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Composer John Williams discusses the art of scoring films.

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Over his fifty-plus year career, John Williams has written many of the most famous scores in Hollywood film history.

Bought by KGUA, KPIP-LP, and WNJR

Added: Jan 01, 2015
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 3

MR TURNER -- Timothy Spall Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Timothy Spall, San Francisco, CA 11/14/14, Credit: Andrea Chase

Timothy Spall talks paring things down, letting the character tell you what to do, and the lexicon of the grunt.

Bought by WABE

Added: Dec 25, 2014
Length: 22:41
Purchases: 1

A conversation about Folk Arts: Grassroots self-expression

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Barry Bergey with Mavis Staples, Credit: Tom Pich

The NEA's recently retired Director of Folk and Traditional Arts Barry Bergey shares some memories about a lifetime immersed in folk and tradition...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR

Added: Dec 19, 2014
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 2

Arts in the Schools!

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Multifacted, Credit: Nati Soti of Zero One Projects.

Diana Green and Cathy Gassenheimer have a mission: Arts Education for Every Alabama pre-k thru 12 Student!

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Dec 04, 2014
Length: :54
Purchases: 1

Retired Navy doctor and poet Fred Foote on the healing power of the arts

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

In Medic Against Bomb, Fred Foote’s first collection of poetry, the neurologist demonstartes first-hand the healing power of the arts for veterans.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, RadioFreePalmer, and WNJR

Added: Nov 06, 2014
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 4

Jamie Cope in Black and White

From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont

Caption: Self Portrait, Credit: Jamie Cope

A surprising conversation about black and white portrait photography, getting intimate with photo subjects, freedom from marriage and eating tacos ...

Added: Oct 25, 2014
Length: 36:49

The Art of the Porcupine

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Yvonne Walker Keshick, Credit: Michael G. Stewart

2014 National Heritage Fellow and member of the Odawa Nation, Yvonne Walker Keshick describes the long history of making decorative art from quills.

Bought by WSLR, KFCF FM, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR

Added: Oct 10, 2014
Length: 28:31
Purchases: 5

Feminism and Horror Films

From: Bitch Media

Just in time for Halloween, we look at gender issues in horror films. This essay takes a feminist angle on underrated horror heroines, from Candyma...

Added: Oct 09, 2014
Length: 21:26

Nathan Nugent - Irish Film Editor - Sensation, As If I Am Not There, What Richard Did, Run & Jump, and Frank

From: MergingArts Productions
Series: Spoiler Alert Radio

Nathan Nugent - Irish Film Editor - Sensation, As If I Am Not There, What Richard Did, Run & Jump, and Frank

Bought by WOUB

Added: Sep 29, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

A Conversation with Carla Perlo, founder and artistic director of Dance Place

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

How Dance Place’s open door policy helped transform an underserved neighborhood into a vital arts district. -

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR

Added: Sep 26, 2014
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 2

A Conversation with Irish Step Dancer Kevin Doyle

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Kevin Doyle dancing at the 2013 National Heritage Fellowship Concert

2014 NEA National Heritage Fellow Kevin Doyle talks about his passion for Irish Step Dancing.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR

Added: Sep 11, 2014
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 2

Labor Painter, Ralph Fasanella, a retrospective by curator Leslie Umberger

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Ralph Fasanella, (1914-1997), , Credit: Charmian Reading, about 1970, black and white print, American Folk Art Museum, New York, Gift of the Estate of Ralph Fasanella. © 1970, Estate of Ralph Fasanella

Ralph Fasanella: Labor's Painter

Bought by WABE, KPIP-LP, and Marfa Public Radio

Added: Aug 29, 2014
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 3

Let's Slam!

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

The DC Youth Slam Team is an award-winning internationally acclaimed poetry group. Listen to their poems and find out how it all comes together wit...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KGNU Community Radio, and WNJR

Added: Aug 21, 2014
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 3

A Conversation with author Elizabeth McCracken

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Elizabeth McCracken, Credit: Edward Carey

Elizabeth McCracken gives us her take on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets.

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Aug 15, 2014
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 1

Richard Powers on Music

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts

Why do books so often turn to music? Richard Powers, author of a new, music-filled novel Orfeo, speaks to the strength of songs and symphonies, inc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WABE, and PRX Remix

Added: Aug 12, 2014
Length: 12:57
Purchases: 3

A Conversation with ETHEL founding members Dorothy Lawson and Ralph Farris

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Believing that music is a unifying force, the string quartet ETHEL has joined forces with musicians across genres and regions. The result is musica...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE

Added: Aug 07, 2014
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 2

Ai Weiwei, China’s Artist/Enemy #1

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Not perhaps since Alexander Solzhenitsyn in the Soviet Gulag has there been a dissenting artist who got to be as famous as the government that houn...

Bought by WYAP

Added: Aug 06, 2014
Length: 39:42
Purchases: 1

A Conversation with sound architect Bora Yoon

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Bora Yoon, Credit: Leslie Van Stelte.

Bora Yoon talks about building the sonic design of her album Sunken Cathedral.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE

Added: Jul 17, 2014
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 2

A Conversation with novelist, Julie Otsuka

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Julie Otsuka, Credit: Robert Bessoir

Julie Otsuka’s first novel When the Emperor Was Divine explores her family’s history in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Jul 11, 2014
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 1

Vijay Iyer: Jazz in the 21st Century

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Where is jazz headed in a new century? With the pianist Vijay Iyer as guide, newly tenured as a professor at Harvard, it tends toward the experimen...

Bought by KMUW and KFOK-LPFM

Added: Jun 20, 2014
Length: 58:36
Purchases: 2

A Conversation with Jane Chu--the new chair of the National Endowment for the Arts

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Jane Chu, Credit: Courtesy of the Kauffman Center for the Arts

Jane Chu shares her ideas for the agency and the place of art in her own life.

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Jun 20, 2014
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 1

Chris Cooper and Marianne Leone on "Chasing the Dream: Arts School" (Excerpt)

From: Open Source

For the perspective of experience and solid accomplishment, we're asking two pros in the middle of enviable careers what they learned in and out of...

Bought by KUOW