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Caption: Nico Cathcart working on a mural on Lakeside Avenue, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 27:38
Caption: Nico at the unveiling of her three-story mural, A New Dawn in Hopewell, Virginia., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 25:47
Caption: Spiral design on the street
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 09:06
Caption: Nina Keogh, Credit: Nina Keogh
Nina Keogh puppeteered the rhyming Muffy Mouse on the show Today’s Special. Her other puppetry credits include work on the iconic Canadian kids sh...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 01:03:45
Caption: The original Farmer's Ball, and an OFB dance today, Credit: Phil Jameson/Carla Seidl
The Old Farmer's Ball is a regional folk dance organization in Asheville, North Carolina that is best known for its lively Thursday night contra da...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 49:50
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You always have to think about the air.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
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One square inch of Chilkat weaving can be up to 3 hours in the making.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Singer Yesenia Mejia of Artisanas Mexicanas

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
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In this audio piece, among other things, we learn how she joined The New Yorker’s staff and how her illustrations are infused with a particular kin...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 06:26
Caption: Statues by Peter Wolf Toth, Credit: Charles McGuigan
For most of his adult life Peter Wolf Toth has been on a mission to honor the native American tribes of Virginia. Over the decades he has carved ma...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 26:08
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A short talk with the artistic and executive directors and a current artist-in-residence at the 18th Street Arts Center in LA.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:34
Caption: Lester Blackiston
Pirates love the water. It’s their sustenance, it’s their highway, it’s their haven. Lester Blackiston loved the water. As a matter of fact, I didn...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 27:08
Caption: Lester Blackiston
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 26:15

  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 24:46
Caption: Lester Blackiston
This is the story of a dead man. He gave up the ghost a few years ago. And some who knew him might say he never had a ghost to give up in the first...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 26:09
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For years, Michael Page has struggled to work out his troubles through art, creating a catalog of dark and strange music.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode of "Street Economy," radio producers Kelley Crawford and Sarah Holtz go to the streets in search of poetry -- literal poetry, not a...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:21
Caption: Tippy, Credit: Karen Oothoudt
Milt Lee speaks with John Schroeder. John runs Schroeder Log Home Supply by day, and is an artist, dreamer, and theater guy by night. He's currentl...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 08:01
  • Purchases: 1
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The internet has transformed classroom education around the world. Here in Minneapolis, the Cowles Center for Dance is doing something unique--offe...

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Toni Tipton Martin making hot rolls.
There’s a whole lot more than recipes in Toni Tipton Martin’s cookbook collection… It contains a surprising culinary history of African Americans i...

Bought by KVLU, WBHM, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 22:28
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Maureen and Lucky Cole, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Two of the only human inhabitants of the Everglades live just off Loop Road less than a mile before it links back up with Tamiani Trail. Their comp...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 26:16
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Marc Steiner Show producer Mark Gunnery shares an appreciation and review of the latest John Coltrane release, Offering: Live at Temple University....

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 24, 2014
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Larger-than-life Serbian sculptor Zoran Mojisilov creates work from the most primal of elements: rocks, wood scraps and steel he hauls to his North...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:22
Caption: Fifty-thousand words in a month. How's it going?, Credit: National Novel Writing Month Organizatoin
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Stephanie Izard
The James Beard Foundation Awards are widely regarded as the “Oscars” of the culinary industry. In May of 2015, the “Beards” will be presented at ...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2014
  • Length: 06:59