Southcoast Artists Index
The Artists Index podcasts offer up close and personal conversations with the makers, performers, supporters and cultural impresarios of this remarkable creative community.
Join us as we speak with and listen to the creative community’s living visual, performing and literary artists. We will also feature those seeking information on and, sharing what they have discovered about the Artists who have passed on that were a part of the creative community’s creative fabric in days gone by.
The Artists Index is putting Artists in their place – in history!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 244
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Ep. 84: Carolyn Walega
Welcome, Carolyn Dlouhy Walega, AKA Carolyn Strules Walega, a former New Bedford, Massachusetts artist now living and working in Florida. A painter and muralist, Carolyn studied at The School of the …
Ep. 83: Kate Frazer Rego
Welcome, Kate Frazer Rego, AKA Kate MA Frazer, a New Bedford, Massachusetts artist, and Visual Arts instructor at Alma del Mar Charter School. She attended the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, …
Ep. 82: Michael Walden
Welcome, Michael Walden, a Westport, Massachusetts painter to In-Focus Podcast Number 82. South Coast artist Michael Walden was born in North Adams, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. from Framingha…
Ep. 81: Autumn Liv Cyr
Welcome Autumn Liv Cyr, a New Bedford, Massachusetts painter and musician/busker to In-Focus Podcast Number 81. Autumn is, in her own words, “just stepping through the doors of being a full time arti…
Ep. 80: Sarah Hale Folger
Welcome Sarah Hale Folger, painter, musician, and Creative Director at the Kilburn Mill in New Bedford, to In-Focus Podcast Number 80. Sarah is a product of Cinncinati, Ohio, and has been a Rhode Isl…
Ep. 79: Richard Walega
Richard Walega was also a Presidential appointee as HUD’s New England Regional Administrator. He is a member of the Bartleby Poetry Society and a poet for the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s Whaling Pan…
Ep. 78: Patrice Teidemann
Welcome opera performer, soprano soloist Patrice Tiedemann is the Artistic Director and founder of the Seaglass Theater to In-Focus Podcast Number 78. She graduated from Rhode Island College with a B…
Ep. 77: Boston Maki - Mark Carvalho
Welcome American Street Artist Mark Carvalho, aka/Boston Maki to In-Focus Podcast Number 77. Boston Maki, or just Maki, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
He is one of the South Coast's foremost…
Ep. 76: Jeff Wotton
Jeff Wotton is the co-founder of The Southcoast Artists Index and the co-founder of Spectrum Marketing Group. Coming from a background in traditional art, Jeff applies his creativity to his professio…
Ep. 75: Jane Ferris Richardson
Welcome artist, art therapist, play therapist, and former dancer, Jane Ferris Richardson to In-Focus Podcast Number 75. Jane studied painting in New York and in France, and with the Japanese painter …
Ep. 74: Frank Grace
Welcome photographer Frank C. Grace to In-Focus Podcast Number 74. Frank has been photographing weird and wonderful New England for the last 15 years.
He has also ventured beyond New England to Russi…
Ep. 73: Kat Knutsen
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Welcome painter/muralist/art instructor, and production artist on Loving Vincent, Katherine “Kat” Knutsen to In-Focus Podcast Number 73. Since childhood, Kat has a…
Ep. 72: Michael Rose
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Welcome art historian, gallerist, and appraiser Michael Rose to In-Focus Podcast Number 72. Michael is based in Southern New England.
He has served as the Gallery …
Ep. 71: Bob Dec
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Welcome painter/art instructor Bob Dec to In-Focus Podcast Number 71. Bob, who is originally from Fall River, Massachusetts, received his BFA from the then South…
Ep. 70: Carol Way Wood
Welcome Carol Way Wood, illustrator, freelance artist, children's book illustrator, and painter. Born in 1948, she grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and moved to Dartmouth in 1970.
Carol is a true l…
Ep. 69: Rhonda Fazio
Welcome maker/dyer and self-described Environmental Alchemist, Rhonda M. Fazio to In-Focus Podcast Number 69. Rhonda is a graduate of art history from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Prior…
Ep. 68: Margo Volterra
Welcome artist Margo Volterra to In-Focus Podcast Number 68. She attended The Art Student's League when she was very young. "The only kid surrounded by adults. Very intimidating," she says.
Margo's p…
Ep. 67: Jon Stetson
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Welcome mentalist Jon Stetson to In-Focus Podcast Number 67. Jon was the inspiration for the CBS hit television series “The Mentalist”.
Stetson blends the art of M…
Ep. 66: Jeremiah Hernandez
Welcome art adjacent, art activist, and co-founder of the now fabled U.G.L.Y. Gallery in New Bedford, Jeremiah Hernandez to In-Focus Podcast Number 66. Jeremiah is also the Community Partnerships Ma…
Ep. 65: Filipe Miguel
Welcome painter/art instructor Filipe Miguel, or Mr. Fil to his students, to In-Focus Podcast Number 65. Filipe was born in France to Portuguese parents.
He immigrated from Portugal at a very young a…