116: Healing Inspiration with Cynthia Alberto Founder of Weaving Hand A Studio Based in Brooklyn New York

147: It's Not About Perfection But Expression with adé Oh: In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with adé Oh (they/themme/àjé) an afro surrealist, animist, and multimedia healing artist. Their creative fire is nourished by earth-based textile crafts, sound arts, experimental and abstract visual arts, nature ... by Weave

61 min listen

146: Exploring Ancestry Through Art With Sobia Ahmad: In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Sobia Ahmad, an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores how our deeply intimate struggles of belonging can inform larger conversations about migration, the tenuous notions of home, personal memory, and ... by Weave

53 min listen

145: Weaving Skies with Kesiena Onosigho: In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with one of our artists in residence Kesiena Onosigho. Kesiena's thought-provoking mixed-media collages and installations are informed by her lived experiences, curiosity, and the historic influence on arts & cr ... by Weave

66 min listen

Episode 144: New Farm and Fiber Beginnings with Michelle Brooks and LaChaun Moore: In this week's conversation, LaChaun is switching roles to be interviewed by Michelle Brooks of The Stitchering Shop. You may remember Michelle from episode 110 where she talked about her practice of creating custom textile art pieces using a var ... by Weave

56 min listen

WEAVE: The Artist in Residence Program: Our WEAVE Artist in Residency program is a 12-week long remote residency that aims to support weavers and fiber enthusiasts who engage in community-based fiber practices. Each participant will receive a $1,500.00 cash stipend to use with no restricti ... by Weave

10 min listen

143: Making a Life with Melanie Falick: In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with author and maker Melanie Falick. Melanie traveled across continents to meet quilters and potters, weavers and painters, metalsmiths, printmakers, woodworkers, and more, all to uncover truths that have been ... by Weave

50 min listen

142: Traditions in Cloth with Melvenea Hodges: In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Melvenea Hodges. Melvenea is a Fiber Artist residing in South Bend, Indiana. She was born and raised in Benton Harbor, Michigan where she began learning about fiber arts through experimenting with hair brai ... by Weave

45 min listen

141:Teaching and Designing Tapestry Weaving with Tommye Scanlin: In this week's episode, Sarah speaks with Tommye Scanlin. Tommye is a well-known tapestry weaver, tapestry teacher, and the author of The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver, as well as her newest book, Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond. In ... by Weave

36 min listen

140: Exploring Tapestry Weaving with Rebecca Mezoff: On this week's episode, Sarah speaks with Rebecca Mezoff. We are really thrilled to welcome Rebecca Mezoff back onto the podcast. Rebecca is a contemporary tapestry weaver in Fort Collins, Colorado, and a tapestry weaving teacher, both in-person and ... by Weave

36 min listen

139: Rhythm and Texture with Multimedia Artist and Musician Lea Thomas: On this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Lea Thomas. Born in Hawaii and based in Brooklyn, Lea Thomas is a multimedia artist with a focus on music and weaving. Her woven work is centered around hand-looming natural fibers that she dyes with botani ... by Weave

34 min listen

138: Introducing Twofold with Gist Yarn's Christine Jablonski: On this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Christine Jablonski, the Director of Operations for Gist Yarn, and designer of Twofold, our upcoming subscription box for rigid heddle weavers. Her theme for this project is double weave. Over the course of ... by Weave

20 min listen

137: Entangling Craft and Tech with Shanel Wu: In this week’s episode, LaChaun speaks with Shanel Wu. Shanel is a Taiwanese-American, nonbinary, queer, maker who uses their fiber skills to entangle craft and tech. Shanel works with smart textiles, weaving, computational craft, and hardware hackin ... by Weave

44 min listen

136: Heirloom Naturally Colored Cotton in Shades of Pink with Maud Lerayer of Behind The Hill: In this week’s episode, LaChaun speaks with Maud Lerayer. Maud is the founder of Behind The Hill, a textile company based in Brooklyn, New York. Behind The Hill creates unique and contemporary pieces for home decor using a variety of heirloom cotton ... by Weave

37 min listen

135: Weaving Journals and Personal Life Struggles with Bryana Bibbs: In this week’s episode LaChaun speaks with Bryana Bibbs. Bryana is a Chicago-based textile artist, painter, and art educator who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chi ... by Weave

30 min listen

134: Weaving Monuments As Memory Signifiers with Carolina Jimenez: In this week’s episode, LaChaun speaks with Carolina Jimenez a Mexican-American textile artist and designer living in Brooklyn New York. In Carolina’s weaving practice she makes monuments as memory signifiers, and vessels into which the past is poure ... by Weave

29 min listen

133: Regenerative Storytelling with Amy DuFault: In this week’s episode, LaChaun is speaking with Amy Dufault. Amy is a sustainable textile industry writer. She works as the sustainability and communications Director for Botanical Colors as well as the Communications Lead for TS Designs. Amy also ... by Weave

58 min listen

132: A New Look For Gist Yarn with Maggie Putnam: We have a special episode for you today, a conversation between myself, LaChaun, and Maggie Putnam, that will be a peek behind the scenes at GIST Yarn and what we’ve been up to. Maggie Putnam Studio is a one-woman creative office that crafts refined ... by Weave

30 min listen

131: Letters from Our Community: Our team put together a really special episode for you to ring out this year, sharing some of our favorite customer stories that came into our email inbox this year. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-131 by Weave

36 min listen

130: Regenerative Fashion with Lydia Wendt of California Cloth Foundry: In this week’s episode, LaChaun is speaking with Lydia Wendt, the Founder and Design Director of the California Cloth Foundry. Originally from New York, Lydia trained at the Fashion Institute of Technology and worked with some of America's top fashio ... by Weave

44 min listen

129: Weaving Sustainability And Social Justice with Sarah Gotowka of Luna Fiber Studio: In this week’s episode, LaChaun is speaking with Sarah Gotowka the founder and director of Luna Fiber Studio, A textile studio specializing in weaving and natural dyes, rooted in sustainability and social justice. Sarah is a Korean adoptee and also ... by Weave

44 min listen

Gist Yarns First Open Call For Pattern Designers: Hello, I hope all is well. Before I get into this week’s episode I would like to start out by expressing my excitement and gratitude for the recent election results. I’m glad we voted and I’m excited about the changes that are to come! While we ... by Weave

3 min listen

A Message On Voting in the 2020 Election with Sarah and LaChaun: In this week’s episode, LaChaun and Sarah give a short personal account of why they feel it is important to vote in the 2020 Electoral Campaign. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-vote2020 by Weave

9 min listen

128: Emanating From The Textures with Torrey Beckham: In this week’s episode, LaChaun is speaking to Torrey Beckham. Torrey is a Texas-born Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist who weaves, uses plants, and many other creative mediums as outlets of expression. Torrey’s palette, texture choices, and su ... by Weave

31 min listen

127: Historic Wild Indigo on Johns Island South Carolina with Leigh Magar: In this week’s episode, I’m speaking with Indigo Farmer, Textile Artist & Dressmaker Leigh Magar. Leigh’s textile design studio Madame Magar is inspired by art, nature, folkways, and history. Her studio embraces a seed to stitch design philosophy tha ... by Weave

34 min listen

126: Poetic Political Quilt Making with Mathematician Chawne Kimber: In this week’s episode, LaChaun is speaking with Chawne Kimber an African-American mathematician and quilter, known for expressing her political activism in her quilts. In Chawne’s quilts, she interprets traditional forms in an improvisational style ... by Weave

35 min listen

125: Weaving and Tufting with Jessie Mordine Young: In this week's episode, LaChaun is speaking with Jessie Mordine Young. Jessie is a textile curator, teacher of traditional textile techniques, and maker living in New York City. She is an MA candidate in the History of Decorative Arts, Design History ... by Weave

31 min listen

124: Accountability In Fashion with Lauren B. Fay of The New Fashion Initiative: This week on the podcast LaChaun is speaking with Lauren B. Fay the founder and executive director of the New Fashion Initiative. The New Fashion Initiative is a foundation creating interdisciplinary education and communications initiatives to promot ... by Weave

48 min listen

123: Cultivating a Contemporary Weaving Community with Gather Textiles: In this week’s episode, Sarah is speaking with Angela Kelly and Kim McCollum the founders of Gather Textiles. Gather is a yarn shop and textile studio in Edmonton Alberta. Their aim is to bring people together to exchange ideas, learn from one anothe ... by Weave

36 min listen

122: Indigo Growing and Natural Dyeing in Central Baltimore With Kenya Miles: In this week’s episode, I’m really excited to speak with Kenya Miles. Kenya is a textile artist, farmer, and the alchemist behind the Traveling Miles Studio. Kenya has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in natural textiles which she has applied to t ... by Weave

75 min listen

121: Natural Fibers Sculpture and Gendered Iconography With Sydni Gause: In this week’s episode, I’m speaking with Sydni Gause, an interdisciplinary artist and Adjunct Professor in Sculpture at Alfred University. Sydni works with an array of materials that she uses in her sculpture, installation, and fiber-based practice. ... by Weave

44 min listen

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116: Healing Inspiration with Cynthia Alberto Founder of Weaving Hand A Studio Based in Brooklyn New York

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