Creative Guts

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman connect virtually with Tomás Shea, a chiptune, electro swing musician who goes by the name Game Boy! GAME BOY debuted his first album “Press Start” following the 2017 RPM Challenge. The Newfoundland resident’s music is a sublime mixture of Electro Swing, EDM, with melodic Chiptune nostalgia! A mechanical engineer by...

The Creative Guts team is back with the thirteenth installment of Creative Catalogues! In these bonus mini-episodes, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman, share a glimpse at their latest creative consumptions!  Special thanks to Raphael Bastek, musically known as Bug, for providing us with a great song to layer on this episode as we share our list. You can find more about Creative Guts...

Creative Guts is bringing you something a little different today! In this extra special episode, host Sarah Wrightsman will interview Laura Harper Lake of Artful Harper Studios, interdisciplinary artist, graphic designer, podcast creator, and idea machine who dabbles in nearly every medium. Laura’s been an artist since the third grade — maybe earlier. Laura shares some of early memories of growing...

Co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman share what creative stuff they are pumped about lately in the twelfth installment of Creative Catalogues, a mini-episode filled with awesome recommendations.  Featured in this episode: Annette Back Fine Art: www. annettebackfineart.com Laura Bundesen Art: www.laurabundesen.com Carole & Tuesday: https://www.netflix.com/title/80992137 Mary Metzger: www...

We’re bringing you another Creative Pulse today, where co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman periodically check in with various creatives from around the globe. This episode includes some we’ve gushed about in previous episodes of Creative Catalogues! We’re checking in with Jake Romano of Jake Romano Art, Stephanie of Stephanie Art and Design, and Liana Stadelmann of Aquabun on how they’...

Creative Guts is bringing you something a little different today! In this extra special episode, host Laura Harper Lake interviews Sarah Wrightsman, essayist, fiber artist, nonprofit director, podcast creator, and all-around overachiever. Hear about Sarah’s journey as a nonfiction essayist, inspired by the likes of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm Gladwell, and Matthew Desmond. Fi...

The Creative Guts team is back with the eleventh installment of Creative Catalogues! In these bonus mini-episodes, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman, share a glimpse at their latest creative consumptions! Special thanks to Raphael Bastek, musically known as Bug, for providing us with a great song to layer on this episode as we share our list. You can find more about Creative Guts onl...

Welcome to a new series on Creative Guts: Creative Pulse! Co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman will periodically check in with various creatives from around the globe. In this first episode, you’ll hear from some Creative Guts’ legends — Mike Durkee of Durkish Delights, Rachael Jones of Hot Cross Puns, Zac Little of The Last Podcast, Angela Garcia of AG Fitness, and Raphael Bastek, musi...

The Creative Guts team is back with the tenth installment of Creative Catalogues! In these bonus mini-episodes, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman, share a glimpse at the creative things they can’t stop talking about! Special thanks to Raphael Bastek, musically known as Bug, for providing us with a great song to layer on this episode as we share our list. You can find more about Creat...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Sarah Koff, a printmaker living and working in Exeter, New Hampshire. Sarah’s work — hand-carved and printed woodcuts and linocuts — features a heavy dose of nature, but she also makes custom work from block-printed house and pet portraits to logos. Sarah’s career as an artist has evolved over the years...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Becky Karush of Read To Me with Becky Karush, a podcast that was inspired by the gateless writing method. Becky believes that when we read aloud great writing, and listen for what we love, we become more powerful writers. Read To Me helps her listeners practice two elements of the gateless writing metho...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Marcia Wood Mertinooke, an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Goffstown, New Hampshire. Marcia has a BA in Studio Art from the University of NH and is a member of the NH chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art. Once an aspiring ceramicist, Marcia never planned on being an oil painter and print...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with Emmett Soldati, creative entrepreneur, proud townie, and owner of Teatotaller in downtown Somersworth, New Hampshire. Tune in to hear how cafe and tea house, Teatotaller, evolved into the warm and welcoming queer and hipster oasis it is today and what you can expect from the new location in Concord, NH! In...

The Creative Guts team is back with the ninth installment of Creative Catalogues! In these bonus mini-episodes, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman, share a glimpse at the creative things they can’t stop talking about! Special thanks to Raphael Bastek, musically known as Bug, for providing us with a great song to layer on this episode as we share our list. You can find more about Creat...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with improviser, storyteller, and playwright, Brian Paul. Brian is best known in the seacoast as an improviser with Dorks in Dungeons: live improv comedy meets Fantasy Role-playing games! Using the framework of a tabletop role-playing game, the Dorks of Dorks in Dungeons create each show with the help of aud...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with photographer, oil painter, and art educator Somayeh Kashi. Somayeh’s name may sound familiar if you’re in the Concord, NH area and recall her photo project, “Diversity in the 603”. Over the summer of 2019, Somayeh, alongside a group of high school students, interviewed and photographed nearly 100 indivi...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with freelance dance educator and choreographer, Sarah Duclos! From a very serious teen with an affinity for Eastern European accents to the founding Artistic Director of the multi-disciplinary dance company, the Neoteric Dance Collaborative, Sarah’s career path was winding. Sarah’s on a mission to make danc...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with photographer, Scott Kuckler! Scott describes his work as “dark and moody”, but Scott himself is anything but!   Scott worked as a commercial/fashion/beauty photographer in Germany and France for a decade, and now prefers working with “anyone who will pose,” as he continues to explore the human form. Scott u...

Here’s a tiny bonus episode from the Creative Guts team! Both Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman, and the Creative Guts pets — Max, Luna, and Rainer — are participating in Main Street Art’s show “Puppy Love”! Main Street Art, located in the tiny town of Newfields, is a community-based art center open to all. “Puppy Love” is an exhibit celebrating the love of pets — furred, finned, and scaled —...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with painter, muralist, and sculptor, Bianca Mireles. A recent New Hampshire transplant from Texas, Bianca is bringing her Mesoamerican style to the Granite State (and we could not be luckier). Bianca’s dream of recreating aztec art in a classical framework combined with her passion for utility and her exper...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with Steve Pamboukes — maker, instructor, and volunteer with the Port City Makerspace and owner of Port City Mopeds. A native of Portsmouth, Steve is an engineer, designer, and maker driven by curiosity and a desire to create. After graduating from the University of New Hampshire with a Bachelor's Degree in Mech...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with interdisciplinary artist and art teacher, Becky Barsi, in her home studio! A jack of all trades high school art teacher, Becky describes herself as an interdisciplinary artist, dabbling in every medium. Inspired by her students’ creativity and activated by her own tendency to get bored, Becky’s art can’...

Happy 2020 folks! This bonus episode of Creative Guts brings you reflection, gratitude, and a big announcement! 

The Creative Guts team is back with the eighth installment of Creative Catalogues! Co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman will periodically share a brief glimpse at the cool things they’re loving lately. If you’re wondering why you’re seeing a Creative Catalogues on a Wednesday, it’s because the Creative Guts team is taking a break for the holidays! We’ll be back on January 8th with a ful...

The Creative Guts team is back with the seventh installment of Creative Catalogues! Co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman will periodically share a brief glimpse at the cool things they’re loving lately.  If you’re wondering why you’re seeing a Creative Catalogues on a Wednesday, it’s because the Creative Guts team is taking a break for the holidays! We’ll be back on January 8th with a f...