Olivia Joseph
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668 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 26 Feb
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actually making quilts and he actually ended up showing other people how to make quilts as well to donate to nursing homes.
And so that quilt that I was interacting with and that I was looking at was one of those quilts where it's Gary Tyler helping to piece together the quilt, but there's four other prisoners who actually worked on different components of the quilt.
I would kind of explain it as being in quadrants.
And in each of the different quadrants, stylistically, each quadrant was very different and honestly, super beautiful to look at.
And I remember him describing it as it being something liberating.
And so I think for me, that is what stood out and what caught my interest to specifically learn about his story.
Yes, that's correct.
I'm right on Market Street at my studio, which is right downtown San Francisco.
That's correct.
I'm from Flint, Michigan, originally.
I lived there, well, through my 20s.
And then I moved to an island in Northern Lake, Michigan.
My then partner and I built a house and a quilt studio on Beaver Island, which is a three-hour boat ride out into the middle of the lake.
And I lived there for 10 years.
Well, it didn't start that way.
The way it started was I was a musician, a guitar player.
I started playing guitar very young and I started playing in nightclubs when I was 15.
And a woman came in and introduced herself to me and wanted me to play guitar with her on some gigs, wanted to hire me.
And so over at her house for rehearsals, I saw these boxes of things that turned out to be quilts
And I asked if I could see one and I'd never seen a real quilt that I knew of.
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