Welcome to the second episode of Sustaining Craft! Give a listen here or keep scrolling to read the article! — Joshua Kurtz makes a majority of his monthly income playing Dungeons and Dragons. And it all started over 15 years ago with pokémon. As kids, Joshua Kurtz and his older brother and sister loved the… Read More Joshua Kurtz: “Talk about it all the time.”
The first podcast episode of Sustaining Craft is now live! Take a listen here, or keep scrolling to read some of what Tom shared. There’s lots more in the episode! — Tom Brown, an artist whose main work focuses on functional miniature, has been interested in tiny, working objects since childhood. Born and raised in… Read More Tom Brown Creates: “Just Start And Stick With It.”
Ginger Kuczowicz has a mission: crafting all-natural home and skin care products and providing ecological cleaning services to encourage healthier, greener living in Philadelphia. Kuczowicz owns two different businesses, the first of which is Holistic Home LLC, an ecological cleaning service she started in 2010, and the second is a physical store called Soap Box… Read More Ginger Kuczowicz: “The simplicity of it is beautiful.”
By Elizabeth Silverstein Molly Arms saw a friend painting henna sixteen years ago, and on a whim, asked if she could try. “I had seen it a little bit, traveling in India when I was 18, but I hadn’t thought about painting until I saw my friend doing it,” explained Arms. “I asked her if… Read More Molly Arms: “You never know if you don’t try.”
A forgotten camera from a high school photography class set Kelly MacNiven on the path to owning her own business, Kelly Miranda Photography. Her husband, Casey, had enjoyed the class he’d taken years before and he’d kept the camera. It stayed underneath the bed collecting dust until MacNiven found it before they left on their… Read More Kelly Miranda Photography: “There’s Enough Room for Everybody”
A sibling rivalry with one of her brothers turned Morgan Allain’s childhood love of drawing into a more serious pastime. “I wanted to be better than him,” said Allain, who now sells prints and wearable art as “The Inkling Girl”. “Then he got into sports and stopped doing it, and I kept drawing.” At age… Read More The Inkling Girl: “I Paint What I Think is Pretty”