VHVtv is now Veterans Helping Veterans TV Podcasts. Our YouTube handle is @VhvtvOrg
VETART, the Veterans Art Project and Veterans Helping Veterans TV Podcasts work together to create Veteran Stories.
We interview Veteran Artists at the VetArt Cafe events in California and at the ceramics studio.
They tell their personal stories of recovery and healing from military trauma by creating
some form of Art, painting, ceramics, spoken word performances and fashion design.
The VetArt, the Veterans Art Project Ceramics Studio and videos were made at the VetArt Studio in Vista, CA
Meet the ARTISTS:
https://www.vetart.org/meet-the-artists
Filming Veterans Stories 2026
This is the first video we have filmed at the VETART Ceramics Studio in Vista, CA on Saturday Feb. 28, 2026.
Here is a video with Tonya Savice, a U.S. Air Force Veteran and the Advocacy Director for VetArt.
This is the second interview we did at the VetArt Ceramics Studio in Vista and
it is with U.S. Army Vietnam Combat Veteran Denis LeClair
about how his involvement with VetArt changed his life and is helping with PTSD.
It was wonderful to return to filming interviews at the VetArt Pop-Up Arts Cafe in Escondido on July 4, 2025.
“VetArt PopUp Escondido, Veterans Tell Your Story!”
Featured in order of appearance, the Executive Director of VetArt, the Veterans Art Project Steve Dilley, Omar Columbus U.S. Air Force Veteran, Linda Moore U.S. Navy Veteran, Darron Devillez, VetArt Master of Ceremonies and U.S. Navy Veteran, Ivan Sam VetArt Cultural Ambassador and Land Acknowledgement and U.S. Navy Veteran, Jim Moreno U.S. Navy Veteran and
Reginald “Reggie” Green, VetArt Studio Ceramics Instructor and U.S. Navy Veteran.
It was great to return to the MidPen Media Center in Palo Alto, CA
My name is Sheryl Alexa Shaffer and I produce the Veterans Helping Veterans TV for the MidPen Media Center in Palo Alto, CA.
Thank You to Alan Zoraster, a U.S. Air Force Veteran and collaborator with VHVtv.
It was great to work with the Midpen Media Center Studio Manager Jeffrey Kologe.
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Here is the Midpen Media Center version of the program we created in the studio in Palo Alto on April 9, 2025.
VETArt, the Veterans Art Project and Veterans Helping Veterans TV
I travel with VetArt, the Veterans Art Project, and film interviews with Veteran Artists through the VetArt Pop Up Art Cafe’s since October 2022 in California.
These are interviews with U.S. Military Veterans who tell us their story of discovering they had artistic abilities and how they over come military trauma through creativity.
“VetArt, the Veterans Art Project, the PopUp Art Cafe’s Veteran Stories”
The guests featured in this episode are:
Darron Devillez, Carolina Hernandez, Anthony “Tony” LoBue, Reginald “Reggie” Green and Dave Fernandes.
VetArt studio 2025
Steve Dilley and Sheryl Shaffer
