Vanessa Finney

The Creative Way

Arts EN ↓ 50 episodes

The Creative Way explores the literary, visual, and performing artists and producers who contribute to making Southern Oregon and Northern California a vibrant and dynamic place for the arts. The series introduces us to artists who call our region home as well as visiting creative professionals presenting their work in our region.

Author

Vanessa Finney

Category

Arts

Podcast website

www.ijpr.org

Latest episode

Jun 5, 2026

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Episodes

Wild and Scenic Film Fest on tour in southern Oregon 04.04.2025

Vanessa Finney talks with KS Wild. which is hosting the WSFF along with Rogue Riverkeeper.

Oregon's first-ever 'Waitress' arrives at the Cabaret 29.03.2025

Director Lauren Blair joins host Vanessa Finney on The Creative Way.

Bloomsbury Books shares March releases 25.03.2025

Megan Isser of Ashland's Bloomsbury Books highlights new memoir, YA fiction, and romantic thrillers.

Tim Bond to direct "Jitney" at OSF 28.02.2025

"Jitney" is the eighth August Wilson play to be staged at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Banff Mountain Film Festival - this weekend and beyond 21.02.2025

The Redding Trail Alliance hosts the festival at the Cascade Theatre on February 22.

Outliers and Outlaws 24.01.2025

The documentary "Outliers and Outlaws" documents the history of a large and vibrant lesbian community in Eugene, Oregon.

Local Booksellers Suggest Winter Reads 03.01.2025

Ashland's Book Exchange and Bloomsbury Books share their recommendations for new and classic memoirs, mysteries, and nature writing.

The Making of a National Orchestra 20.12.2024

In her new memoir, “Reach Up: My Beautiful Journey with James DePreist,” Ginette DePreist describes the renowned conductor's work with the Oregon Symphony.

"Follow me into Auschwitz...." 06.12.2024

Holocaust survivor, Felicia Lubliner felt driven to remind us that the millions who perished were not defined by their deaths but by their lives-their joys, dreams, loves.

Weavers of Indigenous Culture Still Very Present in Oregon 22.11.2024

Crescent City resident practices traditional weaving techniques to create works of art that are as useful as they are beautiful.

NPR, women, and the music they make 08.11.2024

Vanessa Finney interviews two contributors to the book, "How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History."

Hello, Halloween! A curated list of Spooky Reads 01.11.2024

Four local booksellers give their recommendations for some chill-filled Halloween reading.

Octavio Solis, Artistic Director of the Ashland Beckett Shorts Festival 18.10.2024

The Ashland Beckett Shorts Festival runs Oct 24-27 at 7pm each night.

Life, Death, and Ethnic Representation: New Plays Dive Deep 11.10.2024

Novid Parsi and Keiko Green join host Vanessa Finney.

He's won an Oscar, a Grammy, and now a Rogue Award 04.10.2024

Filmmaker Jeffrey Friedman talks with Vanessa Finney about two films showing this weekend at the Ashland Independent Film Festival.

For this poet laureate, the land is her muse 13.09.2024

Oregon's new Poet Laureate, Ellen Waterston, recently spoke to JPR's Vanessa Finney about the state's literary landscape.

Native American Comedian Mark Yaffee 23.08.2024

The Creative Way talks to comedian Mark Yaffee

Fight! Fight! Fight! (But safely!) 16.08.2024

Stage fighting at OSF is an art unto itself

The brains behind the legal blonde 26.07.2024

Oregon Cabaret Theatre's production of Legally Blonde.

Songs and stories of the Irish diaspora, straight from Oregon's outback 28.06.2024

Corey Murphy sings songs of the Irish diaspora, with a special focus on the pipeline of people from the Old Country to Lake County, Oregon

An artist-in-residence describes a stay at Hyatt Lake 07.06.2024

Science Illustrator Serena Richelle at Hyatt Lake. Richelle is camping as part of a two-week Artist Residency program organized annually by the BLM.

SOU Choir's Spring Concert, 'capAble,' focuses on accessibility 31.05.2024

The SOU Choir's Spring Concert aims to highlight accessibility and center the voices of people who navigate the world differently.

Dream of Gold comes true for 'T-Rex' 24.05.2024

Ashland Independent Film Festival is presenting, " T-Rex," a 2015 documentary film about Claressa 'T-Rex' Shields, a 17-year old from Flint, Michigan who dreamed of being the first woman in history to win a gold medal in Olympic boxing.

Phoenix artist curates Woman Kind exhibit 08.05.2024

Artist Beca Blake is the subject of new arts program.

Take that, Elizabethans: putting Shakespeare's men in the body of a woman 26.04.2024

Lisa Wolpe performs Shakespeare's male roles, and has done many of them.

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