Welcome to Crafting Voices. The Crafting Voices is an audio program that focuses on American craft and those individuals who spend their lives creating, promoting, and collecting American craft.

Partly inspired by the Chicago Public Radio program, "This American Life", each show has a theme and features interviews with working artists and professional craftspeople...

Pilot Episodes


Episode Guide& Pilot Episodes14 Sep 2006 11:28 pm

Most things in life start with a passion for something. If you enjoy entertaining and welcoming guests, you’ve probably dreamed about opening a bed and breakfast. If cooking is your passion, you may harbor secret fantasies about opening your own restaurant. And if you have a passion for art, chances are that you’ve probably daydreamed about opening your own gallery. So what happens when someone decides to take their daydreams and make them into reality? In this episode, I’ll talk to three gallery owners, each in three different stages of their business and find out what happens when they take their dreams and make them a reality.

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Episode Guide& Pilot Episodes17 Aug 2006 08:07 pm

For this episode, I decided to start close to home. In Norfolk, Virginia, there is an art center called d’Art Center. Here, artists rent studio space and all of their studios are open to the public. Visitors can watch artists work and learn a bit about the different mediums represented at the center. In this episode, I talk to the artists and learn what it’s like to work in the public eye.

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