In this, our second bonus episode for Season 3, we take you behind the scenes of the Crafting Communities project. Join us to learn how crafting has helped us both build a community and deepen our knowledge of nineteenth-century material culture.
Hosted by Vanessa Warne
With Guests Andrea Korda, Rebekah Stretch, Jacqueline Kublik, Jocelyn Diemer, Priscilla Adebanji, Lucie von Schilling, Kalea Furmanek-Raposo, Jane Nederlof, and Mary Elizabeth Leighton
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In this, our first of two bonus episodes, we invite you to think alongside some gifted educators about how making and material culture enrich teaching and learning.
Hosted by Vanessa Warne, Jessie Krahn, and Natalie LoVetri
With Guests Leith Davis, Tommy Mayberry, and Claire Battershill
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Embracing the spectacular, this episode explores the material histories of a spectral substance, a stolen diamond, and an awe-inspiring fire.
Hosted by Vanessa Warne and Jessie Krahn
With Guests Christopher Keep, Amanda Shubert, and Anne Sullivan
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From Australia to Canada to Spain, this episode explores connections between migration, place, and material history.
Hosted by Vanessa Warne, Jessie Krahn, and Anne Hung
With Guests Veronica Alfano, Christine Olson, and Allison Fizzard
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This episode features conversations with three talented people whose modern-day creations shine a light on nineteenth-century material culture. Prepare to be inspired by them to make a cheese tart, a textile, or a storytelling machine.
Hosted by Vanessa Warne
With Guests Charlene Van Buekenhout, Drew McKevitt, and Elly McCausland
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In this episode, we explore both the Victorian-era origins of many museums and the complicated cultural work done by and in museum spaces.
Hosted by Vanessa Warne, Anne Hung, and Jessie Krahn
With Guests Julie Hollenbach, Amy Woodson-Boulton, and Nicola Watson
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We begin Season 3 of Victorian Samplings with three conversations surrounding the material and cultural history of machines, from microscopes to machine guns.
With Guests Meegan Kennedy, Richard Menke, and Jason Camlot
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In this episode, we continue our exploration of nineteenth-century material culture but we're shaking things up to celebrate the end of Season Two. Listen to hear our hosts share conversations on topics of special interest to them.
With Guests Pamela Gilbert, Graham McMonagle, and Sarah Bull
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In this episode, we consider drawn and painted images, crafted three-dimensional objects, and, in a first for our podcast, a poem inspired by a work of visual art.
With Guests Danielle Skeehan, Shijia Yu, Kylee-Anne Hingston, and Caley Ehnes
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Reproduction raises questions about materials and methods, and also about originality and fidelity. In this episode, we explore an initiative to recreate a set of historical samplers damaged by water, how tracing paper featured in the work of Gottfried Semper, and a beadwork artist’s plans to recreate a family heirloom.
With Guests Andrea Reichert, Elena Chestnova, and Cynthia Boehm
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For this episode of Victorian Samplings, we've stitched together a trio of conversations about textiles. Learn about about the history of spinning wheels, the nineteenth-century craze for Crazy Quilts, and how fabric scraps feature in a woman's very detailed record of her life.
With Guests Dina Kalman Spoerl, Brandi Goddard, and Lucie Heins
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Attentive to bees and beetles and the bark of trees and also to bonnets, artists’ books, and embroidery, this episode of Victorian Samplings explores relationships between living things and handmade objects.
With Guests Kate Flint, Steeve Buckridge, and Willow Rector
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We launch our second season with three conversations about paper objects in motion.
With Guests Patrick Leary, Meredith Bak, and Catherine Golden
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In the final episode of our first season, we welcome four guests who share their knowledge of the material history of pregnancy and parenthood.
With Guests Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge, Vicky Mills, and Karen Bourrier
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In this episode, we invite you to indulge your bibliophilic tendencies. Join us as we explore the material history of some beautiful, one-of-a-kind books.
With Guests Kirsten MacLeod, Denae Dyck, and Elizabeth Bassett
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In this episode, we re-engage with the world of fashion. We'll consider some emotional and social dimensions of Victorian-era style, and we’ll welcome three guests to help us with that task.
With Guests Tania Duclos, Anne Bissonette and Inés Bonacossa
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In this episode, we speak with three scholars about the material history of collection, a practice and an approach to the material world that defined Victorian culture.
With Guests Maria Zytaruk, Freya Gowrley and Alison Hedley
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In this episode, we discuss the creation, perception, and cultural significance of Victorian-era clothing.
With guests Manon Gaudet, Kristen Guest, and Sabrina Mark
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From valentines to wallpaper, this episode explores the creative ways that Victorians interacted with paper.
With Guests Alice Crossley, Hannah Field, Paisley Mann and Deborah Wynne
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We’re talking about Visual Arts in this episode: from a miniature portrait to an outlandishly large print.
With Guests Jo Briggs, Andrea Korda and Shalini Le Gall
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