Why graduate school? Episode 23 of Why Make? is a Bonus Make! and we talk with artist and educator Cory Robinson about his decision to go to grad school at San Diego State University in their Furniture Design and Woodworking program and how he chose which school and program to attend.

Continuing our conversation from Episode 22 we have an honest discussion about what can reasonably be accomplished in a graduate program and “get schooled” by Cory Robinson. We also talk about many of the amazing alum that have come through the SDSU Furniture program including Mia Hall, Russell Baldon, Barbara Holmes, Christine Lee, Lyn Syzmanski, Kim Winkle, Richard Ford and former program instructor, Wendy Maruyama.

Enjoy this exciting Bonus Make!

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Find out more about Cory and his work at www.coryrobinsonstudio.com

and the Furniture Program at SDSU here www.sdsufurniture.org

On Episode 22 of Why Make? we talk with Cory Robinson, an artist and educator, who teaches at the Herron School of the Arts in Indianapolis Indiana.

Cory grew up in small town Indiana and after traveling and schooling in other parts of the world returned to his alma mater to become an educator. Robinson’s work encompasses painting, sculpture, furniture and design. In this episode we discuss what it means to be a Studio Furniture Maker and the impact of Collectable Design on the practice of furniture making.

Please hang out with us on this episode as we get nerdy discussing with Cory about how the art history and furniture world’s coexist.

Find out more about Cory and his work at www.coryrobinsonstudio.com

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!

Find out more about Sylvie and her work at www.sylvierosenthal.com

Straight from the editing room workbench we are continuing with our newest feature in the Why Make? Bonus Make! These are pieces and parts from our initial conversation with Adrien Segal that didn’t make the final cut of Episode 19 but still make for some very compelling discussion about her life and artwork.

Please enjoy Episode 20, our second Bonus Make! We talk with Adrien about her time spent as an ‘artist at sea’ aboard the RV Falkor off the coast of Fiji and some of her other geographically inspired adventuring.

Find out more about Adrien and her work at www.adriensegal.com

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“Sculpture is an aesthetic language I use to bridge the gap between reason and emotion” -Adrien Segal

Artist and “data” sculptor Adrien Segal creates evocative work, in her Oakland, Ca studio, based on both the natural and human driven changes in our world. Whether she is graphing the tidal changes of the historic Sutro Baths in San Francisco to create the table-like Tidal Dadum series or reinterpreting fire progression chart data to elegantly display the fearsome power of forest fires in southern California, Adrien uses the aesthetic power of sculpture to inform. We nerd out on Episode 19 of Why Make? about some of the technology Adrien uses to make her work, including lidar and photogrammetry, and talk about how Adrien’s background as a furniture maker has helped to strengthen her progression into making sculpture.

Find out more about Adrien and her work at www.adriensegal.com

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As a new element of the Why Make? podcast, we are going to occasionally release snippets of our conversations with makers that for some reason or another ended up on the editing room floor… but, still make for a compelling discussion. We are calling these episodes Bonus Make, so please enjoy our first Bonus Make episode with Jason Schneider our guest in Episode 16 as he talks about his current work and collaborating with… cats?!?! Yep cats.

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