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Retired Navy doctor and poet Fred Foote on the healing power of the arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Fred Foote
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
This is Home: Journalism comes to the stage
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: RAW Talent poets in This is Home, Credit: Julia B. Chan/CIR
Donte Clark stands in the middle of a dimly lit stage. A projected photo of a dilapidated apartment building flickers on the wall behind him. In th...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 12:42
Ai Weiwei, China’s Artist/Enemy #1
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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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 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
A Conversation with Janet Kagan--Director of Art Force
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
Caption: Art Force: Cross Currents Civic Exhibition, Credit: Courtesy of Art Force
Art-Force: Artists revitalizing rural manufacturing.

Bought by KPIP-LP and KRZA


  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Will prison arts programs make a comeback in California?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Eric Curtis reads his story aloud., Credit: Kyung Jin Lee KALW
On a breezy summer day at San Quentin State Prison, inmate Paul Stauffer reads his writing to a live audience...

  • Added: May 18, 2014
  • Length: 06:12
A Jealous Kind of Love (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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When it comes to love, jealousy is sometimes thought of as “natural” or even desirable. But a recent survey suggests that women who see jealousy as...

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 53:50
  • Purchases: 2
Just Business: The Business of Art: Segment A
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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The value of art is incredibly subjective. Yet selling art is big business--and displaying art can be a money pit. For insights into this complex w...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 1
Just Business: The Business of Art: Segment B
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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The value of art is incredibly subjective. Yet selling art is big business--and displaying art can be a money pit. For insights into this complex w...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 16:45
  • Purchases: 1
A picture of American consumerism
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With the March announcement that Best Buy is closing 50 large stores around the country, the dominance of big box retail has been called into quest...

Bought by KENW and KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 2
Is This Place Great or What
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A photographic study of American consumerism, from the blank stares of shoppers to the mountains of stuff in front of them.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KVSC, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
dance dance dance
From: j james
Caption: PRX default Piece image
part three of dance dance dance

  • Added: Nov 25, 2011
  • Length: 18:26
Series 1 Edition 15: Artist's Block
From: Barika Edwards
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Artist's Block- When your career is stopped at the door because of things beyond you. What do you do, when you are blocked at the border, when the ...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 01:48:28
On What Grounds: Features
From: Nicole Morente
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Underground news from Santa Cruz, CA. Played on On What Grounds on KZSC, 88.1fm.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2011
  • Length: 43:59
Peace Talks Radio: Neighborhood Peace Through Arts and Parks (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Artist Lily Yeh in North Philadelphia
This time on Peace Talks Radio, we explore a program that transforms troubled neighborhoods into more peaceful, secure places through art, learning...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KVSC, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WTJU, WGDR and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2009
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 6
The Alutiiq Masks - Sharing HIstory
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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details the long-sought return of the Alutiiq Masks from France to Kodiak. AK.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2008
  • Length: 06:09
Find or Fake?: Counterfeit Native Art
From: Rebecca Sheir
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If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2008
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 3
Super Heroes, Super Villains, and Disability
From: Andrew Reissiger
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What do the Super Heros of developmentally delayed artists look like?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2007
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 1
Pepper Fluke
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Series: Passionate Citizens
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Pepper Fluke is a Durham, NC based artist credited with saving the historic Carolina Theatre

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 19, 2007
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
Seuss Abuse
From: Susan Johnston
Series: Spoken Word: The Capital Poetry Collective Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Kevin Matthews' short social commentary, a tongue-in-cheek take on Dr. Seuss

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 19, 2006
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
An Un-garden is an Act of Humility
From: Susan Johnston
Series: Cultivating beauty?
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jennifer Dickson's "From Garden to Ungarden", Part Three

  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 09:14
Gardens, Citizenship and Community
From: Susan Johnston
Series: Cultivating beauty?
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jennifer Dickson's "From Garden to Ungarden", Part Two

  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 08:30
I. Everyone can participate
From: Susan Johnston
Series: Cultivating beauty?
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jennifer Dickson discusses the revival of gardening...as one of the most positive signs of hope for our world today.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 10:28
Promo piece
From: Susan Johnston
Series: Cultivating beauty?
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Short advertisement for series

  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: :24
Until the Pen Runs out of Ink
From: Susan Johnston
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Kevin Matthews' short social commentary, with a tongue-in-cheek look at spoken word

  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 02:09