Tula Pink

Tula Pink

September 1, 2022

QSOS-208

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Tula Pink

Angela Walters

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<partial_transcript>Hi, my name is Angela Walters, and I am interviewing my dear friend, long time compadre, Tula Pink. </partial_transcript>
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<synopsis>Angela Walters is interviewing Tula Pink on September 1st 2022. Pink describes her touchstone quilt, she describes her rainbow butterfly quilt that she feels is representative of her quilting. The quilt was quilted by Angela Walters, who is interviewing her. The quilt is made from orphan quilt blocks that were discarded when making her book. Walters and Pink describe their quilting relationship.</synopsis>
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<partial_transcript>You weren't always a fabric designer, right, I mean there was a point when you weren't</partial_transcript>
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<synopsis>Pink describes her career role as a fabric designer. She speaks about how she is a self-taught, first-generation quilter, and has no family that quilts. She describes her background in illustration, and her path to becoming a fabric designer.&#13;
She states that she was draw to and appreciates the utilitarian nature of quiltmaking. She states she knew the importance of creating funky recognizable fabric, that felt true to her identity- her fabrics are very bright and often feature animals. </synopsis>
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<partial_transcript>So how do you sustain the creativity year after year?</partial_transcript>
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<synopsis>The interviewer Walters notes that Pink has continued to produce interesting and creative fabric collections for years and asks how she sustains her creativity. Pink notes that she is scared of burnout, but recognizes that creating fabric for quilting feels like what she was destined to do in her life. She also notes that she maintains her quilting hobby separate from her business to keep her love of quilting alive. She makes quilts for herself and describes the quilt classes she takes. She notes the techniques she likes learning.</synopsis>
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<synopsis>Pink describes her studio space that is in her home. She describes that her wall and ceilings are white in order to focus on what she is creating. She has a large fabric stash, and likes to place sketches on her walls and surround herself with what she is creating. </synopsis>
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<partial_transcript>Can you tell us how you balance that? Like, create something that you love and are passionate about that is also able to appeal to sell.</partial_transcript>
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<synopsis>Pink describes that she is proud of the business side of her business more than the art side, because the illustration part of her work came naturally to her. She describes how she manages her business. She describes that her brother is her right hand in her business, and describes how to strike a work-life balance and professional working relationship when working with family. Walters describes how Pink considers the consumer and their wants, and the commercialization of artwork. Their is also descriptions of how the business shifted through the COVID-19 Pandemic. </synopsis>
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<synopsis>Pink explains that she made the deliberate decision to slow down and reduce her teaching commitments. She highlights how the pandemic served as a significant recalibration for her business, particularly due to challenges such as the inability to accurately showcase her fabrics online. She also observes that the pandemic compelled the industry to transition predominantly to online platforms. She describes that she was losing things such as data on what consumers were interested in because of being only online- but they started creating videos to communicate with others in the quilting community. </synopsis>
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