The Spark
Martha Woodroof
The Spark is WMRA's own creative look at --well-- creativity. We dig into whatever people are passionate about in the WMRA region: sculpture, model railroading, costume-making, poetry, whatever.
Please note that while we no longer produce The Spark as a full-length program (due to Martha Woodroof's retirement), her interviews continue to appear within our Friday broadcast of All Things Considered.
We want to hear from those who are doing artsy or interesting or wonderful or obsessive things. We also recognize that lots of creatives are a tad shy and might not ever speak up for themselves.
You can put something on our radar about yourself or can tell us about someone you know of who might be interesting by sending an e-mail to the show host, Martha Woodroof:
WoodroMH@jmu.edu
(To launch an email to Martha automatically click here. )
Scroll down to hear past segments.
Consider this a community-wide celebration of the many people among us who invest time, energy and discipline into pushing against life's boundaries.
Listen to a typical 2012 version of the show's end credits (including Martha asking to hear from those who know about creative goings-on) : here (60 seconds).
2013 Spark intern Julia Skinner has been tasked with blogging about potentially Spark-worthy peers, and you can find the link to that blog on this page.
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The Spark
6:20 pm
Fri November 7, 2014
Wide Open Ocean... Tiny Living Space
This is part two of Martha's conversation with writer Jack Greer. They talk about the four years he mostly spent sailing the Caribbean on a 40 ft sailboat with his wife Bobbi. Oh yes, and about changing from writing mostly non-fiction to fiction.
In part one of Martha's conversation with writer Jack Greer, she asks him why he is as drawn to water as a sugar ant is to chocolate cake. Their conversation also centers on his involvement with the efforts to reclaim the Chesapeake Bay.
The Spark
6:20 pm
Fri October 24, 2014
Integrating Mount Jackson's Past
Martha Woodroof speaks with DeLois Warr, who still carries anger from her days growing up in segregated Mount Jackson.
She has made a mission out of challenging her community to help her maintain Mount Jackson's antebellum black cemetery.
Valley Black Heritage Project
The Spark
4:20 pm
Fri October 17, 2014
Heart-Felt
Martha Woodroof speaks with Staunton’s Lisa Jacenich, a fiber artist who creates felt garments, scarves, and art out of a fabric she describes as, "not your grandmother’s felt."
At Lisa's website, Artful Gifts, you can learn more about creating felt, which involves, "a process of laying out combed or carded fibers of wool either in the ultimate shape for their use or as a sheet of fabric later to be sewn into a garment."
WEB EXTRA:
The Spark
4:20 pm
Fri October 10, 2014
Joy and Sunshine