Making Meaning

About Making Meaning

Making Meaning is a podcast exploring the meaning behind what we make. Artist Ruth Singer talks to creative people about why they make and create. Ruth loves finding out how artists, writers, coaches, researchers and others use challenging and complex stories within their work. She is interested in what matters to them and why they choose to create what they do. Ruth Singer has been making textile art professionally for 18 years and before that worked in the museum sector and has wide ranging interests in all kinds of creative practice. Words are really important to her; she writes books, shares a lot of her work online and loves talking about creative practice to other people who get it. Ruth also works as a mentor to artists and creative businesses and is always learning about what drives creative people to make interesting and complex things.

Publisher

Ruth Singer

Category

arts · arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Jun 2021

Latest episode

26 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

68 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Sept 2026

   #68: Material Histories, Making in the Home with Deborah McGuire

   In this episode we are talking about what it means to work from the home, to work alongside domestic life and how that worked for women makers in the past. We both share our very different experiences of home / work life and how our domestic environment impacts the creative choices we make. Buy Tangled here Maker Membership: Maker Membership (https://ruthsinger.com/membership/) Please join my email list for more: Email (https://ruthsinger.com/email/)

2. 

   12 Sept 2026

   #67: Tangled - Textile Stories of Care & Connection

   In August I launched my new self-published book Tangled. It's been a long journey from idea in 2018 to finally having the books in my hands in 2026. In this episode I'll read extracts from the book, explain how it came about and respond to some questions asked in my online and in-person book launches about my work, the book and the making of it. Buy Tangled here Maker Membership: Maker Membership (https://ruthsinger.com/membership/) Please join my email list for more: Email (https://ruthsinger.com/email/)

3. 

   22 Aug 2026

   #66: Material Histories, Showing and Sharing Textiles

   This episode is the second of the occasional mini series Material Histories with Deb McGuire (https://ruthsinger.com/2026/06/16/introducing-material-histories-with-deb-mcguire-making-meaning-episode-63/). In this one we have a wonderful wide-ranging conversation starting with what we look for in quilt shows but covers far more than that. We talk about the power of connecting through making and about showing and sharing textile works. Maker Membership: Maker Membership (https://ruthsinger.com/membership/) Please join my email list for more: Email (https://ruthsinger.com/email/)

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

79

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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Books guests

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