Episode 5: Textile Art Activist meets Jane Goodall!

Send us Fan MailJanine Heschl is an art activist that creates her art to bring light to endangered species. She is a thread painter extraordinaire and we talk about her process, inspiration and even her experience in meeting her idol - Jane Goodall. Making art can go far to making a difference. We talk about the creative process, thread, environmental overwhelm, inspiration and even dig into our thoughts on what quilt suppliers and companies need to be doing to advance sustainability. Her aim with photorealistic embroidery art is to translate wildlife into thread and to let the viewers connect with the softness of the rawness of animals, to see them in a different perspective, different lighting or in fragments; to evoke emotion, increase levels of empathy and stimulate a connectedness with the subject. She believes in order to save our wildlife we need to develop a deeper sense of caring and cultivate empathy – to make compassion common again. #empathyforwildlifeYou can find Janine here:Website: www.textilewildlifeart.comInstagram: @janine.heschlFacebook: @textilewildlifeartThe Ivory Game Earth League International Wounda and Jane Goodall IUCN Red List You can find me, Bridget O'Flaherty - The Sustainable Quilter here:www.bridgetoflaherty.comInstagram: @thesustainablequilterFacebook: @thesustainablequilterYoutube: Bridget O'Flaherty The Sustainable QuilterMusic Credit: Thanks to Isaac Matthews for his incredible talent.You can find and follow him on Instagram @hesjustakid for more of his music. Support the showSupport the showFollow Bridget O'Flaherty @bridgetoflahertycreates on Instagram and @bridgetoflahertycreates on Facebook. You can find her online at www.bridgetoflaherty.comThanks to Isaac Matthews for creating the music, follow him on Instagram @isaacmatthewsguitar