This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're talking to local jazz legend, Gene Parker. Gene has been a professional musician in the Toledo area for 50 years and a private teacher since 1960. He began teaching jazz history and pedagogy in 1963, long before jazz education became integrated into curricula in the United States. Tune in to hear how he got started and where jazz is headed on this week's RDD.

Toraigh is an Irish Gaelic word that means "seek" or "search." It's also the title of this week's Rough Draft Diaries as we meet a local band of the same name. A band in search of bringing people together with the lively, toe-tapping, and heart-warming traditional music and dancing of Ireland.

Brittanie Kuhr serves as the Executive Director of Institutional Advancement at Defiance College, but for this interview on The Rough Draft Diaries we'll be talking about her local, homegrown activism and how you can be a local activist yourself.

This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're talking to Dani Fuller, owner of Fuller Art House in Sylvania, Ohio. A space specifically located in the Red Bird Arts District downtown, an area Dani has helped develop through her work with the city. It's not always easy leading an arts movement in a small town though, and that's what we're talking about on this week's episode of The RDD.

Jan Thomas’ love of nature was fostered by her Old World Italian grandfather during her childhood in Cleveland, OH.  She currently resides in Toledo using inspiration from adolescents and nature around her to create her ceramic  pieces of art. We'll chat all about it on this week's episode of The RDD.

We're talking about chess on this week's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries! We'll join Warren Woodberry, the founder of multiple award-winning after-school chess clubs, to talk about the game and its connection to Toledo's youth. Check out what's happening locally on this week's episode of The RDD.

Sven Olaf Nelson began his printing press shop with a small table-top proof press and a few drawers of type in 2001, now he has over 300 drawers and 6-7 printing presses. You'll learn all about his obsession with the printing press on this week's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries.

Today we're talking to Steven J. Athanas, a band member of the Homewreckers, an artist, and a bus driver. You'll learn about his process growing up and his process now. That's this week on The Rough Draft Diaries.

We're staying with the Sisters of St. Francis of Sylvania for a conversation with another artist. This time it's a nun living according to the spirit and example of Francis of Assisi in community with other Sylvania Franciscans. Meet Sister Jane Mary on this week's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries.

This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're chatting with an artist who likes to balance managing art and creating art. Christine Deemer is the first employed Art Curator for the Sylvania Sisters of St. Francis but also works with encaustics, an artform using heated bees wax and tree resin with oil pigments.