Sustaining Craft
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
33 episodes of Sustaining Craft since the first episode, which aired on July 12th, 2018.
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Episode 28: Liz Taylor-McMullen: Creating Smiles With Community Music
May 21st, 2020 | Season 3 | 32 mins 31 secs
arkansas, creative stories, music, musician, pandemic stories
Liz Taylor-McMullen, a part-time musician in Little Rock, had to stop rehearsals and music lessons when the pandemic hit. She was still able to work her 9-5 at the university, and she's found the time to pursue another passion: arranging music.
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Episode 27: Robert Bean, Part 2: Investigating People Through Visual Arts
May 1st, 2020 | Season 3 | 27 mins 52 secs
arkansas, art classes, artist, central arkansas, coronavirus, covid19, creative, exhibit, painter, poetry
Robert Bean, a visual storyteller focused on painting and drawing, found that life didn't change much when the pandemic hit. He hopes that others continue their creative endeavors when they return to their normal lives.
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Episode 26: Chris Swasta: Hearing in 3D
April 22nd, 2020 | Season 3 | 17 mins 6 secs
arkansas, artist, central arkansas, coronavirus, covid19, creative, exhibit, potter, pottery
Chris Swasta created 6,000 pieces for a collaborative exhibit at the Thea Foundation scheduled for April 3. The show was postponed until 2021. He's been a full-time potter for the past six years and he teaches pottery at the Arkansas Arts Center.
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Episode 25: Morgan Allain: Discovering New Mediums and Techniques
April 2nd, 2020 | Season 3 | 16 mins 14 secs
artist, creative, creative business, getting creative, hope, hope on the other side, louisiana, making a living from art, painter, painting, pandemic, stories about painters
Morgan Allain is an artist in rural Louisiana who saw conventions being cancelled early on, which helped her and her family of artists prepare. Morgan creates art on her Instagram, offers special perks through her Patreon, and sells originals and prints through her Etsy shop.
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Episode 24: Hannah Genevieve Lawrence: Weaving Functional Art
March 27th, 2020 | Season 3 | 19 mins 29 secs
arkansas, artist, central arkansas, coronavirus, covid19, creative, exhibit, macrame
Hannah Genevieve Lawrence was about to have her collaborative exhibit at the Thea Foundation. Then the pandemic hit. Hannah is a macramé artist with Strands Textiles and an assistant gallery director at M2 Gallery. She moved to Little Rock in 2018. She creates and instructs others on how to make functional art using rope and wool.