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Creatively Thinking With Carolyn Botelho****New Memorial Intro**** Rerelease Gwen Tooth: Walk Them Around In My HeadSpeaking with Toronto based Abstract Expressionist Artist Gwen Tooth we take a deep dive into her practice on how she assimilates her travels into techniques in her toolbox; how staying with teachers too long can change your creativity in ways you didn't expect, and how she never thought art school was for her - when ultimately she went later on to three different institutions. Join Carolyn Botelho as she discusses with Gwen where her influences in Art really came from, how textiles, printmaking, and even playing a variety of instruments played a part. When does she decide t...2025-05-011h 09
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BotelhoJulia Campisi Episode #8: I Want To Eat Your SkyExploring the culture of construction Artist Julia Campisi reworks and rewrites how we see things in our everyday world. Primarily being known for her collage work Julia shines a new light on overlooked objects and gives them a new identity. One that reveals itself in unique ways. Orchestrating her interdisciplinary skills to new depths using design, photography, collage and sculpture to create a new narrative on our built culture of self and why we exist.With a background in photography from Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Mcmaster for Political Science. Campisi reshapes our ascribed environments and...2025-04-291h 04
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BotelhoO'hara Kamis Episode #7: Powerful BeginningsComing from Lebanese roots O'hara Kamis has a uniquely original perspective, and she loves every minute of it. Especially her groovy lifestyle that she has created over the years on various landscapes she has called home. Using her love of research and detail she throws herself into every new medium she encounters, from shoes to jewelry, to phone cases and apparel. There really is no limits she sees to her creative capacityO'hara has a vibrant fun loving personality that shines through her work. Creating captivating bold pieces that resonate with her community. Being a self taught C...2025-04-1532 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BotelhoNoe Kuremoto Episode #6: Decoding Ancient Wisdom Part 1Growing up with Artists around her home in Japan Noe absorbed the artist lifestyle of gathering meaning, understanding the objects and relationships have a larger context. She learned early how to become an academic artist. How to use classic materials. She gained the education of Contextual Art at St Martin's College in the United Kingdom. Switching gears into motherhood she returned to basic mediums of earth, air, and fire she found in clay.Listening to her personal cues and the gossip in the big cities Kuremoto heard the unease of the working class. Taking solace in her...2025-03-281h 11
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BotelhoDamian Agostini Episode #5: Silhouettes of Driftwood CreationsHunting down driftwood is what Artist Damian Agostini describes himself as doing. When asked what he does he says he wakes up and he goes out and plays. He gets up really early, eager to make his whimsical sculptures of animals and furniture. Made entirely from objects and pieces of wood like driftwood he finds along the lakeshore in Toronto or in Trinidad, his other home.Sharing some candid moments of how the public reacted when the city of Toronto asked him to move his sculptures from the Humber Bay shores. The reaction of the public was...2025-03-1555 min
Southcoast Artists IndexPodcast Episode 200: A Milestone For Sure!Welcome to this special episode! Its our 200th podcast episode since Podcast Episode 1 was dropped on April of 2019. The first podcast was an overview of what we hoped to accomplish. It was followed by Podcast Episode 2 featuring artist and craftsman, Michael Pietragalla, who owns and operates Floating Stone Woodworks, a custom furniture shop in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Michael was our very first of nearly 300 overall podcast guests. In this podcast, The Artists Index's podcast editor, Ryan Nunes, takes the podcast host seat to introduce and speak with Co-Founders Jeff Wotton and Ron Fortier. He also introduces our v...2025-03-1054 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BotelhoErica Hawkes Episode #4: Caught In A MomentExposed to both American and Canadian landscapes has enriched Erica Hawkes' creative practice in unique ways. Following the flowing hills and rugged coastlines of the west coast has inspired her to create masterful compositions that have combined two distinct styles into one perspective.Being able to blend and merge the techniques of the Group of Sevens' impressionistic style and the dynamic energies and colours found in the early modernist ideals of Art Nouveau. Erica creates a sense of magic with her Artwork. Explore these new perspectives that she transcribes to us with a sense of painterly inquiry t...2025-03-0135 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BotelhoNoe Kuremoto Episode #6: Caught Between RealmsGrowing up with Artists around her home in Japan Noe absorbed the artist lifestyle of gathering meaning, understanding the objects and relationships have a larger context. She learned early how to become an academic artist. How to use classic materials. She gained the education of Contextual Art at St Martin's College in the United Kingdom. Switching gears into motherhood she returned to basic mediums of earth, air, and fire found in clay.Listening to her personal cues and the gossip in the big cities Kuremoto heard the unease of the work life. Taking solace in her family...2025-02-2835 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BotelhoEpisode #3 Emily Zou: Where Are You PlantedCreating psychological spaces that transcend reality using found objects, fabrics, and basically trash Emily Zou wanders amongst the myriad of mental and physical constructs that litter our landscapes. Both physical and emotionally Emily shares her mental health struggles. How they shape how she lives, and draw the energy within her to reshape what we throw away, she gives a new life.Zou labored these thrown away items not simply by a straight trajectory at school. But rather a labor of anxious anxiety she found during the dark days of the COVID Pandemic. Where many Artists had an...2025-02-141h 02
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BotelhoMarie Neys Episode #2: A Balancing ActBeing a Canadian Landscape Painter Marie Neys has been fueled by the West Coast and the rolling hills of Alberta. She admits to finding her practical side and her creative side have a unique balancing act going on. One that pulls her every time she needs to be creative. She has an urgency to create in her studio. One that she has transformed into a professional and prodigious space of teaching. Incorporating her passion for the outdoors into her love of studying mediums; Marie challenges herself constantly to achieve a beautiful moment in time. She has always...2025-02-0136 min