Creative Guts

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with freelance filmmaker and photographer and young entrepreneur, Joey the Monk! Joey’s introduction to film was in high school where he took a film class and started creating skateboarding videos for YouTube. Along with his freelance projects, Joey is a video producer for Southern New Hampshire University (...

The Creative Guts’ team is back with another installment of Creative Catalogues! In these mini episodes, someone from the Creative Guts’ team will share a glimpse at the inspiring, creative things and folks they think you ought to know about. This week’s episode is being hosted by Laura, one of the co-founders and hosts of Creative Guts and owner of Artful Harper Studios.   Featured in this episod...

In this special episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Sarah Wrightsman and Becky Barsi are live at Exeter High School for the annual Slam Free and Fly poetry event! The evening was rich with original poetry from freshmen students participating in the Arts in Action project, a school to community partnership supported and funded by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the Racial Unity Team....

The Creative Guts’ team is back with another installment of Creative Catalogues! In these mini episodes, someone from the Creative Guts’ team will share a glimpse at the inspiring, creative things giving them life lately. This week’s episode is being hosted by Becky Barsi, artist, photographer, teacher, star of Creative Guts’ episode 25, and explorer of all things creative! In this episode, Becky...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Raisa Tolchinsky, also known as The Poem Doctor! This episode is a special one. Not only was it recorded in front of a live audience at Exeter High School, but Raisa opens this episode by reading several custom poems, which she wrote in response to prompts from the students at EHS! And, in lieu of rapid...

The Creative Guts’ team is back with another installment of Creative Catalogues! In these mini episodes, someone from the Creative Guts’ team will share a glimpse at the inspiring, creative things and folks they think you ought to know about. This week’s episode is brought to you by Mike Durkee aka Durkish Delights. Featured in this episode: Bianca Fields IG @beeyonkerz https://www.instagram.com/b...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman talk with Amber Nicole Cannan, a biomedical artist who teaches science through art! Amber Nicole is the founder of Unchartered, which teaches educational concepts and life lessons using art. She studied biomedical art (a rare major), and in this episode we talk about what that means and how Amber Nicole’s career has...

The Creative Guts’ team is back with another installment of Creative Catalogues! In these mini episodes, someone from the Creative Guts’ team will share a glimpse at the inspiring, creative things giving them life lately. This week’s episode is being hosted by Becky Barsi, artist, photographer, teacher, star of Creative Guts’ episode 25, and explorer of all things creative! In this episode, Becky...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Justice McDaniel, better known as Justice Eats Trees, a self-described artist, musician, and enthusiastic weirdo. Justice is a general maker of things and doer of too much stuff! Justice was raised by a musician and has been drawing since he could hold stuff, so you can say he’s been a creator for a lon...

The Creative Guts’ team is back with another installment of Creative Catalogues! In these mini episodes, someone from the Creative Guts’ team will share a glimpse at the inspiring, creative things and folks they think you ought to know about. This week’s episode is being hosted by Laura, one of the co-founders/hosts of Creative Guts and owner of Artful Harper Studios.   Featured in this episode: H...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with painter Rick Fox. Rick is an oil painter who primarily paints plein air landscapes and human heads (thanks to some help from the mirror) in a style he describes as simplified expressionist realism. Notably, Rick is the winner of the 2022 Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant — a grant he applied fo...

The Creative Guts’ team is back with another installment of Creative Catalogues! In these mini episodes, someone from the Creative Guts’ team will share a glimpse at the inspiring, creative things giving them life lately. This week’s episode is being hosted by Becky Barsi, artist, photographer, teacher, star of Creative Guts’ episode 25, and explorer of all things creative! In this episode, Becky...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with  Jess Furtado, of Jess of All Trades, a multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, paint, collage, and creative writing. Less than a year ago, Jess took a leap of faith and quit her full-time job to spend more time on her art, and moved into a studio at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery. I...

The Creative Guts team is back with Creative Catalogue #62! In these mini-episodes, we will be sharing a glimpse of our latest creative consumptions. Today Laura will be sharing with you three creative folks and things she has been digging lately. Featured in this episode: SRW poetry www.linktr.ee/srwpoetry Pretty Sick www.prettysick.com The Midnight Library by Matt Haig http://www.matthaig.com/bo...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with storyteller and author, Rebecca (Becky) Rule! This episode is an incredibly special one because it is the first that Creative Guts has recorded in front of a live audience! Creative Guts interviewed Becky in front of the students and teachers at Exeter High School.  Rebecca Rule has published 14 books — som...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with M of BLKSHE. M is an artist and curator (among other things), largely painting in acrylic. Her subject matter has evolved over time, but her goal with her abstracts is to tell a story of the moment she is creating. M has always been creative, but didn’t start to take her art seriously until she was in colle...

The Creative Guts’ team is back with another installment of Creative Catalogues! In these mini episodes, someone from the Creative Guts’ team will share a glimpse at the inspiring, creative things they think you ought to know about. This week’s episode is being hosted by Becky Barsi, artist, art teacher, explorer of all things creative, and the star of episode 25 of Creative Guts! In this episode,...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman talk with Caitlin Little. A multi-modal artist, curator, and culture cultivator, Caitlin is relatively new to New Hampshire but she is making her mark! Last year, Caitlin moved to New Hampshire from Omaha, Nebraska — an eventful journey — to work at Arts in Reach! Caitlin is a storyteller with a passion for bringing...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with two members of the band Clandestine, Chris Salemme and Andrew Emanuel. Clandestine is a New Hampshire based jazz band that formed in 2018, whose four members met through the music program at the University of New Hampshire. Along with being in Clandestine, both Chris and Andrew work on individual music...

The Creative Guts team is back with the 60th installment of Creative Catalogues! In these mini-episodes, we will be sharing a glimpse of our latest creative consumptions. Today Laura will be sharing with you some Seattle-based creatives that she had the opportunity to meet in her recent travels.  Featured in this episode: Marnin Saylor www.marninsaylor.com SaraGraphics www.saragraphics.co Gallery...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with artist Lindsay Hall. Originally from Massachusetts, Lindsay received a BA in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2018 before returning to New England. A multidisciplinary artist, Lindsay loves to explore new mediums and ideas, but is drawn to themes of earth, plants, animals, and people...

  Welcome back to another episode of Creative Calendar! This series is for our local listeners — we’ll be talking about the artsy, creative, fun things happening around the great state of New Hampshire! This month’s episode includes: Port City Makerspace Costume Build Nights! Every Saturday in October from 5-8 PM 68 Morning Street, Portsmouth www. PortCityMakerspace.com Art Up Front Street  Open S...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman talk with Oscar Villacis, the Executive Creative Director of First Gen Multimedia! Oscar is the host of three First Gen Multimedia radio shows: First Gen American, Asking for a Friend, and Latinos en Vivo (a show hosted completely in Spanish — the only one in New Hampshire).  In this episode, you’ll hear the absurd a...

Today’s episode of Creative Guts takes place at Kimball Jenkins! Following the summer youth zine, Creative Guts invited local participants to gather around for some treats from Teatotaller (thank you, Emmett Soldati!) and a lesson in printmaking led by Becky Barsi, head of the art department at The Derryfield School, manager of the Lyceum Gallery, and Creative Guts’ vice chair! In this episode you...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with Morgan Little. A songwriter, YouTuber, chef, visual artist, musician, Morgan has many talents. He’s also the brother of a past Creative Guts’ guest, Zac Little! In today’s episode, we’re jumping into the deep end to talk about how Morgan defines success, how a battle with a mysterious illness changed the co...