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Crafting a Revolution

A maker is someone who has a passion for creating something where formerly there was nothing. Making and being creative may be their full time job, a part-time hustle, or a hobby that brings them joy. Every week I will bring you two interviews of female and nonbinary makers of all kinds from all over the world.

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Episode 212 - Laun Los Angeles

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/11/17

Laun is a collaborative design firm marrying glamour and delight with the built world. In 2018, friends Rachel Bullock and Molly Purnell brought together their backgrounds in woodworking, metal working and architecture to build a practice of enduring spaces and products. Laun's object-line harnesses the unique talents of Los Angeles-based manufacturers to craft timeless, heirloom quality furniture suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. You can follow along with Laun on Instagram and their

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01:12:23

Episode 211 - Christy Wilkerson of Wilkerson Handmade

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/11/12

Christy is a woodworker and digital fabricator. She runs her business, Wilkerson Handmade, where she designs home goods and then crafts them using predominately her CNC and laser. She sells these goods online and at craft markets all across Ohio. She learned a love of woodworking and her woodworking skills from her Father who still helps her in the shop as her business continues to take off. You can follow along with Christy on Instagram and her Website.

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Episode 210 - Andrea de Leon

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/11/10

Andrea is a Mexican-American artist based in Texas. She obtained her BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Texas and has received multiple awards, including residencies at Ox Bow School of Art and Penland School of Crafts. She has worked and exhibited internationally and currently teaches metalsmithing in several institutions in Texas. With metalsmithing she creates sculptural pieces as well as knives. She is also pursuing a passion in scientific glass blowing. You can follow along with Andrea

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Episode 209 - Scout Cartagena

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/11/05

Scout is a multidisciplinary artist, practicing crafts such as printmaking, glass, and audio and video work. She draws from mental health and her personal narrative as a queer black woman to create a strong thread of representation in larger compositions and forms of installation. Her work reflects on family, memory, mental health and chronic illness. In her early 20's she was diagnosed with a rare auto-immune disorder. With each year, she loses parts of her memory and mobility, all increasing the

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01:11:42

Episode 208 - Kirtan Tom, Allied Woodshop

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/11/02

Kirtan is a woodworker and furniture designer based in Los Angeles. She fell in love with woodworking in Brooklyn, New York, and promptly quit her day job to focus on it full-time. She spent as much time as possible practicing the craft and taking classes to learn from others. Her only rule while building is that each new project has to include a new technique she has never tried before. Today, she continues to learn from the wonderful community at Allied Woodshop, of which she owns and directs. You

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Episode 207 - New Co-host Katie Thompson

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/10/28

I am excited to learn more about Katie Thompson, founder of the Women of Woodworking project in addition to editor and chief of the monthly online journal, Pen and Chisel. I first chatted with Katie a while back when she was a guest on the podcast, then called Maker Mom. Since then, we have continued to orbit in similar spaces. We have a shared passion for growing the accessibility of craft and learning, sharing, and elevating the stories of women and non-binary folks in that space. Please join me

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01:05:46

Episode 206 - Marite of Crazy Happy Casa

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/10/27

Marite is a wife, mom, and all around DIYer. Marite went the college route and then into the corporate world. She really found herself though working to make her house feel like a home through all sorts of projects. Rather recently, she has left the corporate world and is at home with her kiddos, making, baking and DIYing. You can follow along with Marite on Instagram.

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Episode 205 - Delia Dante

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/10/15

Delia Dante is an award winning metal art and glass enamel artist currently living and working in Idaho. Her fine art gallery, Enamel and Welding studio is in the heart of downtown Boise. Delia discovered her artistic passion in the creation of metal and enamel sculptures, wall pieces and jewelry. She works with copper and steel. The popularity and demand for her fine art enameling and welding classes are a result of her outstanding reputation as an art teacher for 12 years and working as a

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Episode 204 - Brittany & Heather of Beautiful Fight...

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/10/12

In 2015, Brittany and Heather started Beautiful Fight Woodworking after Brittany wasn't able to maintain her job due to complications in her fight with a rare blood cancer. They had just enough money to buy a discounted miter saw, three 8-ft boards and only one design in mind. They slowly built one table at a time as they could afford to. Years later, they have filled hundreds of orders from small yard games to large dining sets, and furnishing full homes. They just celebrated their 1 year

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01:02:56

Episode 203 - Tamar of Woodworker Rehab

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/10/08

Tamar is a former Olympic figure skater, coach, and recent Wharton MBA graduate. As an athlete, she sustained multiple overuse injuries which forced her out of the sport sooner than she would have liked. That experience spurred her desire to help others have long and healthy careers in their desired profession. Woodworkers are a lot like professional athletes: they do repetitive movements for hours daily while striving for perfection, making them susceptible to overuse injuries. Tamar's mission is

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Episode 202 - Leilany Velasquez

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/10/05

Leilany is a maker with a passion for both woodworking and mental health. She started woodworking about two years ago and it came very unexpectedly, sort of as something the help work through time as she figured out how she was going to find work in the pandemic. It has been the biggest blessing in her life. It very quickly turned into a business. Now she wants to use her business to help people regain their confidence and be able to see their true potential. There's something about building a

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01:07:55

Episode 201 - Seven Bailey

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/10/01

Seven is a welder, fabricator, and weld inspector living and working in the twin cities. Seven has been in love with welding since they saw the movie Flash Dance as a young child. Though they started out in college, life ended up taking them out to California and then back to the midwest, learning to weld and fabricate along the way. Now they work at the Fire Art Center, leading the fabrication effort for several large metal sculpture pieces. Recently they competed in the Metal Shop Masters on

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Episode 200 - Stacy Motte

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/09/29

Stacy is a California native who lives and works in Pennsylvania currently. She received her Bachelor's degree in Photography and Furniture Design at California College of the Arts and her MFA at the University of Wisconsin. Her work has explored vulnerability as it relates to the female body, normative behavior, and hygiene. She is currently exploring the historical erasure of women from craft in her collaboration with Eleanor Rose as the Ladies Who Wood. You can follow along with Stacy on

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Episode 199 - Eleanor Rose

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/09/22

Eleanor is a woodworker, sculpture artist and tool maker. From a small rural town in California, with no real exposure to art, to going to art school in New York, Eleanor enjoyed creating. It took losing access to a shop and realizing that she could make her own tools to start her on the journey into tool making. She grew her experience through working at different schools and running different shops, learning to machine and to cast. All through this her art reflected the very real internal struggle

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Episode 198 - Tay Crib

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/09/17

Taylor, or Tay, is a degreed architect and designer who found her way to woodworking and turning during the pandemic. She has really always enjoyed working with her hands, perhaps why she pivoted into construction and project management after college instead of going further with architecture. She found herself during the pandemic needing to keep her hands busy. A neighbor offered to teach her some woodworking skills in his workshop. Now she owns her own lathe and is excited to be making small

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Episode 197 - Ruth Amos

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/09/15

Ruth Amos is an engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. When she is not travelling giving inspirational and motivational speeches, you can find her as managing director of her first invention and company, Stairsteady, or building fun things kids have invented for her YouTube channel, Kids Invent Stuff. An accomplished speaker and event host, Ruth is living proof that engineering and science is not boring. You can follow along with Ruth on her personal Instagram and Kids Invent Stuff Instagram, as well

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Episode 196 - Ladies Who Wood

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/09/10

The duo, Ladies Who Wood, is comprised of Stacy Motte and Eleanor Ingrid Rose. Stacy and Eleanor have known each other since they both lived in San Francisco. They then attended grad school at the same university and have really been a collaborating duo since. Their collaboration currently focuses on the many ways that women have been erased from craft throughout history and they make sculptural pieces that speak to that. This episode will be followed up with individual episodes with each artist.

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Episode 195 - Adriana, Texas DIY Mama

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/09/08

Adriana is a wife, mom, and DIYer. She spent her childhood fascinated by watching her Uncle, who was a finish carpenter, use all of his power tools on the weekend. She would later go work for that same Uncle in the office at his finish carpentry business. Adriana spent a few years as a nurse, enjoying her time helping others. Then, with the diagnosis of her oldest being autistic and the birth of her youngest, she decided it best to stay home. That is when her own journey into DIY and building began

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Episode 194 - Karla Vazquez, Black Poppy Woodworks

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/09/03

Karla is a wife, mom, artist and woodworker who says creating and using her hands is her happy place. Karla loved art as a kid and went to school for art. She then went into military and into the corporate world from there. As she was looking at having young ones at home and making things for them, she thought why not try to turn it into a business. That is how Black Poppy Woodworks began. Now she experiments with woodworking and resin, never wanting to make the same thing twice. You can find and

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Episode 193 - Lisa Laughy

Crafting a Revolution ·

2021/09/01

Lisa is a traditional wood carver with a strong background in design and painting. She has spent over 15 years carving, in addition to the decades that she has worked as a designer and illustrator. It wasn't until she began exploring wood carving that she realized how much of her earlier, 2D work had been conceptualized in her mind in relief. The years Lisa has spent designing, drawing, and painting on paper have provided a careful preparation for working in wood. You can follow along with her

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