Creative Guts

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Becky Barsi and Joe Acone sit down with freelance writer Ben Cassidy!A journalist whose byline you've likely seen in places like GQ, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Scientific American, Ben's writing blends curiosity with craft, often taking readers into the unexpected corners of science, culture, and the human condition.He's been recognized by Longreads and The Sunday Long Read for his standout narratives and formerly served as the features editor at Seattle Met, where his longform work earned national awards. Now based in New England, Ben continues to explore the region—and beyond—through his writing and his newsletter, aptly named The New England Newsletter.In this conversation, we'll talk about the art of immersive storytelling, how Ben finds and shapes his stories, and what it means to document a place with both depth and heart. Let's get into it!Learn more about Ben at https://www.bybencassidy.com/ and at https://thenewenglandnewsletter.substack.com/.Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Connect with us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Discord.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

In this special episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Angie Lane are live at Exeter High School for the annual Slam Free and Fly poetry event! This was a powerful evening of original poetry from freshmen students participating in the Arts in Action project, a school to community partnership supported and funded by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.In this episode, you'll hear original poetry from 21 gutsy young people who took to the stage on Valentine's Day to move our hearts and minds with their amazing works.Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.  

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with photographer Shawn Pierce! Shawn is a portrait and commercial photographer and the owner of Studio Two Seven Nine in Rochester, New Hampshire! His background is in motorsports photography — yes, there's a story there — and he's shifted gears to photographing people!Shawn is also the President of the New Hampshire Professional Photographers Association, the co-founder of the Greater Rochester Camera Club, and he serves on the City of Rochester's Arts and Culture Commission!Shawn is a community-minded creative who is working to make his hometown great. In this episode, we talk about Shawn's early days on the school paper, his evolution from motorsports photography to portrait and commercial photography, and why he created the Greater Rochester Camera Club.You can find Shawn's work on his website www.StudioTwoSevenNine.com and on Instagram and Facebook @StudioTwoSevenNine. You can check out the Greater Rochester Camera Club at www.GRCCNH.com and the NH Professional Photographers Association at www.NHPPA.com. You can also find two of Shawn's photographs in our zine “Kaleidoscope”!Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Connect with us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Discord.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

The Creative Guts' team is back with another installment of Creative Catalogues!  In these mini-episodes, someone from the Creative Guts team will share a glimpse at their creative consumptions — the inspiring creative things they're loving lately. This week's episode is brought to you by Jozimar Matimano, a fine artist and director on the Creative Guts Board.  Featured in this episode:Finding your element by Sir Ken Robinson - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158494-finding-your-elementDETOUR303 - www.iamdetour.comTHE WEEK IN ART Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-week-in-art/id1280469178A Brush With… Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-brush-with/id1525997434Learn more about Jozimar at www.jozimarmatimano.com. Follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jozimar_matimano/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068560406684. Hang out with Creative Guts on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn where our handle is @CreativeGutsPodcast and learn more online at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. You can also join our Discord server through our website!If you love listening, consider showing Creative Guts your support! You can leave a review, make a tax deductible donation, buy some merch, or interact with our content on social media. Learn more about us at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with artist Aris Moore! Using a variety of mediums, including some more out of the box ones, Aris Moore draws mostly invented beings or creatures that are whimsical, strange, silly, serious, emotional, and oddly relatable. In our conversation, we talk with Aris about how her creatures came to be, how she approaches the business side of being an artist, and how she's coping with the state of the world. Aris is the 2024 winner of the Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant from the NH Charitable Foundation! The grant, if you're not familiar, is available to all Piscataqua Region artists and recognizes the important contribution of working artists to the cultural life of the region by providing an annual financial award to promote the artistic growth of visual artists and craftspeople. Learn more about the grant at www.nhcf.org/how-can-we-help-you/apply-for-a-grant/artist-advancement-grant-program/. Here are the towns in the Piscataqua Region: https://www.nhcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/revised_piscataqua_letter_sized.pdfCheck out Aris's work on her website arismoore.bigcartel.com and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/arismoore. Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Connect with us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Discord.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with New Hampshire artist Jackie Hanson! Jackie is a painter, printmaker, and creative entrepreneur from the Lakes Region. Her work is vibrant and whimsical with an emphasis on nature and all things New Hampshire. In this episode, we talk about Jackie's identity as a printmaker, the Chicken People Club, and plane crashes (yes, that was a surprise to us, too!). Jackie was raised in a family where art and creativity were always encouraged, and her upbringing — including bucolic New England landscapes and her grandparents' chickens — are a major influence! Jackie has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New England College's Institute of Art and Design. Check out Jackie's work on the web at www.JackieHansonArt.com  and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/jackiehansonart and Facebook at www.facebook.com/jackiehansonart. Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Connect with us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Discord.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

For the fifth year, Creative Guts invites creatives to participate in an international tiny art exchange. Participants will create an original piece of tiny art (5” x 7” or smaller, in any ratio) to mail to an address we supply from another participant. Everyone will send a piece of art and receive a piece of art from another creative in the world. This is a great way to connect, be inspired, and show us your creative guts! New this year, we are thrilled to announce a new zine component of the tiny art exchange, made possible with support from the Currier Museum of Art. (Learn more about them at www.currier.org.) This publication will archive and celebrate the art exchanged. Each participant in the Tiny Art Exchange is invited to be in the zine, and will receive one free physical copy of the publication. If you'd like to participate, please head over to www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com/tae for all the details. The deadline to sign up is Monday, April 21, 2025. In the following week, you'll receive a mailing address in your inbox. We ask that you please mail your artwork to the address provided by Saturday, May 3, 2025.  The Tiny Art Exchange and Zine program is free to join. While there is no fee to participate,  you are welcome to make a suggested donation of $5 to Creative Guts through our website. www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.  Questions? Reach out to us at Hello@CreativeGutsPodcast.com or connect with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast.  If you're a big fan of this program, check out our Tiny Art Exchange merch, including shirts, totes, mugs, and more at www.teepublic.com/user/creative-guts!If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. 

Creative Guts is pleased to share this episode of Off the Wall with Matt and Amy from the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, New Hampshire. Off The Wall is a semi-regular series where Matt and Amy chat with a wide variety of visual artists, digging into the nuts and bolts of their creative process to reveal more about the layers of meaning, emotion, and intent behind their work.In this episode, you'll hear Jane Cohen discuss "Paint / Paper/ Paste", an exhibition currently on view in the Carnegie Gallery until May 2, 2025. Join us for a public reception on April 5, 2025 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Everyone is welcome! The Carnegie Gallery is located in the Rochester Public Library, 65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more.Jane Cohen is a New Hampshire-based mixed media artist whose work integrates painting, collage, and printmaking. Guided by intuition and experimentation, she has developed a distinctive visual language that merges memory and invention. Check her work out at www.instagram.com/janecohenstudio.

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Becky Barsi and Joe Acone sit down with Daniela Wenzel at the Mosaic Art Collective in Manchester, NH! German-born and a New Hampshire native, Daniela is a multidisciplinary artist whose work comprises oil painting, improvised quiltmaking, pyrography, and sometimes all of the above.Daniela describes her origin story, weaving in details of how her Bauhausian homeland, medical training, and family history are all fundamental influences in her work. Her practice is saturated with color and explores the boundaries of non-representational and craft. Learn how she embraces making as an “obsession” rooted in the tactile, collage, resilience, and joy.You can learn more about Daniela and her work by visiting http://www.danielawenzel.com/, on Instagram (@danielawenzelart) and Bluesky (@danielawenzelart). Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

Creative Guts is pleased to share this episode of Off the Wall with Matt and Amy from the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, New Hampshire. Off The Wall is a semi-regular series where Matt and Amy chat with a wide variety of visual artists, digging into the nuts and bolts of their creative process to reveal more about the layers of meaning, emotion, and intent behind their work.In this episode, you'll hear Zach Ellis discuss "Nevertheless", an exhibition currently on view in the Bernier Room until May 2, 2025. Everyone is welcome! The Bernier Room is located in the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center, 150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit www.rochestermfa.org to learn more.Zach Ellis is a photographer whose work navigates the human, natural, and abstract. Through his artistic practice, he seeks to deepen his awareness of what already holds his attention. At its core, his work embraces duality—both/and—grappling with contradictions in the world and within himself. With a camera in hand, everything becomes a reflective surface, a mirror to the soul, shining back what he hopes—against hope—to see more clearly. Raised in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, Zach has traveled the country and now calls southern New Hampshire home. Visit https://zachellisphotography.com/ to visit his website and learn more. 

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Yeonsoo Kim. Originally from South Korea, Yeonsoo is a full-time studio artist and educator living in Exeter with a focus on ceramics, in particular Onggi, traditional Korean earthenware used extensively as tableware, as well as storage. Yeonsoo was exposed to Onggi during a workshop his first year of University.In this episode, we talk about how Yeonsoo's desire to continue making something new, how his work is influenced by his culture and the various places he's lived, and how he strives to find balance (shoutout to the Exeter YMCA). Yeonsoo has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics and glass from Hongik University in Seoul and a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of Georgia. He was named one of the top six emerging artists from the National Council of Education and Ceramic Arts in 2020. Check out Yeonsoo's work at www.yeonsooceramics.com and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/yeonsooceramics. Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

Creative Guts is seeking art and writing in all styles, subject matters, and mediums for the 2025 Youth Zine! The mission of Creative Guts' zines is to stimulate and inspire creativity by creating a platform for gutsy creatives to share their art and writing with the world. Recognizing it is often the youngest among us who are the bravest, this edition will be a platform for youth to display their work and be part of a creative community. Artists and writers from the ages of 0 to 17, from any country, are welcome to apply with visual and written works in any medium: painting, drawing, sculpture, digital art, printmaking, fiber, photography, mixed media, poetry, short story (300 words maximum), etc.The best part: It is free to submit work!The zine will be available for free to view on our website in late summer 2025. Participants will receive one free copy of a printed edition thanks to our partnering sponsor: the Children's Museum of New Hampshire! (Learn more about the wonderful work they do at www.childrens-museum.org.)The deadline for kiddos to submit their work is Sunday, July 13th, 2025 (11:59 PM - Eastern Time)For more details and/or to submit work, visit www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com/zine.

In this episode of Creative Guts, board members and co-hosts Becky Barsi and Joe Acone sit down with Hannah Cole Dahar in her studio at the Mosaic Art Collective in Manchester, NH! Hannah, a multi-talented artist and full-time art teacher, shares her creative journey from childhood to present day.Discover how Hannah's fiery train caboose drawing at age three sparked her artistic path and her secrets for balancing a thriving art career while nurturing young creatives in the classroom. Hannah's unique vision, rooted in nature and mysticism, comes to life as she discusses her collaborations and artistic process and opens up about the challenges of being an artist, from marketing to constant skill-building. She shares her philosophy of staying curious and embracing failure as a learning opportunity. You can learn more about Hannah and her work by visiting www.coledahar.com and on Instagram at @hannahcoledahar.Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

Creative Guts has launched a Discord server and you're invited to be a part of it! Discord is a voice, video, and text chat app that's used by tens of millions of people ages 13+ to talk and hang out with their communities and friends. With the Creative Guts Discord server, we aim to create more community, with a focus on supporting each other's creative practices and the creative community in general. Like most of our other programming, this is for practicing and non-practicing creatives and free to join. This is a vibrant, inclusive, and inspiring space, which is driven by the community.To join, visit our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com and click on the purple Discord item up at the top. You an also read about the rules of our discord at https://www.creativegutspodcast.com/discordAs always, hang out with Creative Guts on Facebook and Instagram where our handle is @CreativeGutsPodcast and visit our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Creative Guts is a small nonprofit, but our work is far bigger than this podcast. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. 

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Andy DeMeo of Granite Goodness! Granite Goodness is a podcast and newsletter focused on OPTIMISM in New Hampshire. He interviews problem solvers and shares stories of progress and solutions in and around the Granite State.In this episode, we talk about progress journalism and why we all should be a little more optimistic, the many ways in which creativity and goodness overlap, and the technical nitty gritty of podcasting! We'll also cover Oscar Wilde, elevators, playing the accordion, and more. Find Granite Goodness on the web at www.granitegoodness.com and on all the social media channels! Most importantly, you can find the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts and on the Granite Goodness' website! You can also find Granite Goodness on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube!www.instagram.com/granitegoodnesswww.linkedin.com/company/granitegoodnesswww.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6156650498www.youtube.com/channel/UCKQ1RxdlRdz7vXQJa0sqK7gListen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat (virtually) with Julia Trueblood and Karin Trachtenberg! Julia is an actor and producer; Karin is a theater maker, filmmaker, and director. Julia and Karin's film “Three A.M.” was featured and won the ‘Heartstrings' Award in Creative Guts' film festival in June 2024. In this episode, we discuss how Julia and Karin are telling stories from their perspectives as women and mothers and supporting women in film. Both took time off from their work to start their families, and for Karin, going back to theater was her doing something for herself after prioritizing her kids. Today, they're working with mostly all-women crews, in a super collaborative way. We also talk about the challenges inherent when you're wearing many different hats and why film festivals are an important way for filmmakers to share their work!Check out their films “Pumpkin Pie” and “Three A.M.” at the links below!Pumpkin Pie: www.instagram.com/pumpkin_pie_filmThree A.M.: www.facebook.com/p/Three-AM-100087678037399/Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

In today's episode, some of the Creative Guts Board of Directors chat about why they serve this small but mighty nonprofit and why the arts are important to New Hampshire. They reflect on how important creativity is for everyone, creativity as an economic driver for our communities, and what makes Creative Guts unique.  Learn more about Creative Guts at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Sign up for our newsletter or follow us on social media. Find Creative Guts Podcast on Instagram, Facebook, and even LinkedIn. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Creative Guts is a small nonprofit, but our work is far bigger than this podcast. Learn more about us and make a tax-deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.  Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat (virtually) with Ruby Shabazz! Ruby is a singer, songwriter, and performer who writes, records, and performs her music solo and with a live band. In this episode, we talk about Ruby's early musical inspirations (Mariah Carey!) and her evolution from pop and love songs about boys to music with more grit and her need to “get real”. We'll chat about Spotify, performing live, and collaborating with her videographer, her live band, and even her husband! Ruby received the 2024 New England Music Award for Soul/R&B Artist of the Year AND won the 2024 New England Songwriters competition in Hip Hop and R&B for her song “Thank You”! If you want to learn more about Ruby, visit her Link Tree at linktr.ee/rubyshabazz and find her on Instagram at instagram.com/rubyshabazz. Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax-deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with artist Nate Twombly! Nate is a freelance illustrator whose work includes drawings and paintings based on New England, seasonality, camping, sports, music, robots, and sometimes folklore and sci-fi. Nate primarily creates his illustrations digitally these days, but has dabbled with everything from acrylic, watercolor, egg tempera, and pen and ink. His folk art is reminiscent of the work of Grandma Moses and Horace Pippin! Nate, who has been painting and drawing since he was little, actually started in photography and still loves vintage cameras and collecting old photographs!Find Nate's work online at www.natedraws.com and on Instagram at www.Instagram.com/natedrawss. Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax-deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

The Creative Guts' team is back with another installment of Creative Catalogues! In these mini episodes, someone from the Creative Guts' team will share a glimpse at the inspiring, creative things and folks they think you ought to know about. This week's episode is being hosted by Laura, one of the co-founders and hosts of Creative Guts and the artist behind Artful Harper Studios.  Featured in this episode:Lightbox Expo | www.lightboxexpo.comDevin Elle Kurtz | www.devinellekurtz.comZhang Jingna and Cara | www.zhangjingna.comLauren Walsh | www.laurenwalshart.comHang out with Creative Guts on Facebook and Instagram where our handle is @CreativeGutsPodcast and learn more online at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.  If you love listening, consider showing Creative Guts your support! You can leave a review, make a tax deductible donation, buy some merch, or interact with our content on social media. Learn more about us at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

In this episode of Creative Guts hosts Laura Harper Lake and Becky Barsi interview award-winning photographer Becky Field. They discuss Becky's transition from a career in wildlife ecology to photography, her project "Different Roots, Common Dreams" documenting New Hampshire's immigrant communities, and her latest work "Finding Home: Portraits and Memories of Immigrants." Becky shares insights on her creative process, collaborations with immigrant families, and how her scientific background influences her artistic approach.Learn more about Becky and her work at https://differentrootsnh.com.Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

Creative Guts is pleased to share this episode of Off the Wall with Matt and Amy from the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, New Hampshire. Off The Wall is a semi-regular series where Matt and Amy chat with a wide variety of visual artists, digging into the nuts and bolts of their creative process to reveal more about the layers of meaning, emotion, and intent behind their work.In this episode, Matt and Amy talk to Matt Gerding about "Weekend Wanderings: Explorations Not Too Far Off the Main Trail", an exhibition featuring a series of original works in the Bernier Room, at the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center. The exhibit will be on view from November 4, 2024, to January 31, 2025, with a reception planned for December 7, 2024, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm.Matt is a painter, educator, and mayor from Somersworth, NH, whose work is deeply inspired by the conserved natural areas of Seacoast New Hampshire, Southern Maine, and the Great North Woods. https://mattgerdingart.com/Learn more about the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts at www.rochestermfa.org.

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Shayla Gerkin and Hazel Tompkins, two NH Teen Poet Laureates! The mission of the NH Teen Poet Laureate team is to maintain the accessibility of poetry for all NH teens, and to spread the power of writing. In this episode, we're going to talk about how!The NH Teen Poet Laureate team creates opportunities for teen poets across the state to publicize their work through a newsletter and annual literary magazine. Shayla and Hazel, from Exeter High School and Hanover High School, respectively, share their experiences with poetry from learning the classics in school to the styles and subject matters they're drawn to now.You can find the NH Teen Poet Laureate team online at https://goodpoetryzine.wixsite.com/nh-teen-poets-laurea and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/nhteenpoets. Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Angie Lane interview a variety of creatives and makers at the Concord Multicultural Festival! The Concord Multicultural Festival is an annual celebration of the cultural diversity in the Capital Region in New Hampshire. This vibrant event celebrates a rich diversity in the area and promotes cultural understanding and appreciation through a variety of programs and events, including art demonstrations, music and dance performances, and more.As Laura and Angie strolled the festival, folks were welcome to participate in on-the-spot mini-interviews, chatting about their creative pursuits and what the festival means to them. In this episode, we chat with:Carolyne Jordan – Castello Arts: www.castelloarts.orgBecky Field – Fieldworks Photos: www.differentrootsnh.com  Susan Zankel – New Hampshire Book Festival: www.nhbookfestival.orgRuby Shabazz – R&B and neo soul hip-hop artist: https://rubyshabazz.wixsite.com/newmusicSaad Hindal – Art From Memory: https://www.facebook.com/ArtFromMemoryTamara  Morris –  Tamara Deonka Art: www.tamaradeonka.comThere were so many amazing creatives at this event that we didn't have time to get to everyone, but you can learn more about all the creates at this event, and more about the festival itself, at www.concordnhmulticulturalfestival.org.Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. This episode is sponsored in part by the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. Thank you to our friends in Rochester for their support of the show.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax-deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

In this mini episode of Creative Guts, Laura and Sarah chat about our  call for art and writing for our Fall 2024 Zine, with a theme of Love Letter to a Place. We're seeking writing and visual works that share the places that inspire, have a personally significant meaning, or that you simply love.ELIGIBILITY: Creatives 18 years and older, from any country, are welcome to apply with written works and/or visual work in any medium.FEE: Submission is free! This zine is by donation only. While there is no fee to submit, we welcome donations to Creative Guts. Creative Guts is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, so all donations are tax-deductible. The suggested donation is $15. Donations can be made here. If you are not making a donation, we ask that you please share this call for art with an artist in your life.Creatives of accepted works will receive a free printed edition of the zine thanks to the generous sponsorship of Creative Co-op, based in Exeter, NH.SUBMISSION: Visit www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com/zine and complete our form to submit one (1) to three (3) images of individual artworks in .JPEG format, with at least 300 dpi, or a text document of poetry/prose (300 words maximum). All accepted artists/writers will be notified via email by the end of November.DEADLINE: November 10, 2024 (11:59 pm ET)Get all the details on everything we're up to at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Sign up for our newsletter or follow us on social media. Find Creative Guts Podcast on Instagram, Facebook, and even LinkedIn. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Creative Guts is a small nonprofit, but our work is far bigger than this podcast. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.  Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with Esmeldy Angeles, a self-taught photographer who focuses on portraits and creative photography! Esmeldy was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to New Hampshire when she was 14 years old. As a self-taught photographer, her unique style leads to powerful and dynamic visual storytelling. In our conversation with Esmeldy, you'll hear about how she learned photography, her collaborations with other creatives (you'll recognize some familiar names!), her love of the editing process, and who would be her dream subject to photograph someday.  Check out Esmeldy's work at www.instagram.com/esmeldy_angeles. Her work has been featured in and on the cover of Issue 11 of 603 Diversity Magazine, which can be found at https://issuu.com/mcleancommunications/docs/603_diversity_issue_11.Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. A special thank you to Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter for providing a space where Creative Guts can record! This episode is sponsored in part by the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. Thank you to our friends in Rochester for their support of the show.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

In this mini episode, Laura shares all the exciting details about our upcoming second annual Art ‘Round the Room event. Art ‘Round the Room offers adults the unique opportunity to explore a variety of art mediums at timed stations with guidance from professional artists. It's a rare chance for grown-ups to unleash their creativity, learn, and play.This year's event will be held on Saturday, November 9th, from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm, at The Derryfield School,  Manchester, NH. Tickets are $40 and can be purchased on our website, www.creativeguts.org/events.If the cost of a ticket is a barrier to attending, please request a ticket fee waiver at hello@CreativeGutsPodcast.com.As always, hang out with Creative Guts on Facebook and Instagram where our handle is @CreativeGutsPodcast and visit our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Creative Guts is a small nonprofit, but our work is far bigger than this podcast. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. 

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman talk with John Fladd, food and cocktail writer with Hippo Press and Heavy Table! John spends his days developing recipes, weaving stories about food and drink, and talking with restaurateurs! In this episode we talk about the relationship between food and culture, John's process for writing for digital and print, and how on Earth John got involved with a publication based in Minneapolis, MN!Find John Fladd's writing in The Hippo (https://hippopress.com/author/john-fladd/) and The Heavy Table (https://heavytable.com/author/johnfladd/)! You can also find John on Instagram at www.instagram.com/woodenmask.Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show! 

Creative Guts is pleased to share this episode of Off the Wall with Matt and Amy from the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, New Hampshire. Off The Wall is a semi-regular series where Matt and Amy chat with a wide variety of visual artists, digging into the nuts and bolts of their creative process to reveal more about the layers of meaning, emotion, and intent behind their work.In this special episode, Matt and Amy talk to legendary rock and roll photographer Bob Gruen about his earliest memories of photography, his history in the music business, and what he's up to now. Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon to Johnny Rotten; Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones; Elvis to Madonna; Bob Dylan to Bob Marley; Tina Turner to Debbie Harry, he has captured the music scene for over forty years in photographs that have gained worldwide recognition.Learn more about this amazing artist at www.bobgruen.com and follow on Instagram at www.instagram.com/bob_gruen.

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with Catherine Stewart, a playwright, filmmaker, dancer, and more! Catherine is the co-founder of Film Unbound, which has become a collective of artists who make mission-driven media for changemakers, inventors, and innovators. Formerly, Catherine served as the artistic director of the New Hampshire Theatre Project in Portsmouth. This episode includes a truly fantastic conversation about ensuring your work aligns with your values, knowing when to say “no” and when to say “yes”, and balancing creativity with admin. We also get to hear the adorable story of when Catherine met her husband!Catherine isn't on social media (we'll talk about that, too), but you can sign up for her newsletter at https://makecreatemore.ck.page/ and you can find Film Unbound at www.FilmUnbound.com.Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

Creative Guts is back! While we enjoyed our break this summer, we're so glad to be back! In this short episode, we'll give you a rundown on our summer from our 5th birthday party at Auspicious Brew to the 2024 youth zine! We'll also fill you in on what's to come (spoiler alert: Art Round the Room is back by popular demand)! This season, you can expect interviews with amazing creatives here on this space. While Laura and Sarah aren't going anywhere, you'll also hear from some other hosts!Get all the details on everything we're up to at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Sign up for our newsletter or follow us on social media. Find Creative Guts Podcast on Instagram, Facebook, and even LinkedIn. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Creative Guts is a small nonprofit, but our work is far bigger than this podcast. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.  Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

 Creative Guts is five years old! In this episode, Laura and Sarah reflect on the highlights of the past year — the podcast, the programming, and what is on the horizon! Thank you to our partners and funders: Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery, the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, Exeter High School, the NH State Council on the Arts, and others! A special thank you to YOU: our listeners! To those of you who have been here since day one, you cannot imagine the love we feel for you!To celebrate this milestone, we're hosting a birthday party and YOU are invited! Join us at Auspicious Brew in Dover on Tuesday, July 23rd for a rocking good time. Clandestine will be there with the tunes. Please RSVP for our party here: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/f18cfda6-4140-4b2b-90f3-6212a46e8df9Creative Guts is taking a summer break, so you won't hear from us in July or August, but we'll be back with new episodes in September! In the meantime, catch up on past episodes you've missed or re-listen to your favorites wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website. While we won't be releasing any new episodes this summer, we will be busy making other fun things happen! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn for the latest and visit our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com to sign up for our monthly newsletter. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake, Sarah Wrightsman, and Mike Durkee interview makers of all ages at the NH Maker Fest, hosted by the Children's Museum of New Hampshire, on June 1, 2024. The NH Maker Fest is an all-ages celebration of creativity and innovation, where makers can share their project, hobbies, experiments, and more with the community. At the Creative Guts booth, folks were welcome to participate in a mini-interview with some of the Creative Guts team, chatting about their creative pursuits and dreams. It was a joyful time as we chatted with 20 youngsters – some as young as 4-years-old – and a handful of adults with inspiring stories to tell, including local children's author Carolyn Watkins, Daniel of the Piece of Mind Podcast; and Suzie Lavigne, president of Veterans in Performing Arts.Check out more about the NH Maker Fest at https://childrens-museum.org/things-to-do/events/nh-maker-fest. Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. A special thank you to The Children's Museum of New Hampshire for inviting us to join this event! This episode is sponsored in part by the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. Thank you to our friends in Rochester for their support of the show.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. 

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Zackery Betty, the artistic director at NSquared Dance! Zackery is a dancer and a choreographer with an MFA in Choreography and a BFA in dance!NSquared Dance was founded by Nick Neagle, creative director and Zackery's husband, in New York City as his senior thesis! NSquared is now Manchester's premiere contemporary dance company, and we're so glad they landed in New Hampshire!In this episode, we answer the important questions, like are you better at the Cotton Eyed Joe just because you're a professional dancer? The answer, of course, is yes. We also talk about stage fright, dance competitions (including the televised kind), how to get started, and more. Check out NSquared Dance online at www.nsquareddance.org and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/NSquaredDance and Instagram at www.instagram.com/nsquared_dance. Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. A special thank you to Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter for providing a space where Creative Guts can record! This episode is sponsored in part by the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. Thank you to our friends in Rochester for their support of the show.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

For the first time, Creative Guts is participating in NH Gives! Hosted by the NH Center for Nonprofits, NH Gives is the state's largest day-of-giving — bringing together hundreds of nonprofits and tens of thousands of donors to raise as much money and awareness as possible for the causes served by NH's nonprofit sector! If you love Creative Guts, mark your calendars and prepare to give! Between 5 pm on Tuesday, June 11th and 5 pm on Wednesday, June 12th, we would encourage you to make a donation to Creative Guts at www.nhgives.org/organizations/creative-guts or by searching for Creative Guts at www.nhgives.org. The Board of Directors is hosting a friendly competition to see who can collect the most donors, so if you want to support your favorite member of the Creative Guts' team, scroll down to the fundraisers at the bottom of this page: www.nhgives.org/organizations/creative-guts. Donations of any size matter!As Creative Guts approaches the five-year mark, we'd like to extend so much gratitude to you — our listeners — to the folks who have been interviewed on the show, to our Board of Directors, partners, funders, and more!As always, Creative Guts is on Instagram, Facebook, and even LinkedIn. Give us a follow and check out our website for more information www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman return to Exeter High School — this time to chat with the students!As a follow up to our interview with Eric Gold, the students spent two days in April painting with Eric! The students had an incredible opportunity to paint together as a community.  As described in our interview with Eric, students were given small squares of larger paintings to work on. The subject matter of their work: changemakers! Two of the portraits featured guests Creative Guts interviewed live at EHS earlier this year: Diannely Antigua, Lindsay Garfield, and Jon Nolan!As a bonus, Creative Guts had the opportunity to chat with Diannely and Lindsay while the students painted their faces! In this episode, we chat with the students about what it was like to participate in a community painting, what creativity means to them, and what creative things they love!Please excuse the background noise — this episode was recorded in the middle of the creative chaos!Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. A special thank you to Exeter High School and to the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts for making this episode possible! If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

In these bonus mini-episodes, traditionally co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman share a glimpse at their latest creative consumptions, but today we're shaking things up! Mike Durkee of Durkish Delights, a visual artist,muralist, and a Creative Guts Board member, is taking over the show for his creative picks!  Special thanks to Bug, for providing us with a great song to layer on this episode as we share our list. You can find more about Creative Guts online (www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com) and on Facebook and Instagram at @CreativeGutsPodcast . Featured in this episode:Vincent La Scala: www.vincentlascala.comMabel Vicentef: www.mabelvicentef.comWhit Herrington: www.instagram.com/oldsoulvtgGuest Host: Durkish Delights www.durkishdelights.com and on Instagram @durkishdelightsBONUS: Listen to more from Bug www.soundcloud.com/musicforbugs

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Jonathan Geddis of JG Film & Photo. Jonathan is a videographer, filmmaker, cinematographer, video producer, drone pilot, and [insert other words related to using a camera]! We met Jonathan last summer when he created a video about Creative Guts winning the Governor's Arts Award!JG Film & Photo is a full-service production company specializing in video production, photography, and editing! Jonathan has a degree in filmmaking from Lakes Region Community College and years of experience working in television, feature films, short films, commercials, real estate, weddings, and more! In this episode, we're going to cover everything from Jonathan's early days and education, to his favorite movies (including underrated films and guilty pleasures), to controversial topics including AI, drones, TikTok, and copyright! Go check out Jonathan's work online at www.JonathanGeddis.com, and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/jg_filmandphoto and Facebook at www.facebook.com/JG.Photo.FIlm. Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. A special thank you to Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter for providing a space where Creative Guts can record! This episode is sponsored in part by the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. Thank you to our friends in Rochester for their support of the show.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

We're sharing some upcoming events in this special bonus episode!Creative Guts is thrilled to present Snarl, a duo exhibition featuring the captivating works of Heather Hernon and Raisa Tolchinsky at the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts! As two past guests of the Creative Guts podcast (episodes 98 and 154), their combined artistry promises an unforgettable experience for visitors to the Carnegie Gallery.The exhibition will be on view from May 6, 2024, to September 6, 2024, with a reception planned for May 14, 2024, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The public is encouraged to attend. The RMFA's Carnegie Gallery is located at the Rochester Public Library, 65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867.https://www.rochestermfa.org/creative-guts-presents-snarl-in-the-carnegie-gallery Tickets are now on sale for the Creative Guts Short Film Festival, happening on June 11, 2024 at 6:00 pm at Red River Theatres in Concord, New Hampshire. The 3-hour festival will feature various films and creatives of all backgrounds. The spirit of this festival is to celebrate the creativity, voice, and collaboration of filmmakers.Get your tickets at https://redrivertheatres.org/film/creative-guts-short-film-festival/ A special thank you to the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts and the Red River Theatres, both of which have been fantastic partners with these programs. 

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with artist Brandy Patterson! Blessed with the gift of synesthesia, Brandy paints what she sees when she's listening to music. In this episode, we'll talk about Brandy's ability to forge connections between sound and color, collaborating with her musician husband (Hallmark, are you listening?), and how she's invited her five-year-old into her art. Check out Brandy's work at www.bmpatterson.com. Brandy is also on Instagram at www.instagram.com/brandympatterson and YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcGHVWMvD-8g7qC58swLREw. Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. A special thank you to Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter for providing a space where Creative Guts can record! This episode is sponsored in part by the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. Thank you to our friends in Rochester for their support of the show.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

Creative Guts is seeking art and writing in all styles, subject matters, and mediums for the 2024 Youth Zine! The mission of Creative Guts' zines is to stimulate and inspire creativity by creating a platform for gutsy creatives to share their art and writing with the world. Recognizing it is often the youngest among us who are the bravest, this edition will be a platform for youth to display their work and be part of a creative community. Artists and writers from the ages of 0 to 17, from any country, are welcome to apply with visual and written works in any medium: painting, drawing, sculpture, digital art, printmaking, fiber, photography, mixed media, poetry, short story (300 words maximum), etc.The best part: It is free to submit work! The zine will be available for free on our website, CreativeGutsPodcast.com, in late summer 2024 and participants will receive one free copy of a printed edition.The deadline for kiddos to submit their work is Sunday, June 30th, 2024 (11:59 PM - Eastern Time)For more details and/or to submit work, visit www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com/zine. 

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Lionel Loveless of Officially Knotted Bowties. Lionel, also known as Mr. Bowtie Daily, is a self-taught seamster who takes vintage neckties and other fabric and transforms them into custom bow ties! The bow ties he creates are upcycled, sustainable, and one-of-a-kind pieces. Sometimes his bow ties are an opportunity to carry the essence of a loved one — you'll see how when you hear the origin story of Officially Knotted Bowties. In this episode, we'll talk about some of the coolest bow ties Lionel has made (and the coolest people he's made bow ties for) and how Lionel found a community here in New Hampshire after growing up in Oklahoma. Check out Officially Knotted Bowties online at officiallyknottedbowties.com and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/officiallyknottedbowties, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/officiallyknottedbowties. Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. A special thank you to Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter for providing a space where Creative Guts can record! This episode is sponsored in part by the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. Thank you to our friends in Rochester for their support of the show.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

The Creative Guts team is back with a new installment of Creative Catalogues! In these bonus mini-episodes, traditionally co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman share a glimpse at their latest creative consumptions, but today we're shaking things up! Mike Durkee of Durkish Delights, a visual artist,muralist, and a Creative Guts Board member, is taking over the show for his creative picks!  Special thanks to Bug, for providing us with a great song to layer on this episode as we share our list. You can find more about Creative Guts online (www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com) and on Facebook and Instagram at @CreativeGutsPodcast . Featured in this episode:Keya Tama: www.keyatama.comPaul Vitale: www.vitalebrothers.comStay Rooted NH: www.stayrootednh.comGuest Host: Durkish Delights www.durkishdelights.comBONUS: Listen to more from Bug www.soundcloud.com/musicforbugs

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with artist and film editor Eric Gold. Eric explores collective consciousness in populations through the creation of art and community, by coordinating community-created portraits in the US and Canada. His most recent of these projects is Growing Up Portsmouth, a series of community-created portraits of people who are part of Portsmouth's story from the past 50 years. This collection is on display at the Portsmouth Music and Arts Center (PMAC), in Portsmouth, NH, until April 19th.We discuss in this episode the logistics and spirit of community-created portraits and Eric's upcoming work with Exeter High School students to create portraits of some local creatives who have worked with students in the past, and been on Creative Guts. Eric shares how he learned even more about Portsmouth's history through the Growing Up Portsmouth series, his own history with Portsmouth, and how he sometimes feels like a therapist during the community-created paintings. Also, we say “monkey” more times than ever before on the podcast!Learn more about Eric Gold at www.ericgoldart.com .Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. A special thank you to Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter for providing a space where Creative Guts can record! This episode is sponsored in part by the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. Thank you to our friends in Rochester for their support of the show.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.  

Creative Guts is pleased to share this episode of Off the Wall with Matt and Amy from the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, New Hampshire. Off The Wall is a semi-regular series where Matt and Amy chat with a wide variety of visual artists, digging into the nuts and bolts of their creative process to reveal more about the layers of meaning, emotion, and intent behind their work.This episode features artist Sean Ware, who is currently exhibiting a series of original works in the Carnegie Gallery at the Rochester Public Library (Rochester, NH) until May 3, 2024. Visit www.rochestermfa.org to learn more about the RMFA and this exhibit.Sean Ware is an artist and educator based in Portland, Maine. He focuses on capturing the changing dynamics of everyday environments. His paintings highlight the nuances of fading light, passing storms, and the resilience of growing weeds, prompting viewers to find something new in the familiar.Learn more about this amazing artist at www.seanwarepainting.com and follow on Instagram at www.instagram.com/seanwarepainting.

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman talk with artist Shaina Gates! Shaina's art is a challenge to describe. Her stunning work took a bit of serendipity. Her experimental photography happened when she was playing with black-and-white film, but she's not a photographer. In order to truly appreciate the mystery of Shaina's work, you kind of need to see it for yourself! Her experimentation led her to something a bit unique — we don't know of any other artist doing what Shaina does. The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation also thought Shaina's work was pretty cool: Last year Shaina was the recipient of the Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant from the Charitable Foundation. This grant recognizes the important contribution of working artists to the cultural life of the region by providing an annual financial award to promote the artistic growth of visual artists and craftspeople. Shaina is now in the position to share and promote her work as an innovative contribution to the field of experimental photography. Please take a peek at Shaina's work on the web at www.shainagates.com and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/shainagates. If you're interested in the Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement grant, head over the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation's website at www.nhcf.org/how-can-we-help-you/apply-for-a-grant/artist-advancement-grant-program/. Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. A special thank you to Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter for providing a space where Creative Guts can record! This episode is sponsored in part by the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. Thank you to our friends in Rochester for their support of the show.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

In this bonus episode, Angie Lane, Executive Director of Red River Theatres joins Laura Harper Lake to announce Creative Guts is partnering with the Red River Theatres to present our very own Short Film Festival.We're inviting independent filmmakers from New Hampshire and beyond to submit their short films to our short film festival, which will be hosted at Red River Theatres in Concord, New Hampshire, on June 11, 2024. We welcome films from any genre that are 15 minutes or under to be submitted. The spirit of this festival is to celebrate the creativity, voice, and collaboration of filmmakers. We encourage submissions from creatives of all backgrounds and at any stage in their filmmaking journey to apply. Show us your creative guts!  The deadline to submit to the festival is April 30, 2024. Get all the details and submit your film at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com/events.  Disclaimer: The audio quality in this bonus episode is rough at times. We're testing out new recording methods when remote and wanted to get this out to you ASAP, so thank you for understanding! As always, hang out with Creative Guts on Facebook and Instagram where our handle is @CreativeGutsPodcast and visit our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Creative Guts is a small nonprofit, but our work is far bigger than this podcast. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. 

Creative Guts' Have A Little Guts Tiny Art Exchange is back! For the fourth year, we invite creatives around the world to participate in an international art exchange. Participants will create an original piece of tiny art, in any medium, to send to another participant somewhere in the world. Everyone who participates will send and receive a piece of tiny art. This is a fun way to connect with one another and show off your creative guts!If you'd like to participate, please head over to www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com/events for all the details. The deadline to sign up is Monday, March 18, 2024. By the end of March, you'll receive a mailing address in your inbox. We ask that you please mail your artwork to the address provided by Saturday, April 6, 2024. Questions? Reach out to us at Hello@CreativeGutsPodcast.com or connect with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. If you're a big fan of this program, check out our Tiny Art Exchange merch, including shirts, totes, mugs, and more at www.teepublic.com/user/creative-guts!If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with poet Diannely Antigua. Diannely is a Dominican American poet and educator. She is the founder of The Bread & Poetry Project and the host of a podcast by the same name. Not only is Diannely the current Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but she is the youngest and first person of color to receive the title. This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at Exeter High School with support from the NH State Council on the Arts! Special thank you to our friends at Exeter High School! Before we jump into the interview, this episode kicks off with a writing workshop led by Diannely — we encourage you, our listeners, to play along! In this episode we cover Diannely's journey  from journaling as a young girl all the way to publishing her first — and now second — collection of poetry! Find out more about Diannely at her website www.diannelyantigua.com and follow her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/nellfell13. You can also find the Bread & Poetry Podcast on Instagram at www.instagram.com/breadandpoetrypodcast.Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Follow us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

Creative Guts is pleased to share this episode of Off the Wall with Matt and Amy from the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, New Hampshire. Off The Wall is a semi-regular series where Matt and Amy chat with a wide variety of visual artists, digging into the nuts and bolts of their creative process to reveal more about the layers of meaning, emotion, and intent behind their work.This episode features artist Julie K. Gray, who is currently exhibiting a series of original works in the Bernier Room at the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center (Rochester, NH) until March 1, 2024. Visit www.rochestermfa.org to learn more about the RMFA and this exhibit.Julie K. Gray is an interdisciplinary artist based in Biddeford, Maine. Her primary mediums include sculpture, photography, and needlepoint. She obtained her BFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005 and completed her MFA in Studio Art at the Maine College of Art in 2012. Gray has exhibited extensively in New England, as well as in various locations across the United States and Canada.Learn more about this amazing artist at www.juliekgray.com and follow her on instagram at www.instagram.com/juliekgray.  

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with artist and educator, Joe Acone! We invited Joe on the podcast to talk about gamified teaching. A self-described nerd, Joe pulls from role playing games, like Dungeons and Dragons, and applies those concepts in the classroom!Today, Joe works alongside Creative Guts' Vice Chair, Becky Barsi, at The Derryfield School in Manchester, NH. In the past, Joe has taught at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, Framingham State University, and LaSalle College. In addition to his full time job at the Derryfield School, he's also teaching a course on world building at Manchester Community College.In this episode, we'll also talk a bit about how Joe balances his passion and creativity in the classroom with his own art. As an artist, Joe works primarily in oil and digital, with a bit of illustration, too. He's not a writer, but he's also sort of a writer!Check out Joe at www.artstation.com/joeacone and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/joeacone.Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Be friends with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. This episode is sponsored in part by the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. Thank you to our friends in Rochester for their support of the show.If you love listening, consider making a donation to Creative Guts! Our budget is tiny, so donations of any size make a big difference. Learn more about us and make a tax deductible donation at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com.