Makers of the USA

[00:02:12] Meditation and spirituality.

[00:06:52] Eye-opening experiences in Colombia.

[00:08:03] Colorful nature in Colombia.

[00:12:24] Incorporating nature in glass art.

[00:16:00] Artistic inspiration from family.

[00:19:59] Getting into meditation.

[00:25:38] Challenging glass projects.

[00:29:38] Changing creative direction

[00:34:21] Seattle becoming a glassblowing center.

[00:36:10] Passing on glass blowing.

In this episode, Kristan...

[00:02:45] David Seery's artistic journey.

[00:05:28] Selling milk at age seven.

[00:08:00] Land investments in North America.

[00:12:55] The elephant trailer.

[00:18:03] How long does it typically take you to make a piece?

[00:21:20] Dealing with pandemic challenges.

[00:25:02] Wine making.

[00:28:18] New stories wind their way.

David Syre's artistic practice is deeply rooted in spirituality, with their strongest mentors being the Dalai L...

[00:04:13] High school challenges and dyslexia.

[00:09:23] Intriguing lifestyle at the country club.

[00:13:38] Reconsidering life and taking risks.

[00:18:40] Learning to sharpen knives.

[00:19:13] Knife sharpening journey.

[00:23:20] Science of steel and knives.

[00:28:25] Making your own steel.

[00:32:41] Making Japanese steel replica.

[00:36:02] Understanding steel and challenges.

[00:39:15] Overcoming failures in craftsmanship.

[00:44:2...

[00:02:13] Exploring Seattle's local makers.

[00:05:22] The history behind London Bridge Studios.

[00:08:01] The London Bridge sound.

[00:12:31] Rock and roll influence.

[00:16:29] Local musicians in Washington.

[00:19:13] Recording and releasing music.

[00:22:10] Painting and creativity in music.

[00:26:58] Painting as therapeutic during pandemic.

[00:30:11] A spontaneous trip to Seattle.

The pandemic has had a profound impact on the ment...

"I think our craft is just fun, partying. It's about playing music that we love with people that we love. I feel like a place called home is kind of the best representation of what we do, because I think we are a family. No matter whether anybody's here or not, we are going to be just laughing our asses off having a great time smiling at what everybody's doing. It feels like home every time that we play on stage. I think that we pr...

"Most of our theme is maps and charts, we are map and chart people. So wherever that little corner of the world is special to you or to somebody you love or somebody wants to give well wishes to, we can pinpoint it down to a street address or we can design an entire country from an actual nautical chart, graphic, map topo, aerial map, aeronautical map, anything that's close to your heart," said Janice Sears, Owner of CHART Metalwor...

"Our craft is making snowboards with Winterstick snowboards. Winterstick is the oldest snowboard company in the world. It was started in 1972 by Dimitrije Milovich out in Salt Lake City and for the last 23 years, we've run our business out of Maine. I came on about six and a half years ago and I've always been a lifelong snowboarder. I've based my whole education and life around snowboarding. Somehow I ended up in a position where ...

"My craft is hand hewing, which is basically turning a log into a square beam using only an axe. It's a craft that's been around for thousands of years. Most of the old homes and barns and structures throughout New England were timber framed, and those beams were hewn just with an axe. So it's a craft that is not common anymore. But you can still learn about it through books or YouTube videos. And as soon as I learned about it, it ...

" I define myself as a leather art wear designer so which means that I make one-of-a-kind pieces of art fashion using recycled leather. How I got into that -- long funny story but it really came down to my friend asking me in his driveway if I wanted to sew leather jackets together. My experience sewing before that was minimal. I had a sewing machine. My mom got me from Walmart and knew how to do some really basic straight stitches...

"I guess in my particular case, the wood sculpture would be more of a definition of what I do. A traditional wood carver uses chisels and gouges only that are very specific. I've found that using some electric tools and sanding, I can sometimes bring the piece to the point that I like. So I'm more of a wood sculptor than I am a wood carver so to speak. A traditionalist would be a wood carver, I'm a wood sculptor. I've always been i...

"I am a pastry chef, classically trained. I've been in food now for 14 years. I will say I've been cooking and baking since I was very little I grew up on a farm in Florida and always had really fresh produce and meat as well to use to cook with. And a lot of time with my mother in the kitchen," said Chef Tara Cannaday, head chef of Pot + Pan, "I was born in Florida and stayed there until I was 12 and then actually moved to New Ham...

"My craft is currently a collection of sustainable clothing, where each design springs from the meaning of a particular poem. I did an MFA in poetry. I went back to doing that when I turned 50. After my experience there I just started to see some of the poems in physical form as garments," said Catherine Fisher, poet and fashion designer who is located in Brunswick, Maine.

Catherine is originally from Massachusetts and had quite the...

"We probably owe it to the Portland music scene as an entity, mostly, you know, we all knew each other. It's a tight, tight-knit scene. It's a very supportive scene. There were a lot of great clubs that we all knew when we were getting started and we'd all been playing in the clubs and working in the clubs and spending every free second in places like Big Easy. So the scene was a great place to pull from. So when we started, we end...

"We run the Red River Camps up in Northern Maine, it's a traditional sporting camp. But that kind of means that our craft is sort of twofold threefold, actually, when we throw Gloria into the mix. The first is that we tried to craft the northern Maine experience for people, you know, maybe new people who haven't fly fish before, or new people who haven't even been to Maine before. We had some folks from Long Island the other week, ...

"I love burning candles. I've always got one going and then I kind of you know started doing some research into how to live like a healthier lifestyle and how to kind of clean up your life. One of the articles that I read was like, oh, you know, candles that have paraffin in them are bad for you. So I never realized that and then I got down a rabbit hole. And this was, mind you at the beginning of COVID. I was like, you know, locke...

“I started through studio art and just being creative and wanting to spend some time outdoors and allow for that to be done in a very grounded and observational way. So I have studio art practice and I'm also a Maine guide. I've been an angler for a long time. But mostly that's a way again to be outside and be looking around and feeling very innately human surrounded by nature. So I guide people fishing and I also founded the Confl...

We've been in business for over four years and honestly, the craft of it has kind of progressed over time. When my husband and I started, it was literally just in our backyard. We had a bunch of pallets laying around and we were like, oh, we could make something cool with that. So he was like, just give me a little, you know, an afternoon and he used the jigsaw and he cut out a bunch of Maine signs. From there, we were like, well, ...

“I build rods for Maine Fly Company and I definitely fell out of touch with the outdoor industry through my late teenage years. Now that I've kind of settled down in Maine for a while and have a passion for fly fishing, I really wanted to get back into that community,” said Izzy Hutnak, rod smith for Maine Fly Company.

Izzy grew up fly fishing as she was taught by her father and had gone across Maine to many ponds, rivers, and ocean...

When I first heard of fly fishing I always thought of it to be a man’s sport but when I looked into the history of the sport a bit I discovered that women have been involved in fly fishing since 1496 —the way anglers tie their streamer fliers is attributed to a woman and the ‘bait and switch’ method anglers use to catch billfish on the fly came from a woman. And a woman was one of the most prominent guides in Maine when Teddy Roose...