PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

28 results


HARM 24-15: Listening to Art: Angel Concerts, 4/8/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
Piece image
If you’ve spent any time in the early European wing at your local art museum, you might have noticed just how musical religious art can be. This we...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Looking Back: Isabel Wilkerson and the Cultural Impact of the Great Migration
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Isabel Wilkerson, Credit: Joe Henson
Author and 2015 National Humanities Medalist Isabel Wilkerson discusses her acclaimed first book “The Warmth of Other Suns,” and the profound impac...

Bought by KMUN, WMPG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KECG, KZUM and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:35
  • Purchases: 7
Meet the Step Artist and the Founder of Step Afrika!: C. Brian Williams
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: C. Brian Williams, Credit: Jim Saah
Step Artist and Producer and 2022 National Heritage Fellow C. Brian Williams discusses the rich cultural history of stepping and his work bringing ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KZUM


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Piping Up For Community (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
Piece image
Brian Donaldson is one of the most accomplished pipers in the world - winning many of the major awards and even performing in front of the queen of...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Piping Up For Community (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
Brian Donaldson is one of the most accomplished pipers in the world - winning many of the major awards and even performing in front of the queen of...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, CHSR-FM 97.9, WFHB, WJCU and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Piping Up For Community (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
Brian Donaldson is one of the most accomplished pipers in the world - winning many of the major awards and even performing in front of the queen of...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, KHEN-LP, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Piping Up For Community (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
Brian Donaldson is one of the most accomplished pipers in the world - winning many of the major awards and even performing in front of the queen of...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRGY, and WCMU Michigan


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Art at the Intersection: Saving a Community Legacy
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr. Tee Ford-Ahmed, Credit: Naima Wolfe
Director of Communications for the Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society in Athens Ohio Dr. Tee Ford-Ahmed talks about repurposing a vacan...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WSLR, RADIOLEX, KMUN, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 6
The Highest Office (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
When Colin Rafferty moved to Virginia in 2008 he didn’t know much about the presidents, so he set out to read a biography of each one.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Highest Office (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
When Colin Rafferty moved to Virginia in 2008 he didn’t know much about the presidents, so he set out to read a biography of each one.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WGCU, WTJU, WLPR , KEDT and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
The Highest Office (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
When Colin Rafferty moved to Virginia in 2008 he didn’t know much about the presidents, so he set out to read a biography of each one.

Bought by WJCU, Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WJCT, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Highest Office (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
Piece image
When Colin Rafferty moved to Virginia in 2008 he didn’t know much about the presidents, so he set out to read a biography of each one.

Bought by WLPR , KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNED Buffalo, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 6
REPLAY The Conflicting Ideals in Jefferson's Architecture (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, wome...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KHEN-LP, WCNY, Royalton Community Radio, and WRGY


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
REPLAY The Conflicting Ideals in Jefferson's Architecture (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, wome...

Bought by KEDT, WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
REPLAY The Conflicting Ideals in Jefferson's Architecture (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, wome...

Bought by KRZA, KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WJCU and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
REPLAY The Conflicting Ideals in Jefferson's Architecture (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
Piece image
The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, wome...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Katie Bowler Young discusses her new biography Enrique Alférez: Sculptor
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Piece image
Katie Bowler Young talks about the life and work of artist Enrique Alférez.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 13, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
NL 21-25: Music in All Things: W. Eugene Smith, 6/14/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
Piece image
Author Sam Stephenson talks with us about the legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith and the ways in which his life intersected with New York City'...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
A conversation with prize-winning cartoonist Nate Powell
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Nate Powell
Nate Powell discusses the art of cartooning the National Book Award-winning trilogy March.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 27:59
Genuine Fakes
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Genuine Fakes, Credit: jacket cover by Rob Ehle
There are fakes all around us. No, this isn’t about “fake news.” In fact, the overuse of that term as given real fakes a bad name. That’s right. We...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
NL 18-33: Music In All Things: W. Eugene Smith And The Jazz Loft, 8/13/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
Piece image
From the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s a five-story building in the heart of Manhattan served as a gathering place for jazz musicians and other a...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates the documentary Spettacolo!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen
Documentary filmmakers Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen look at a small Tuscan village where each year life is translated into art.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:24
  • Purchases: 1
Peacemaking on Stage: OSLO
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Piece image
An engaging conversation with both the playwright and director of the 2017 Tony-Award Winning Best Play, OSLO. The play tracks the back channel ne...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KVSC, and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Kassie Hilgert turns a rust belt graveyard into an arts center.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: SteelStacks, Credit: Jonathan Davies
Reclaiming the abandoned Bethlehem Steel Plant for the arts gives a region new life

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
Ellsworth Kelly: the gloriousness of color and form.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ellsworth Kelly in his studio, Credit: Jack Shear
Artist and 2012 National Medal of Arts Recipient, Ellsworth Kelly looks back on his career.

Bought by XRAY.fm, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3