An S.F. Woodworking Artist Takes Her Craft to Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman's New Reality Show

San Francisco Magazine Eri Alanna Hale Nicole Sweeney is a competitive DIYer on Making It. For an entire month last year, San Francisco woodworking artist Nicole Sweeney shut herself off from friends and family and sequestered herself in a barn in Los Angeles, where she tirelessly made art and was forced to confront endless questions about her motivation, her vision, and her dreams for the future. But this wasn’t some exclusive artists’ residency or high-minded creative retreat—Sweeney was...