Southcoast Artists Index
The Artists Index podcasts offer up close and personal conversations with the makers, performers, supporters and cultural impresarios of this remarkable creative community. Join us as we speak with and listen to the creative community’s living visual, performing and literary artists. We will also feature those seeking information on and, sharing what they have discovered about the Artists who have passed on that were a part of the creative community’s creative fabric in days gone by. The Artists Index is putting Artists in their place – in history!
Episodes
Welcome, South Coast native, America's Master Mentalist, and our friend, Jon Stetson, to our 206th podcast! Jon was our guest during the height of the pandemic when we recorded his visit on Podcast Number 67. A lot has happened in the World since we last spoke with him. In case you didn't know, Jon inspired the CBS hit television series “The Mentalist”.
Stetson blends the art of Mystery with the study of Psychology, the predictabil...
This is the April AHA! episode - our ninth - in our continuing series of livestream podcasts from Play Arcade co-hosted by our podcast partner and friend Adam Katz. We opted for an open mic evening this month and our guests were Sarah Mulvey Ferreira, The Artists Index Podcast host Scott Bishop, Denn Santoro, and Max Wickemeyer.
We covered a bunch of topics last Thursday, April 10th (from 6 to 7:30 pm.) Our guests joined podcast ho...
Welcome, Max Wickemeyer to our 205th podcast! Max is also known as Max Harris Wickemeyer or, by his professional name Max H. Wickemeyer. We were introduced to Max by our friend and early podcast guest, Dan Cooney, the co-owner of Heavenly Spirits and our first sponsor.
Max said that I described him as a polymath and that, "only time will tell" if, what I said was accurate. He started taking music lessons at 7 years old including tr...
Welcome Andrew Tedesco, also known as Bad Andy Art. He is a contemporary artist. Andrew was born and raised in Massachusetts. He focuses on the narrative of storytelling through the methods of portraiture and working with the figure and its interaction with space.
Andy works primarily with traditional techniques in drawing and painting while "imbuing them with aspects of street art and non-conventional materials." He is concerned...
Welcome Tammi Meehan LMHC, artist and clinical therapist. Tammi is originally from Boston and studied at Parsons School of Design in New York City. From there, she went on to the University of Paris at the Sorbonne in France and later received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1993.
Sixteen years later, Tammi returned to school and received a Masters of Education in Counseling Psychology from Cambridge College in Cambridge...
Welcome Tracy Barbosa, a local glass artist. She is the owner-operator at Duende Studio and a Community Development TDI Fellow Attleboro at MassDevelopment. Tracy is a multi-media artist and community organizer.
She has a bachelor’s degree from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. (AKA MassArt) Tracy was involved with organizing the Love the Ave initiative in New Bedford’s North End. Her artwork is in private and public collect...
Welcome to the Lost Artists of Fairhaven Podcast Series hosted by Scott Bishop! The series focuses on the artists who once lived, worked, or were born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. The town was and continues to be called home to many now-historical artists who were forgotten or unsung in their day.
This focused series of podcast episodes presented by The Artists Index brings you informative conversations with historians, family memb...
The Artists Index is an AHA! partner and this is the March AHA! episode in our continuing series of livestream podcasts from Play Arcade co-hosted by our livestream partner and friend Adam Katz. This month's theme was a repeat of February's: I AM NB - Storytyelling Series.
Thursday, March 13th (from 6 to 7:30 pm.) invited guests joining podcast host Ron Fortier were, once again, Max Wikermayer, The Artists Index's Man On The Street...
Welcome to this special episode!
Its our 200th podcast episode since Podcast Episode 1 was dropped on April of 2019. The first podcast was an overview of what we hoped to accomplish. It was followed by Podcast Episode 2 featuring artist and craftsman, Michael Pietragalla, who owns and operates Floating Stone Woodworks, a custom furniture shop in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Michael was our very first of nearly 300 overall p...
Welcome Diane Conlon, AKA Diane Arlene Conlon, a Swain School of Design alum from Newport, Rhode Island. Graduating from Swain in 1980, she attended S.M.U. – Southeastern Massachusetts University, today the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in pursuit of a Master of Arts in Education. After a year there, she left the program.
In 1989 she was among 20 other Swain alumni founding members of Gallery X and was elected their Secreta...
The Artists Index is an AHA! partner and this is the February AHA! episode in our continuing series of livestream podcasts from Play Arcade co-hosted by our livestream partner and friend Adam Katz. This month's theme was: I AM NB - Storytyelling Series.
Thursday, February 13th (from 6 to 7:30 pm.) invited guests joineing podcast host Ron Fortier were Max Wikermayer, The Artists Index's Man On The Street along with friend, returning...
Welcome Milt Brightman to this special episode. Milt, who was our guest on Podcast Episode 17, speaks about his late friend, Swain School of Design classmate, and fellow artist, the late Eric Hart. Eric was the very first person Milt met when he attended the Swain School of Design. They attended their first class in the sculpture building behind the Rodman House - the William Rotch Rodman Mansion - in 1972 .
In this podcast, Milt ...
Welcome, Kevin Grant, a Fairhaven performer and the son of an art teacher and a biology teacher who studied piano as a child. As a teenager, Kevin also had some vocal training through various local theater productions. While at Boston University, he studied English and Eastern Philosophy.
Kevin Grant works professionally as a supply chain specialist. He enjoys cooking, reading, skateboarding, sledding, and hiking in the White Moun...
In Episode Four, our Gallery X Documentation Project podcast host Sean FitzGerald speaks with Christine Maiato FitzGerald, his wife, and the Gallery X Documentation Project's master scanner!
Christine, who is also an artist, was our guest on Podcast Episode 88. She has scanned the varied contents of the Gallery X archives, folders, and file boxes dating from 1990 to 2008 (18 years), including over 100 news articles, nearly 200 exhi...
A three-part mini podcast series hosted by Ron Fortier about the New Bedford Film Festival and its celebration of authentic cinematic stories, the cultivations of bold storytellers, and the new champions of the city’s growing creative economy. The growing festival is hosted in the vibrant city of New Bedford on the South Coast region of Massachusetts.
The festival is committed to a shared vision of “spotlighting the diverse human e...
A three-part mini podcast series hosted by Ron Fortier about the New Bedford Film Festival and its celebration of authentic cinematic stories, the cultivations of bold storytellers, and the new champions of the city’s growing creative economy. The growing festival is hosted in the vibrant city of New Bedford on the South Coast region of Massachusetts.
The festival is committed to a shared vision of “spotlighting the diverse human e...
A three-part mini podcast series hosted by Ron Fortier about the New Bedford Film Festival and its celebration of authentic cinematic stories, the cultivations of bold storytellers, and the new champions of the city’s growing creative economy. The growing festival is hosted in the vibrant city of New Bedford on the South Coast region of Massachusetts.
The festival is committed to a shared vision of “spotlighting the diverse human e...
In Episode Two, Gallery X Documentation Project podcast host Sean FitzGerald speaks with Susan and Charles Hauck. Charles, or Chuck, as he is better known, was one of our earliest podcast guests. Susan/Sue/Suzy Hauck is married to Chuck.
Chuck, who is originally from
The Artists Index is an AHA! partner and this is the sixth in our series of livestream podcasts. The November AHA! was our second impromptu evening and open mic invitation to the South Coast's poets to help celebrate with us on Thursday, November 14th, from 6 to 7:30 pm. Once again, our livestream podcast was co-hosted by our livestream partner and friend Adam Katz, the owner of Play Arcade.
In Episode Five, Dave Reis speaks with internationally renowned, award-winning jazz musician Greg Abate, a saxophonist, flutist, and composer. He's traveled the globe on his musical tours.
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