Sustaining Craft
The stories of those making a living with their art, craft, or passion.
Displaying 5 items of Sustaining Craft with the tag "sustaining craft".
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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 29: Danielle Perrault: Singing to Pursue Joy
August 23rd, 2022 | Season 4 | 51 mins 32 secs
actor, coaching, creative life, holistic voice coach, opera, singer, singing, sustaining craft
Danielle Perrault is a holistic vocal coach, actor, and singer who knows the struggles of pursuing a creative career all too well. She had no intention of singing when she first attended college as a psychology major. She made the switch to pursue nursing, and then stumbled into opera by way of elective courses when all of the classes she needed for nursing were full. Now, she is working through what a creative life means to her personally while helping others get the support they need.
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Episode 22: Stacey Bowers: Stamping an Edge on the Delicate
January 22nd, 2020 | Season 2 | 22 mins 37 secs
creative stories, design, jewelry, jewelry design, little rock, little rock art, stories, sustaining craft
Stacey Bowers wanted to make her friends laugh. She’d already had an understanding of jewelry making from her time as a teenager working at a bead store, then she taught herself how to stamp metal. The gifts for her friends caught the eyes of others, and she built an Etsy shop, then a website. By 2018, she had to decide if she wanted to make Bang-Up Betty her full-time gig. She booked a trade show in Vegas and quit her day job. Now, her work has been featured in Buzzfeed and other national platforms, and she makes all of her income as a jewelry designer at her home studio and Stifft Station Gifts.
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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 7: Adrian Quintanar: Throwing Colorful, Functional Pottery
September 4th, 2018 | 26 mins 5 secs
art, craft, pottery, sustaining craft
Adrian Quintanar had always wanted to pursue some sort of creative career. He earned a music scholarship, then worked as a ceramicist in a dental lab for twelve years. After a move to Louisiana from Fort Worth, Texas, to support his wife while she earned her PhD, then a move to Arkansas, Quintanar earned his BFA in Photography and became the artist in residence at the Arkansas Arts Center for 2018. He's now experimenting with colorful clay to create unique pieces for his 2019 show.