TIME The Best Gift to Give Any Artist At Any Time... AN IN-FOCUS ARTICLE By Ron Fortier I wasn’t going to start this article with a quote. No time to look for a good one, I thought! The quote, however, found me. I was listening to a review about the Georgia O’Keefe...
She Was My Inspiration, Mother, Fado Singer... AN IN-FOCUS ARTICLE The Emilia Moraes Story: Final Chapter. Along with Mary Jean Blasdale a curator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum until her retirement in 2006 who researched, wrote, and published the Artists of New...
The Gallery X Documentation Project... Supported in part by an ARTnet/Wicked Cool Places grant JUNE 20, 2024 The Artists Index Website Project was co-founded and launched in July 2012 by Ron Fortier and Jeff Wotton as a collaborative community digital archive...
We're Looking for Underwriters to Support... Our New Podcast Series! From Jazz to Urban to Folk to Painters to LGBTQ+ to Cultures FEBRUARY 7, 2024 We're looking for underwriters! As a nonprofit, The Artists Index continues to search for stories and information about...
RON FORTIER It Started As An Idea and Became Journey... WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN! To Create a Legacy for South Coast Artists! JANUARY 15, 2024 For several years, The Artists Index has worked on documenting the visual, performing, literary, and culinary artists of the...
RON FORTIER It's Been a Long and Fulfilling Journey... We Are Now One of the South Coast's Newest Nonprofit Art Organisations! NOVEMBER 6, 2023 This Thursday, November 23, 2023, is Thanksgiving. We at The Artists Index have a lot to be thankful for! Our journey began...
RON FORTIER YOUR LOCAL CULTURAL COUNCILS FAIRHAVEN CULTURAL COUNCIL & NEW BEDFORD CULTURAL COUNCIL JULY 26 2023 If you’re an artist living and working in the South Coast communities of Fairhaven or New Bedford, Massachusetts, this is a good time to get to know...
Scott Bishop Samia Walker EforAll Every Artist Dreams of Making A Living From Their Work! May 25 2023 It’s every artist’s dream to make a living from their work. Dealing with the business side? Filing taxes? Not so much. It turns out artists are a lot like many other...
Scott Bishop Ashley Occhino FALL RIVER CULTURE COALITION A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats May 18 2023 “We always say it, because we're on the coast: a rising tide lifts all boats. That's definitely what we're trying to do here with FRACC.” Those are the words of Ashley...
RON FORTIER OUR NEXT CHAPTER WILL SOON BEGIN! Thank You New Bedford Creative and the ARTnet Grant May 04 2023 When Jeff Wotton and I began to talk about creating a community digital archive back in 2012, little did we know what it would turn out to be. At this writing...
