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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In this introduction to the 2020 season of Why Make? Robb and Erik talk about what’s new for 2020 including their new Patreon page to help fund production of the podcast, upcoming guests and of course life in these strange times of the corona virus and recording with their new remote podcasting platform Squadcast. They also share their thoughts on the first season of Why Make and what worked and what didn’t

A continuation of our wonderful conversation with wood turning luminary David Ellsworth. In this episode David talks about his transition from working in clay and resin to woodturning and creating functional objects and doing craft shows to focusing on one of a kind pieces and the art scene. Needles to say Robb and Erik spend some time discussing the whole art vs. craft dichotomy.