Creative Guts

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Justice McDaniel, better known as Justice Eats Trees, a self-described artist, musician, and enthusiastic weirdo. Justice is a general maker of things and doer of too much stuff! Justice was raised by a musician and has been drawing since he could hold stuff, so you can say he’s been a creator for a long time. Justice tells us a bit about his time spent as a touring musician, his desire to create art that is accessible, and encourages people to engage with art. His ideas come from weird, bad days, and his paintings tend to start in the woods. And, if you’re wondering about the name, Justice Eats Trees, tune in to find out!

Find Justice McDaniel on Instagram — his handle is JusticeEatsTrees and follow the LinkTree rabbit hole from there. You can listen to Justice’s music on Bandcamp at https://justiceeatstrees.bandcamp.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. 

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. And a special thank you to Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery for providing a space where Creative Guts can record!

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 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/hosts of Creative Guts and owner of Artful Harper Studios.  

Featured in this episode:

• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu www.sequoianagamatsu.com/how-high-we-go-in-the-dark
• Lania Roberts www.laniaroberts.com
• “6 Steps to Draw Anything” by Antonio Stappaerts  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T_-DiAzYBc

Hang out with Creative Guts on Facebook and Instagram where our handle is @CreativeGutsPodcast and learn more online at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. 

Special thank you to Bug for the tunes! Hang out with Bug on Instagram at @TypicalBug and listen online at www.soundcloud.com/musicforbugs. 

If you love listening, consider showing Creative Guts your support! You can leave a review, make a tax deductible donation, 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 painter Rick Fox. Rick is an oil painter who primarily paints plein air landscapes and human heads (thanks to some help from the mirror) in a style he describes as simplified expressionist realism. Notably, Rick is the winner of the 2022 Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant — a grant he applied for seven times — which has given him the chance to create with more freedom than ever. In this episode, we talk with Rick about what he learned through the grant writing process and what advice he would have for future contenders, his experiences teaching painting and drawing, and how his work and his relationship to his work are always changing.

Check out Rick Fox’s work on his website at www.rickfoxpaintings.com and follow Rick on Instagram at www.instagram.com/rickfoxpaintings. 

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. And a special thank you to Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery for providing a space where Creative Guts can record!

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 another installment of Creative Catalogues! In these mini episodes, someone from the Creative Guts’ team will share a glimpse at the inspiring, creative things giving them life lately. This week’s episode is being hosted by Becky Barsi, artist, photographer, teacher, star of Creative Guts’ episode 25, and explorer of all things creative!

In this episode, Becky talks about a binge-worthy TV series, a podcast, and her secrets to sourdough!

• Severance on Apple+ at https://tv.apple.com/us/show/severance/umc.cmc.1srk2goyh2q2zdxcx605w8vtx
• The Secret Room Podcast: http://www.thesecretroompodcast.com/ and on Instagram @secretroompod
• Sourdough Explained at https://sourdoughexplained.com/ and on Instagram @sourdough_explained 

Learn more about Becky Barsi, aka Artsy Barsi, on Instagram @artsybarsi and at www.beckybarsi.com and check out Busy Bee 603 Photography on Instagram at @busybee603photo. 

Hang out with Creative Guts on Facebook and Instagram where our handle is @CreativeGutsPodcast and learn more online at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. 

Special thank you to Bug for the tunes! Hang out with Bug on Instagram at @TypicalBug and listen online at www.soundcloud.com/musicforbugs. 

If you love listening, consider showing Creative Guts your support! You can leave a review, make a tax deductible donation, 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 

Jess Furtado, of Jess of All Trades, a multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, paint, collage, and creative writing. Less than a year ago, Jess took a leap of faith and quit her full-time job to spend more time on her art, and moved into a studio at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery. In this episode, we talk about how she strikes a balance between her client-facing work and her own art. We’ll talk about what inspires Jess, which includes everything from music, movies, pop culture, and more; how the coronavirus pandemic pushed her art forward; and how her parents nurtured her creativity growing up.

Check out Jess’s work and learn more at www.jessoat.com. Find Jess Of All Trades on Instagram and Facebook at www.instagram.com/jessoatart and www.facebook.com/jessoatart.

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. 

Special thank you to Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery 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 Creative Catalogue #62! In these mini-episodes, we will be sharing a glimpse of our latest creative consumptions. Today Laura will be sharing with you three creative folks and things she has been digging lately.

Featured in this episode:

SRW poetry www.linktr.ee/srwpoetry

Pretty Sick www.prettysick.com

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig http://www.matthaig.com/books/midnight-library/

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. BONUS: Listen to more from Bug www.soundcloud.com/musicforbugs

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 chat with storyteller and author, Rebecca (Becky) Rule! This episode is an incredibly special one because it is the first that Creative Guts has recorded in front of a live audience! Creative Guts interviewed Becky in front of the students and teachers at Exeter High School. 

Rebecca Rule has published 14 books — some for children, others for adults, and many set right here in New Hampshire! Becky writes a column for New Hampshire Magazine, she hosted the NH Authors Series for ten years on NH PBS, and is still the host of Our Hometown. 

Becky likes to make people laugh — and we think she’s great at it. In this episode, we talk about the magic of finding the right words and how it all started when she accidentally spelled “pop” with Scrabble tiles. You’ll also hear Becky’s thoughts on learning to be brave, trusting your voice, writing badly, and more. 

Learn more about Rebecca Rule at www.rebeccarule.com. Check out Our Hometown on NH PBS at www.nhpbs.org/hometown. 

A special thank you to Exeter High School, Exeter’s Racial Unity Team, and the NH State Council on the Arts for making Creative Guts’ first ever live episode possible!

As always, come hang out with the Creative Guts team online at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com and 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! 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 chat with M of BLKSHE. M is an artist and curator (among other things), largely painting in acrylic. Her subject matter has evolved over time, but her goal with her abstracts is to tell a story of the moment she is creating. M has always been creative, but didn’t start to take her art seriously until she was in college. In this episode, you’ll hear about Orientation: The Voice of the Youth, a public art exhibition M is very excited about! We’ll also talk about ART NABE, a pop up arts market featuring underrepresented artists and inspiring the next generation of artists. M shares how she is bringing lessons from elsewhere back to New Hampshire and how she is trying to step out of perfection, giving her best, and redefining BLKSHE.

Learn more about BLKSHE online at www.blkshe.com and on Instagram www.instagram.com/byblkshe. Learn more about ART NABE online at www.blkshe.com/ARTNABE and follow ART NABE on Instagram at www.instagram.com/ARTNABE.

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. 

Special thank you to Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery for providing a space where Creative Guts can record!

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 another installment of Creative Catalogues! In these mini episodes, someone from the Creative Guts’ team will share a glimpse at the inspiring, creative things they think you ought to know about. This week’s episode is being hosted by Becky Barsi, artist, art teacher, explorer of all things creative, and the star of episode 25 of Creative Guts!

In this episode, Becky talks about three of her favorite podcasts... in addition to Creative Guts, of course.

• WhoArtEd Podcast www.whoartedpodcast.com @whoartedpodcast 
• Death, Sex & Money www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/deathsexmoney/episodes
• The Moth www.themoth.org/podcast

Learn more about Becky on Instagram @artsybarsi and at www.beckybarsi.com.

As always, come hang out with the Creative Guts team online at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com and on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. 

Special thank you to Bug for the tunes. Find Bug on Instagram at @TypicalBug and listen online at www.soundcloud.com/musicforbugs. 

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 Caitlin Little. A multi-modal artist, curator, and culture cultivator, Caitlin is relatively new to New Hampshire but she is making her mark! Last year, Caitlin moved to New Hampshire from Omaha, Nebraska — an eventful journey — to work at Arts in Reach! Caitlin is a storyteller with a passion for bringing new people to the microphone. In this episode, Caitlin compares the art scene here with the art scene back home in Nebraska and how the scenery may play a role; she tells us about “good gang” and her love of volunteering; and how her feelings on zines have taken a 180 degree turn. 

Learn more about Caitlin on her website www.cool-intentions.com. Follow her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/imcaitlinlittle and check out her zines at www.instagram.com/_.littlebooks._. 

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. 

Special thank you to Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery for providing a space where Creative Guts can record!

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.