Rats! I totally forgot about it - But I appreciate the podcast & info posted here - Thank you! Andy & I will be listening to it hopefully this weekend :)

-Nancy

Haven't listened to the whole pocast but this is really interesting, thanks for posting.

that is the most AMAZING necklace EVER in the top photo! Who made that?!?!

Bruce Metcalf made it! Google him, he's awesome!

I think that this is a really important discussion and I really appreciate the time these two put into talking it over.

However, while I feel that Chanel is very smart and talented, I don't really understand why she was chosen to represent the "whipper snappers" in this dialogue if she doesn't really believe that the Bruce Metcalf's comments from his lecture were worth talking about. (I'm referencing her confusion over why we crafters would bother publicly disagreeing with the lecture on annie's blog when we could be making stuff.)

I hope this gets talked over again and again!

ps. I wish I could hear the questions.

nice. :-)

I can't wait to have a listen! It's a very interesting topic. I love that he's wearing her shirt and she's wearing his jewelry - nice camaraderie !

This was very interesting, thank you for posting it.
I agree, though, it's a shame not to be able to hear the questions from the audience.

Around the 62 min mark, someone in the audience said something that Bruce said was "a *great* idea" Now I'm so curious as to what it was! maybe next time questions from the audience could all filter thru a central mic, like on Oprah or something.

thanks for including my earrings!

I love Chanel's necklace!!!
Ooops shall listen to the podcast now :)

The "Great Idea" was that Bruce should open an Etsy supplies store where he sells his scraps instead of throwing them away!

PS

I think Chanel thought it was very constructive to have the discussion with Bruce and that's why she was there. But I think she is also of the mind that you can't let generational differences and/or one man's opinions hold you back. You have to keep doing what you believe in. (but this is just how I interpreted what she was saying)

Great stuff!

this is really great--thanks for sharing. i think chanel was the perfect counter to bruce and they both made strong points for their views on the nature of making, etc. awesome. more!

Hello all and thank you for listening to the podcast. It's great to see all of your commentary, too! We just wanted to clarify the intent for our July 24th presentation "Connect/(Dis)connect"...There were a few reasons that we chose Bruce & Chanel. We selected Bruce because Andrew Wagner, Editor-in-Chief of 'American Craft Magazine', had - in preparation for a presentation given with Bruce at the SNAG conference - begun to explore the differences and similarities amongst the broad spectrum of makers today. The idea has deep resonance for many of our constituents and for the field and so we felt that this concept would make a great topic for our Series. Bruce was an obvious choice for a presenter because of that...and Chanel was actually nominated by Etsy to participate because of her perspective and expertise in selling on Etsy. We felt that she was an excellent person to join the conversation. We didn't intend for this program to be simply a rehash of the discussions that stemmed from SNAG - or to dig into old wounds (for lack of a better phrase!),but to explore other aspects of the relationship between the “new school” and the “old school.”
I hope you all found both speakers as engaging in their own right as individual makers as we did - and we hope that some of the points that were raised between Bruce & Chanel were of interest to you all.
We hope to see you all at our next program on September 18th for 'The Politics of Craft'...

thanks for sharing this. btw, great pic at top of bruce and chanel. :)

Thanks for sharing,great podcast :)

I studied under Bruce Metcalf in college and am also a member of the Amercian Craft Council. He is a fantastic artist and I was thrilled to see this posted here on Etsy.