Welcome musician, Sarah Donner, to In-Focus Podcast Number 123. This is the first podcast by our new Music Host, Scott Bishop. Scott was our podcast guest on Podcast Episode 113 . Sarah Donner is an alt-pop singer/songwriter who has embraced her inner cat lady. Her songs teeter back and forth between playful, nerdcore, and ballads. It’s all tied together with bright melodies and driving, energetic instrumentals. Sarah Donner’s music has been featured on Conan O’Brien’s blog , NPR , Buzzfeed, i09...
Jun 27, 2022•50 min
Welcome musician, Jeff Angeley, to In-Focus Podcast Number 122. Jeff is a South Coast multi-instrumentalist performer and music educator. His musical tastes are experiences are eclectic and cross-genre. Jeff started his journey in a concert band and moved on to rock bands. He played lots of jazz and bluegrass in college, and along the way fell deeply in love with traditional music. His most recent musical work and infatuations lie in the neighborhood of traditional music, acoustic (Indie) songwr...
May 30, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Welcome, Kathi Chase, to In-Focus Podcast Number 121. Kathi is a Fairhaven-based, self-taught artist working primarily in acrylic paints. She has an associate’s degree in Clinical Laboratory Science. Kathi Chase has worked in the medical field for over 20 years. At a young age, Kathi started drawing cartoon characters by copying movie covers. Over the years it evolved as she picked up new skills in school art classes. As a young adult, she took an evening oil painting class at Greater New Bedfor...
May 23, 2022•1 hr
Welcome musician and physician, Michael Rocha to In-Focus Podcast Number 120. Michael grew up in New Bedford and graduated from New Bedford High School in 1993. He performed in the school’s jazz band all four years. Dr. Rocha, a practicing cardiologist, started playing trombone in the 4th grade at the Jireh Swift elementary school. He played in several local bands, which at that time, were led by Eddie Rodrigues . Mike played in concert bands, marching bands, and big bands. He attended UMass-Dar...
May 16, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Welcome, William Kenedy, to In-Focus Podcast Number 119. William is a contemporary artist and graphic designer. With his many years in the design industry, he has developed an impressive portfolio. William has been designing, both fashion and multi-media art forms, for over 10 years. He has been a part of design and development projects with other talented artists and brands. William Kennedy was born in Washington DC. His journey of creativity started at a young age. Going back to his roots, the...
May 09, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Welcome musician, bandleader, and photographer, Tom Short to In-Focus Podcast Number 118. Tom grew up in Flint Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan, Flint with a degree in classical performance. While in Flint, he was also a bandleader. Tom moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts around 30 years ago. Since on the South Coast, Tom has been a music teacher and performer. Tom is the leader of two well-known local bands; Pumpkin Head Ted and The Dancing Dogs . Both bands have been perf...
May 02, 2022•1 hr
Welcome singer, songwriter, and music business writer Sean Robert McCarthy, to In-Focus Podcast Number 117. Sean has spent the last 35 years in journalism. His self-professed forte is writing about music and the people who perform it. Sean has interviewed and written about a wide spectrum of artists from rock stars to local musicians for local and international publications. He is currently the publisher and writer for the local music blog, Sonic South Coast , and is also a singer/songwriter. Li...
Apr 25, 2022•58 min
Welcome, The Jethros, to In-Focus Podcast Number 116. They are the amalgam of: Homer Jethro – AKA, Tom Allen, of New Bedford – guitar, vocals Rufus Jethro – AKA, Rick Smith of New Bedford – horns, ukulele, vocals Boney Jethro – AKA, Jonathan Danforth of New Bedford – fiddle, percussion, vocals Gaston Jethro – AKA, Matthew Ryckebusch of New Bedford – bass, vocals Skillet Jethro – AKA, Greg Motta of Westport – drums, vocals According to their publicity package, “ The Jethros realized their common ...
Apr 18, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Welcome, Lean (lee-ann) Camara, to In-Focus Podcast Number 115. Lean is the Director of Strategic Projects at The New Bedford Light, a free digital news outlet providing public service journalism. Although Lean is not an artist, she may now add 'art industry professional' to her resume. She was tasked with organizing the New Bedford Fine Arts Club - an art marketplace for local artists to share and sell their work to an engaged group of collectors and art enthusiasts. The new club's first Zoom m...
Apr 11, 2022•45 min
Welcome, Todd Salpietro, to In-Focus Podcast Number 114. Todd is a musician and the Director at the Fall River Arts Academy . The Academy is the largest independently owned music school in the area. They have won more awards than any other music school on the Southcoast. The school offers private, in-person, and online music lessons in piano, guitar, voice, violin, drums, woodwinds & brasswinds & ukulele all under one roof. Todd says that he, “searches the area for the best music teacher...
Apr 04, 2022•59 min
Welcome, Scott Bishop, to In-Focus Podcast Number 113. Scott is a New Bedford-based singer, songwriter, and sound sculptor. He’s been creating music under the name Scapeghost since 2016. He says he’s been, “dipping pops songs in a variety of interesting sounds, from crunchy to dreamy and everything in between.” Scott’s most recent and ongoing project, supported by the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park , is NBWaves , which brings the sonic DNA of New Bedford into the music. NBWaves was...
Mar 28, 2022•54 min
Welcome, Peter Andrade, to In-Focus Podcast Number 112. Peter is about as art-adjacent as anyone can be! Though he says he has no artistic talent, he does appreciate art and the artists that surround him! He interacts with painters, writers, musicians, and, well, lots of artists as the property manager for the Kilburn Mill on Clarks Point in the south end of the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Peter started working at the mill when he was a very young man. Listen in as Peter related the hist...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Welcome, Margo Connolly-Mason, to In-Focus Podcast Number 111. Margo is an oil painter and collage artist specializing in coastal and natural science-based artwork. Margo says, “My artwork reflects what I see around me as I roam beaches, work on docks, get stuck in salt marshes, and observe the natural and built world from a perspective of curiosity, respect, and a desire to share it.” Her work highlights the beauty in sometimes unexpected places. She’s found it in a tote of fish waiting for pro...
Mar 07, 2022•36 min
Welcome, Nick LeBlanc, to In-Focus Podcast Number 110. Nick is a writer, musician, artist, and public school educator from New Bedford, Massachusetts. He is also the president of the Performing Arts Collective and editor at Domesticated Primate , an independent publishing outfit and online used book/record shop. Nick has played in bands and acted as a producer for other recording artists. But wait, there's more! Nick LeBlanc has also written, directed, scored, and acted for both the film and the...
Mar 01, 2022•54 min
Welcome, Barbara Edlund Healy, to In-Focus Podcast Number 109. Barbara’s paintings reflect the quiet beauty of the New England coast. Her oil and acrylic paintings are inspired by the diverse colors of light, atmosphere, and nature. Barbara uses color to enliven peaceful landscapes, seascapes, and gardens. Brushstrokes over glimpses of color intentionally reveal some of her painting process. After growing up in South Windsor Connecticut, Barbara attended the College of Visual and Performing Arts...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Welcome, James Murdock to In-Focus Podcast Number 108. Jim is a Swain Graduate and primarily a sculptor. He is a Cape Codder living in self-imposed exile in Mid-Coast Maine. As he says, “I came here to learn wooden boat building after receiving a BFA from the Swain School of Design in sculpture.” His talent and love of making “all sorts of things” is evident. According to Jim, “when I produce Art it is always in pursuit of an intriguing form or situation that gives me bliss. He returned to my Sw...
Feb 14, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Welcome, Jennifer Gillooly Cahoon – Jen to In-Focus Podcast Number 107. Jen is a portrait artist and entrepreneur living in East Providence, Rhode Island. She is the owner of the award-winning HeaARTspot Art Center and Gallery and the Chair of the East Providence Art Council . In her own words, “I opened HeaARTspot Art Center and Gallery in 2017 after serving as a public educator for nearly 20 years. I served as a special education teacher, an art teacher, and finally as an Art Department Chair....
Feb 07, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Welcome, Carl Simmons to In-Focus Podcast Number 106. Carl is a New Bedford, Massachusetts musician, visual artist, performance artist, and the South Coast's default local historian! Southcoast Today's Art Beat columnist said that Carl is, "... a local historian much concerned with preserving the past but in his artwork, he is clearly not beholden to it. His imagery, be they drawings, watercolors, digital photographs, or short digital animations, instead celebrate the mythology and folklore of t...
Jan 31, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Welcome, Tobey Eugenio to In-Focus Podcast Number 105. Tobey (She/Her) is the Creativity Director at Our Sisters School in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Since 2015, Tobey has been leading the school’s visual arts, STEAM Lab, and Dendrites programs. She also works as the Outdoor Classroom coordinator and student council co-advisor. Tobey has over 25 years of experience as an artist/educator. Outside OSS, Tobey also works as a curriculum specialist, educational consultant, and outdoor classroom desi...
Dec 20, 2021•56 min
Welcome, David Mello , a painter, illustrator, sculptor, mask maker, and so much more to In-Focus Podcast Number 104. David is a 1983 graduate of Southeastern Massachusetts University (the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth ) where he received a BFA in Illustration and Design. He has worked for the Fall River Public Library since 1979 and from 1985 to the present, he has served as the library’s Supervisor of Children’s Services. “For over 30 years now the primary focus of my artwork has been ...
Dec 13, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Welcome, Dr. Rebecca Uchill , an art historian and curator at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her work focuses on the institutional conditions for art production, display, and dissemination to In-Focus Podcast Number 103. In this special episode, we discuss Dr. Uchill’s curated exhibition, Nancy Holt: Massachusetts. It is on view (at this writing), in two of the campus galleries from November 11, 2021 to January 23, 2022. The exhibition was...
Dec 06, 2021•57 min
Welcome abstract painter/art instructor Catherine Carter to In-Focus Podcast Number 102. Her paintings and collages are inspired by calligraphic marks, textile weaves, and lines found in Nature such as roots and vines. Catherine’s artwork has been exhibited at galleries and museums internationally. She earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth . Catherine, a resident of Fairhaven, Massachusetts was our guest on In-Focus Podcast Number 57 and r...
Nov 29, 2021•54 min
Welcome photographer Michael Morris to In-Focus Podcast Number 101. In this special episode, Michael shares the legacy of his great-grandfather Manuel C. “Mal” Oliveira. Mike is the owner of Michael T. Morris Photography and has been a professional photographer for the past seven years. He was our guest on Podcast Episode 91 . He’s pictured here with his great-grandfather. Mal Oliveira (1908 – 2003) was a prolific and multi-talented artist. He was also The Artist Index’s host, Ron Fortier’s priv...
Nov 22, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Welcome American Street Artist, Mark Carvalho aka Boston Maki who will share the life of his great-great-uncle, painter, and set designer, Nicholas Yellenti to In-Focus Podcast Number 100. Mark was our guest on Podcast Episode 77 . Nicholas Yellenti was a New Bedford-based artist and graduated from the Swain School of Design (1918?) He went on to become a respected and notable painter and set designer in Broadway and Hollywood. He later moved back to New Bedford to live with his sister and conti...
Nov 15, 2021•59 min
Welcome painter, John Jameson to In-Focus Podcast Number 99. John is a contemporary artist who focuses on seascape and portraiture as his primary subjects. His paintings are characterized by their strong emphasis on color, boldly organized compositions, and rich networks of textured brushwork. John Jameson's paintings have been shown in Boston, New York, Newport (Rhode Island), and Kamakura (Japan). Currently, he works and shows in New Bedford Massachusetts. John received his BFA from the Univer...
Nov 08, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Welcome painter and author, Chuck (Charles R.) Boucher to In-Focus Podcast Number 98. Chuck has been developing his signature style, one that fuses the formality of the classical narrative with the expressive structures of the Abstract Expressionist movement of the early 1900s since 1986. As he explains, "When I was about fourteen years old, I visited the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for the first time. There I met Egyptian Mummies, followed by John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Monet, Picasso...
Oct 25, 2021•48 min
Welcome, Patti Rego to In-Focus Podcast Number 97. Patti Rego (She/Her) is the unofficial Chief City Cheerleader for Fall River, Massachusetts, and District Director of Viva Fall River. Viva Fall River according to Patti, “is a movement and community-based commerce, culture, and creative economy initiative that works to showcase and celebrate the authentic and unique qualities that make Fall River a must-stop South Coast destination: arts, ethnic and cultural traditions, creative businesses, wel...
Oct 18, 2021•1 hr
Welcome theater director, Rylan Brenner to In-Focus Podcast Number 95. Rylan is the founder of the Theatre Program at Bristol Community College. He was a professor of Theatre, English, and the Director of Theatre directing four productions a year. Rylan Brenner is also a Poet, Writer, explorer of visual art and multimedia. He received his MFA in Creative Writing - Poetry from Brown University in 1976, the Director of Theatre Ensemble, Ltd. in Boston, Massachusetts. Rylan Brenner was also an Asso...
Oct 11, 2021•1 hr
This is a very different and exciting podcast episode on so many levels! Welcome returning guest, Patrice Tiedeman, the artistic director of the Seaglass Theater Company who was our guest on Podcast Episode: 78 and, composer Jodi Goble to In-Focus Podcast Number 95. This podcast focuses on the Seaglass Theater Company's world premiere of Whaling Women at the First Unitarian Church in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It is a lyrical score that marries composer Jodi Goble’s original music with historic...
Sep 30, 2021•58 min
Welcome painter, Marcia K. Hales to In-Focus Podcast Number 94. Marcia works in acrylic, and for the most part on canvas. As she relates, 'I need acrylics due to the nature of my work, which involves layering, so I need it to dry fast." Marcia K. Hales lives in the Detroit area now. She has been working to secure gallery representation there soon. Her work is currently available at the Twisted Fish Gallery in Elk Rapids, Michigan. Marcia is constantly motivated by creating something new to see, ...
Sep 13, 2021•1 hr 11 min
