SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles

Jun 27 2024 78 ep. 38 mins 163
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SEAMSIDE host Zak Foster explores the inner work of textiles with various textile artists. In each episode, we seek to understand how working with fabric helps make us more human.

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BACKSTITCH with Judy Martin

Jun 27 2024 41 mins  
The last time Judy Martin and I caught up was about a year ago. At the point in time, she was just starting Your Fragile Life, a quilt project that she just wrapped up in recent weeks. If you haven’t heard our first chat, you can find it in the feed under April 2023. That conversation is one of the most-listened to episodes of all time, and in that chat, called HOW TO HOLD YOUR L

Reflection on Art & Craft with Dana Staves

Jun 08 2024 7 mins  
Recently Dana Staves, writer and textile artist, wrote a post on the NOOK that was so sweet and real and inspiring that I asked if she wouldn't mind recording it for y'all to hear. And luckily for us, she did.

HOW TO WORK WITH THE MATRIARCHS with painter Barbara Campbell Thomas

Jun 06 2024 57 mins  
Barbara Campbell Thomas had a long-established painting practice when, about a decade ago, her mother bought her a sewing machine. Little did she know, but that gift provided her the perfect missing piece to her creative practice. What draws me to Barbara’s work is the balance between tautness and texture. Her stretched and pieced canvas quilt works pushes back an “all or noth

MEMBERSTORY with Wendy Muir

May 25 2024 4 mins  
Welcome to MEMBERSTORY, a new series of bonus interviews that bring you real-life stories from the NOOK. These conversations have been a great way to get to know some of folks that make the NOOK so special. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Wendy Muir from Adelaide, Australia.

HOW TO SAY YES TO HIGH-VOLUME JOY with textile artist Russell James Barratt

May 23 2024 56 mins  
Russell James Barratt and his wildly joyful quilts make me want to lasso the UK and bring our two countries closer together. His work is loud and colorful, his demeanor is gentle and composed, and those two sides of Russell make for an imminently enjoyable friend to chat with.

BACKSTITCH with Coulter Fussell

May 16 2024 41 mins  
It’s been a year since Coulter Fussell and I first chatted here on SEAMSIDE. In that conversation, we talked about the South and family history, the role of community in her work, and how she maintains hope in the face of conflict. You can find that first conversation, HOW TO WORK WITH WHAT YOU’VE GOT, in your feed below in March 2023.

BONUS Convo with Tyrrell Tapaha

May 11 2024 22 mins  
We talk about Tyrrell's newest work along with three artists he thinks everyone should follow

HOW TO TEND THE FLOCK with weaver and sheepherder Tyrrell Tapaha

May 09 2024 61 mins  
Tyrrell, a sixth-generation Diné weaver and sheepherder, will tell you there’s nothing in his work that specifically belongs to him. And while it may be true that there’s nothing new under the sun and that all artists draw from deep wells of collective experience, I can’t help but think that there is something special about Tyrrell’s work—the use of text, the collage-lik

GENERATION: Eroding Foundations and Making It Right

May 02 2024 20 mins  
Time continually marching forward. Each new day just piles on top of yesterday and gets buried further back in what we have come to call history. I think there's a problem with thinking about time that way, and that's what we're exploring today on SEAMSIDE. I'm going to share with you a quilt that I made called Generation. It's part of the Southern White Amnesia, a body of work th

FREE ADVICE with Maura Grace Ambrose

Apr 25 2024 62 mins  
My good friend [Maura Grace Ambrose](https://www.instagram.com/folkfibers/?hl=en) joins for me for this SEAMSIDE special episode I’m calling FREE ADVICE where we answer your questions on quilting and the creative life. In this episode, we share our thoughts on the following questions: - how our quilt aesthetic has changed over time, - how to learn quilting without spending a lo