Sarah Sockbeson, Wabanaki Basket Weaver, Gets Tips On How To Start A Podcast

“I am a Penobscot basket maker. So I actually do come from a long line of basket makers. So it's in my family, and it was always something that I had an interest in. I think I was just an artist like I've always been an artist since I was just, I remember being four or five, six years old, and that's all I wanted to do was draw, color. So making things has always been my real true kind of desire and passion and so when I graduated high school, I planned to go to art school and that's what I wanted to pursue. I ended up taking some time away right after high school, I went, and I stayed and lived at my grandmother's house on the reservation on Indian Island. I ended up living with her for a while and helped her out after my grandfather died. So while I was there on the island, I began becoming more and more interested in hearing my grandmother's stories, knowing more about her as a child. I think it's really important when we have our elders around and available, that knowledge is there," said Sarah Sockbeson, Wabanaki basket weaver located in Maine.Sarah is the type of person who likes to get her hands on  everything native craft including art, basket weaving, and now a newly started project, a podcast.  Kristan Vermeulen shares her passion for her podcast and some tips she has learned along the way during her podcasting career. “I feel like every maker is so different, and has a different story. So what I like to do is fully focus on that individual and what their story is about. That kind of pulls that thread of that theme, that topic, that focus. I feel like getting to know each individual maker first and foremost is probably like my first priority and sort of pulling together the content, pulling together that story, pulling together the questions. Then what I do is I also want to learn about the process of the craft, because that's really why I wanted to start the podcast, I wanted to treat it as an elementary sort of voice process because I know a lot of makers that use terminology where a lot of folks just don't understand. And they're like, Huh, what are you talking about? Like, can you take a step back? So I ask people to just tell us the elementary level, like broad level of a process of your craft, because that's better to understand in that regard," said Kristan, host of Makers of the USA.To view Sarah's work visit her website, Instagram and Facebook.Also, stay until the end of the episode to listen to Sarah Trunzo's track Liberty Tool.
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