About

Why Make? is a collaborative project between Erik Wolken and Robb Helmkamp, both furniture makers and sculptors, seeking to create a narrative and oral history project with their podcast and most recently through documentary film making. By having in-depth conversations with artists and makers, often in their studios, Robb and Erik hope to accomplish this by asking: What motivates artists? What are their individual artistic origins? And where do they find their inspiration to create?