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Mickey Rowe: Acting with Autism
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Mickey Rowe
A young professional autistic actor makes his difference work on the stage

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


  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Poet Jan Beatty gives voice to the working class
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jan Beatty
Jan Beatty's poetry is unsentimental and clear-eyed about blue-collar work and the people who do it.

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


  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Director of the Museum of African Art, is a force to be reckoned with
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Credit: Jessica Suworoff, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
Johnnetta Cole remembers when she wasn't allowed in museums because of segregation, and that informs her determination to inspire a love of art mu...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Irish Novelist Belinda McKeon
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Belinda McKeon , Credit: Will Chancellor
Novelist Belinda McKeon: Writing 21st century Ireland

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


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Playwright Kirsten Greenidge keeps it real
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Playwright Kirsten Greenidge
In her new work Baltimore, playwright Kirsten Greenidge grapples with the issue of race on college campuses.

Bought by WABE, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Playwright Lynn Nottage unmasks the cost of industrial decline in Sweat
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Scene from Sweat, Credit: C. Stanley Photography
In her new play, Sweat, Lynn Nottage gives voice to the human cost of workers without work.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Vance Gellert's Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Vance Gellert's Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota
When Vance Gellert decided to photograph the Iron Range, people asked him why. In his traveling show Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota, V...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 13:30
Composer John Adams: Creating American Classical music
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: John Adams, Credit: Deborah O'Grady
Composer John Adams reflects on his creating American music that’s intense, sensual and meaningful.

Bought by WABE, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Peter Rothstein: Star Tribune Artist of the Year
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Grand Rapids native Peter Rothstein was recently named the Star Tribune's Artist of the Year, not only for his talent as a director, but even more ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2016
  • Length: 14:10
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
Actor Wayne Carr's life on the stage: It was meant to be.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Wayne Carr as Pericles caught in storm at sea., Credit: Teresa Wood
From Pericles to Tupac Shakur, Wayne Carr has the uncanny ability to embody fully-realized characters.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
Director and playwright Tazewell Thompson: Bringing it to the stage.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Soloman Howard as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the company of Appomattox at Washington National Opera , Credit: Scott Suchman
Tazewell Thompson may be wowing critics and audiences with his direction of the opera Appomattox, but he’s an equally brilliant theater director an...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNJR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Charleston Mayor Joe Riley and the great work possible through city design
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Opening Day of Spoleto USA, 2015
After 40 years, Mayor Riley steps down, leaving a legacy that privileges the public sphere and beauty in the everyday.

Bought by WABE, WNJR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
“Text as Image, Image as Text"
From: Prairie Public
Series: Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life
Caption: Alexandra Grant
Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Alexandra Grant, exploring her use of language to combine art and literature.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2015
  • Length: 53:50
  • Purchases: 1
Comic Book Artist and Writer Mike Mignola tells us how Hellboy came to be
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Mike Mignola's Hellboy
After all this time, Mike Mignola still loves drawing monsters

Bought by KZUM, WNJR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Richard Hunt--One of the giants of American sculpture.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Richard Hunt in his studio, Credit: Tom McCormick
Richard Hunt talks about creating large pieces of abstract art for public spaces and reflects on his time on the National Council of the Arts

Bought by WNJR and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Arts Interchange - Zac Little of Saintseneca: To Shake the Ache
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Doug Storm talks to singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Zac Little of Saintseneca, an American folk rock band from Columbus, Ohio, about Ap...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 47:34
Fresh Talk: Cesar Cornejo
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Havana Museum of Contemporary Art, Credit: Cesar Cornejo
Peruvian artist Cesar Cornejo talks about his project for the 12th Havana Biennial.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 08:18
Flying with Dolly Jacobs!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dolly Jacobs, Credit: Richard Czina
Most kids run away from home to join the circus. For aerialist and 2015 National Heritage Fellow, Dolly Jacobs, it was a family affair.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Fresh Talk: Marinella Senatore
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Marinella Senatore, Credit: Mercedes Elizabeth Lowe
Italian artist Marinella Senatore talks about the performances she's producing for the 13th Lyon Biennial exhibition, La Vie Moderne.

  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 12:03
A Conversation with Kevin McKenzie of American Ballet Theatre
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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American Ballet Theatre received the first grant ever given by the National Endowment for the Arts. We talk about that long and fruitful relationship.

Bought by KZUM, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
The Speed of Sound: Veruca Salt
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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The newly reunited Veruca Salt talks with Kyle Meredith about what it took to bury the hatchet and put the band back together, and what the band me...

Bought by KUCB, KHNS, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
Meet Dan Sheehy who has spent his life in folk and traditional arts.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dan Sheehy, Credit: Ashlee Duncan
He helped develop the Folk Arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts and he's been head of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Now, Dan Shee...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WABE, KPVL, and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Poet and Playwright Claudia Rankine has us board the bus for the Bronx
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine discusses her play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WNJR, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Simon Shaheen: Making Musical Bridges
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Simon Shaheen
Violinist and oud player Simon Shaheen discusses his merging of Arab and western musical traditions.

Bought by KPVL and WNJR


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2