Delia Dante is an award winning metal art and glass enamel artist currently living and working in Idaho. Her fine art gallery, Enamel and Welding studio is in the heart of downtown Boise. Delia discovered her artistic passion in the creation of metal and enamel sculptures, wall pieces and jewelry. She works with copper and steel. The popularity and demand for her fine art enameling and welding classes are a result of her outstanding reputation as an art teacher for 12 years and working as a professional enamel artist since 2004. You can follow along with Delia on Instagram and her Website.

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Episode 205 - Delia Dante

In 2015, Brittany and Heather started Beautiful Fight Woodworking after Brittany wasn't able to maintain her job due to complications in her fight with a rare blood cancer. They had just enough money to buy a discounted miter saw, three 8-ft boards and only one design in mind. They slowly built one table at a time as they could afford to. Years later, they have filled hundreds of orders from small yard games to large dining sets, and furnishing full homes. They just celebrated their 1 year anniversary of owning their own brick and mortar space. You can follow along with Brittany and Heather on Instagram, Facebook, and their Website.

Episode 204 - Brittany & Heather of Beautiful Fight Woodworking

Tamar is a former Olympic figure skater, coach, and recent Wharton MBA graduate. As an athlete, she sustained multiple overuse injuries which forced her out of the sport sooner than she would have liked. That experience spurred her desire to help others have long and healthy careers in their desired profession. Woodworkers are a lot like professional athletes: they do repetitive movements for hours daily while striving for perfection, making them susceptible to overuse injuries. Tamar's mission is to help woodworkers and trade professionals integrate prevention routines into their lives so they can have long and healthy careers doing what they love. You can follow along with Tamar and Woodworkers Rehab on Instagram and their website. You can check out a some of their content on YouTube.

Episode 203 - Tamar of Woodworker Rehab

Leilany is a maker with a passion for both woodworking and mental health. She started woodworking about two years ago and it came very unexpectedly, sort of as something the help work through time as she figured out how she was going to find work in the pandemic. It has been the biggest blessing in her life. It very quickly turned into a business. Now she wants to use her business to help people regain their confidence and be able to see their true potential. There's something about building a project of your own that shows you how wildly capable you are. That is the feeling she wants others to have. You can follow along with Leilany on Instagram and her Website.

Episode 202 - Leilany Velasquez

Seven is a welder, fabricator, and weld inspector living and working in the twin cities. Seven has been in love with welding since they saw the movie Flash Dance as a young child. Though they started out in college, life ended up taking them out to California and then back to the midwest, learning to weld and fabricate along the way. Now they work at the Fire Art Center, leading the fabrication effort for several large metal sculpture pieces. Recently they competed in the Metal Shop Masters on Netflix. You can find and follow along with Seven on Instagram.

Episode 201 - Seven Bailey

Stacy is a California native who lives and works in Pennsylvania currently. She received her Bachelor's degree in Photography and Furniture Design at California College of the Arts and her MFA at the University of Wisconsin. Her work has explored vulnerability as it relates to the female body, normative behavior, and hygiene. She is currently exploring the historical erasure of women from craft in her collaboration with Eleanor Rose as the Ladies Who Wood. You can follow along with Stacy on Instagram.

Episode 200 - Stacy Motte

Eleanor is a woodworker, sculpture artist and tool maker. From a small rural town in California, with no real exposure to art, to going to art school in New York, Eleanor enjoyed creating. It took losing access to a shop and realizing that she could make her own tools to start her on the journey into tool making. She grew her experience through working at different schools and running different shops, learning to machine and to cast. All through this her art reflected the very real internal struggle she was having with her identity. You can follow along with her own tool making work here and her collaborative work as the Ladies Who Wood here, both on Instagram.

Episode 199 - Eleanor Rose

Taylor, or Tay, is a degreed architect and designer who found her way to woodworking and turning during the pandemic. She has really always enjoyed working with her hands, perhaps why she pivoted into construction and project management after college instead of going further with architecture. She found herself during the pandemic needing to keep her hands busy. A neighbor offered to teach her some woodworking skills in his workshop. Now she owns her own lathe and is excited to be making small things. You can follow along with Tay on Instagram.

Episode 198 - Tay Crib

Ruth Amos is an engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. When she is not travelling giving inspirational and motivational speeches, you can find her as managing director of her first invention and company, Stairsteady, or building fun things kids have invented for her YouTube channel, Kids Invent Stuff. An accomplished speaker and event host, Ruth is living proof that engineering and science is not boring. You can follow along with Ruth on her personal Instagram and Kids Invent Stuff Instagram, as well as the YouTube channel.

Episode 197 - Ruth Amos

The duo, Ladies Who Wood, is comprised of Stacy Motte and Eleanor Ingrid Rose. Stacy and Eleanor have known each other since they both lived in San Francisco.  They then attended grad school at the same university and have really been a collaborating duo since. Their collaboration currently focuses on the many ways that women have been erased from craft throughout history and they make sculptural pieces that speak to that. This episode will be followed up with individual episodes with each artist.  In the meant time, you can follow along with Ladies Who Wood on Instagram.

Episode 196 - Ladies Who Wood

Adriana is a wife, mom, and DIYer. She spent her childhood fascinated by watching her Uncle, who was a finish carpenter, use all of his power tools on the weekend. She would later go work for that same Uncle in the office at his finish carpentry business. Adriana spent a few years as a nurse, enjoying her time helping others. Then, with the diagnosis of her oldest being autistic and the birth of her youngest, she decided it best to stay home. That is when her own journey into DIY and building began. You can find and follow along with Adriana on Instagram.

Episode 195 - Adriana, Texas DIY Mama

Karla is a wife, mom, artist and woodworker who says creating and using her hands is her happy place. Karla loved art as a kid and went to school for art. She then went into military and into the corporate world from there. As she was looking at having young ones at home and making things for them, she thought why not try to turn it into a business. That is how Black Poppy Woodworks began. Now she experiments with woodworking and resin, never wanting to make the same thing twice. You can find and follow along with Karla on Instagram.

Episode 194 - Karla Vazquez, Black Poppy Woodworks

Lisa is a traditional wood carver with a strong background in design and painting. She has spent over 15 years carving, in addition to the decades that she has worked as a designer and illustrator. It wasn't until she began exploring wood carving that she realized how much of her earlier, 2D work had been conceptualized in her mind in relief. The years Lisa has spent designing, drawing, and painting on paper have provided a careful preparation for working in wood. You can follow along with her carving on Instagram and her Website. You can follow along with her illustrations on Instagram and her additional Website.

Episode 193 - Lisa Laughy

Charlotte is a wife, mom of 5, designer and DIYer, fixing up her 100 year old house. She loves color, flea markets and a little mess. She says she spends her days writing, painting, sanding, laughing and negotiating with her 5 kids. Besides running her blog and providing lots of bold and beautiful inspiration, Charlotte has also made appearances on several tv shows such as Flea Market Flip and Rachel and many more. You can find and follow along with Charlotte on her Blog and Instagram.

Episode 192 - Charlotte Smith, at Charlotte's house

Julia has been making things for longer than she can remember, and her parents have the archival evidence to prove it. Announcing that she needed some privacy, she would shut the door to her room and spend silent hours hunched over whatever tools and materials she could get her hands on, trying to figure everything out. Even after decades of doing it, transforming an idea into reality is still a powerful experience for Julia, a kind of alchemy. And though she still spends a lot of time alone in a silent room, figuring things out with metal and wood, she also gets the satisfaction of sharing her solutions with clients, viewers and students. You can find Julia and follow along with her on Instagram and her Website. Today's episode is sponsored by me Katie Freeman. You can sign up for my new Wood Stain Rockstar class here. Use code ROCKSTAR for 10% off.

Episode 191 - Julia Harrison

Being a Mom, working or stay at home, comes with all sorts of tasks from diaper changes to helping with homework. Being a maker serves as a creative outlet for many busy Moms out there. This podcast brings their stories to you. How did they get started, why do they make, and how do they manage being a maker as well as a busy Mom? Every week I will bring you the story of a new Maker Mom.

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