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SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles

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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00:41:33

STORIES FROM THE HUDDLE

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2024/02/15

As you may have heard the NOOK had our first in-person gathering recently called a HUDDLE. As part of this gathering, I asked participants to share what they were thinking about over the weekend. Funny enough in this old house, there was an old wooden phone booth that provided just enough privacy for us to sit and speak our thoughts into a small digital handheld recorder. What you're about to hear in this special episode of SEAMSIDE is a collection of sixteen short reflections: some are really

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00:30:47

HOW TO PUT ON A SHOW with quilt curator Marin Hanson

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2024/02/08

A few weeks ago, I caught up with quilt researcher and author Janneken Smucker to thumb through her new book together. If you haven’t heard our conversation yet on A New Deal for Quilts, I recommend you go back and catch that episode first, and then come join me for this conversation.Because today we’re going behind the scenes, behind the book, and into the International Quilt Museum itself. I’m joined by the curator of International collections at IQM, Marin Hanson, to hear what it was like to put

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00:20:34

SILVER DOLLAR QUILT

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2024/02/01

For most of my life, I had a tough time wrapping my head around the idea of privilege. But as I started researching my own family, something became crystal clear: the two branches of my family tree had two different experiences here in this country. On my dad's line, they are all subsistence farmers. They barely had enough money to get it registered on the census. On my mom's side of the family, however, where all the enslaving happened, they were wealthier in ways that my dad's folks could've never

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00:31:45

HEIDI AT THE PFISTER: Part 1

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2024/01/25

By now you’ve probably heard that our good friend Heidi Parkes is the 15th Artist in Residence at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee. I talk about Heidi like everyone knows her, and if you’ve been in my world for very long, I’m sure you’ve heard me talk about her. We are both former public school educators turned professional artists and have been friends for almost a decade now. If you’re not familiar with Heidi’s work, she documents her life in her quilts, tracking days, places, and memories through

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00:34:55

HOW TO HOLD QUILTS LOOSELY with quilt advocate...

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2024/01/18

I’m convinced that Roderick Kiracofe is one part human being and one part guardian angel. He’s been a huge support both of me and many other quilters out there, generously lending his experience and insight that only come from the decades he’s spent as an advocate for quilts.On a recent trip to NYC, he and I caught up at Tatter’s Blue Library to immerse ourselves in Brooklyn’s beautiful textile research space and the all the shades of blueness. We cozy up on a big blue couch in the corner of the

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00:34:55

KNIFEMAN QUILT with Zak Foster

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2024/01/11

In this quilt talk, I share the KNIFEMAN quilt: a story-driven project shaped by an encounter I had while purchasing a foraging knife, exploring themes of identity and how each one of us living our best lives gives permission to everyone around us to the same.You can see images of quilts we discuss on the episode website https://www.zakfoster.com/seamside/knifemanWHY LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE?There’s a rich narrative in this KNIFEMAN project that blends quilting with personal reflection and societal

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01:10:12

HOW TO RING IN 2024 with Friends of SEAMSIDE

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2024/01/03

To get 2024 started right, I thought I would pull together some of my favorite moments out of the last year as a way of not only reflecting, but mining it again for the wisdom, the advice, the perspective and experience that my guests have offered, and hopes of setting all of us up for a more creative, more fulfilling, more satisfying 2024.When I sat down to begin thinking who would I pull in from the last year of SEAMSIDE, it was a lot more challenging than I thought. I tried to pick a wide variety

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00:52:55

HOW TO SOFTEN HARD TIMES with quilt historian...

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2023/12/28

The Great Depression wasn’t something we talked much about in my family. I do know it’s what made my grandfather quit school in the eighth grade to go work in his father’s grocery store. When we think of this time in international history, which lasted roughly from the Stock Market crash in 1929 until the lead-up to World War 2, we often think of the photographs of Dorothea Lange and the New Deal which funded large public works proejcts like the TVA and Hoover Dam. But quilt historian Janneken

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00:15:00

QUILT TALK: The Beach Shirt Quilt

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2023/12/21

I take you behind the scenes with one of my most recent finishes, a quilt I’m calling the Beach Shirt quilt. I found the shirt walking down along Brighton Beach on a cool gray morning about six weeks ago.We walked to the far end of the beach beyond Coney Island where things turn more residential, and that’s where I found it: this clump of sand-colored fabric.When I picked it up and shook it clean, I knew immediately that this was going to be the starring feature for my next quilt.Click here to see

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00:15:00

PAOLO ARAO & I TALK TAROT

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2023/12/16

Last week when Paolo Arao talked about our textile practices, we mentioned that one of the things that we have in common is our shared love of taro. So in this special SEAMSIDE bonus episode, you'll hear us share about our own personal tarot practice and how it plays into our creative practice. If you have a tarot practice, I hope you pick up some new nuggets. And if you don't have a tarot practice, maybe you want to give it a try?⤷ Get your free TINY QUILT tutorial video I mention in this

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00:46:59

HOW TO BRING IT ALL TOGETHER with textile artist...

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2023/12/14

The fact that Paolo Arao and I both showed up to the podcast studio wearing orange winter hats and navy hoodies should tell you something of the kindred connection I feel with Paolo. After years of being online friends, we met up for breakfast about a month ago before going to see his most recent show that was about to close. Over a massive (and truly delicious) breakfast sandwich, we kept discovering commonalities: the way we think about color, how we navigate creative hiccups, our shared love of

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00:35:10

THE NECKTIE QUILT: PART 2 with Amanda Nadig

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2023/12/07

I recently spent a week in Chicago with my good friend, Amanda Nadig, making this quilt together. Since I had recently bought a small handheld recorder, we thought it'd be fun to take you behind the scenes day by day as we're making this quilt encountering creative obstacles, when things aren't turning out our way and how we navigate through this particular project together. In part one, Amanda and I shared details about this particular commission, the kind of prep work we did to get ready for our

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00:31:07

THE NECKTIE QUILT: PART 1 with Amanda Nadig

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2023/11/30

In this two-part mini-documentary: Amanda Nadig and I take you behind the scenes of our latest collaboration. You’ll get to accompany us on the creative process behind a quilt built out of a client's retired collection of high-end silk neckties. I'd recently bought a small handheld recorder, and we thought it'd be fun to give you a play-by-play as we're making this quilt, encountering creactive obstacles when things aren't turning out the way we'd hoped, and how we navigate through this particular

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00:11:31

10 MORE MINUTES with Sherri Lynn Wood

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2023/11/23

In our chat last week, Sherri Lynn Wood and I took a deep dive into memory quilts, and this week we talk about what she loves best *after* quilting, namely: nature and being a divinity school dropout. Enjoy this short chat, and if you haven’t had a chance to listen to our first conversation, check out the previous episode. ⤷Learn more about THE QUILTY NOOK here ⤷ Get your free NOOK trial here⤷ Enter here for your chance to win a FREE YEAR on the NOOK!

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00:49:31

HOW TO MAKE MEMORIES with improv quilter Sherri Lynn...

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2023/11/16

If Sherri Lynn Wood and I were to map our lives on a venn diagram, there’d be a lot of overlap: we both spent parts of our childhood in North Carolina, we both host online communities for quilters (mine is the QUILTY NOOK, hers is BravePatch.School); we both honor elements of quilting as a spiritual practice, and in doing so, we both work a lot with grief and bereavement. The quilts may go by different names: I make memory quilts, Sherri makes passage quilts, but they both point to the stories and

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00:47:18

QUILT TALK: YES MORE PLEASE with Heidi Parkes

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2023/11/09

In this QUILT TALK episode, I’m joined by my good friend and collaborator, Heidi Parkes. When I went to visit her in Milwaukee over the summer, we decided we were overdue to make a collab quilt. YES MORE PLEASE was born out of a conversation about creating more space for all the good things in life (and maybe sweeping out the junk in the meantime). Towards this end of this quilt talk, we share some thoughts about what it takes to have a positive collaboration experience. I hope you enjoy and pick up

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00:54:48

HOW TO DECONSTRUCT with Weaver Rachel Meginnes

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2023/11/01

I first met Rachel Meginnes at Penland School of Arts and Crafts just north of Asheville, NC. We had been in each other’s digital orbits for a good while and so when we sat together in a couple plush armchairs and warm cups of coffee by a fireplace in the dining hall, it was the most natural thing to slip into conversation. Rachel’s current work centers on weaving old deconstructed quilt material into new pieces on her digital loom. After she’s spent days picking apart an old quilt, she often finds

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00:16:39

QUILT TALK: Uncle Jim's Memory Quilt

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2023/10/25

A behind-the-scenes look at the memory quilt I made for my Uncle Jim. I got to work with my aunt on designing and sewing this quilt, and it made a really rich experience for both of us. Towards this end of this quilt talk, I share five insights I learned about working with someone else on a memory quilt. I hope you enjoy and pick up something you can use in your own creative practice. XOZ⤷Subscribe to SEAMSIDE to get a notification when a new episode posts⤷Learn more about THE QUILTY NOOK here⤷ Get

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00:49:31

FREE ADVICE with Luke Haynes

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2023/10/19

My good friend Luke Haynes 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:① How can I move away from pattern-based quilting and play more?② How did you find time to create new work when you were working full-time jobs?③ Where do all your quilts go when you’re done making them?④ I’m a multimedia artists and quilts are a part of what I do. But how

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00:46:55

HOW TO WORK TOGETHER with the Folk School Quilting...

SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles ·

2023/10/05

Five international textile artists come together for two weeks in the heart of Southern Appalachian mountains at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Kianga Jinaki, Chris Dufour, Chinelo Njaka, and Jesalyn Keziah share powerful insights as we sit around the sewing circle in the quilting studio. In this collective conversation, we discuss: ① what magic our quilts can perform ② how quilts tell stories when words fall short ③ the power of collective effort HELPFUL RESOURCES ⤷ Learn more about the

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