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FAQs about Why Make? Podcast:How many episodes does Why Make? Podcast have?The podcast currently has 79 episodes available.
December 29, 2025Why Make? Episode 75: Emma and the Art of CollaborationThere are four unattributed voices in the podcast that I would also like to mention and they are in order of appearance, Adam John Manley of San Diego CA,Lisa Geertsen Seattle WA, Jason Nemec Charlton NY andM Craig Campbell of Ness Creek SKAgain my many thanks the Emma board of directors for Inviting Why Make to the 2024 event and to the Emma community as whole for being the wonderful supportive generous people they are. Please go to https://www.emmacollaboration.com/ for more information...more20minPlay
December 18, 2025Why Make? Episode 74: Turning the TablesIn Episode 74, my sister Johanna Zorn turns the table and interviews me about the podcast. This should be a familiar name to those who listen to the credits at the end of our episodes. She has helped edit many of the episodes we have released in the last two years and was in the background making suggestions years before that. She is a veteran of radio and the audio documentary format having worked at WBEZ public radio in Chicago and then founding the Third Coast International Audio Festival, an organization dedicated to audio storytelling. She is now a freelance editor and producer. So take a listen as she tries to get me to answer the question, why I make Why Make? ...more17minPlay
October 28, 2025Why Make? Episode 21Reissue: Sylvie Rosenthal In MemoriamIn 2009 I attended the Furniture Society conference in Boone North Carolina and sat in on an artist presentation by three young amazing makers whose work left a lasting impression. Sylvie Rosenthal, Katie Hudnall and Yuri Kobayashi. Sadly Sylvie passed away on October 14th and that bright shining light is no longer with us. In remembrance of Sylvie please take a listen to the wonderful conversation we had with her in October of 2020.Sylvie Rosenthal is a Madison, Wisconsin based artist and educator. She maintains a studio practice making commission furniture, work for online sales, and fantastic genre challenging sculpture dealing with the intersecting flight patterns of the histories of trade, hybridity, materiality, queer theory, and the natural world. On Episode 21 of Why Make? we discuss her fascinating 2018 show at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in Milwaukee called “House Of Risk” and the implications of taking risks in ones work. We also talk about the way in which Sylvie seeks to put multiple layers of understanding and interpretation in her work but ultimately leaves it to the viewer to determine meaning.Take a chance, roll the dice and join us for the next hour as we discuss risk with Sylvie Rosenthal! View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize ...more1h 5minPlay
October 28, 2025Why Make? Episode 73: Smile HoneyIn Episode 73 of the podcast we talk with Teresa Audet an artist and educator based in Pittsburgh PA. Her journey as an artist took it’s first turn in college when switched from being a painting major to spending all her time in the wood shop. She then spent the 10 years after graduating making cutting boards, furniture, working in a hardware store and working one day week for a wood carver named Cecilia Schiller who creates Automata. Kinetic whimsical wooden characters that move through a system of gears and hand cranks. Graduate school led to an exploration of performance art and participation in the groundbreaking exhibition Making a Seat at the Table- Women Transform Woodworking. And that is not all, please take a listen to our conversation with Teresa Audet View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Smile Honey View fullsize Smile Honey View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize ...more20minPlay
August 25, 2025Why Make? Episode 72: The 2025 Fiberart InternationalIn this episode of Why make we are going to literally talk about something close home, both my childhood home of Pittsburgh and my mom who was a fiber artist. That is the 2025 Fiberarts International produced by the Pittsburgh Fiber Arts Guild, of which my mom was a longtime member, Contemporary Craft and Brew House Arts. We will talk with two of the artists involved in this years show Akudzwe Elsie Chiwa and Chieko Murasugi .And two long time members of the Pittsburgh Fiber Arts Guild,which has produced this exhibition for over 50 years, Patty Kennedy-Zafred and Risë Nagan. Take a listen as we weave a tale that for me starts with my mom and ends with learning something about an art form long denigrated as women’s work. View fullsize Tobey Wolken View fullsize Detail Muranda WaShe Akudzwe Elsie Chiwa View fullsize Detail Muranda WaShe Akudzwe Elsie Chiwa View fullsize Detail Muranda WaShe Akudzwe Elsie Chiwa View fullsize Ghana Bags View fullsize From Rags to Wishes- front view- Chieko Murasugi View fullsize From Rags to Wishes- back view- Chieko Murasugi View fullsize Detail From Rags to Wishes Chieko Murasugi View fullsize View fullsize Grand Prize: Sally Baldwin Disasters of War View fullsize 2nd Place: Delaina Doshi, Reconciled View fullsize Zelin Seah, In the Presence of the Land, We Have No Names...more28minPlay
July 16, 2025Why Make? Episode 71: Sit Like A GirlFully automated, remote controlled fighting tables that compete for ultimate supremacy, seems to be a good place to start any conversation. Especially when that conversation is with artist ,woodworker, educator and humorist Annie Evelyn. From fighting tables we move onto the merely absurd, like what it means to be a conceptional functional furniture maker. Her time as a resident artist at the Penland school of Craft. And the work she produced participating in two ground breaking exhibitions for women craft artist View fullsize Sit Like A Girl View fullsize Flower Box Back View fullsize Magic Tables View fullsize Windsor Flower View fullsize Scale Lounge View fullsize Nest View fullsize Oshibana View fullsize Cathedral Train View fullsize Red Diamonds View fullsize What Is Real View fullsize Squishy Sticks View fullsize Let Them Eat Cake...more26minPlay
June 06, 2025Why Make? Episode 70: Seating AssignmentThis is the story of how a seed of an idea sowed years ago becomes a ground breaking exhibition of women chair makers.The exhibition entitled Seating Assignment happened in March of 2024 at the Sawtooth School for Visual Art in Winston Salem NC. It’s chief instigator was the then artist in residence at Sawtooth Rebecca Juilette-Duex. In this Mind of Maker episode we look at the inspiration for creating this exhibition, learn about the Chair Library at Winston Salem College and talk with Elsa Hoffman one of the artists in the show. To view the exhibit online go to Seating Assignment View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize ...more26minPlay
April 30, 2025Why Make? Episode 69:How Do You Measure Your Worth - A Remembrance of Paul Sasso“How do you measure your worth”, this is a question Paul Sasso addressed in his 1990 sculpture featuring a woman and a man’s torso wrapped in measuring tape. It is a deeply metaphorical question that goes beyond the simple representation of measuring ones self as presented in Pauls sculpture. Paul passed onto that great measuring tape beyond in March of 2025, and in this episode we share excerpts from a previously unpublished conversation we had in 2023. A remembrance of an amazing artist, educator and mentor. ...more18minPlay
March 24, 2025Why Make? Episode 68: What a Ferris Wheel Ride it has Been with Miranda JonesThis 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-applyOn 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. ...more27minPlay
December 30, 2024Why Make? Episode 67: What If with Michael HosulakIn 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”. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize ...more20minPlay
FAQs about Why Make? Podcast:How many episodes does Why Make? Podcast have?The podcast currently has 79 episodes available.