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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
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
Katie Bowler Young discusses her new biography Enrique Alférez: Sculptor
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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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
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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
At Home in Miami’s Little Haiti
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fall 2020 Student Edition
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In this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami students Gretchell Cano and Luz Estrella Cruz explore the work of Hai...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 08:40
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
NL 18-33: Music In All Things: W. Eugene Smith And The Jazz Loft, 8/13/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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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
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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
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
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
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: A Year in Detroit
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Frieda and Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, 1931, oil on canvas, , Credit: , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Albert M. Bender Collection, Gift of Albert M. Bender © 2014 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. A
Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts Graham Beal takes us behind the scenes of the new exhibit Frida Kalho and Diego Rivera in Detroit

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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
Curtis and Kathy
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Curtis Billie from N'MPower
N’MPower participant and Program Manager, Curtis Billie, interviews Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, a potter from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, in a community ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 06:32
Anonymous and Diana
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
SPARK: A BURNING MAN STORY -- Jessie Deeter and Steve Brown Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Jessie Deeter & Steve Brown, San Francisco, CA 9/3/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jessie Deeter and Steve Brown talk staying hydrated, defining authenticity, grilled cheese sandwiches at three in the morning.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 16:19
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Benny Golson
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"...This country lookin' guy was standing there in the door, waiting for me to tell him what to do. So I said, 'play something!' He took out his ...

Bought by KMUW, WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jul 26, 2012
  • Length: 19:40
  • Purchases: 4
JazzStories: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Doug Wamble
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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“The essential ingredient of jazz is listening. And then the response... and out of that something unexpected comes rather than some fulfillment of...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:29
  • Purchases: 4
Neil Gaiman: A Reading and Interview
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
Caption: Neil Gaiman waits backstage, Credit: David J. Murray, Clear Eyed Photo
Multimedia sensation reads from the new edition of "American Gods," and talks Twitter, Dr. Who, and the power of librarians with host Virginia Pres...

Bought by KSRQ, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 49:27
  • Purchases: 3