The Positively Creative Podcast was created by Dorothy Collier, artist of Dorothy Art, for creative entrepreneurs. When Dorothy started having a positive outlook on every aspect of her life, including her art career, the creativity and opportunities started overflowing! Join her as she chats with other small business owners, discussing the ins and outs of how to run a creative business and how her creative friends are making it in their respective fields.
…
continue reading
By making the world a more beautiful place, Artemis Speaks interviews writers and artists from the Appalachian Region of the Blue Ridge Mountains and beyond. This is a time we need to write and make art for the sake of healing our souls and enriching our communities. This podcast is a production of the Artemis Journal, a charitable organization now 43 years old and has evolved to be an all inclusive yearly journal with essays, poetry and art.
…
continue reading
On RMA’s Channel 1 you’ll hear our shows: “Interview Sessions” with prominent musicians, celebrity artists, music industry people, and more – all related to rock music and it’s many genres; and “Rising Artist Spotlight” where we chat and listen a little to new rock artists trying to rise up and establish their careers. Plus, special guests and events from time to time!
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E34: Mike Tramp - Bringing The Songs Of White Lion Vol. I & II To Life While Touring As A Solo Artist.
53:01
53:01
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
53:01
Mike Tramp - the voice of White Lion talks with The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about his forthcoming album release Songs Of White Lion, Vol. II, who the players are on it, gives us a sample listen, and tells us of the challenges faced with re-recording and performing the well-known songs of his early career, how those challenges were …
…
continue reading
Ana Morales is based in Roanoke, Virginia, and works primarily with mixed media. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from James Madison University, where she studied studio art and art education. She works at LeisureMedia360 in Roanoke as the art director for publications, including the Roanoker Magazine and t…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E33: Sam Bam Koltun - Guitar Player For Budderside, Faster Pussycat, Dorothy, Crossbone Skully, Brings Us Up To Date On His Rising Meteoric Career!
52:41
52:41
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
52:41
Sam Bam Koltun talks with The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento filling us in on his career since the last time he talked with us in our Episode 10. In this episode he gives us the How, Who, and When he became the full-time guitar player for the current lineup of bands he's in. He tells us how he met and became friends with Tracii Guns of L.…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E32: Julia Lage - Bass Player For Vixen Talks About Her Latest Single Release, Vixen, And More.
45:36
45:36
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
45:36
Julia Lage talks with The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about her latest single "The Ride"; who the players are on it, and gives us a sample listen; what it was like joining Vixen and how the band may shape their future; how she grew her network of musicians in Los Angeles after moving there from her native São Paulo, Brazil.…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E31: Ben Owen - Rising Artist Talks About His Latest Single "Dangerous Love" And Plans For Videos And Moving His Career Forward.
38:11
38:11
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
38:11
Artist Ben Owen talks with The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about his latest single release "Dangerous Love," who the players are on it, and gives us a sample listen. He also tells us of his origins in the U.K.; how he got into music; and if there was any special way he accumulated 92-thousand YouTube followers!…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E30: Patrick Kennison - Guitarist/Vocalist For Lita Ford, Founder/Frontman Of Heaven Below Talks About HB's New Album, Touring With Lita, How Early Digital Recordings Opened The Door To His Career!
41:51
41:51
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
41:51
Patrick Kennison - Founder and frontman of Heaven Below, guitarist-vocalist for Lita Ford, talks with The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about his forthcoming album release with Heaven Below, who the players are on it, gives us a sample listen, how he first got the gig with Lita Ford, his origins, and how early digital recordings led to h…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Dorothy Gillespie: Groundbreaking Documentary - COURAGE, INDEPENDENCE AND COLOR
24:21
24:21
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
24:21
Join the conversation with son Gary Isreal, President of the Dorothy M. Gillespie Foundation, and daughter Dorien Gillespie Bietz, children of Dorothy Gillespie, as they reflect on the many gifts their mother had in a groundbreaking documentary Courage, Independence and Color. Artemis Journal was borne out of writing workshops for abused women. Ms.…
…
continue reading
Jim Minick is the author or editor of eight books, including Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas (nonfiction), Fire Is Your Water (novel), and The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family. His work has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Oxford American, Artemis Journal, Orion, Shenandoah, App…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E29: Marcus Nand - Solo Artist, Touring Player For Mike Tramp, Talks About His Forth-Coming Album Release And Origins.
41:01
41:01
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
41:01
Marcus Nand - Solo Artist and touring player for Mike Tramp, talks with The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about his forthcoming album release, who the players are on it, gives us a sample listen, recording and touring with Mike Tramp in support of the album Songs Of White Lion, what it's like to take on Vito Bratta's guitar parts, his or…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E28: James Zota Baker - Solo Artist, Writer, And Touring Player, Talks About Performing With War, Writing And Recording With Edgar Winter, And His Solo Releases.
43:03
43:03
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
43:03
James Zota Baker - Solo Artist, Writer, Touring Player, talks with The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about what performing with legendary band War is like; writing and recording with legend Edgar Winter; who some of the guest musicians are on album release "Rebel Road;" and his own releases "Better Than Never," and "Brand New Eyes."…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Sarah EK Muse, Award-winning Artist, Jewelry Designer, & Goldsmith
38:49
38:49
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
38:49
Sarah EK Muse, a native Virginian, is an award-winning artist, jewelry designer, and goldsmith known for her exquisite bespoke jewels that celebrate personal narratives and strengthen connections to the past, present, and future. Serving as the backdrop for her inspirations, her private atelier, Studio 12, formerly a two-stall stable, is nestled in…
…
continue reading
Michele Evans, a fifth-generation Washingtonian (D.C.), is a poet, writer, high school English teacher, and adviser for her school's literary magazine, Unbound. Before becoming an educator, Michele Evans studied at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts; King’s College in London, England; and the Graduate School at the University of Maryland i…
…
continue reading
Linda Atkinson is a sculptor living and working in Botetourt County. She taught art history for 21 years at Virginia Western Community College, as well as studio courses for University /Santa Cruz, Hollins College, Roanoke College, and Radford University among others. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisc…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E27: Carrie Stevens - The Playboy Playmate Talks About Health, Modern Modeling, Eric Carr's Influence On Her Life, Her Book, Her Merch, And OnlyFans.com.
35:26
35:26
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
35:26
Playboy Playmate Carrie Stevens tells The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about studying nutrition and health; how finding modeling and acting parts has become more difficult in today's diversity movement; how her modeling career began; how a visit to Hollywood and meeting Eric Carr (drummer for KISS and relationship partner with Carrie fo…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
A.J. Gnuse, Artemis Journal Literary Editor and Writer Girl in the Walls
35:12
35:12
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
35:12
A. J. Gnuse is the bestselling author of Girl in the Walls, published in 2021. He received an MFA in fiction from UNC Wilmington, and his writing has appeared in the Guardian, Gulf Coast, Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review, and other venues. A native of New Orleans, he lives in Texas, where he is a literary co-editor of Artemis Journal alongside his …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E26: Mike Plotnikoff - Talks Mixing And Production, Guitar Miking, His Early Days, How Synesthesia Helps His Mixing And Production.
46:30
46:30
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
46:30
Mike chats with The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about recording Tommy Henriksen's new band Crossbone Skully; Edge Of Paradise's Margarita Monet; guitar miking techniques with Angus Young, Eddie Van Halen, and modern guitarists; amp modeling versus amps; where he was born and raised; his early career days working with legendary producer…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Javon Jackson, Jazz Saxophonist collaborating with acclaimed Poet, Nikki Giovanni
37:40
37:40
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
37:40
The Moss Center in Blacksburg, Virginia presented a live performance and historic collaboration between renowned poet and Virginia Tech legend Nikki Giovanni and saxophonist-composer and former Jazz Messenger Javon Jackson. Their collaboration for over a year has yielded the CD The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni. For an intimate jazz performanc…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E25: Jeff Scott Soto - Announces New Art Of Anarchy Release And Video, Updates Us On His Solo Career And Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
54:29
54:29
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
54:29
Jeff chats with The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about new Art Of Anarchy release Let There Be Anarchy and it's first song/video release Vilified, how he became part of the band's lineup; details us on his solo career releases Complicated, and The Duets Collection, Vol 1; where he prefers to record his vocals; talks about his origins as…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Dr. Sandee McGlaun, Poet, Reading by Skip Brown
3:28
3:28
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
3:28
River Sequence (a Meditation) 1. Riffle This moment: like a fat round plum smooth as stone tumbled downstream, at the edge of stillness poised to roll. How long does it take a rock to travel the length of a river? How long does it take a mind to wind its way through a memory? Hold the present, juicy and heavy, in the palm of your hand. Loosen the f…
…
continue reading
New York-based country-soul singer/songwriter Lara Taubman delivers sobering subjects like mortality, mental health, spirituality, survival, and finding hope in an exceedingly turbulent & traumatized world on her sophomore album, Ol’ Kentucky Light, out September 16th on Atomic Sound Record Company. Taubman clearly didn’t just stumble upon her muse…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E24: August Zadra - The Guitarist/Vocalist Known For His Work With Dennis DeYoung Is Setting His Own Course With His Album Release ”Guiding Star.”
42:28
42:28
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
42:28
August chats with The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about his album release "Guiding Star" including who the primary writers are and doing production with Alessandro Del Vecchio; where he was raised, how he became a musician; what inspired him to move to Los Angeles; how he got his gig with Dennis DeYoung of Styx fame; and tops it off wi…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E23: Marco Mendoza - Setting Course As A Solo Artist With His Latest Release ”New Direction.”
48:18:00
48:18:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
48:18:00
Marco chats with The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about his latest album release "New Direction;" and how when combined with his previous release "Viva La Rock" really does establish a new direction for him as a solo artist; what it was like to record "New Direction" with Soren Anderson in Copenhagen, Denmark; how he's looking forward t…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E22: Leanne Bowes - Her Path Becoming A Versatile Bassist, Touring/Session Player, And Bandleader For Demi Lovato.
34:56
34:56
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
34:56
Leanne chats with The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about her rising path as a versatile bass player, recording for Linda Perry, attending Emerson College, her father's early death and how that galvanized her to succeed in music, and how important networking and self marketing is and was in her landing touring and session work - and beco…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E21: Dilana - Interview Sessions With The Powerhouse Rock Vocalist
1:07:04
1:07:04
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:04
Dilana chats with The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about her current performing project, being on Rock Star Supernova, The Voice Of Holland, her time as a teenage runaway, and what she has planned next. Tune in for this revealing interview!By Rock Music Alliance
…
continue reading
https://www.bobrotche.com/Bob Rotche is a Virginia-based wood artist. He has worked with wood in one manner or another for most of his life but it was exposure to the lathe and its ability to create smooth-flowing curves that really captured his imagination. He continues to use the lathe extensively but is now recognized more for his work with carv…
…
continue reading
Page Turner, an acclaimed artist, recently showed her art at the "Affiliation Show" at the National Arts Club in New York City. Page has worked with Artemis Journal for three years, and her ability to pair art and poetry is phenomenal! In this interview, Jeri Rogers explores how the layout comes into being with her creative skills. "This year's the…
…
continue reading
The arc of Susan's career is amazing. Besides her commitment to Photography, It includes a six-year term as President of the American Kidney Fund. She has been represented in three galleries and continues her desire to be of creative service to artists, dancers, and musicians. Her video skills helped numerous artists worldwide to have virtual shows…
…
continue reading
Susan Hankla Poet has s long history with Artemis. Back in 1977, as a young writer, Susan's poetry appeared in the very first edition of Artemis Journal. VA. For many years she worked as a traveling poet-in-the-schools working with underserved communities in Virginia, through generous grants from The Virginia Commission on the Arts. This made her l…
…
continue reading
From Harlem rooftops to the drumbeats of the Congo, the poems in "The Women and the Men display in full measure the gifts that have made Nikki Giovanni one of the most important, appealing, and broad-reaching American poets: her warmth, her conciseness, her passion, and her wit. As a witness to four generations, Nikki Giovanni has perceptively and …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Michele Sons & Sam Krisch, Fine Art Photographers
36:02
36:02
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
36:02
Michele Sons is a landscape and nature photographer, writer, and educator with a focus on the quiet, contemplative imagery of Appalachia. She was recently New River Gorge Creative-in Residence at our nation’s newest national park, which culminated in a solo exhibit of her work and an instructional ebook available for purchase on her website. Michel…
…
continue reading
When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In his book FINDING ABBY, Sean Prentiss goes on an odyssey looking for Abbey's grav…
…
continue reading
Annie Waldrop is a multi-media artist living and working in Roanoke, Va. In addition to exhibiting work up and down the east coast, she recently had a major solo exhibition at The Turchin Center at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She studied at Parsons School of Design in New York City and acquired her master's degree at The …
…
continue reading
Betty Branch is an artist who is constantly reinventing herself. Her media is diverse; She sculpts in wax, clay, fiber, straw, and stone. Throughout her career in intensive production, she has culled visual references from ancient matriarchal civilizations to current cultural events, from Greece to the foothills of the Blue Ridge. Her work is defin…
…
continue reading
Starroot grew up in Southern Germany and started to create art at an early age, inspired by nature and her unlimited fantasy. She explored and practiced conscious dreaming in her early childhood. She is an entirely self-taught artist. When she was 30 years old, she had a life-changing Out of Body experience in a car accident. Starroot opened more a…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E20: Spelled Moon With Andy Sarcone Rooney & Manager Karel Hamm.
29:28
29:28
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
29:28
In this episode Andy Sarcone Rooney and Manager Karel Hamm speak with host Cole Coleman about the plans for their next release, touring, and videos; how the songwriting is done in Spelled Moon; who the current musicians are in the band; what artists Karel Hamm has worked with and what his managing roll with Spelled Moon is; if release art is releva…
…
continue reading
Many war books have been written the horrors of combat. All the Ruined Men explores how difficult and confusing it can be afterward to come back home. All the Ruined Men is a book of linked stories that show veterans struggling to adjust to civilian life after years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a combat veteran, and a paratrooper in the 82nd …
…
continue reading
Donnie Secreast is co-editor of Artemis Journal and is a Ph.D. candidate in Literary Studies at Texas A&M University. She grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, originally from Radford, Virginia, with roots in Western North Carolina. Her research interests include the intersections of ecocriticism and humor in Cold War-era women’s writing. Her schola…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E19: Mike Krompass & Dan Taylor - Interview Sessions With Producer Mike Krompass And Vocalist Dan Taylor Of Dead Romantic.
37:54
37:54
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
37:54
In this episode Mike Krompass and Dan Taylor speak with host Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about how their first single’s video has reached over 1 million views; their strategy of releasing singles before a full album; the importance of finding band members that you really get along with; having some outside songwriters contribute to songs; th…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E18: Joe Lester - Interview Sessions With The Bass Player For The Atomic Punks – Well Known Tribute To Early Van Halen, Tour Manager For Steel Panther, Photographer, Representative For Ultimate Ears.
50:13
50:13
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
50:13
In this episode, Joe Lester speaks with host Cole Coleman about his origins in Kodiak and Anchorage AK, his formative years in Seattle, WA; how he got started in music; seeing the beginnings of the “Seattle Sound;” moving to Los Angeles to launch his music career; how he got into The Atomic Punks; touring with The Atomic Punks; having bass player M…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
E17: Bjorn Englen - Interview Sessions With The Bass Player For Dio Disciples, Dio Returns, Soul Sign, Quiet Riot; Tony MacAlpine; Yngwie Malmsteen; And Many More.
52:47
52:47
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
52:47
In this episode, Bjorn Englen speaks with host Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about performing with a hologram of Ronnie James Dio in the band Dio Returns; founding Soul Sign and how long singer Mark Boals from Yngwie Malmsteen band has been involved; getting through the Covid19 pandemic; offering private lessons; starting his music career as a…
…
continue reading
Alessio Zanelli is an Italian poet who writes in English, a language he has learned completely as an autodidact. His work has appeared in some 200 literary journals from 17 countries including, in the USA: Artemis, California Quarterly, Concho River Review, Italian Americana, The Lyric, North Dakota Quarterly, Philosophy And Literature, Potomac Rev…
…
continue reading
A River Road Memoir is a journey through a young girl’s idyllic childhood in the rural South to her restless adolescence when the Civil Rights struggle becomes urgent and personal to her family. The unfolding story is told through the second daughter’s eyes. Jane is a serious child, the one her father calls, “a tree full of owls,” always thinking, …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Nikki Giovanni, Poet singing "The Gospal according to Nikki Giovanni" with Jovan Jackson, Saxophonist
31:42
31:42
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
31:42
The renowned poet, Nikki Giovanni has a new album “The Gospel According To Nikki Giovanni.” In addition to publishing dozens of poetry works, Nikki Giovanni has recorded several spoken word albums over the course of 50 years. But this time, she’s doing something a little different. The new album, a collaboration with saxophonist Javon Jackson, is a…
…
continue reading
Steven Kenny is a renowned painter who recently moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. He was born in Peekskill, New York in 1962 and now resides in Check, VA. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design, After studying independently in Rome he gained notoriety as a freelance commercial illustrator, later devoting his full attention to fi…
…
continue reading
Angie Dribben is an Autistic artist and writer. Her debut collection, Everygirl, a finalist for the 2020 Broadkill Review Dogfish Head Prize, was released with Main Street Rag. She was a poetry contributor at Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and holds an MFA from Randolph College. She is the current VP of the West Region of Poetry Society of Virginia…
…
continue reading
Beth Macy is an award-winning journalist & author of the 2018 New York Times-bestselling book, "Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America." She writes about outsiders and underdogs. Her writing has won over a dozen national journalism awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard. The daughter of a fac…
…
continue reading
After 30 years as a cosmetologist, Sharon founded the “Angels with Scissors” organization, with 150 hairstylists and 43 hair salons, to enable a hair salon for the homeless at the Roanoke Rescue Mission. The organization’s goal was successful, and they raised the funds to build a hair salon inside the Mission’s Women and Children’s building, where …
…
continue reading
Jack Greer has been writing for all his adult life. Much of Greer's nonfiction writing has focused on the water, especially on the Chesapeake Bay. He wrote about and got engaged in marine affairs for the University of Maryland Sea Grant College for more than thirty years. His first short story collection is Abraham's Bay & Other Stories (Dryad Pres…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Donna Polseno and Richard Hensley, Ceramic Artists
32:15
32:15
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
32:15
Donna Polsenso & Richard Hensley Welcome to our podcast. Today I will be interviewing a dynamic couple who have influenced the world of ceramics for over half a century. Donna Polseno and Richard Hensley met in graduate school and moved to Floyd, Virginia's isolated rural mountain community. Donna is our current cover artist for the 2021 Artemis Jo…
…
continue reading
Cathryn Hankla is the author of over a dozen books in three genres, the most recent of which is the memoir Lost Places: On Losing and Finding Home and poetry collections Galaxies and Great Bear. Two collections are forthcoming from Mercer University Press: Not Xanadu (2022) and Immortal Stuff (2023). After a four-decade teaching career, Cathryn Han…
…
continue reading