The Craft Wisely Podcast, Episode 3: Crafting for a Cause

Each week, a group of students from the Craft Wisely course will invite listeners into the discussions taking place in our classroom. The conversation starts with ideas derived from our texts and our practice, and ranges into the podcasters' interpretations and experience.

The Arachnias (Ella, Natasha and Kate) meditate on the connections between craft, education and community in this podcast (delayed due to technical reasons, hence presented out of order).  Engage with theory, practice, and outreach as the Arachnias discover children knitting, discuss whether adding handcrafts to elementary classrooms would be discouraging or beneficial to students and their instructors, and share the first-person experiences of knitters and those who receive the benefit of their energies..

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The Craft Wisely Podcast, Episode 4: Ladies, Teachers, Students, Makers

Each week, a group of students from the Craft Wisely course will invite listeners into the discussions taking place in our classroom. The conversation starts with ideas derived from our texts and our practice, and ranges into the podcasters' interpretations and experience.

Bitches on Stitches (Becca, Kat, Kim, and Christabel) reveal the connections between crafting, education, and gender. Does making stuff make you smarter? What pressures do women feel to conform to the culture's ideals for their demeanor and work? They end with a look at the class's service project for the Orphan Foundation of America's Red Scarf Project, and answer questions about how the project connects to the course topic and to their own lives.

Download the podcast here. To subscribe to the podcast, add the Craft Wisely podcast feed to iTunes or your favorite podcast reader.