Sustaining Craft
The stories of those making a living with their art, craft, or passion.
Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 12 in total of Sustaining Craft with the tag “creative”.
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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 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.
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Episode 15: Robert Bean: Reading a Painting Through Visual Vocabulary
November 15th, 2018 | 36 mins 31 secs
arkansas arts center, art, creative, fine art, graphite, little rock, local art, pen, pencil
Robert Bean first realized he could build a career with art when he was eight years old, reading stacks of comics books with friends. Bean continued to practice his craft as a visual storyteller, and after a detour on the way to earning his degree, he started showing his work and curating shows. Now, he keeps his art at the center of all that he does.
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Episode 14: Legenia Bearden: Opening Horizons with Affordable Art Classes
October 31st, 2018 | 36 mins 39 secs
affordable arts, art, art stories, artists, cooking, creative, dance, dancers, dancing, little rock, local, nonprofit, painters, painting
Legenia Bearden's dream of an arts center offering affordable classes for all began in the second grade, when she saw a live production of "The Sound of Music". In 2014, she started offering classes and producing plays under Bearden Productions Center for the Arts.
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Episode 13: Katy Raines: Melding Structure and Creativity for Career and Community
October 22nd, 2018 | 46 mins 20 secs
art, art stories, creative, hand lettering, little rock, local, local art
Katy Raines knew she wanted to combine the creative and the structured. Since she loved art, she decided to become a graphic designer. She graduated with a job in her field.
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Episode 12: Katie Childs: Problem Solving with Photographs
October 10th, 2018 | 28 mins 26 secs
arkansas, business, business stories, central arkansas, creative, creative business, local business
Katie Childs intended to be a graphic designer. Her first job out of college led her to a different career: photography. She started freelancing by asking her friends if anybody needed a family portrait. Now, she owns her own business, travels to photograph destination weddings, and continues to learn new things and ways to use her skill.
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Episode 10: Diane Harper: Exposing Boogeymen with Ink Blots
September 26th, 2018 | 45 mins 35 secs
arkansas, artist, business, central arkansas, creative, creative career, ink blots, little rock, local, monsters
Diane Harper was inspired by her military photographer father to go back to art school late in life after a successful social work career. Now, she continues social work part-time as she creates, shows, and sells her visual art.