Over the past few years, the National Parks Arts Foundation has partnered with Dry Tortugas National Park, west of Key West in Southern Florida, to create an artist-in-residence opportunity in pristine isolation, at Loggerhead Key. Loggerhead Key is the westernmost of 7 islets of the Dry Tortugas, and features a number of historic sites, and is a natural habitat for many unusual species.

This Big Blend Radio interview features Tanya Ortega – Photographer and Founder of National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF) that presents artist-in-residence programs in parks, and Santa Fe based husband-wife artist team Julie and Matthew Chase-Daniel who will be the NPAF artists-in-residence at Dry Tortugas National Park in September 2017. Julie is a poet and Matthew works in photography, sculpture, and drawing. Check out the Online Jigsaw Puzzle of Matthew's photo-assemblage artwork of Seven Mile Beach in Grand Cayman Island.

Music featured on this segment is 'Fish Fever' by South African musician James Saunders.

This Big Blend Radio interview originally aired live on BlogTalkRadio.com on May 5, 2017.

Victoria Chick, New Mexico-based figurative contemporary artist and early 19th/20th century print collector, talks about American scene painter Georges Schreiber (1904-1977). Originally from Belgium, Schreiber became a United States citizen in 1928. For 3 years, beginning in 1936, he made trips touring the U.S painting and sketching Americans in all the states. He exhibited these paintings, called “Panorama of America”, at the Associated American Artists gallery. His show was so successful that all the works were sold before the show even opened. He was accepted into exhibitions at major museums during this period of the ‘30s and ‘40s when American Scene Painting and Regionalism were popular. 

Pictured lithograph: "Going Home", 1945. Music featured on this segment is 'Strollin' & Singin' by Domingo DeGrazia, from the album "Please Remember Me" that features the music of artist Ted DeGrazia.

This Big Blend Radio interview originally aired on BlogTalkRadio.com on May 5, 2017.

The seat of Washington County, Springfield is located near the cities of Lexington and Louisville, in central Kentucky’s land of ‘Bourbon, Horses & History’. A gateway destination to Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park and Mammoth Cave National Park, the city is on the Lincoln Scenic Byway, and being the ancestral home of Abraham Lincoln’s family, is also part of the Kentucky Lincoln Heritage Trail. 

Eric Seale - Managing Director for Central Kentucky Community Theatre, and Stephanie McMillin – Executive Director of Springfield Tourism Commission, talk about Springfield's Community Theatre programs and peformances, the historic Opera House, summer music festivals, and the area being a travel destination and film location. 

This Big Blend Radio interview originally aired on BlogTalkRadio.com on May 5, 2017.

Victoria Chick, New Mexico-based figurative contemporary artist and early 19th/20th century print collector, talks about American scene painter Georges Schreiber (1904-1977). Originally from Belgium, Schreiber became a United States citizen in 1928. For 3 years, beginning in 1936, he made trips touring the U.S painting and sketching Americans in all the states. He exhibited these paintings, called “Panorama of America”, at the Associated American Artists gallery. His show was so successful that all the works were sold before the show even opened. He was accepted into exhibitions at major museums during this period of the ‘30s and ‘40s when American Scene Painting and Regionalism were popular. 

Pictured lithograph: "Going Home", 1945. Music featured on this segment is 'Strollin' & Singin' by Domingo DeGrazia, from the album "Please Remember Me" that features the music of artist Ted DeGrazia.

This Big Blend Radio interview originally aired on BlogTalkRadio.com on May 5, 2017.

Over the past few years, the National Parks Arts Foundation has partnered with Dry Tortugas National Park, west of Key West in Southern Florida, to create an artist-in-residence opportunity in pristine isolation, at Loggerhead Key. Loggerhead Key is the westernmost of 7 islets of the Dry Tortugas, and features a number of historic sites, and is a natural habitat for many unusual species.

This Big Blend Radio interview features Tanya Ortega – Photographer and Founder of National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF) that presents artist-in-residence programs in parks, and Santa Fe based husband-wife artist team Julie and Matthew Chase-Daniel who will be the NPAF artists-in-residence at Dry Tortugas National Park in September 2017. Julie is a poet and Matthew works in photography, sculpture, and drawing. Check out the Online Jigsaw Puzzle of Matthew's photo-assemblage artwork of Seven Mile Beach in Grand Cayman Island.

Music featured on this segment is 'Fish Fever' by South African musician James Saunders.

This Big Blend Radio interview originally aired live on BlogTalkRadio.com on May 5, 2017.

The seat of Washington County, Springfield is located near the cities of Lexington and Louisville, in central Kentucky’s land of ‘Bourbon, Horses & History’. A gateway destination to Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park and Mammoth Cave National Park, the city is on the Lincoln Scenic Byway, and being the ancestral home of Abraham Lincoln’s family, is also part of the Kentucky Lincoln Heritage Trail. 

Eric Seale - Managing Director for Central Kentucky Community Theatre, and Stephanie McMillin – Executive Director of Springfield Tourism Commission, talk about Springfield's Community Theatre programs and peformances, the historic Opera House, summer music festivals, and the area being a travel destination and film location. 

This Big Blend Radio interview originally aired on BlogTalkRadio.com on May 5, 2017.

Join Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, the mother-daughter travel team and publishers of Big Blend Radio & TV Magazine and Spirit of America Magazine, for Big Blend Radio’s Toast to The Arts Show!

On This Episode:

- National Parks Artist-in-Residence Programs – Tanya Ortega – Photographer and Founder of National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF) that presents artist-in-residence programs in parks, and Santa Fe based NPAF artists / photographers Julie and Matthew Chase-Daniel. 

- Georges Schreiber – Hear about this well-known scene painter with Victoria Chick, New Mexico-based figurative contemporary artist and early 19th/20th century print collector.

- Theatre inSpringfield, Kentucky - Eric Seale - Managing Director for Central Kentucky Community Theatre, and Stephanie McMillin – Executive Director of Springfield Tourism Commission in Central Kentucky.

Join Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, the mother-daughter travel team and publishers of Big Blend Radio & TV Magazine and Spirit of America Magazine, for Big Blend Radio’s Toast to The Arts Show!

On This Episode:

- National Parks Artist-in-Residence Programs – Tanya Ortega – Photographer and Founder of National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF) that presents artist-in-residence programs in parks, and Santa Fe based NPAF artists / photographers Julie and Matthew Chase-Daniel. 

- Georges Schreiber – Hear about this well-known scene painter with Victoria Chick, New Mexico-based figurative contemporary artist and early 19th/20th century print collector.

- Theatre inSpringfield, Kentucky - Eric Seale - Managing Director for Central Kentucky Community Theatre, and Stephanie McMillin – Executive Director of Springfield Tourism Commission in Central Kentucky.

Join Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, the mother-daughter travel team and publishers of Big Blend Radio & TV Magazine and Spirit of America Magazine, for Big Blend Radio’s Happy Hour variety show!

Singer-songwriters and musicians Marty Axelrod, Severin Browne, Jeff Kossack, John Stowers, Ed Tree and Jimmy Yessian play new songs and talk about their third Tall Men Group album, FEAST.

Plus, Spontuneous Rob Ridgeway, creator of the board game Spontuneous ‘The Song Game’, joins in the conversation and challenges the Tall Men to play a few Happy Hour rounds of the radio version of Spontuneous!

Join Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, the mother-daughter travel team and publishers of Big Blend Radio & TV Magazine and Spirit of America Magazine, for Big Blend Radio’s Happy Hour variety show!

Singer-songwriters and musicians Marty Axelrod, Severin Browne, Jeff Kossack, John Stowers, Ed Tree and Jimmy Yessian play new songs and talk about their third Tall Men Group album, FEAST.

Plus, Spontuneous Rob Ridgeway, creator of the board game Spontuneous ‘The Song Game’, joins in the conversation and challenges the Tall Men to play a few Happy Hour rounds of the radio version of Spontuneous!