A three-part mini podcast series hosted by Ron Fortier about the New Bedford Film Festival and its celebration of authentic cinematic stories, the cultivations of bold storytellers, and the new champions of the city’s growing creative economy. The growing festival is hosted in the vibrant city of New Bedford on the South Coast region of Massachusetts. The festival is committed to a shared vision of “spotlighting the diverse human experience through cinematic storytelling such as short and featur...
Jan 13, 2025•30 min
A three-part mini podcast series hosted by Ron Fortier about the New Bedford Film Festival and its celebration of authentic cinematic stories, the cultivations of bold storytellers, and the new champions of the city’s growing creative economy. The growing festival is hosted in the vibrant city of New Bedford on the South Coast region of Massachusetts. The festival is committed to a shared vision of “spotlighting the diverse human experience through cinematic storytelling such as short and featur...
Dec 13, 2024•26 min
In Episode Two, Gallery X Documentation Project podcast host Sean FitzGerald speaks with Susan and Charles Hauck . Charles, or Chuck , as he is better known, was one of our earliest podcast guests. Susan/Sue/Suzy Hauck is married to Chuck. Chuck, who is originally from Toledo, Ohio studied sculpture and received his BFA from the Swain School of Design . Sue is a self-taught artist. She has often worked in the decorative arts fields in various capacities. She also served as the Administrative Dir...
Dec 13, 2024•57 min
The Artists Index is an AHA! partner and this is the sixth in our series of livestream podcasts. The November AHA! was our second impromptu evening and open mic invitation to the South Coast's poets to help celebrate with us on Thursday, November 14th, from 6 to 7:30 pm. Once again, our livestream podcast was co-hosted by our livestream partner and friend Adam Katz , the owner of Play Arcade. Our November AHA! Guests who joined us (Max Wikermayer and Ron Fortier ) in the bar area at Play Arcade ...
Nov 23, 2024•1 hr 36 min
In Episode Five, Dave Reis speaks with internationally renowned, award-winning jazz musician Greg Abate , a saxophonist, flutist, and composer. He's traveled the globe on his musical tours. After finishing his education at Berklee College Of Music in the mid-70s, Greg Abate went on to play lead alto saxophone for the Ray Charles Orchestra for 2 years. Abate formed his group Channel One in 1978. It became a New England favorite and offered him an opportunity to play tenor sax from 1986-87 with th...
Nov 23, 2024•1 hr 17 min
In Episode Two, Gallery X Documentation Project podcast host Sean FitzGerald speaks with Zachary White , the executive director of Gallery X . Zachary majored in photography and minored in printmaking while attending the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Sean and Zachary discuss the first phase of The Gallery X Documentation Project, with an agenda to scan Gallery X‘s entire collection of documents spanning 34 years. The documents include news clippings, posters, flyers, photographs, and mo...
Nov 19, 2024•1 hr 22 min
Welcome Peggy Call- Conley , a local artist who earned her BFA in Art Education from Southeastern Massachusetts University , today the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth , in 1972. Her early exposure to the arts in Boston and her solace in nature in rural Middleborough (AKA Middleboro) Massachusetts , deeply influenced her artistic journey. Peggy has spent 35 years teaching art in private and public schools while residing in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts . Her watercolor paintings are inspir...
Nov 04, 2024•51 min
In Episode One, Gallery X Documentation Project podcast host, Sean FitzGerald, speaks with The Artists Index co-founder, Ron Fortier , about the new Gallery X Documentation Project. It is the first phase of a larger agenda to scan Gallery X ‘ s entire collection of documents including news clippings, posters, flyers, photographs, and more. The scanned documents will be archived and later mined for information specific to the artists who have had their work exhibited or who have performed at New ...
Oct 22, 2024•58 min
The Artists Index is an AHA! partner and this is the fifth in our series of livestream podcasts. The October AHA! was an impromptu evening and open mic invitation to the South Coast's musicians. They came out and we all celebrated on Thursday, October 10th, from 6 to 7:30 pm. Once again, our livestream podcast was co-hosted by our livestream partner and friend Adam Katz , the owner of Play Arcade. Our October AHA! Guests who joined us in the Living Room at Play Arcade included our musician frien...
Oct 11, 2024•58 min
Welcome Elyse Laurelle Demarest, an emerging artist whose fledgling practice is based out of the Co-Creative Center in downtown New Bedford, Massachusetts . Elyse lives in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts with her young son, Luke. Elyse Demarest her art business as Elyse Laurelle Artworks out of the Co-Creative Center. She paints, sells art, and teaches watercolor and acrylic classes throughout the South Coast . Her artwork is locally inspired, primarily by the area's proximity to the New England coa...
Oct 07, 2024•1 hr
Welcome Eden Soares (Eden Nelson Brandao Soares) who is a multi-talented multimedia artist. He has worked hard to sharpen his skills and ability to quickly and accurately, as he relates, "create proofs from their visions in a professional timely manner." Eden has demonstrated his gratitude from continuous referrals and recommendations from his satisfied customers and clients. His creativity on many different levels has allowed him to, "create simple or elaborate corporate or complex designs that...
Oct 03, 2024•1 hr 3 min
The Artists Index is an AHA! partner and this is the fourth in our series of livestream podcasts. The September AHA! celebrated AHA! @ 25 on Thursday, September 12th from 6 to 7:30 pm. and was co-hosted by our livestream partner and friend Adam Katz , the owner of Play Arcade. Our September AHA! galaxy of guests included Dave Reis , our Jazz Podcast Series podcast host, Ymelda Rivera Laxton , the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & Community Projects at the New Bedford Whaling Museum , a...
Sep 16, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Welcome to our first cookbook author and culinary artist Milena Rodrigues, who was also, unbeknownst to me, my neighbor in Buarcos, Figueira da Foz, Portugal . Yes, a small world indeed! Milena is a first-generation American and daughter of Portuguese immigrants from Figueira da Foz . Her parents and sisters immigrated to Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1966. In the early 1970s, Milena Rodrigues and her family moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts . Milena always stayed connected to her family's root...
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 24 min
Welcome Drew (Andrew) Furtado, a South Coast Massachusetts Emmy Award-winning visual storyteller. Since 2005, Drew has produced photo, film, and web content for South Coast schools and nonprofit organizations. He currently leads the New Bedford Whaling Museum's communication and marketing efforts. Drew Furtado has transformed how the Museum reaches its potential audiences through digital platforms. Through his digital work, including films like Restart 2020 , photography, and illustrated posters...
Sep 03, 2024•50 min
In Episode Four, Dave Reis speaks with his friend and jazz-inspired poet Everett Hoagland , "...an inventive and highly politicized poet... driven as much by the rhythms of jazz, as it is by the cultural, psychological, and historical weight of racial division." (1) Hoagland is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth . Everett Hoagland was also the first poet laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts (1994–1998) and is our guest on the fourth of our ten podcast...
Aug 19, 2024•1 hr 11 min
The Artists Index is an AHA! partner and this is the third in our series of livestream podcasts. The August AHA! celebrated Summer in the Seaport on Thursday, August 8th from 6 to 7:30 pm. and was co-hosted by our livestream partner and friend Adam Katz , the owner of Play Arcade. Our August AHA! galaxy of guests included Dena Haden , one of our first podcast guests and the Program Director for the Co-Creative Center in New Bedford, Margo Saulnier the Director of Creative Strategies and Arts-Bas...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr 22 min
Welcome Roger Andrews , a South Coast Massachusetts artist and New Bedford native. Roger is a world-class freelance concept artist with over 20 years of experience in freelance advertising art and toy and game product design. His clients have included Hasbro, Google, Mattel, Subway, Puma, Rovio, Wayfair, Sony, Toyota, and Disney. Roger Andrews also developed an online video media presence with his always informative, educational, and entertaining SketchyGOichie YouTube channel for artists of all...
Aug 05, 2024•58 min
Welcome Mason Terra, a South Coast Massachusetts abstract oil painter. He was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, and graduated from Westport High School . Mason went on to study archaeology at Bridgewater State University . Mason Terra's passion since childhood has always been drawing. His architect father was a big influence. Doodling constantly, he created characters inspired by movies and games. Despite not taking any art classes, Mason continued to draw through high school and started resear...
Jul 29, 2024•50 min
Welcome to the third of the ten podcast episodes in The South Coast Artists Index Jazz Series hosted by Dave Reis. This first-ever series is underwritten and brought to you by Fiber Optic Center and Whaling City Sound . Jazz podcast series host Dave Reis spent nearly 26 years as a Jazz radio show host among his many other accomplishments. He was one of the original longtime DJs who worked at the former WUSM which became radio station WUMD , 89.3 FM, on the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth c...
Jul 22, 2024•46 min
The Artists Index is an AHA! partner and this is the second in our series of livestream podcasts. The July AHA! celebrated Kids Rule on Thursday, July 11 from 6 to 7:30 pm. and was co-hosted by our livestream partner and friend Adam Katz , the owner of Play Arcade , "an old-school 80’s style arcade offering a full-service bar, craft-made drinks, and food..." Play Arcade offers over 40 vintage arcade games and a rooftop deck overlooking the working waterfront in the New Bedford Whaling National H...
Jul 13, 2024•1 hr 40 min
Welcome Phillip J. Mellen (Podcast Episode 61 and Podcast Episode 53 . He studied fine art at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts. Phillip later went to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 1999. He graduated in 2003 and returned to Massachusetts in 2006. He became an active member of the South Coast 's creative community. Phillip J. Mellen is an active both as a poet, and visual artist. He presently resides in Taunton, Massachusetts where he w...
Jul 01, 2024•55 min
The Artists Index has partnered with AHA! and, kicked off the first of a series of livestream podcasts. The June AHA! celebrated PRIDE Month and was hosted by our livestream partner and friend Adam Katz , the owner of Play Arcade , "an old-school 80’s style arcade offering a full-service bar, craft-made drinks, and food..." Play Arcade offers over 40 vintage arcade games and a rooftop deck overlooking the working waterfront in the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park . Our guests were An...
Jun 17, 2024•1 hr 35 min
Welcome to the second of the ten podcast episodes in The South Coast Artists Index Jazz Series hosted by Dave Reis. This first-ever series is underwritten and brought to you by Fiber Optic Center and Whaling City Sound . Jazz podcast series host Dave Reis spent nearly 26 years as a Jazz radio show host among his many other accomplishments. He was one of the original longtime DJs who worked at the former WUSM which became radio station WUMD , 89.3 FM, on the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth ...
Jun 10, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Welcome Lindsay Mis , artist and the director of DATMA , the Massachusetts Design Art & Technology Institute. DATMA presents contemporary art with the convergence of design, art, and technology through exhibitions, performances, and education and engagement for all ages and cultural backgrounds in the South Coast region and beyond. It was established in 2016 and launched in 2018, DATMA was founded to enhance the evolving dynamic cultural and economic life of Southcoast Massachusetts. As an e...
Jun 03, 2024•56 min
Jazz Series Episode 1: The Jazz Mural - Welcome to the first of the ten podcast episodes in The South Coast Artists Index Jazz Series hosted by Dave Reis. This first-ever series is underwritten and brought to you by Fiber Optic Center and Whaling City Sound . Jazz podcast series host Dave Reis spent nearly 26 years as a Jazz radio show host among his many other accomplishments. He was one of the original longtime DJs who worked at the former WUSM which became radio station WUMD , 89.3 FM, on the...
May 27, 2024•45 min
Welcome clay artist/potter/ceramicist, Wendy Joy Goldsmith. She graduated with a BFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she also graduated with a MAT (Masters of Art Education). Wendy also attended workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Coastal Maine where she studied with Jack Troy and Bernadette Curran . She also has participated in various workshops at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill in Truro, Massachusetts. Wendy Goldsmith was an art teacher at Friend...
May 13, 2024•49 min
Welcome back David "Dave" Reis , AKA David Domingo Reis, who was our guest on In-Focus Podcast 154. Dave returns once again and this time it's as the host of our first-ever podcast series. Dave Reis spent nearly 26 years as a Jazz radio show host among his many other accomplishments. That’s right, he was one of the original DJs who worked at the former WUSM which became WUMD radio station, 89.3 FM, on the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus. This podcast, Podcast Episode 187, offers a l...
Apr 22, 2024•49 min
Welcome, Ymelda Rivera Laxton , the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & Community Projects at the New Bedford Whaling Museum . Ymelda is the newest addition to the Whaling Museum's staff. She is a museum professional. Ymelda has worked at various cultural institutions in Washington, California, Texas, and Massachusetts. She has always been interested in cultural agency and representation in museums. As the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & Community Projects, she brings her exp...
Apr 01, 2024•35 min
Welcome Hip-Hop Artist, Trajic Montalvo (Andres Alexander Montalvo). He was born in Miami, Florida, and moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts because, as he says, he was, "surrounded by death by the time I was an early teen and found a way to get through my everyday struggles and pains. Trajic fell in in love with music. He has continued to write and rap at every chance he is presented with. Today he is releasing music consistently on all platforms. He also provides music videos on YouTube & m...
Mar 26, 2024•58 min
Welcome, to Podcast Episode 184 featuring John Walker and Putnam Murdock . They are friends and a singer-songwriter team who also work together as playwrights. John has, as he describes, "some experience writing screenplays" and Putnam is a seasoned singer-songwriter and teacher. Putnam Grafton Murdock has performed throughout the US and is a middle school music and theatre teacher at Friends Academy in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. They have completed one stage play “A Friend’s One Man Show” and ar...
Mar 18, 2024•58 min
