Two more sleeps until it’s lecture day! Yay!!
Today though is our favorite segment: Q&A with our speakers. It’s where we ask our speakers of the month to fill out a brief questionnaire so we can learn more about them and the cool things they have to share about our city. We hope to see you on Friday. (P.S. We said we’d eventually share Wayne’s photo since we shared Clare’s earlier. Lovely humans, both). 

Why Detroit? What keeps you inspired here?
We were both born and raised in Detroit. West side + East side! While both of us have spent time living in other places - New England, California, Oklahoma, Ohio, Oregon, Europe, Mexico…. - we always kept returning to Detroit. It is truly unlike any other city. The art, the music, the food, the people - all keep us inspired. What is your favorite project you’ve ever worked on? What would be your dream project?
We love making custom dining tables. I don’t think that we can even pick a favorite. We create pieces that are warm, functional, and site specific - built especially for the space and customer. Currently our dream would be to create a table for ourselves! We moved last year and have not had time to build ourselves a dining table. Someday…What do you do when you feel creatively stuck?
Luckily we do so much production work that even when we are not “creating” - we are making. I think that is a key component to this business. People think that we wait for inspiration to strike and then we get busy but an art or craft process is not usually like that. We just have to be in our studio continue working. Making something, anything! These days, we have a back log of prototypes, samples, sketches, and ideas that we work into the mix between projects and regular production. We try to add something new to our small goods collection every season and we’re currently working on at least one custom project at any given time. The set schedule and continued work flow really keeps us on our toes. Who is another creative person / organization in Detroit that we need to know about?
We are very excited about the developments and work of the CCAA - The Center for Craft and Applied Arts. They are really pulling together some great people for great projects.Favorite animated gif?
I’m afraid that we might be a little too analog to have a favorite gif :)