Latest Arttap Podcast Episodes
ART TAP episode 122
ART TAP - December 11, 2023 19:07 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is a holiday roundtable of friends Cindy Gerlach Managing Director of Lafayette Master Chorale, and Brittany Rees, of the Frank Muffin band and engineer at Rec Room Recording Studio. We talk over a wide range of topics from the local cultural landscape, from both the current yea...
ART TAP episode 121
ART TAP - October 23, 2023 16:29 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is a husband and wife team, and members of the band Frank Muffin, the wonderful Brittany and Hans Rees, who are also part of the staff at Rec Room Recording. Joining us is Tiffany Palacio, Director of Family Promise of Greater Lafayette. Frank Muffin is presenting its annual t...
ART TAP episode 120
ART TAP - September 17, 2023 15:43 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is a pair of directors preparing to bring a thought-provoking program to the area stage. Marking 25 years since the tragic death of Matthew Shepard, Lafayette Master Chorale is joining with Purdue University Choir to present a contemporary oratorio on October 29th. Joining us ...
ART TAP episode 119
ART TAP - August 29, 2023 14:38 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is a trio of performers preparing to bring what is now a modern classic to the area stage. We have three singer/performers, the female leads of “9 to 5: the Musical,” coming to Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette… Caitlin Cotten, who is a previous guest on ART TAP, Kate Martin, a...
ART TAP episode 118
ART TAP - August 07, 2023 14:23 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is Dave Bangert, of Based in Lafayette reporting project, an online news subscription he’s established for local news. Dave has transitioned from daily newspaper coverage to daily online substack coverage, all with an eye to highlighting local happenings without judgement or pol...
ART TAP episode 117
ART TAP - July 24, 2023 14:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is Chris McCauley, Executive Director the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette. Chris has been with the Art Museum coming up on one year now – and he is wholly committed to making the museum’s programs a vital part of the community. Chris talks about his experiences, progressing fr...
ART TAP episode 116
ART TAP - June 26, 2023 17:25 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week are Annalyse Ewing and Emily Nolan, co-hosts of another local podcast, called “We Can Do Pod Things.” Here at ART TAP, we are all about the arts, but more accurately culture, and we want to encourage talking about the talk of life and culture. Annalyse’s and Emily’s “work” is a ...
ART TAP episode 115
ART TAP - May 15, 2023 12:38 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is Sean Lutes, president of the Lafayette Historic Preservation Commission. Sean’s work is preserving and protecting noteworthy buildings and sites that represent our history in this town. And his posts on Facebook, under the group “Preserve Historic Lafayette,” are very reveali...
ART TAP episode 114
ART TAP - April 23, 2023 14:28 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is Bai Rosa, professional lighting director, product of Lafayette, Indiana, and now technical director for Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette. Bai talks about the role of a lighting designer in theatre and the challenges of getting started as a freelance creative person, trave...
ART TAP episode 113
ART TAP - March 22, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is Monica Shaeffer, a private piano and voice instructor, occasional music director for shows at Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette, and now Music and Artistic Outreach Director at Trinity United Methodist Church. We spoke about her background as a performer, youth instructor/...
ART TAP episode 112
ART TAP - March 07, 2023 14:28 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is a Pre-Show look at "Flanagan's Wake," coming to Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette on March 16th, 17th, and 18th. I'm talking with Sarah Mishler, who plays Fiona Finn, the grieving fiancé of the deceased Flanagan, and Helen Coats, who plays town eccentric and mystic, Kathleen...
ART TAP episode 111
ART TAP - August 29, 2022 19:43 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week we’re kicking off a new series of the ART TAP podcast called “Pre-Show.” Pre-Show will offer early looks at upcoming MainStage productions at Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette. We’ll talk with directors, performers, planners, and designers and get a preview of what’s about to t...
ART TAP episode 110
ART TAP - October 12, 2021 17:33 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week are the artists known collectively as Frank Muffin Band. Joining me are Brittany and Hans Rees, and Jerome Hemersbach. The Muffin group have gotten active again, in light of eased restrictions on gatherings, and recently enjoyed a DC-area trip to visit other musicians they met o...
ART TAP episode 109
ART TAP - August 18, 2021 14:34 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is a local artist who is a steady presence on the gallery and art festival scene. Rena Brouwer is a watercolorist, instructor, gallery director, and arts collaborator who is about as "Hoosier" an artist as one can get.
ART TAP episode 108
ART TAP - June 08, 2021 13:35 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week are a pair of local singers/songwriters who are enlivening the area music scene. Justice Fuller, is a singer/songwriter who has performed throughout the Lafayette region and the Washington DC area, and who is previous Mike Lane Horizon songwriting award winner – and Lauren Grace...
ART TAP episode 107
ART TAP - May 11, 2021 15:58 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is director, set designer, painter, performer, and also Assistant Director of Economic Development for the City of Lafayette, Indiana, John David Collier. We talk about the thrills and challenges of participating in community theatre. John’s experience with Civic Theatre has run...
ART TAP episode 106
ART TAP - April 05, 2021 13:46 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week… is one of my most fun friends, singer and performer Caitlin Cotten Benner. Caitlin is perhaps the closest living embodiment of an actual Disney princess I know, keeping that spirit of discovery and joy alive in the air around her. We talk about the challenges of social distan...
ART TAP episode 105
ART TAP - March 08, 2021 17:36 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week… is one of my most valued creative friends, playwright Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos. She was, oddly enough, on the last episode of ART TAP in April of 2020 – the one that convinced me it was too hard to conduct a podcast that way. It wasn’t her fault – it was the logistics that p...
ART TAP episode 104
ART TAP - April 27, 2020 15:42 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week are two of my most valued arts friends, ceramist and sculptor Siggy Zahner and playwright Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos. Both are deeply insightful and inventive artists, both bring unique and confrontational imagery to their work, and both are outspoken feminists. We talk about t...
ART TAP episode 103
ART TAP - March 16, 2020 18:04 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is an assessment of what we’re going to be missing, in light of Coronavirus concerns that are forcing cancellations of arts and culture events, as well as all other public gatherings and activities, throughout our region and across the country. Notifications from Lafayette-West ...
ART TAP episode 102
ART TAP - March 02, 2020 15:48 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week are my friends, artists and retired teachers Stephanie Funcheon and LuAnn Lamie. These longtime friends and colleagues reminisce on teaching in the arts, former notable students, the state of education then and now, and the decisions in our young lives that led us to become arti...
ART TAP episode 101
ART TAP - February 17, 2020 14:55 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is my friend, Richard Stockton Rand, actor, director, choreographer, writer, and Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Theatre Studies in the Department of Theatre at Purdue University, where he specializes in acting and movement. We discuss the upcoming production of “Ang...
ART TAP episode 100
ART TAP - February 10, 2020 15:48 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week are director Laurie Russell, choreographer Brian Kocher, and actor Kate Walker, all working to bring to the Civic Theatre stage a magnificent production of Mamma Mia! We have some laughs while recounting the experience of rehearsing and planning the show, which is nearly complet...
ART TAP episode 099
ART TAP - January 27, 2020 16:13 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week, local journalists and artists Cindy Gerlach, Amy Long, and Jeff Smith. We share some cocktails, some discussion of recent and coming arts events and movies, “old things in a new way,” favorite artists and visual experiences, “who understands art better than a six-year-old?,” a ...
ART TAP episode 098
ART TAP - January 20, 2020 13:40 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is the author of more than a dozen novels and numerous short stories, who happens to make his home right here in Lafayette-West Lafayette – Jonathan Janz. We talk about the appeal of scary stories, outlets of fear, allowing yourself to suck, being a “psychic vampire” in a histor...
ART TAP episode 097
ART TAP - January 13, 2020 15:14 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is local musician, singer-songwriter Scott Greeson. We talk about his overcoming dyslexia through the inspiration of music, the Songwriters Association of Mid-North Indiana (SAMI), a new nonprofit recording studio at the Tippecanoe Arts Federation achieved with a North Central H...
ART TAP episode 096
ART TAP - December 02, 2019 16:55 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week are some thoughts on the Art Biz, from the perspective of an artist new to the commerce of social media art sales.
ART TAP episode 095
ART TAP - November 18, 2019 15:28 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week are members of the cast and crew of Dead Man’s Cell Phone, by Sarah Ruhl, presented from November 1st through 16th at Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette. I sat down with my castmates (I played the titular dead man) on closing night of the production to get their thoughts on com...
ART TAP episode 094
ART TAP - October 28, 2019 14:49 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week are members of local band Frank Muffin. With me are Brittany Rees, Hans Rees, and Jerome Hemersbach. The Muffin group will be presenting the next of their annual album tribute concerts, this time celebrating Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, to be staged on Saturday, November 9th at 7...
ART TAP episode 093
ART TAP - October 14, 2019 15:29 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn tap this week is Tippecanus Rex, with guest author and reader, local arts supporter, and yarn-spinner extraordinaire Shelley Lowenberg-DeBoer. Shelley and I read a couple of stories from Lafayette’s earlier and wilder days, highlighting more of the background of Ginger Wigglemann and a new d...
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