44: Crafting a Life - Arthur J. Stevens

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Woodworking artist Arthur J. Stevens, has loved “making stuff” since kindergarten. His shop does full service woodworking and exhibit fabrication, finely crafted furniture exhibits and woodwork, specializing in bent laminate veneer and vacuum press marquetry. Connecting with the American Craft Council Shows, the Philly Fine Furniture and Providence Fine Furniture Show in the early '90s, Art says, “It was just interesting to see people making a living ‘making stuff’.” Seeing his work displayed alongside that of “people with actual qualifications was a fantastic experience.”

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0:00.0	Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:17.0	Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Art Stevens. Hello Art. Hi, how you doing, Don? Great. Nice to have you with us. Are you using your talents and doing work that you love?
0:39.3	Yeah, I am.
0:41.3	I've always been a guy who made stuff ever since I was a little kid and I got older and started
0:47.3	doing it professionally.
0:48.3	I realized I had an aesthetic sense and that's worked well for me.
0:52.3	Good.
0:53.3	Let me give our listeners just a brief bio and then we'll launch into your whole story.
0:58.0	Art Stevens is the owner and founder of Arthur J. Stevens Fine Furniture, a full-service
1:03.8	woodworking and exhibit fabrication shop that designs and bills finally crafted furniture
1:09.9	exhibits and woodwork.
1:11.6	They specialize in bent, laminate veneer and vacuum-pressed marketry.
1:16.6	By integrating technology into their work,
1:19.6	both unusual and beautiful objects like a giant bowl of soup or a personal media center
1:24.6	can become interactive computers.
1:26.6	Their ability to work with a wide spectrum of materials in-house
1:31.5	helps them create beautifully made things of lasting chalk.
1:35.6	Well, that's a quick overview, Art.
1:37.5	Take us into what you're working on now.
1:39.9	Right this minute, I'm working on some shutters for an old house for the exterior and I'm making them out of plastic which is unusual but they're going to last a long time.
1:55.0	That is unusual. Are people doing that more today?
1:59.0	A lot more of what you're seeing outside the house is plastic.
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