Welcome painter, tattoo artist, editorial cartoonist, and all-around consummate artist Jim Charette to In-Focus Podcast Number 93. Did I mention Artist Provocateur? Jim was also our guest sixty podcasts ago on Episode 33 . Jim lives with his family in Fall River, Massachusetts, and works out of his home studio. He attended the venerable Swain School in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He’s done graphics for several local screen printers as a graphic designer, worked at the Fall River Herald News, and...
Sep 06, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Welcome writer, local historian, and author Margaret 'Peggi' Medeiros to In-Focus Podcast Number 92. Peggi is one of the Southcoast's go-to experts when it comes to local history. She is a writer/blogger for Southcoast Today and, the author of two books, New Bedford Mansions and Harriet Jacobs in New Bedford. She is now working on her third book the Captain and His Daughters. It is about the Jones family, the second family to own the Rotch Jones Duff House . Peggi specializes in New Bedford Hist...
Aug 30, 2021•58 min
Music provided by www.bensound.com Welcome photographer Michael Morris to In-Focus Podcast Number 91. Michael is the owner of Michael T. Morris Photography and has been a professional photographer for the past seven years. He held his real estate license for a while but is no longer selling or listing homes. Michael's love of real estate and architecture, however, gives him the insight and experience expertise his real estate clients demand. His work is represented in many publications throughou...
Aug 23, 2021•55 min
Welcome painter Mark Barry to In-Focus Podcast Number 90. Mark paints ordinary things, things that he’s discovered aren’t so ordinary at all. As he relates, “In a world that often seems to be twisting, turning and chaotic, to capture just a second in time or a fleeting glimpse of motion in a painting allows for a semblance of stability. Figures in a landscape, working in a garden, sailing a boat or an interior scene of a family at dinner, in each painting I try to make the connections between th...
Aug 16, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Welcome painter Heather Stivison to In-Focus Podcast Number 89. Heather Stivison is an award-winning contemporary artist. Her work has been exhibited in museums, universities, and galleries both nationally and internationally. She is the president of South Coast Artists , Inc., and serves on the board of directors of the Art League of Rhode Island. Heather Stivison is a former museum director, former president of the New Jersey Association of Museums , and former president of the Mid-Atlantic As...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Welcome painter Christine Maiato FitzGerald to In-Focus Podcast Number 88. Christine works primarily in the mediums of photography and painting. She is a native of New Bedford. Maiato-FitzGerald’s conceptual works are loaded with elements of tension, symmetry, space, contrast and attention to texture and detail. All the while, they are peppered with themes that transition from the mysterious to tranquility. Christine opened her art gallery, MaiatoFitz Art Gallery & Studio , in December, 2020...
Aug 02, 2021•57 min
Welcome painter Paul Pedulla to In-Focus Podcast Number 87. His contemporary paintings are representational yet minimal. There’s a simplicity that draws you in and a depth that finds you frequently discovering something new. Paul is represented by eight galleries nationwide. His paintings have been singled out by art professionals, educators, and interior designers from Seattle to New England. Paul’s work can be found in collectors’ homes and businesses from California to Germany. Music courtesy...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Welcome, Mark Alex Gleicher, a South Coast, Massachusetts painter, to In-Focus Podcast Number 86. Born and raised on the South Coast, Gleicher grew up in his family’s art gallery and frame shop in Dartmouth where he learned about art, art history, and became immersed in the local art scene. After traveling around America for a few years, Gleicher enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he met his lifelong collaborator, Jamie Boutin. Gleicher has worked as an art educator and,...
Jul 19, 2021•56 min
Welcome, Michael Lapides, a digital artist/photographer to In-Focus Podcast Number 85. Michael does documentary, photo-journalism, architectural, and fine art photography. He is also the co-curator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum ’s Common Ground Project , which offers members of the community an opportunity to lend their voice to the collective story of Greater New Bedford using writing, audio, video, and other means of recording. Mike Lapides attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, B...
Jul 08, 2021•54 min
Welcome, Carolyn Dlouhy Walega, AKA Carolyn Strules Walega, a former New Bedford, Massachusetts artist now living and working in Florida. A painter and muralist, Carolyn studied at The School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for her B.F.A. in Painting and Art Education and, another B.F.A. in Painting and Art Education from the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She received her M.F.A. at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where she majored in Painting and minored in Vi...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Welcome, Kate Frazer Rego, AKA Kate MA Frazer, a New Bedford, Massachusetts artist, and Visual Arts instructor at Alma del Mar Charter School. She attended the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she earned a BFA in Sculpture from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Kate went on to earn her MFA from Boston University’s College of Fine Art. Living on the South Coast of Massachusetts, Kate Frazer Rego has shown her work nationally and is currently in several private collections. Sh...
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Welcome, Michael Walden, a Westport, Massachusetts painter to In-Focus Podcast Number 82. South Coast artist Michael Walden was born in North Adams, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. from Framingham State University . A year abroad lead to an M.F.A. from Boston University in 1996, specializing in art education. In 2014 he was awarded a second M.F.A. from Mass Art (Massachusetts College of Art and Design). Michael completed a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2018. Michael Wa...
Jun 14, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Welcome Autumn Liv Cyr, a New Bedford, Massachusetts painter and musician/busker to In-Focus Podcast Number 81. Autumn is, in her own words, “just stepping through the doors of being a full time artist…” She has been working professionally for about 7 years, working with various mediums and experimenting with different things. Autumn is, “delving into my own style of surrealism but also enjoy working with motifs such as nudes, still lifes and portraiture.” This emerging young artist also does ar...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Welcome Sarah Hale Folger, painter, musician, and Creative Director at the Kilburn Mill in New Bedford, to In-Focus Podcast Number 80. Sarah is a product of Cinncinati, Ohio, and has been a Rhode Islander since 1985. She served as the Executive Director for the Wickford Art Association for five years, which gave her an opportunity to expand her skills on the business side of the art world. Sarah continues to practice her personal artwork and, contributing to the “innovative creation of the art u...
May 24, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Richard Walega was also a Presidential appointee as HUD’s New England Regional Administrator. He is a member of the Bartleby Poetry Society and a poet for the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s Whaling Panorama presentation at the Kilburn Mill. No, Richard is not an artist but he is a beginner watercolorist and has a solid grasp on the future of the South Coast creative community. Music courtesy of www.bensound.com...
May 10, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Welcome opera performer, soprano soloist Patrice Tiedemann is the Artistic Director and founder of the Seaglass Theater to In-Focus Podcast Number 78. She graduated from Rhode Island College with a Bachelor's in Music Education and received her Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance from Indiana University . As a young artist, she received further training with Central City Opera and Indianapolis Opera . Her credits include holiday concerts with the Boston Pops , Boston Lyric Opera (The Little Pri...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Welcome American Street Artist Mark Carvalho, aka/Boston Maki to In-Focus Podcast Number 77. Boston Maki, or just Maki, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He is one of the South Coast's foremost contemporary urban artists. Maki became known for his one stencil process covering everything from canvas to unsanctioned walls around the South Coast of Massachusetts . The technique, which he adopted and has adhered to since 2006, became his signature style. Listen in on the conversation as The Ar...
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Jeff Wotton is the co-founder of The Southcoast Artists Index and the co-founder of Spectrum Marketing Group. Coming from a background in traditional art, Jeff applies his creativity to his professional pursuits by helping businesses to develop their brand and story through visual communications. Music courtesy of www.bensound.com
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Welcome artist, art therapist, play therapist, and former dancer, Jane Ferris Richardson to In-Focus Podcast Number 75. Jane studied painting in New York and in France, and with the Japanese painter Kaji Aso in Boston. Her early art experience was as a dancer. She is now an artist, art therapist, and play therapist. Her work with expressive “languages” for children with autism has led her to collaborate nationally and internationally, in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Most recently she taught art and...
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Welcome photographer Frank C. Grace to In-Focus Podcast Number 74. Frank has been photographing weird and wonderful New England for the last 15 years. He has also ventured beyond New England to Russia and, Chernobyl of all places. He combines his camera and eye with Photoshop manipulation to bring out the surreal aspects of his subjects. Frank says, he likes to try and make his images feel, "as what it was like to be there." He has photographed everything from gorgeous scenery, to abandoned and ...
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Music courtesy of www.bensound.com Welcome painter/muralist/art instructor, and production artist on Loving Vincent , Katherine “Kat” Knutsen to In-Focus Podcast Number 73. Since childhood, Kat has always loved working with her hands. Kat Knutsen survived asthma and brain cancer growing up, which initially led to her nursing studies. She quickly learned it wasn’t for her during the clinical portion of her education. While leaving the nursing field, she was serendipitously introduced to the Fine ...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Music courtesty of www.bensound.com Welcome art historian, gallerist, and appraiser Michael Rose to In-Focus Podcast Number 72. Michael is based in Southern New England. He has served as the Gallery Manager at the historic Providence Art Club since 2014. Michael oversees a rigorous exhibition schedule spread across three unique galleries there. Additionally, he provides independent advisory and appraisal services and is a sought after speaker and teacher on topics of art history and art business...
Mar 22, 2021•17 min
Music courtesty of www.bensound.com Welcome painter/art instructor Bob Dec to In-Focus Podcast Number 71. Bob, who is originally from Fall River, Massachusetts, received his BFA from the then Southeastern Massachusetts University , today’s University of Massachusetts Dartmouth , in 1975. Bob Dec received his MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 1977. He concentrated on painting drawing, printmaking, and photography while studying for both degrees. Robert M. “BOB” Dec, has exhibited...
Mar 18, 2021•59 min
Welcome Carol Way Wood, illustrator, freelance artist, children's book illustrator, and painter. Born in 1948, she grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and moved to Dartmouth in 1970. Carol is a true lover of country life and lived in Colorado from 1992 to 1999. She sold her first painting at 14 years old. That first sale kicked off a career as a freelance artist that has lasted for over 50 years. Carol Way Wood has designed greeting cards, illustrated children's books, and created items for the g...
Mar 15, 2021•58 min
Welcome maker/dyer and self-described Environmental Alchemist, Rhonda M. Fazio to In-Focus Podcast Number 69. Rhonda is a graduate of art history from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth . Prior to attending the University, she studied Professional Craft: Fiber and Clay at Haywood Community College near Asheville, North Carolina – an area rich with the influence and philosophy of Black Mountain College . She founded Dyer Maker Studio , a traveling textile maker space. Rhonda teaches experi...
Mar 08, 2021•57 min
Welcome artist Margo Volterra to In-Focus Podcast Number 68. She attended The Art Student's League when she was very young. "The only kid surrounded by adults. Very intimidating," she says. Margo's parents always encouraged her creativity and growing up in New York City certainly offered plenty of opportunities. She majored in painting at Boston University where she received her BFA. While there she worked with some very special professors who fostered the belief in pushing the envelope. At the ...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Music courtesy of www.bensound.com Welcome mentalist Jon Stetson to In-Focus Podcast Number 67. Jon was the inspiration for the CBS hit television series “ The Mentalist ”. Stetson blends the art of Mystery with the study of Psychology, the predictability of human nature, and the power of intuition. According to Jon, “Imaginations are wowed, stretched, and captured, as thoughts are revealed and minds are being read.” This all takes place with Jon’s intriguing games of mind-to-mind contact. As hi...
Feb 22, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Welcome art adjacent, art activist, and co-founder of the now fabled U.G.L.Y. Gallery in New Bedford, Jeremiah Hernandez to In-Focus Podcast Number 66. Jeremiah is also the Community Partnerships Manager at Entrepreneurship for All - EforAll , and the Executive Director at EforAll South Coast . But wait, there's more! Mr. Hernandez is also a Board Member at Superflat NB, "A creative placemaking, mural art project dedicated to beautifying New Bedford while flattening barriers to the arts." He say...
Feb 08, 2021•59 min
Welcome painter/art instructor Filipe Miguel, or Mr. Fil to his students, to In-Focus Podcast Number 65. Filipe was born in France to Portuguese parents. He immigrated from Portugal at a very young age and grew up in Brockton. Filipe Miguel earned his BFA in Painting and Art Education from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and, his MFA from the University of Connecticut . He and his family moved to their new home in Rochester, Massachusetts. Filipe teaches Fine Arts at Barnstable High Sc...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr
Welcome painter/Artist Index co-founder/podcaster Ron Fortier to Podcast Episode: 64. Ron is a guest on his own show and this episode is hosted by painter/art writer Don Wilkinson who's been our guest on Podcast Episode: 4 and Podcast Episode: 63 as well. He lives and maintains his studio in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He's a painter who spent decades in his fallback advertising and marketing career. He received his BFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and, his MFA from t...
Jan 25, 2021•53 min
