Why Make? Podcast

Why Make? Episode 79: Tom Haney

Welcome to the world of Automata, a form of sculpture this episodes guest Tom Haney specializes in. What is Automata? It is kinetic figurative sculpture that tells a stor

Why Make? Episode 78: Vivian Chiu

I have always been amazed by detailed meticulous objects because I know I am not capable of such work myself. I do not have the attention span or patience to manufacture

Why Make? Episode 77: Cyanotype

This episode is the story of two artists, two very different approaches and a almost two hundred year old photographic process called Cyanotype or blue printing. Join us

Why Make? Episode 76: Haystack at 75 - An Experiment in Community and Education

Haystack at 75 An Experiment in Community and Education Why Make Today we’re sharing a piece we are calling “Haystack at 75 - An Experime

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

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

Why Make? Episode 74: Turning the Tables

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 o

Why Make? Episode 21Reissue: Sylvie Rosenthal In Memoriam

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 i

Why Make? Episode 73: Smile Honey

In Episode 73 of the podcast we talk with Teresa Audet an artist and educator based in Pittsburgh PA. Her journey as an artist took it’s first turn in college when switch

Why Make? Episode 72: The 2025 Fiberart International

In this episode of Why make we are going to literally talk about something close home, both my childhood home of Pittsburgh and my mom who was a fiber artist. That is the

Why Make? Episode 71: Sit Like A Girl

Fully automated, remote controlled fighting tables that compete for ultimate supremacy, seems to be a good place to start any conversation. Especially when that conversat

Why Make? Episode 70: Seating Assignment

This is the story of how a seed of an idea sowed years ago becomes a ground breaking exhibition of women chair makers. The exhibition entitled Seating Assignment happened

Why Make? Episode 69:How Do You Measure Your Worth - A Remembrance of Paul Sasso

How Do You Measure Your Worth is a metaphorical question Paul Sasso posed in a 1990 sculpture of the same name. Paul passed on to that great measuring tape beyond in Marc

Why Make? Episode 68: What a Ferris Wheel Ride it has Been with Miranda Jones

This episode of Why Make? is brought to you by Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.Thanks to Haystack to becoming our first sponsor and partner. Haystack currently has ope

Why Make? Episode 67: What If with Michael Hosulak

In this episode the last episode of 2024 a special treat, the first of our many recorded interviews from the Emma International Collaboration which took place in August o

Why Make? Episode 66: Making Basket Casket with Ellie Richards

In this episode, we are returning to our “Mind of a Maker” mini series with furniture maker and sculptor Ellie Richards This story starts with an idea that was brewing fo

Why Make? Episode 65: Bonding with Jack Larimore

In this episode of why make I talk with sculptor, furniture maker and educator Jack Larimore about how his background in landscape architecture. What led him down the pat

Why Make? Episode 64: Percussionist Jim Roberts

On this episode of Why Make we have Jim Roberts a percussionist, producer, artist and educator who resides in Chapel Hill NC. Jim plays the drum set, djembe, congas, and

Why Make? Episode 63: Impressions of Emma

In this episode my first impressions of the of the Emma International collaboration, which took placeJuly 31 to August 8 in Big River Saskatchewan. I you need a little mo

Why Make? Episode 62: I Want to Paint the Moon with Steve Fishman

In this episode we introduce the first in our Mind of Maker series inside of the Why Make Podcast. With our guest Steve Fishman. Steve is a printmaker and a painter in

Why Make? Episode 61: Jonathan Byrd, Part 2

Episode 61 of Why Make? is the conclusion of our conversation with Carrboro, NC musician Jonathan Byrd, who, along with being an award winning song writer is also a story