Creative Guts

In this special episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Angie Lane are live at Exeter High School for the annual Slam Free and Fly poetry event! This was a powerful evening of original poetry from freshmen students participating in the Arts in Action project, a school to community partnership supported and funded by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.

In this episode, you’ll hear original poetry from 21 gutsy young people who took to the stage on Valentine's Day to move our hearts and minds with their amazing works.

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In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with photographer Shawn Pierce! Shawn is a portrait and commercial photographer and the owner of Studio Two Seven Nine in Rochester, New Hampshire! His background is in motorsports photography — yes, there’s a story there — and he’s shifted gears to photographing people!

Shawn is also the President of the New Hampshire Professional Photographers Association, the co-founder of the Greater Rochester Camera Club, and he serves on the City of Rochester’s Arts and Culture Commission!

Shawn is a community-minded creative who is working to make his hometown great. In this episode, we talk about Shawn’s early days on the school paper, his evolution from motorsports photography to portrait and commercial photography, and why he created the Greater Rochester Camera Club.

You can find Shawn’s work on his website www.StudioTwoSevenNine.com and on Instagram and Facebook @StudioTwoSevenNine. You can check out the Greater Rochester Camera Club at www.GRCCNH.com and the NH Professional Photographers Association at www.NHPPA.com. You can also find two of Shawn’s photographs in our zine “Kaleidoscope”!

Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Connect with us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Discord.

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. 

Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

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 their creative consumptions — the inspiring creative things they’re loving lately. This week’s episode is brought to you by Jozimar Matimano, a fine artist and director on the Creative Guts Board.  

Featured in this episode:

• Finding your element by Sir Ken Robinson - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158494-finding-your-element
• DETOUR303 - www.iamdetour.com
• THE WEEK IN ART Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-week-in-art/id1280469178
• A Brush With… Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-brush-with/id1525997434

Learn more about Jozimar at www.jozimarmatimano.com. Follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jozimar_matimano/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068560406684. 

Hang out with Creative Guts on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn where our handle is @CreativeGutsPodcast and learn more online at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. You can also join our Discord server through our website!

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In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with artist Aris Moore! Using a variety of mediums, including some more out of the box ones, Aris Moore draws mostly invented beings or creatures that are whimsical, strange, silly, serious, emotional, and oddly relatable. In our conversation, we talk with Aris about how her creatures came to be, how she approaches the business side of being an artist, and how she’s coping with the state of the world. 

Aris is the 2024 winner of the Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant from the NH Charitable Foundation! The grant, if you’re not familiar, is available to all Piscataqua Region artists and recognizes the important contribution of working artists to the cultural life of the region by providing an annual financial award to promote the artistic growth of visual artists and craftspeople. Learn more about the grant at www.nhcf.org/how-can-we-help-you/apply-for-a-grant/artist-advancement-grant-program/. Here are the towns in the Piscataqua Region: https://www.nhcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/revised_piscataqua_letter_sized.pdf

Check out Aris’s work on her website arismoore.bigcartel.com and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/arismoore. 

Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Connect with us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Discord.

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. 

Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with New Hampshire artist Jackie Hanson! Jackie is a painter, printmaker, and creative entrepreneur from the Lakes Region. Her work is vibrant and whimsical with an emphasis on nature and all things New Hampshire. 

In this episode, we talk about Jackie’s identity as a printmaker, the Chicken People Club, and plane crashes (yes, that was a surprise to us, too!). Jackie was raised in a family where art and creativity were always encouraged, and her upbringing — including bucolic New England landscapes and her grandparents’ chickens — are a major influence! Jackie has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New England College’s Institute of Art and Design. 

Check out Jackie’s work on the web at www.JackieHansonArt.com  and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/jackiehansonart and Facebook at www.facebook.com/jackiehansonart. 

Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. Connect with us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Discord.

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. 

Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

For the fifth year, Creative Guts invites creatives to participate in an international tiny art exchange. Participants will create an original piece of tiny art (5” x 7” or smaller, in any ratio) to mail to an address we supply from another participant. Everyone will send a piece of art and receive a piece of art from another creative in the world. This is a great way to connect, be inspired, and show us your creative guts! 

New this year, we are thrilled to announce a new zine component of the tiny art exchange, made possible with support from the Currier Museum of Art. (Learn more about them at www.currier.org.) This publication will archive and celebrate the art exchanged. Each participant in the Tiny Art Exchange is invited to be in the zine, and will receive one free physical copy of the publication. 

If you’d like to participate, please head over to www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com/tae for all the details. The deadline to sign up is Monday, April 21, 2025. In the following week, you’ll receive a mailing address in your inbox. We ask that you please mail your artwork to the address provided by Saturday, May 3, 2025. 
 

The Tiny Art Exchange and Zine program is free to join. While there is no fee to participate,  you are welcome to make a suggested donation of $5 to Creative Guts through our website. www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com. 

Questions? Reach out to us at [email protected] or connect with us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast. 
 

If you’re a big fan of this program, check out our Tiny Art Exchange merch, including shirts, totes, mugs, and more at www.teepublic.com/user/creative-guts!

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. 

Creative Guts is pleased to share this episode of Off the Wall with Matt and Amy from the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, New Hampshire. Off The Wall is a semi-regular series where Matt and Amy chat with a wide variety of visual artists, digging into the nuts and bolts of their creative process to reveal more about the layers of meaning, emotion, and intent behind their work.

In this episode, you’ll hear Jane Cohen discuss "Paint / Paper/ Paste", an exhibition currently on view in the Carnegie Gallery until May 2, 2025. Join us for a public reception on April 5, 2025 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Everyone is welcome! The Carnegie Gallery is located in the Rochester Public Library, 65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more.

Jane Cohen is a New Hampshire-based mixed media artist whose work integrates painting, collage, and printmaking. Guided by intuition and experimentation, she has developed a distinctive visual language that merges memory and invention. Check her work out at www.instagram.com/janecohenstudio.

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Becky Barsi and Joe Acone sit down with Daniela Wenzel at the Mosaic Art Collective in Manchester, NH! German-born and a New Hampshire native, Daniela is a multidisciplinary artist whose work comprises oil painting, improvised quiltmaking, pyrography, and sometimes all of the above.

Daniela describes her origin story, weaving in details of how her Bauhausian homeland, medical training, and family history are all fundamental influences in her work. Her practice is saturated with color and explores the boundaries of non-representational and craft. Learn how she embraces making as an “obsession” rooted in the tactile, collage, resilience, and joy.

You can learn more about Daniela and her work by visiting http://www.danielawenzel.com/, on Instagram (@danielawenzelart) and Bluesky (@danielawenzelart).
 

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. 

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. 

Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!

Creative Guts is pleased to share this episode of Off the Wall with Matt and Amy from the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, New Hampshire. Off The Wall is a semi-regular series where Matt and Amy chat with a wide variety of visual artists, digging into the nuts and bolts of their creative process to reveal more about the layers of meaning, emotion, and intent behind their work.

In this episode, you’ll hear Zach Ellis discuss "Nevertheless", an exhibition currently on view in the Bernier Room until May 2, 2025. Everyone is welcome! The Bernier Room is located in the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center, 150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit www.rochestermfa.org to learn more.

Zach Ellis is a photographer whose work navigates the human, natural, and abstract. Through his artistic practice, he seeks to deepen his awareness of what already holds his attention. At its core, his work embraces duality—both/and—grappling with contradictions in the world and within himself. With a camera in hand, everything becomes a reflective surface, a mirror to the soul, shining back what he hopes—against hope—to see more clearly. Raised in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, Zach has traveled the country and now calls southern New Hampshire home. Visit https://zachellisphotography.com/ to visit his website and learn more.

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Yeonsoo Kim. Originally from South Korea, Yeonsoo is a full-time studio artist and educator living in Exeter with a focus on ceramics, in particular Onggi, traditional Korean earthenware used extensively as tableware, as well as storage. Yeonsoo was exposed to Onggi during a workshop his first year of University.

In this episode, we talk about how Yeonsoo’s desire to continue making something new, how his work is influenced by his culture and the various places he’s lived, and how he strives to find balance (shoutout to the Exeter YMCA). Yeonsoo has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics and glass from Hongik University in Seoul and a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of Georgia. He was named one of the top six emerging artists from the National Council of Education and Ceramic Arts in 2020. 

Check out Yeonsoo’s work at www.yeonsooceramics.com and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/yeonsooceramics. 

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. 

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. 

Thank you to our friends at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH for their support of the show!