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148: Soft Gather, Quiet Flame with Aliana Grace Bailey
In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Aliana Grace Bailey, an interdisciplinary fiber artist, designer, and care worker whose practice combines art, healing, and social impact at Vibrant Grace Studio.
Episode 146: Exploring Ancestry Through Art With Sobia Ahmad
In this weeks episode LaChaun speaks with Sobia Ahmad, an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores how our deeply intimate struggles of belonging can inform larger conversations about migration, the tenuous notions of home, personal memory, and cultural porosity.
Episode 143: Making a Life with Melanie Falick
In this weeks episode LaChaun speaks with author and maker Melanie Falick. Melanie traveled across continents to meet quilters and potters, weavers and painters, metalsmiths, printmakers, woodworkers, and more, all to uncover truths that have been speaking to us for millennia yet feel urgently relevant today.
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Episode 142: Traditions in Cloth with Melvenea Hodges
In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Melvenea Hodges. Melvenea creates clothing and accessories using traditional techniques such as block printing, sewing, weaving, spinning, knitting, crocheting, and embroidery. On a small scale, Melvenea grows processes and spins naturally colored cotton that she weaves with.
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Episode 141: Teaching and Designing Tapestry Weaving with Tommye Scanlin
Tommye Scanlin is a well-known tapestry weaver, tapestry teacher, and the author of The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver, as well as her newest book, Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond.
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Episode 140: Exploring Tapestry Weaving with Rebecca Mezoff
On this week's episode, Sarah speaks with Rebecca Mezoff. Rebecca is a contemporary tapestry weaver in Fort Collins, Colorado, and a tapestry weaving teacher, both in person and online.
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Episode 139: Rhythm and Texture with Multimedia Artist and Musician Lea Thomas
On this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Lea Thomas. Born in Hawaii and based in Brooklyn, Lea Thomas is a multimedia artist with a focus on music and weaving.
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Episode 138: Introducing Twofold with Gist’s Very Own Christine Jablonski
Christine Jablonksi is the Director of Operations for Gist Yarn, and designer of Twofold, our upcoming subscription box for rigid heddle weavers. Her theme for this project is double weave.
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Episode 137: Entangling Craft and Tech with Shanel Wu
Shanel is a Taiwanese-American, nonbinary, queer, maker who uses their fiber skills to entangle craft and tech.
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Episode 136: Heirloom Naturally Colored Cotton in Shades of Pink with Maud Lerayer of Behind The Hill
Maud is the founder of Behind The Hill, a textile company based in Brooklyn, New York. Behind The Hill creates unique and contemporary pieces for home decor using a variety of heirloom cotton which grows wild in shades of pink, terra-cotta, green, beige, and white in Mexico and Guatemala.
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Episode 135: Weaving Journals and Personal Life Struggles with Bryana Bibbs
Bryana is a Chicago-based textile artist, painter, and art educator who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Episode 134: Weaving Monuments As Memory Signifiers with Carolina Jimenez
Carolina Jimenez is a Mexican-American textile artist and designer living in Brooklyn New York. In Carolina’s weaving practice she makes monuments as memory signifiers, and vessels into which the past is poured, molded or reshaped (woven, unraveled, or stretched).
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