Welcome, South Coast native, America's Master Mentalist, and our friend, Jon Stetson, to our 206th podcast! Jon was our guest during the height of the pandemic when we recorded his visit on Podcast Number 67. A lot has happened in the World since we last spoke with him. In case you didn't know, Jon inspired the CBS hit television series “The Mentalist”.

Stetson blends the art of Mystery with the study of Psychology, the predictability of human nature, and the power of intuition. According to Jon, “Imaginations are wowed, stretched, and captured, as thoughts are revealed and minds are being read.” This all takes place with Jon’s intriguing games of mind-to-mind contact. As his billing touts, “The Stetson Experience is intelligent, interactive, sophisticated fun.”

Jon says he began, "the study of the mystic arts at a very early age and has been blessed to receive formal training from some very gifted and proficient mystics, intuitives, shamans, and healers." He has performed for five U.S. Presidents, the King of Sweden, and the Royal Family of Monaco. He has appeared on several major television networks and made hundreds of corporate and celebrity appearances,

Jon Stetson spoke with The Artists Index’s cofounder, documentarian, and podcast host, Ron Fortier, once again last summer, about his study of the mystic arts and interactions with some of the greatest mystics and shamans. This episode was recorded at our recording studio at Spectrum Marketing Group at Howland Place in New Bedford.

Jon Stetson

Fairhaven MA 02719

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Welcome, Max Wickemeyer to our 205th podcast! Max is also known as Max Harris Wickemeyer or, by his professional name Max H. Wickemeyer. We were introduced to Max by our friend and early podcast guest, Dan Cooney, the co-owner of Heavenly Spirits and our first sponsor.

Max said that I described him as a polymath and that, "only time will tell" if, what I said was accurate. He started taking music lessons at 7 years old including trumpet, drums, and then guitar at 12. He's continued playing ever since and was a trio member of a hobby rock group, which according to AI Overview, is a group, "whose members play music primarily for enjoyment and personal satisfaction, rather than for professional gain or career advancement.

It's a group that enjoys the creative process of making music together, often focusing on the camaraderie and artistic expression rather than commercial success." The group performed for charities and was called The Turlebackband. Max says they got together in 2003 and played together until 2017. He was a collaborator and not a frontman. His role was bass player and very occasional harmony. According to Max, "I also helped keep the group glued socially.

Max Wickemeyer's other artisanal experiences and executions include carpentry, painting, plaster, metalwork, fine furniture, and picture frames. He is a long-time landscape gardener and his other hobbies include yoga, forest walks, biking, and roaming places including neighborhoods of my most recent residence, the South Coast. He's also been a volunteer land steward for Nature Conservancy.

He spent 37 years in the insurance industry and retired to, "only seek an understanding of the cosmos." He has one daughter and two grandchildren.

Max Wickemeyer spoke with The Artists Index’s cofounder, documentarian, and podcast host, Ron Fortier, last summer, about his passions, his interests, and his new life after relocating to the South Coast. This episode was recorded at our recording studio at Spectrum Marketing Group at Howland Place in New Bedford.

Max H. Wickemeyer

New Bedford MA 02740

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Welcome Andrew Tedesco, also known as Bad Andy Art. He is a contemporary artist. Andrew was born and raised in Massachusetts. He focuses on the narrative of storytelling through the methods of portraiture and working with the figure and its interaction with space.

Andy works primarily with traditional techniques in drawing and painting while "imbuing them with aspects of street art and non-conventional materials." He is concerned with expressing the elements of stories, "as we are all vessels of our narrative and the narratives of others we carry within us."

Andrew Tedesco spoke with The Artists Index’s cofounder, documentarian, and podcast host, Ron Fortier, last summer, about his passion, his practice, and his journey as an artist. This episode was recorded at our recording studio at Spectrum Marketing Group at Howland Place in New Bedford.

Andrew Tedesco

Taunton, Massachusetts 02780

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Welcome Tammi Meehan LMHC, artist and clinical therapist. Tammi is originally from Boston and studied at Parsons School of Design in New York City. From there, she went on to the University of Paris at the Sorbonne in France and later received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1993.

Sixteen years later, Tammi returned to school and received a Masters of Education in Counseling Psychology from Cambridge College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2019, Tammi Meehan integrated her counseling and painting practices.

As a Clinical Therapist, her interests in Jungian Psychology, Neuroscience, Quantum Physics, and Spiritualism are recognizable influences. Her daily meditation practice is the mainspring of her current work and represents eclectic integrations of conceptual methodologies, cosmic symbolism, archetypal visions, and stylistic diversity.

Tammi Meehan spoke with The Artists Index’s cofounder, documentarian, and podcast host, Ron Fortier, last summer about her passion for color and texture using acrylic and oil paint, oil stick, dry pigment, charcoal, and graphite to create surfaces that flirt with the viewer to touch. This episode was recorded at our recording studio at Spectrum Marketing Group at Howland Place in New Bedford.

Tammi Meehan

Fairhaven, Massachusetts 02719

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Welcome Tracy Barbosa, a local glass artist. She is the owner-operator at Duende Studio and a Community Development TDI Fellow Attleboro at MassDevelopment. Tracy is a multi-media artist and community organizer.

She has a bachelor’s degree from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. (AKA MassArt) Tracy was involved with organizing the Love the Ave initiative in New Bedford’s North End. Her artwork is in private and public collections all over the world.

Tracy Barbosa began working with glass in 1997 at MassArt in Boston. Shortly after she began working at John Lewis Glass assisting with glass projects such as the OK City Memorial in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and at One World Trade (One World Trade Center) in New York.

Her most recent work, "Equinox," is an integrated glass elevator tower that will be featured at the New Bedford MBTA South Coast Rail Station, Barbosa is dedicated to designing unique and inspiring environments for public transit users.

On this podcast, Tracy Barbosa speaks with The Artists Index’s cofounder, documentarian, and podcast host, Ron Fortier, about her continuing mission in equity-based collaborative public art and community-building projects across New England. This episode was recorded at our recording studio at Spectrum Marketing Group at Howland Place in New Bedford.

Tracy Sylvia Barbosa

New Bedford, Massachusetts 02745

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