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Why Make? Podcast

Why Make? Podcast

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monthly conversations with makers exploring creativity and why they make

2019 Art Entertainment & Performing Arts
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  • Why Make? Episode 75: Emma and the Art of Collaboration

    Why Make? Episode 75: Emma and the Art of Collaboration
    Dec 29 2025

    There are four unattributed voices in the podcast that I would also like to mention and they are in order of appearance, Adam John Manley of San Diego CA,

    Lisa Geertsen Seattle WA, Jason Nemec Charlton NY and

    M Craig Campbell of Ness Creek SK

    Again my many thanks the Emma board of directors for Inviting Why Make to the 2024 event and to the Emma community as whole for being the wonderful supportive generous people they are. Please go to https://www.emmacollaboration.com/ for more information
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    20 mins
  • Why Make? Episode 74: Turning the Tables

    Why Make? Episode 74: Turning the Tables
    Dec 18 2025
    In Episode 74, my sister Johanna Zorn turns the tables and interviews me about the podcast. This should be a familiar name to those who listen to the credits at the end of our episodes. She has helped edit many of the episodes we have released in the last two years and was in the background making suggestions years before that. She is a veteran of radio and the audio documentary format having worked at WBEZ public radio in Chicago and then founding the Third Coast International Audio Festival, an organization dedicated to audio storytelling. She is now a freelance editor and producer. So take a listen as she tries to get me to answer the question, why I make Why Make?
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    16 mins
  • Why Make? Episode 21Reissue: Sylvie Rosenthal In Memoriam

    Why Make? Episode 21Reissue: Sylvie Rosenthal In Memoriam
    Oct 28 2025
    In 2009 I attended the Furniture Society conference in Boone North Carolina and sat in on an artist presentation by three young amazing makers whose work left a lasting impression. Sylvie Rosenthal, Katie Hudnall and Yuri Kobayashi. Sadly Sylvie passed away on October 14th and that bright shining light is no longer with us. In remembrance of Sylvie please take a listen to the wonderful conversation we had with her in October of 2020. Sylvie Rosenthal is a Madison, Wisconsin based artist and educator. She maintains a studio practice making commission furniture, work for online sales, and fantastic genre challenging sculpture dealing with the intersecting flight patterns of the histories of trade, hybridity, materiality, queer theory, and the natural world. On Episode 21 of Why Make? we discuss her fascinating 2018 show at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in Milwaukee called “House Of Risk” and the implications of taking risks in ones work. We also talk about the way in which Sylvie seeks to put multiple layers of understanding and interpretation in her work but ultimately leaves it to the viewer to determine meaning. Take a chance, roll the dice and join us for the next hour as we discuss risk with Sylvie Rosenthal!
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    1 hr and 4 mins
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