The CraftSanity Podcast
CraftSanity is a place to escape the daily grind and renew your creative spirit through interviews with creative people.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 65 minutes
- Episodes
- 233
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
CraftSanity #153: 1.30.15 Anne-Marie Faiola
If inspiration to take your handmade business to the next level is what you seek, tune in for my conversation with Anne-Marie Faiola, CEO and founder of Bramble Berry, the Bellingham, Washington-base…
01:15:10 |
Sat 31 Jan 2015
CraftSanity #152: 1.13.15 Marcy Davy
As a screen printer and designer, Marcy Davy, of Ypsilanti, knows the joy of printmaking and repeats the process daily as a professional artist producing prints for her All Things Grow product line.
00:52:50 |
Tue 13 Jan 2015
CraftSanity #151: 12.28.14 Wei Shyuan “Stone” Peng
There is beauty all around us, but when we’re busy rushing from here to there and checking our phones we miss a lot. This is where Wei Shyuan Peng comes in. By day he’s a hydrogeologist who adopted t…
00:41:32 |
Sun 28 Dec 2014
CraftSanity #150: 12.16.14 Megan Roach
For years Grand Rapids fiber artist Megan Roach has been experimenting with natural dyes and crocheting and knitting. She was having fun with her creative work, but struggling to tie it all together.…
00:37:10 |
Wed 17 Dec 2014
CraftSanity #149: 12.2.14 Megan Eckman
With deliberate lines and tiny stitches, Megan Eckman is a fine artist and a creative writer behind Studio MME who became an embroidery designer soon after realizing craft stores were still selling t…
00:50:20 |
Wed 03 Dec 2014
CraftSanity #148: 11.24.14 Lisa Occhipinti
In her new book, “Novel Living: Collecting, Decorating and Crafting with Books,” Lisa Occhipinti once again pays homage to the printed word.
00:35:55 |
Tue 25 Nov 2014
CraftSanity #147 11.17.14 Dinderbeck
Hear how three men have realized their long-term goal to transform the Dinderbeck collective space into a community printshop – a project that has been four years in the making.
00:42:23 |
Tue 18 Nov 2014
CraftSanity #146 11.09.14 Meredith Crawford
Last month I recorded a lovely chat with Meredith Crawford, a stylish craft blogger who documents her creative life at onesheepishgirl.com. Tune in to find out how she landed a book deal during her j…
00:39:55 |
Sun 09 Nov 2014
CraftSanity #145 10.19.14 Sally England
More than three decades after macrame permeated the American craft landscape, it’s once again growing in popularity and Sally England has had a hand in that. However, becoming a nationally recognized…
00:48:39 |
Mon 20 Oct 2014
CraftSanity #144 10.12.14 Kelly Allen
A fine art painter with a soft spot for crafting, Kelly, 35, just opened the Wisemaker Creative Reuse Store and Studio at The Geek Group, the maker space at 902 Leonard St. NW in Grand Rapids. Part c…
00:37:34 |
Sun 12 Oct 2014
CraftSanity #143 10.9.14 Ryan Spencer Reed
Ryan Spencer Reed’s quest to understand the life of a soldier and his family’s own tradition of military service led him to immerse himself in this documentary project and pursue a true understanding…
01:19:38 |
Thu 09 Oct 2014
CraftSanity #142 10.5.14 Anila Quayyum Agha
Interview with ArtPrize artist Anila Quayyum Agha, whose work “Intersections” casts opulent 32- by 34-foot shadows onto the walls, floor and ceiling of the exhibition space at the Grand Rapids Art Mu…
00:40:17 |
Sun 05 Oct 2014
CraftSanity #141 9.28.14 Marianne Gardner
Sometimes, handmade business partnerships start in the most unlikely ways. Sean Maginity was working in the maintenance department at the Grand Rapids Public Library when he fell for Marianne Gardner…
00:44:10 |
Sun 28 Sep 2014
CraftSanity #140: 9.25.14 Rubyellen Bratcher
Interview with author of "Let's sew Together," by Rubyellen Bratcher.
00:43:30 |
Thu 25 Sep 2014
CraftSanity #139 09.17.14 Jamie Malden
I met Jamie Malden at the quilt show and fell hook, line and sinker for block printing and the lovely blocks she sells on her Colouricious website.
00:59:40 |
Wed 17 Sep 2014
CraftSanity #138 09.07.14 Esther Bryan
The story behind a 120 feet long by 10 1/2 feet high "Quilt of Belonging."
00:44:16 |
Sun 07 Sep 2014
CraftSanity #137 Eric Hoffman Part 2: 08.31.14
The second part of the interview with printmaker Eric Hoffman.
00:53:51 |
Mon 01 Sep 2014
CraftSanity #137: 08.26.14 Eric Hoffman Part 1
Eric Hoffman is a kind printmaker I met on Instagram while attempting to soak up all I can from more experienced printmakers creating inspiring work.
00:46:29 |
Wed 27 Aug 2014
CraftSanity #136 08.17.14 Caitlin Myler
Caitlin Myler was turning left out of the parking lot of the Ottawa County bank call center where she worked when she spotted another motorist traveling fast over the hill. Their cars collided and th…
00:34:47 |
Mon 18 Aug 2014
CraftSanity #135 08.10.14 Chiaki O’Brien
When Chiaki O’Brien rolls into Allegan County and sets up her SAORI weaving looms at the Michigan Fiber Festival this week, her students will learn right away that they are part of one of the happies…
00:46:13 |
Sun 10 Aug 2014
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