Living Creatures Savannah

Illustrator Braelyn Snow talks about her work and participation in a children's book project that shares the life of Saint Faustina through poetry and pictures.   

The name of the book is "Faustina: A Saints Story for Children" by Kaitlyn C. Mason and Braelyn Snow.

Fr. Jonathan Jameson previews the "Art of Advent" series hosted by St. John's Episcopal Church (Savannah). 

Alison Hall is a resident artist with Starland’s Dreamhouse studio. 

In this interview, Allison (aka "Small Creative") talks about her formative years in Texas, her experience as an illustration student at SCAD, her craft and hustle as a professional artist, and a calling to cultivate rich and welcoming hospitality for Savannah’s artistic community.

Sign up for Allison's Newsletter Here: https://smallcreative.substack.com and if you want to be a big-time supporter there are opportunities waiting for you on Patreon

Allison's Instagram Feed: https://www.instagram.com/smallcreative/

Fiction writer Lance Levens discusses his latest novel entitled "Foul Purity" and the craft of conveying his Christian faith through the "who-done-it" genre.  

Carl G. Fougerousse is the Owner and Lead Artist at Red Fern Studio in Savannah.   

Carl founded Red Fern to execute ecclesiastical works steeped in the tradition of Catholic figurative and decorative art.

The studio engages a community of artists and artisans to designs and produces stained glass, mosaics, murals, sculptures, and interiors for churches, healthcare facilities, universities, restaurants, and private residences throughout the United States and Europe.

In this episode of the Living Creatures Podcast Carl shares about creating sacred art for churches, fostering a community of artists, and charting a path to a broad-based artistic vocation.  

Lorrie and Fritz Rumpel have a dream for Savannah.  They have written a play about Suzy King Taylor and they are working to bring the play to life at the Savannah Cultural Center this May.   They need community support to make that happen and they are stepping out in faith that the resources will come. 

Fritz sat down with me to talk about his life’s journey that brought him out of Savannah and back again.  Fritz and Lorrie now lead tours in Savannah that emphasize the story of the black church in Savannah.  They are also theatre people who are passionate about the power and potential of community theatre. 

Please make sure to stick around for the second half of the interview where Fritz shares about the Suzy King Taylor play project and what makes it so special.

If you would like to support the project please visit their "Go Fund Me" site. 

The Coastal Empire's Gene Pinion sits down with Brian Dennison to offer a brief introduction to the joys of "Shape Note" signing and how to join in this longstanding tradition in Savannah and our extended neck of the woods.  

A slightly different "music and talk" podcast with some copyrighted material that is not on this version is available  through Spotify.  

In this second half of my interview with poet Aaron Belz, we take a deeper dive into poetry.  Aaron offers his take on the poem read at the Biden Inauguration, discusses domestic poetry policy, makes poetry recommendations based on Amazon purchases and reads one of his favorite poems and one of his own.  

We pick things in the midst of some technical difficulties in the wake of Aaron’s successful water break at the end of the first half of the interview. 

Wordsmith extraordinaire Aaron Belz is a punchy and pithy poet.  In books like “Soft Launch” and “Glitter Bomb,” Aaron supplies spoonfuls of guffaw-rendering humor that coats poignant moments of pathos and human-reckoning.  

Although he was not in Savannah for long, we are counting him as one of our own.  Thus he joins the pantheon of other short-timer Savannahians of note like  John & Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, William Tecumseh Sherman, Sandra Bullock, Sponge Bob Square Pants, Greg Allman and Dwayne the Rock Johnson.     

Upon completing his two-year of seasons in Savannah he was off to one of his former home towns - St. Louis.  That’s were Aaron joined me for a COVID style video conference interview. 

In Part 1 of his interview, Aaron talks about the dynamics of community artistic endeavors  in light of SCAD’s formidable presence here.  Aaron talks about what he experienced here that he values and what it was like for him to write in Savannah in comparison to other places.  

An interview with Jon Dunham about the depiction of a donkey in Robert Bresson's 1966 film "Au Hasard Balthazar."