200th podcast milestone The Southcoast Artists Index Will Soon Drop Its 200th Podcast! AN IN-FOCUS ARTICLE By Ron Fortier The Southcoast Artists Index Podcasts have documented the legacies of over 200 Southcoast Artists. Here they are! Adam Gomes | Albertus van Beest...
2024 The YEAR IN REVIEW & A PEEK AT 2025... AN IN-FOCUS ARTICLE By Ron Fortier Unprecedented! Even the use of this word has been unprecedented. The definition, "without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled," describes...
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 the 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...
