Art On The Air

This week on ART ON THE AIR (12/11 & 12/13) our whole show features a conversation with film / video producer, director, musician and much more, Velvy Appleton , who shares the details of his over 30 year career. Our Spotlight is with Eve Wiezbicki discussing the release of the 2 021 Dig The Dunes calendar featuring the work of regional photographers. Tune in on Friday at 11am for our hour lon...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (12/4 & 12/6) features Theater at The Center’s Head of Production Ann Davis discussing her theater career plus her own plans for 2021. Next we talk to the founders of the Decay Devils about their mission to explore and preserve abandoned buildings and landmarks. Our Spotlight is with Tim King discussing LaPorte Symphony Orchestra ’s Holiday Pops concert in December....

This week on ART ON THE AIR (11/27 & 11/29) features Barbara Meeker discussing her over sixty year career as an artist and art educator plus her recent retrospective exhibit. Next we talk to the founders of the Decay Devils about their mission to explore and preserve abandoned buildings and landmarks. Our Spotlight is with Tom Byelick and Michele Piskol about their new video podcast – Straight...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (11/20 & 11/22) our show features husband wife writers, Janine Harrison , the former poet laureate for Highland, Indiana, and Michael Poore , a short story writer and novelist along with their digital artist daughter Jianna and their creative family life together. Our Spotlight is with Suzy Vance and Nancy Schwab , the new gift shop manager for The Depot Gallery and...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (11/13 & 10/15) our whole show features a gifted Veena artiste, winning a Chicago Music Award, performed as an orchestra member for Disney’s new Jungle Book production, who likes blending her world music together with other musical forms, Sara Ranganathan Our Spotlight is with Fiber Artist who paints   Suzy Vance who is discussing her new solo exhibit at Marsha...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (11/6 & 11/8) we have the founders of the Regional Performing Arts Company Benjamin and Katelyn Leonard-White discussing their youth theater program, next we interview the new conductor for the Elkhart Symphony Orchestra, Dr Soo Han . Our Spotlight features Duneland Y-M-C- A Dancing Like The Stars event going virtual this year. Tune in on Friday at 11am for our hour...

ART ON THE AIR (10/30 & 11/1) we have folklorist photographer, Kay Westhues , whose work concerns a study of rural practices and places by using: photography, videography, and audio recordings documenting the ethnography of rural traditions and histories and how they are interpreted and transformed in the present day. Our Spotlight is with Duneland Photography Club president, Steve Bensing dis...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (10/23 & 10/25) our whole show features the LaPorte County Symphony Orchestra first with Chuck Steck , a music educator, who serves as its principal trumpet and interim music director. Next conductor, performer, and Hope College Assistant Professor of Music, Christopher Fashun , who will be guest conducting there. Our Spotlight is with Symphony Executive Director Ti...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (10/14 & 10/16) We feature watercolor, mixed media artist, graphic fashion designer and musical artist manager, Lee Bauman who just illustrated a new book, Go Jo ! to be released in November. Our Spotlight is with Becky Jascoviak of Northwest Indiana Excellence in Theatre Foundation discussing their annual gala that is going virtual this year. Tune in on Friday at 1...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (10/9 & 10/11) our Second Anniversary show features Globe-trotting, South African, classically-trained flutist, whose focus is on World and Roots music. “ Flute Painter” Wouter Kellerman , who is an award winning, composer, producer, whose 2014 album Winds of Samsara won the Best New Age Album Grammy Award, and numerous other awards. Our Spotlight is with Dustin Ric...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (10/2 & 10/4) our 100th episode features South Shore Arts Executive Director, John Cain , discussing his nearly 30 year career at its helm. Next we talk with Chicago based physician Kuhn Hong whose dramatic works as an artist are now being produced from his Michigan City Studio Our Spotlight is with weaver Chris Acton discussing National Spinning and Weaving week in...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (9/25 & 9/27) our whole show features New York City based artist, Sadie Bridger, who by using photography, sculpture, and other unique art offerings create her own unique artistic statement. Our Spotlight is with Edwin Shelton and Kuhn Hong discussing a 3-day Plein Aire artist-in-residence event at St Mary’s Angela House, a convent converted into an artist hostel in...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (9/18 & 9/20) We feature folk-pop artist Lisa Sniderman , Aoede, and her new The Grieving Project release, then cellist Josh McClain with Somatic Movement therapist Rosario Sammartino. Our Spotlight is with Trisha Hernandez of South Shore Arts discussing their upcoming virtual Beaux Arts Ball Tune in on Friday at 11am for our hour long conversation with our special...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (9/11 & 9/13) We feature Airbrush mural Artist Marco Salazar , next Plein Aire dunescape artist Ginny Takacs , and finally Chicago tour guide and author Adam Seltzer . Our Spotlight is focused on nerd-rock singer Captain Ambivalent discussing his virtual show featuring his favorite characters. Tune in on Friday at 11am for our hour long conversation with our special...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (9/4 & 9/6) We feature Chicago playwright and solo one-women show performer   Laura Force Scruggs, who will be   reading excerpts from her play, Punk Grandpa, about growing up around her eccentric grandfather, plus discussing her work in progress on a current play about Chicago social reformer Jane Addams. Our Spotlight is on the Crown Point based improv g...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (8/28 & 8/30) We feature Rick Levine of the Improv Therapy Group, Chicago’s ACT ONE book store, and theater industry newspaper PerformInk. Next we have Chicago-based custom jewelry designer Sue Rosengard discussing her contemporary geometric shaped jewelry. Our Spotlight is on Lakeshore Community Concerts with president Carolyn  Borchardt discussing cancellatio...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (8/21 & 8/23) we feature A special interview with three local art teachers about their return to teaching under Covid-19. Next we talk to artist and author Jessie Johnson and his self-taught journey in art. Our Spotlight is with Jessica Rosier on the Queen of Saints Legacy Gallery’s debut exhibit featuring the art of Pat Herman at in Michigan   City. Tune...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (8/14 & 8/16) we feature Boston based  vocalist, author, attorney, and stroke awareness advocate – Valerie Giglio with the release of her new single RIO – next mechanical motion kinetic Sculptor, author and photographer/videographer, Gary Justis . Our Spotlight is on the Miller Arts District with Meg Roman discussing the re-opening of Miller downtown and the ev...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (8/7 & 8/9) Music Producer, Composer (including numerous famous jingles), and virtuoso Guitarist Les Fradkin, who is also an innovator on the Starr Labs Ztar, plus was in the Original Cast as George Harrison in the 1970s mega-hit Broadway show "Beatlemania.” Our Spotlight is with Dave Mueller of Hammond’s Paul Henry's Art Gallery telling about their famous Thursday...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (7/31 & 8/1) We feature original and handmade Jewelry artist Jayde McAloon discussing her Pieces of Jayde Elemental Jewelry projects. Next we feature Annemarie Marti and her Mighty Mirth series of cartoons reflecting uplifting messages of empowerment and healing. Our spotlight is Amy Navardauskas about the re-opening of the Art Barn with Covid-19 precautions. Tune i...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (7/24 & 7/26) We feature SHAM - an alternative rock band based in Mishawaka that includes Sarah, Happy, Abby, & Mel that has a sound is playful & irreverent, raw & mischievous, like the wig-headed child of Nirvana & the B-52s. Our spotlight is on the August 8th Portage Art Show that is a fundraiser for the Portage Recovery Center accepting donations...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (7/17 & 7/19) We feature contemporary artist Tom Torluemke and his studio manager - photographer Linda Dorman - next we hear from storyteller and author, Lisa Colleen retelling a very personal story. Our spotlight is on MyPath Bibliotherapy founder, Roger Batten discussing his upcoming storyteller workshop Tune in on Friday at 11am for our hour long conversation wit...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (7/10 & 7/12) We feature two Crown Point based portrait photographers beginning with Michell Santelik discussing her Model Dance Team and once again the one-and-only Edda Taylor . Our spotlight is with Chesterton’s ART Z FINE ARTZ and ANTQUEZ owners Bridget and Cathy and their reopening under Covid-19 protocols. Tune in on Friday at 11am for our hour long conversati...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (7/3) Saugatuck Michigan based artist Jill Chambers Designs who produces one of a kind handmade ornaments often with whimsical, nature, and holiday themes. Next sculptor John J Habela whose work is influenced by his trips abroad and the abundance of folk art as revealed in his “Family of Man” series of figurative abstracts, carved in wood and cast in bronze, embody a se...

This week on ART ON THE AIR (6/26) Chicago actor John B Boss talks about his 40 year theater career and coping with Covid-19– next we speak with Dan Schaaf who talks about his original musicals and plans for the Sixth Annual Michigan CityVideo Fest. Our spotlight is with Wendy Marciniak Chesterton Art Center President about happenings there under Covid-19 protocols Tune in on Friday at 11am for ou...