Crafting Voices
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In a previous entry, I wrote briefly about some of the projects that I’m working on this summer. One of them is a podcast called Crafting Voices. If you’re not familiar with the term podcast, it’s simply an audio program that you can subscribe to and listen to on a portable MP3 player like an iPod or a Creative Zen. If you don’t have a portable audio player, you can just download the podcast audio file and listen to it on your computer.
Crafting Voices is a hour long podcast that focuses on American craft and those individuals who spend their lives creating, promoting, and collecting American craft. The idea for Crafting Voices is partly inspired by one of my favorite NPR programs, This American Life. For those of you who never heard of This American Life, it’s a weekly program by Chicago Public Radio that focuses on stories of ordinary people. Some of these stories are funny, some are sad, some inspirational, and some are downright strange. Each episode has a theme, and all of the stories in that episode is related to that theme.
I’ve been wanting to do a magazine or a radio program about other artists because many times people don’t know what life is like being an artist, or they’re always surprised that one can actually make a living as an artist. One of the great things about doing craft shows is that you bring back stories, stories of other artists, stories about funny things that happened at a show. Many of the artists that I’ve met at a craft show always have an interesting and fascinating backgrounds and I relate these stories to my family and friends.
I’ve been playing around with the idea of doing a podcast for a couple of months when I hit on the idea of making Crafting Voices. Just like This American Life, each episode will have a theme and the stories will match that theme. In Crafting Voices I will interview artists, gallery owners, museum curators, show promoters, craft collectors, anyone who has a hand in making, creating, or promoting American crafts. With these interviews, I hope to create a better picture of the story behind American craft. I’ve just finished developing the companion web site to Crafting Voices at www.craftingvoices.org and the pilot episode should be available on August 15, 2006.
[tags] Crafting Voices, artists, crafters, art galleries, podcasts, iTunes [/tags]
