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Our host Beau took a trip to Nashville with his band and met with JB from Fort Houston, a Non-Profit Makerspace and experiential fabrication & design. JB is the head of the Metal Shop there. The programs provide scholarships for a year free to use Makerspace and provide connections to create your side hustle or hobby to a successful business. For more info: https://www.forthouston.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/welddotcom/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/welddotcom/support
Mee McCormick: the rockstar of REAL food. An accomplished author, restaurateur, TV personality, farmer, rancher, wife, and mother, Mee has seen a thing or two. Wellness and positivity are promoted in every aspect of her life, inspiring others to participate in their wellness physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Tune in and get ready to change your dinner plates! Hear Mee's food POV: a combination of classical French training, down-home American cooking, vegetarian, macrobiotic, vegan, paleo, keto, food allergy training, and clean eating, with a deep understanding of her own personal experience. Episode location courtesy of our friends at Fort Houston. Fort Houston is a Nashville non-profit dedicated to the support of local artisans, offering affordable and scholarship studio space, an art gallery, and a maker space for artists of all kinds. Connect With Us! Jaimie and Abby: IG @jaimieandabby Mee McCormick: IG @meeemccormick | facebook.com/MeeeMcCormick Fort Houston: www.forthouston.com
I’m so excited to finally share this conversation recorded in March 2020 at Red Arrow Gallery, a fantastic artist/mother owned space dedicated to emerging artists in Nashville, TN. This panel was contemporaneous with the opening of the Artist/Mother group exhibition, “Painting at Night,” at Fort Houston in Nashville, TN. This panel brought me together with […]
Fort Houston is Nashville's premier Makerspace, featuring 10k sq ft of wood shop, metal shop, screen printing, and dedicated and shared workbenches. Our Art Gallery serves as a multi-purpose event space. Since inception, Fort Houston has helped incubate over 225 small businesses and currently operates a full-time fabrication company handling build-outs for bars, restaurants, retail spots, entertainment events, music festivals, on-site brand activations and more! THE FORT HOUSTON ARTISAN SUPPORT PROJECT gives people of all ages and backgrounds the chance to discover their creative potential by providing educational opportunities, affordable access to professional tools and equipment, and a connection to our thriving maker community. Learn more: https://www.forthouston.com/
This week we're joined by Nashville artist, Lindsy Davis. Davis breaks down her psychedelic art exhibition at Fort Houston., talks about hitting her heavy bag, and champions mystery in social media self-promotion. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/artfightpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artfightpodcast/support
Ryan Schemmel is the co working movement. Founding member of Fort Houston collaborative workspace in Nashville TN, Ryan continues to pave the way as an industry leader in the maker space. Sacrificing his personal lifestyle for the benefit of the community for the better part of a decade, he has seen his fare share of the big problems small businesses face on a daily basis. Take a brief peak inside the mind of a market innovator changing the way we look at business and space usage.
Ryan Schemmel is the co-founder of Fort Houston, a makerspace which he founded with a handful of friends in 2011. In the interview, Ryan details the full Fort Houston story, while incorporating multiple noteworthy digressions along the way. You can find the show notes and photo I took of Ryan on the Stories website (thestoriespodcast.com).
On today’s show I am privileged to be speaking Whit Gilbert. Whit is an East Nashville guy who owns and operates Surface Outreach and Designs, a local company that builds custom furniture, wood and metal applications and functional art for homes, restaurants, and offices. But more importantly, Surface Outreach and Designs is an outreach program for addicts and alcoholics in early recovery. Whit Gilbert works side by side with these guys through their recovery to help them learn valuable woodworking skills and other skills of the trade. This great company also assists and provides scholarships for people that need treatment but have no means to receive it. Whit Gilbert is creating jobs and teaching trades as well as living the recovery life right alongside people who are newly sober. In this episode we also get to learn about Fort Houston, a unique makers space here in Nashville that is redefining how people live and work. And a special thanks to our sponsor Moonshine Cowboy Boot Wax, the Original, All Natural, non-toxic boot wax with a scent of orange. The Nashville Wax Company is now offering Moonshine Biker Boot Wax – yes the same high quality boot wax now available in black. To order a tin of your very own, just go to MoonshineBootwax.com. Buy it there online or check out the growing list of local retailers in and around Nashville who carry these fine boot wax products. Y’all be good to each other out there and remember to do something nice for one of your neighbors. It will make you feel good inside! CREDITS: Surface Outreach and Designs https://www.facebook.com/Surface-Outreach-and-Designs-810392062355604/ For Houston www.FortHouston.com MUSIC: East Nashville Now Theme Song: Corn Pone [Instrumental Version] Music & Lyrics by John Barrett Copyright 2015 RJM Publishing – BMI Nashville Guitar: Jonathan Brown Mandolin: Ben Miller Upright Bass: Michael Rinne Harmonica & Snare: John Barrett Moonshine Promenade Music by John Barrett Copyright 2015 RJM Publishing – BMI East Nashville, Tennessee [Recorded while floating up the Cumberland River on a raft - October 2013]
After a brief hiatus (hey, some people have to get married and take tests around here), the Fort Roll-Uppers are back with special guest Tony Youngblood. Brent, Zach and Laura lead Tony down memory lane, starting with his days as an unpopular kid in Mayfield, Kentucky (pop. 10K), to his prolific artistic life in Nashville's experimental noise and circuit-bending scene. Other topics discussed include Tony's participation with ’90s schoolroom mainstay Channel One, our current favorite podcasts (who knew Jane Austen ’casted?) and the upcoming Circuit Benders Ball, which takes place in March at Fort Houston. Exit music from Robbie Hunsinger live at the Circuit Bender's Ball Other podcasts we recommended in this episode: • Stuff You Should Know • WTF With Marc Maron • the Besties • the VergeCast • Sherlock holmes audio books • Spoilers (our other podcast ;)
At the September 2013 Arts & Music @ Wedgewood|Houston Brent Interviews Jen Uman about her artwork that she has displayed at Fort Houston from the back seat of an early 70's Mercedes parked outside the gallery.
(Army) Maj. Thomas Smith 7th Sustainment Brigade, Fort Houston, VA From: Raleigh, NC; Graduated from Garner Magnet H.S.