Creative Guts

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...

The Creative Guts team is back with the sixth 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 fifth 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 fourth 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...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Terry Robinson, the young NH transplant behind art organization House of Testament. A fashion designer by trade, Terry is the Creative Director at House of Testament, a streetwear brand focused on designing concepts that resonate with African American demographics, and the Creative Project Collaborator...

On the latest episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with Rachael Jones of Hot Cross Puns! We’re not kitten you right meow when we tell you Rachael loves wordplay. Her fun and offbeat cross stitches and other embroidery are rife with puns, cats, sass, politics, and occasionally some colorful language. Rachael is secretly a ninety-year-old woman in a younger...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Rob Brown — drummer, photographer, woodworker, and custom drum kit creator! From playing on pawn shop drums to a handmade, solid wood kit, Rob shares how his creativity has evolved — giving plenty of credit to his willingness to fail. Rob’s love of loud and aggressive music was inspired by the “cool kid...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Emily Slama, the Durham-based jewelry maker behind Made by Emily. The stay-at-home mom turned jewelry maker will warm your heart with her sincerity and the parents out there will appreciate the sheer joy of finishing something you start, “as a stay-at-home mom, you do a lot of things, but you never real...

The Creative Guts team is back with the third 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.    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 on our...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with artist-turned-arts-advocate, Matt Wyatt. As an artist; Associate Producer and Publicist at the Rochester Opera House and Rochester Performance and Arts Center; and co-founder of the Rochester Museum of Fine Art, Matt wears too many hats to fit into one episode! The stubborn Capricorn and rowdy comedian tell...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with Portsmouth City Councilor and advocate for the arts, Nancy Pearson! Only in Portsmouth can someone run for local office on an arts campaign and win — and that’s exactly what Nancy did. During her time in office, Nancy championed the City’s “percent for art” ordinance, ensuring public art would be part of ev...

Mike Durkee of Durkish Delights is the star of the latest episode of Creative Guts. Illustrator, graphic designer, musician, and videographer, Durkee lives and breathes creativity. Co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman gets to the guts of Durkee’s triumphs and challenges to find out how the heck he does it all while raising two children. Durkee is a self-described barrel of laughs, so pr...

The Creative Guts team is back with another 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.    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 on our Fa...

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with Debra Holloway, the new Executive Director of Arts in Reach (AIR), a seacoast-based nonprofit with a mission of providing teenage girls with a platform to develop both their creative freedom and power of voice in a positive, supportive setting. Debra, who has only been the director for a handful of months,...

In this episode, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with writer, game designer, illustrator, and GM extraordinaire Robert Brookes! Robert has contributed to numerous tabletop RPG publications, including Pathfinder by Paizo Publishing, and has worked on award-winning titles such as Occult Adventures. In 2016, Robert successfully crowd-funded and created the sci-fi/fantasy Aeth...

Surprise! The Creative Guts team is introducing a new series of minisodes: Creative Catalogues! Co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman will periodically share a brief glimpse at the cool things they’re loving lately!   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. Featured in this episode: The Ha...

Get to know contemporary artist Beth Wittenberg in episode 11 of Creative Guts. In this episode, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with Beth about how a significant weight loss prompted Beth to use her body as a canvas; how religion, politics, and the environment interact with her art; and why she doesn’t listen to music when she creates. Beth gushes about the art scene in her h...

Episode 10: Zac Little Co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with entertaining and compelling Zac Little in episode ten. Zac is a podcaster, videographer, musician, comedian, and all around creative force. We discuss the pitfalls of monetizing your art, how being a parent affects creativity, and the various projects he has created. Find Zac Little’ Podcast, The Last Podcast here on...

Will Stewart, Executive Director of Stay Work Play NH, talks with Creative Guts co-hosts, Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman, about art more broadly. Will shares the role of the arts in their mission of attracting and retaining young people, creating interesting places to live and visit, and bolstering the local economy. Find Stay Work Play NH on the web and on every social media platform. Web...