Years ago, a class Emileigh Zola signed up for was canceled last minute and she ended up in a traditional broom making class. This serendipitous turn of events put her on the path to what would become a big love of her life as well as her main

42: Creativity as a language that moves us beyond words w/ Ginger Huebner

Dec 20th, 2022 30m 44s

The medium where Ginger Huebner feels most at home is the mixing of collage and chalk. Trained as an architect she realized that what called to her more than how a building was designed and put together was how a space "felt." She now uses thes

41: Building it is just the beginning w/ Lindsey Liden

Dec 13th, 2022 42m 54s

Lindsey Liden has had quite a few creative step-stones in his life. He has played full drum kit for a punk band, painted huge colorful wall paintings that couldn't even fit into his car, worked in various restaurant kitchens, toured as a fiddle

40: Start Where You Are w/ Jason Pierson

Nov 9th, 2022 38m 59s

Quilter, natural dyer, Jason Pierson has all kinds of ways of folding his making life into his work and family life. Sometimes it means working on smaller wall hangings rather than large, full-scale quilts. Sometimes it means stirring the dye p

39: Making something from nothing w/ Rachel Yearick

Nov 1st, 2022 41m 57s

Seamstress, quilter, mom of three, Rachel Yearick, loves to sew so much and has sewn for so long that she doesn't even remember learning how. At some point she found herself with a big batch of tossed king size, hotel sheets from the second han

38: Facing the Blank Canvas w/ Hannah Seng

Oct 25th, 2022 55m 46s

Painter, fiddler, banjo player Hannah Seng feels deeply that not matter what we say, we're all creative. We put so much pressure on ourselves to do things just right, even from the beginning, forgetting that we are just not going to hit the mar

37: Move your feet w/ Becky Hill

Sep 22nd, 2022 40m 19s

Dance has been the main guiding force in Becky Hill's life. Her love of, and involvement in, percussive dance has quite literally shaped friends she's made and places she's been. With banjo playing and square dance calling added to the mix, App

36: We are all born creative w/ Kate King

Sep 15th, 2022 38m 17s

For Kate King the world of creativity has always felt like a safe place to be. As an artist, author, licensed counselor, art therapist and creator of the Radiant Life Project, Kate's approach to overall wellness is to honor the connection point

35: Dreaming in real time w/ Kelcey Loomer

Sep 7th, 2022 42m 25s

Should you make just what you know will sell or just what your heart wants to make? Or both? This question and many more flow through Kelcey Loomer's head as she paints for hours at her canvas. Working mostly with oils and prepared mixed media

34: That feeling is worth a million bucks w/ Margaret Cogswell

Aug 8th, 2022 51m 4s

Margaret Cogswell's artistic style appears, at first glance, childlike. With closer inspection is comes clear that much contemplative and technical savior faire goes into each piece she creates. Her range of mediums include everything from pape

33: Enjoying the process w/ Annie Erbsen

Jun 7th, 2022 28m 13s

Annie Erbsen grew up in a musical family and as a child equated people jamming in the kitchen as community. She later studied and worked as a physicist which she describes as "using math as your toolbox to figure out literally every thing about

32: Finding gratitude for the road blocks w/ David Hughes

May 17th, 2022 29m 12s

In his college years David Hughes was a guitar/banjo playing math major who converted vehicles to run on restaurant waste grease. As the years passed he found himself in a stressful, all consuming job, but the desire to take his music more seri

31: Exploration is Inspiration w/ Jen Swearington

May 4th, 2022 55m 12s

Jen Swearington's creative life seems to boil down to one main thing: A strong sense of curiosity which has led to a love of constant learning. Though she is most known for her textiles her creative ideas span a range of media including paper c

30: The power of accumulation w/ Géraud Barralon

Apr 12th, 2022 35m 38s

Musician, singer, builder of things (and my very own husband) Géraud Barralon is a great believer in the power of accumulation. If you have something new you want to learn or a skill you want to maintain, take just 15 minutes every day and you

29: Creativity is a kind of concentrated mindfulness w/ Daniel Nevins.

Apr 6th, 2022 43m 9s

Daniel Nevins is a painter turned psychotherapist. Looking back he thinks that even as a painter he was, in a sense, trying to do "some form of therapy...with shapes and colors." Though he still paints, his work as a therapist has shifted his p

28: Let me hear the sounds of joy and gladness w/ Zak Foster

Mar 22nd, 2022 40m 34s

Improv quilter extraordinaire Zak Foster's specialties are memory quilts, burial quilts and community quilts made with salvaged and repurposed materials in his self-described wonky, free-form style. All is connected to his main project of "how

27: Creating a life of craft w/ Jessica Kaufman

Mar 1st, 2022 34m 8s

Jessica Kaufman loves passing on what she knows so much that she created a masters degree in Craft Education. She has experience in various mediums both as a maker and a teacher including knitting, group harmony singing, hand dying and developi

26: Sparks of Inspiration w/ Jessica Johnson

Feb 2nd, 2022 31m 23s

By the age of six Jessica Johnson was already hooked on singing and loved collecting her seashell, snake skin, rock "treasures." Eventually she picked up the guitar, studied herbalism and wellness, started a garden and became a mother. Through

25: Play accordion? "No way!" w/ Rachel Bell

Jan 25th, 2022 33m 17s

When Rachel Bell's grandmother suggested she pick up the accordion her answer was "No way!" Eventually her education in music led her straight back to the accordion and this time around she fell in love. It's different than other instruments in

24: Sometimes the distance between dreaming and doing is our biggest hurdle w/ Alex McLeod

Jan 18th, 2022 36m 23s

We are all on a quest for a more satisfying life in our own ways and Alex McLeod is no different. With the support of his family he chose to leave his corporate job in exchange for a bit of financial struggle paired with the opportunity for mor

23: Give yourself space & hold yourself up w/ Erica Stankwytch Bailey

Dec 15th, 2021 48m 55s

Through the years designer/jeweler/metalsmith Erica Stankwytch Bailey started to figure out who she was as an artist and that, in fact, she had always known it. She is now sure that all the "I should"s and "I have to be"s might be the biggest b

22: Perfectionism and beauty are not the same thing w/ Hannah Burnworth

Nov 23rd, 2021 47m 41s

Why are we compelled to make? For mixed-media collage artist, Hannah Burnworth, it is something so deep inside that it's hard to get in touch with it until she's doing it. She says making art makes her feel good about herself and it "pulls the

21: Take the idea that art does heal and fold it into your own making w/ Elizabeth Garlington

Oct 26th, 2021 29m 22s

Elizabeth Garlington describes herself as a treasure hunter. She goes into her studio, gathers her collected treasures (fabrics, threads, buttons and imagery), gets in the flow and comes out with narrative art quilts meant to hang on the wall w

20: Inspiration is all around w/ Karl Engelmann

Oct 12th, 2021 29m 53s

Karl Engelmann is a producer of food and music (including an annual Christmas album!). He discovered early on that work in kitchens dovetailed nicely with his calling to be a musician. He would sometimes work all day in the restaurant, leave to

19: Your practicing is hidden in your playing w/ Riley Baugus

Sep 28th, 2021 51m 9s

Hailing from Walkertown, NC Riley Baugus has had all kinds of amazing experiences because of his banjo, everything from being part of the musical line-up for film Cold Mountain, to touring with Willy Nelson, to meeting his wife in England. When