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Sleeping Jesus
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
Caption: Sleeping Jesus
On this episode, we bring you Sleeping Jesus and their performance during the Midwest Music Festival 2017. Nick Elsted, the lead vocalist of this W...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2017
  • Length: 32:41
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates the Frist Center
From: National Endowment for the Arts
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Art is alive at the Frist Center!

  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 26:00
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates a new exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The new exhibit at NMAAH&C illuminate history, community and culture. Co-curator Aaron Bryant walks us through it.

Bought by KZUM, WCPN, WTJU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 26:59
  • Purchases: 4
Ballerinas Who Are Mothers: It's a Balancing Act
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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With her book, Balancing Acts,photographer Lucy Gray takes us backstage with dancers who are mothers.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 24:31
  • Purchases: 1
MN Arts Bring $1Billion to the State: The Economics of the Arts
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Minnesota leads the nation in support for artists and the arts. Sheila Smith is the Executive Director of MN Citizens for the Arts. She stoppe...

  • Added: May 05, 2017
  • Length: 11:32
The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with poet Kim Roberts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kim Roberts
Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates poetry with Thomas Dooley
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Thomas Dooley
Thomas Dooley's collection of poetry Trespass shines a light in dark places.

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bassist Dave Holland talks about his life in jazz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dave Holland, Credit: Ulli Gruber
The National Endowment for the Arts speak with bassist and NEA Jazz MAster Dave Hollnd

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
Interfaith Understanding & An Artist Who Points To Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Peace Talks Radio Co-Host Paul Ingles
Conversation with religious scholar Will Keepin and artist Paul Re who established a peace prize to honor modern day peacemakers in New Mexico.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Actress Marsha Mason on life on and off the stage
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Marsha Mason
Actress Marsha Mason living a full life on and off the stage

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Filmspotting 600 REBROADCAST (01/13/17): Top 5 Movies Future Historians Will Remember w/ Chuck Klosterman
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Christopher Nolan's 'Inception'
Citizen Kane, Vertigo, The Godfather. 200 years from now, will anyone even remember these movies? Or are we currently overlooking the classics of t...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WQCS, WRIR, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Kimmie Dobbs Chan--dancing for the 21st entury
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: DEVIATED THEATRE, Credit: ©2016 Enoch Chan
Kimmie Dobbs Chan on the joys and challenges of creating a new language for dance.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 27:29
  • Purchases: 3
Award-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario and the images of war
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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With her memoir, It’s What I Do, Lynsey Addario explains how and why she covers war.

Bought by KUNM, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 4
Rohan Spong on his documentary Winter at Westbeth
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Rohan Spong's new film Winter at Westbeth shines a light on artists and aging.

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
Actor Nicholas Rodriguez is right at home in musical theater.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Nicholas Rodriguez
Nicholas Rodriguez brings classic American musical theater into the 21st century

Bought by KZUM, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Author and National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick on reading Moby Dick
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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In a slim, lucid and compulsively readable book, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville’s classic Moby-Dick.

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Looking for Inspiration? Listen to composer Ted Nash's Presidential Suite.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ted Nash
With Presidential Suite,Ted Nash transforms iconic political speeches into an inventive jazz composition.

Bought by KMUW and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Filmspotting 610 (11/04/16): Barry Jenkins and Naomie Harris (Moonlight), Doctor Strange, Tower
From: WBEZ
Caption: Mahershala Ali and Alex R. Hibbert in Barry Jenkins' 'Moonlight'
Director Barry Jenkins and playwright Tarell McCraney grew up in the same neighborhood in 1980s-era Miami. "Moonlight," based on an autobiographica...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRIR, GCR (Global Community Radio), WOUB, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Filmspotting 609 (10/28/16): Top 5 Childhood Movie Scares (with guest Ti West), sacred cow review of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
From: WBEZ
Caption: Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger in 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'
The clown under the bed. The shadow on the other side of the shower curtain. The elevator filled with blood. Scary movies make an impression -- and...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WRIR, WNJR, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
Filmspotting 608 (10/21/16): Kelly Reichardt inteview, Certain Women
From: WBEZ
Caption: Kristen Stewart in Kelly Reichardt's 'Certain Women'
For certain film lovers, a new Kelly Reichardt film is an event. Spare and deliberately paced movies like "Wendy and Lucy" and "Meek's Cutoff" are ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRIR, GCR (Global Community Radio), WNJR, WOUB and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Season 2: Playground Detroit with Paulina Petkoski #62
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Two: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
Caption: Paulina Petkoski
Season 2: Playground Detroit with Paulina Petkoski Romy interviews dynamo Paulina Petkowski, co-owner and co-founder of Playground Detroit! Learn...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 36:21
Filmspotting 607 (10/14/16): Conversation with Steve James (Hoop Dreams, The Interrrupters)
From: WBEZ
Caption: Documentary director and producer, Steve James
Back in June, IDA and Chicago's Kartemquin Films invited Adam to host a career-spanning conversation with documentary filmmaker Steve James ("Hoop ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRIR, KCPW Salt Lake City, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
There's an art to building wooden boats-just ask Mike Vlahovich
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Mike Vlahovich, Credit: Tom Pich
Master Shipwright & 2016 National Heritage Fellow Mike Vlahovich builds and restores wooden fishing boats to keep alive the culture of the working ...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Choreographer Penelope Freeh: Test Pilot
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Caption: at rehearsal, Credit: penelopefreeh.com
Penelope Freeh co-created Test Pilot with composer Jocelyn Hagen... Their original, live chamber orchestra, dance opera brings the history of aviat...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 07:08
Jim Denomie: Contemporary Ojibwe Artist
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Contemporary Ojibwe artist Jim Denomie currently has an exhibit at the Nemeth Art Center in Park Rapids, MN. He has a unique way of holding a lens...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1