Joe Cunningham

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333 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 5 Mar

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Ologies with Alie Ward · Culcitology (QUILTS) with Luke Haynes, Olivia Joseph, and Joe Cunningham · 26 Feb 2026 podcast

Thank you for having me.

And I think there was a nexus of a lot of things that were happening and not just because we were stuck in our house and we could only make so many loaves of sourdough bread a day and we needed other outlets.

I think that there was this moment in capital A art where people were a little bored with

just trading war halls to impress each other and sort of like, okay, you know, the expressionists are very expressive, but what else?

And so I think that some of the more sort of avant-garde museums and exhibition spaces were finding success in viewership of making more interesting things.

And so that was a big part of it.

And then simultaneously, we're seeing this

onslaught of media, social media, entertainment media, just educational media all the way through experimental dynamic media.

And within that, people are having these very human experiences.

The barrier to entry to make

a video of anything is tiny.

So if someone on the internet wants to make a beaded pouch and they want to show other people how to make a beaded pouch, they could do that in an afternoon.

Whereas before, if you wanted to learn to paint 100 years ago, 50 years ago,

30 years ago, if you wanted to learn to paint, you'd go to a paint studio.

You would go to a high art, teach me how to make still lives with oil paints institution.

But now we have the length, breadth, width, and depth of human knowledge at our fingertips.

So people can just as easily learn to paint as they can learn to make cakes that look like sculptures, as they can learn to quilt, as they can knit, they can make clothing.

And so then bring in the pandemic when we have a whole lot of free time and a whole lot of stuff to ignore and, you know, sort of take our brains elsewhere.

And so we find a value culturally, I think, in the human made and the handmade and the artisanal because it feels so much more individualistic and specific.

So all of those things were coming together really at the same time.

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