Season 1 Episode 1: Making and Makers
Hosted By Vanessa Warne and Jessie Krahn
With Guests Morna O’Neill, Sandra Klowak, and Hannah Claus
From contemporary art to the shared achievement of 150 Victorian needlewomen, this episode launches our first season with an exploration of collaboration, creation, influence, and response.
Transcript
Read a complete transcript of the episode here!
Transcript created by Natalie LoVetri.
References & Resources
Learn more about Morna O’Neill’s research.
Check out the “Ladies Carpet” at Victorian Things.
View Henry Courtney Selous’ The Opening of the Great Exhibition on 1 May 1851. 1851-52.
Learn more about The Great Exhibition with Lisa Picard’s essay from The British Library.
Visit Sandra Klowak’s website Corporeal Curios and Instagram @corporealcurios to view her work.
Learn more about Hannah Claus and view her installation interlacings.
Check out “Hannah Claus’s ‘interlacings’” at Victorian Things.
View the V&A’s collection of William Morris’s work here.
Victorian Samplings was recorded and produced on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən and SENĆOŦEN speaking communities of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, and on Treaty One Territory, traditional Land of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and homeland of the Métis Nation.
Our podcast theme is “Happy Jazzy Ragtime Piano” by Praded, licensed by AudioJungle; our podcast stinger was made and donated by Brandon Christopher.
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste. Lise Sewing. 1866, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (detail).