Sustaining Craft
The stories of those making a living with their art, craft, or passion.
Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 13 in total of Sustaining Craft with the tag “central arkansas”.
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Episode 31: Robert Bean, Part 3: Giving the Work Space
April 14th, 2023 | Season 4 | 42 mins 4 secs
arkansas, art classes, artist, central arkansas, creative, exhibit, painter, poetry, sustaining craft, sustaining passion
Robert Bean, a Little Rock visual storyteller, is back on the Sustaining Craft podcast for the third time to share what he's been up to, how to gain separation from your art in a healthy way and get feedback, along with how it's impossible to have expression without practice.
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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 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.
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Episode 23: Brandy Mimms: Listening with Your Eyes
February 12th, 2020 | Season 2 | 59 mins 56 secs
arkansas, central arkansas, dance troupe, deaf, deaf dancer, deaf talent
Brandy Mimms always loved music. Wanting to perform, she became a cheerleader while attending college in New Orleans. When Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, she left with her 10-week-old son. When she ended up in Arkansas, she decided to study dance at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Now, she's a professional deaf dancer who goes by Unique the Deaf Dancer, owns her own dance company, Listen With Your Eyes Dance Troupe, and teaches dance at Southwest Community Center in Little Rock.
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Episode 20: Hannah Allen: Putting Petal to the Metal
November 29th, 2019 | Season 2 | 35 mins 53 secs
arkansas, art, art stories, business, career, central arkansas, little rock, professional artist, storytelling
Hannah Allen learned a hard lesson in college, and she dropped out twice before earning her degree on the third try. Now, with Petal to the Metal Floristry, she helps brides with floral arrangements for their weddings, offering affordability without compromising quality. It's a path that has its roots in her childhood, as the flower girl at her mother's friends' weddings. But it took her a few detours to get there.
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Episode 19: Michael Eubanks: Using Art to Combat Fear
November 6th, 2019 | Season 2 | 54 mins 57 secs
arkansas, art, art stories, business, career, central arkansas, little rock, mental health, musician, professional artist, saxophonist, social worker, storytelling, sustaining craft, veteran, vocalist
Art and music helped Michael Eubanks as a kid when he struggling to make friends and talk to others. When he sang, his stutter didn’t matter. And although he left his saxophone behind for a few years, it found him again, especially when he was unexpectedly back in the United States after fifteen years in the military, due to a reduction in strength, as they call a military downsizing.
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Episode 18: Jessica and Justin Crum: Proving That Creative Careers Are Possible (But Difficult)
September 3rd, 2019 | Season 2 | 48 mins 9 secs
arkansas, art, art stories, business, career, central arkansas, little rock, professional artist, storytelling
She was an outgoing, young single mother. He was a shy script writer. They bonded over trips to the farmer's market after church and then experienced their first kiss in a cemetery. Now, Jessica and Justin Crum, married for ten years, are forging their careers in graphic design and film making in rural Arkansas. They want to reveal that creative careers don't need a backup plan.
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Episode 17: Matthew Castellano: Building Community Through Art
February 27th, 2019 | Season 2 | 48 mins 56 secs
arkansas, art, art stories, business, career, central arkansas, little rock, professional artist, storytelling
There are some unexpected parallels between skateboarding and art -- including discipline, skill, community and the huge amounts of risk. Matthew Castellano has found both to be connected throughout his life as he grew up in Florida and then when he moved to Little Rock, where he curates Gallery 360, a space designed to bring people together.
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Episode 16: Kathryn LeMaster: Using the Unseen to Craft a Home
January 21st, 2019 | Season 2 | 53 mins 26 secs
arkansas, business, career, central arkansas, design, entrepreneur, little rock, storytelling
Kathryn LeMaster didn't know that interior design was an actual job until she found it in her college's catalogue. She'd grown up on a construction site, helping her parents build the family home, and loved the idea of helping others build and utilize their own space through function and storytelling.