Live From AHA! – SEPTEMBER 2025

Live From AHA! – SEPTEMBER 2025

This is the September AHA! episode of our continuing series of podcasts from Play Arcade, co-hosted by our podcast partner and friend, Adam Katz. Our guests included Max Wickemeyer, The Artists Index's volunteer development director, and Kate Frazer Rego (Episode 147...

Podcast Episode 216: TONI DELGADO-GREEN

Podcast Episode 216: TONI DELGADO-GREEN

Welcome, Toni Delgado-Green, the Arts & Culture Editor for The New Bedford Light, one of our community partners. Toni has loved to sketch since a very young age.  She especially liked pencils or charcoal. As she says, "Whether through visual art, music, writing,...

Podcast Episode 215: MANUELA DA COSTA

Podcast Episode 215: MANUELA DA COSTA

Welcome, Manuela Laurenco Da Costa! Manuela DaCosta is a fiction writer and the author of the Hawk Island series. Acores is the Portuguese word for hawk. It is spelled Azores in English. The series, according to Google Books, "...stands in the middle of the Atlantic,...

Live From AHA! – AUGUST 2025

Live From AHA! – AUGUST 2025

This is the August AHA! episode of our continuing series of podcasts from Play Arcade, co-hosted by our podcast partner and friend, Adam Katz. Our guests included Max Wickemeyer, The Artists Index's new volunteer development director, and Kat Knutsen (Episode 73,...

Podcast Episode 214: ADRIAN TIO

Podcast Episode 214: ADRIAN TIO

Welcome, Adrian R. Tió, a former Professor of Fine Arts in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He was also a former dean at the College. Tió received his fine arts training from Temple University (BA ‘74), the...

Podcast Episode 213: ZARLA LUDIN

Podcast Episode 213: ZARLA LUDIN

Welcome, Zarla Ludin, a design strategist, product enthusiast, and sometime artist. Her career has focused on helping businesses—such as Sonos, Amazon, and iRobot—connect their creative teams with clear narratives and organizational goals. Zarla has also partnered...

Podcast Episode 212: LARA HARRINGTON

Podcast Episode 212: LARA HARRINGTON

 Welcome, Lara Lourenco Harrington, AKA Lara Harrington, a re-emerging artist and supporter of the arts in the South Coast. She is the daughter of immigrants from Terceira and Faial, "two of the most beautiful islands in the Azores." Her journey to connect more deeply...