story Cubes Episode 19 with Jamie
1 hr
November 13, 2019 44: Keeping It Cosy
It’s time to put on comfy slippers and do some nice, cosy, undemanding crafts. (Or is it?)
Links and Show Notes: Tiff’s Instagram Julia's Instagram "Wild" "Ash" Baba Yaga house "Ornament" Yarn peddler We Draw Wednesdays Dandelion Yarns The Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt
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The Farmer’s Wife 1930s Sampler Quilt
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Tiff's Pinterest craft board
46 min