SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles
by ZAK FOSTER
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About this podcast
SEAMSIDE host Zak Foster explores the inner work of textiles with various textile artists. In each episode, we seek to understand how working with fabric helps make us more human.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 96 episodes
- SOLITUDE-COMMUNITY RHYTHM · 23 minCreative work requires two movements: going inward into solitude and reaching outward into community. Neither is better than the other—what matters is learning to sense which one…
- WITNESS YOUR WORK · 19 minWhat does it mean to document our work in witnessing mode rather than performative mode? This meditation helps you practice being a witness of your own process—noticing your…
- HOLDING QUESTIONS · 21 minSome questions close quickly—you answer them and move on. But other questions open outward, revealing more complexity and interest the longer you explore them. This meditation…
- MANY LAYERS MAKE A STORY · 21 minWhen we encounter textile work—especially quilts—we often perceive multiple stories at once: what the maker stitched into the surface, what materials they chose, what techniques…
- DIALOGUING WITH OUR WORK · 21 minWhen you write in a journal, you often discover what you think by seeing your thoughts on paper. Making works the same way—your hands think through materials, and you discover…
- WHAT KEEPS SHOWING UP · 20 minYour visual language isn't something you need to invent or discover hidden deep within yourself—it's already emerging in the choices you make each time you create. This…
- NOTICING EVERYWHERE · 21 minCreative inspiration isn't scarce, requiring special trips or perfect conditions—it's abundant, hiding in plain sight. This meditation helps you expand your attention to notice…
- FAILURE AS DATA · 19 minWhat if you approached your creative work like a scientist approaches experiments—with genuine curiosity rather than pressure? This meditation helps you shift to a "What happens…
- BODY AS GUIDE · 17 minOur bodies have so much to tell us—where we hold tension, what hurts after hours of making, what feels tight or soft. This meditation guides you through a gentle full-body scan…
- OPEN TRADITION · 16 minMaking with textiles connects you to something vast—humans across every culture and century have worked with fiber and fabric. You don't join this tradition by having a long line…
- YOU BELONG HERE · 17 minMany makers carry a quiet voice that says "I'm not good enough." This meditation helps you remember your inherent creative worthiness—not something earned through skill or…
- Welcome to WONDER YEAR [Updated] · 19 minThis guided mediation is a part of WONDER YEAR, a year-long exploration in building and sustaining our creative practice. We’ll be moving through it together in real-time on the…
- The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Breaking Through Family Mythology · 16 minThis episode offers a raw and honest examination of how family history research can reveal both inspiring stories and difficult truths about our past. My journey from discovering…
- SOUTHERN WHITE AMNESIA: Artist’s Talk · 1 h 31 minStep inside a packed gallery at the Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum where I share the stories behind my SOUTHERN WHITE AMNESIA collection.
- LORDAMERCY has it been 12 months already · 4 minJust a note to let you know I haven’t forgot about you
- HUDDLE FONTANA · 1 h 5 minA collection of heartfelt reflections from the HUDDLE retreat in Fontana, Wisconsin, exploring how textiles connect people, preserve stories, and foster creative transformation.
- HEIDI AT THE PFISTER: PART 2 · 60 minTextile artist Heidi Parkes reflects on her transformative 13-month residency at Milwaukee's historic Pfister Hotel.
- HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN POWER OBJECTS with Demetri Broxton · 1 h 8 minI felt an immediate resonance when Demetri’s work first popped up on my screen. Here were these meticulous, vibrant prints of vintage photographs of ancestors, bedazzled in…
- BACKSTITCH with Judy Martin · 42 minThe last time Judy Martin and I caught up was about a year ago. At the point in time, she was just starting Your Fragile Life, a quilt project that she just wrapped up in recent…
- Reflection on Art & Craft with Dana Staves · 7 minRecently Dana Staves, writer and textile artist, wrote a post on the NOOK that was so sweet and real and inspiring that I asked if she wouldn't mind recording it for y'all to…
