Veteran Artist Program

Veteran Artist Program

By BR McDonaldArts
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Veteran Artist Program episodes

  • 032: Building on your successes to achieve your ultimate goal - Dario DiBattista

    Dario DiBattista is the editor of the anthology Retire the Colors: Veterans & Civilians on Iraq & Afghanistan. His work has appeared in the Washingtonian, the New York Times, theWashington Post, the Guardian, Connecticut Review, [Pank], Mic.com, and many other publications. Additionally, he's been profiled in the New York Times and has been a commentator onNPR, SiriusXM, and for the BBC. He served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve from 2001 to 2007, later becoming a distinguished graduate of the Johns Hopkins University M.A. in Writing Program. He is currently working on a co-written screenplay about a Marine's return home from war.

    37 min
  • 031: Curating the military history she lived through - Miranda Summers Lowe

    Miranda Summers Lowe has been in the Army National Guard since 2002. She is a Modern Military History Curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Miranda has had deployments to Iraq and Djibouti. She served on the team that wrote Army's first official history of Afghanistan. Miranda is also a dog lover.

    veteranartistprogram.org/031

    33 min
  • 029: Exploring similarities with Australia's Veteran Artists - Mark Johnston

    Mark Johnston is the Chairman and Director of the Australian National Veterans Arts Museum. Mark graduated from RMC Duntroon into the Australian Intelligence Corps. He served in Bougainville before moving to Melbourne on discharge. Mark is a management consultant working in Defense and utilities. Mark has had a longstanding and personal interest in the Arts and military history.

    Full show notes at veteranartistprogram.org/029

    38 min
  • 027: Learn how this Marine veteran started working in Hollywood - Mike Dowling

    Mike Dowling is an author, producer, & veteran advocate. Mike worked with production teams on VA campaigns, produced digital content at We Are The Mighty, and has worked on camera in various projects (commercials, films). Mike is also the co-founder of Veterans in Film and TV, (now VME) & LA Vets Orientation.

    Learn more about the Veteran Artist Program at veteranartistprogram.org

    33 min
  • 026: Using photography to honor and thank her fellow veterans - Stacy Pearsall

    Air Force veteran Stacy L. Pearsall is an independent photographer, author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project.

    BR McDonald and Stacy Pearsall discuss both transitioning into and out of the military, life as a combat photographer in the Air Force, and what Stacy is doing now to honor and thank her fellow veterans.

    Be sure to check out the show notes at veteranartistprogram.org/026, and while you are on the website, learn how to join the VAP Community.

    32 min
  • Episode 026: Welcome to the VA
    In this episode I talk about creating the VAP Family of Podcasts under the Veteran Artist Program non-profit. I also talk about the new VAP Community that we just rolled out this week to allow veteran artists to interact with and help other veteran artists. A rising tide lifts all boats. This community will strengthen veteran artists as a whole. To get your invite into the community, https://veteranartistprogram.leadpages.co/communityinvite/ or text the word VETERAN to 44222.
    12 min
  • 025: Pretending You're Hemingway â€â€Å" Roy Scranton
    Roy Scranton is the author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (City Lights, 2015), and co-editor of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War (Da Capo, 2013). His short stories, poetry, essays, and journalism have appeared in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Epiphany, Prairie Schooner, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He grew up in Oregon, dropped out of college, and spent several years wandering the American West before enlisting in the US Army. He served from 2002 to 2006, including fourteen months in Iraq. After leaving the Army he earned a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree at the New School for Social Research, and is now completing a Ph.D. in English at Princeton. His novel War Porn is forthcoming from Soho Press in Fall 2016.
    33 min
  • 024: I've always had a thing for the Warrior Spirit â€â€Å" Marco Reininger
    Marco Reininger (Producer) is a scholar of violence and strategies for conflict resolution, with years of experience engaging with war as a U.S. soldier and socio-cultural researcher. In Afghanistan, Marco has observed tribal dynamics, interrogated complicated data sets, and developed intricate solution models for growing peace at the grassroots level. At Columbia University, Marco studied African civil wars, the reasons people take to arms against one another, and how peace occurs. As an artist, Marco has written screenplays, performed on stage, and investigated the lessons ancient drama can teach us about the struggles we face today. Marco will draw on his experiences bridging war, social sciences, and the arts, to help shape a film that educates and explains, while never losing sight of the human story at the heart of the conflict.
    32 min

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To foster, encourage and promote veterans in the arts. This podcast serves as your destination to learn about the artists, leaders and organizations making a difference in the veteran artist…