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Ann Marie Fleming - Filmmaker and Animator - The French Guy, I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, and Window Horses
From: MergingArts Productions
Series: Spoiler Alert Radio
Caption: Window Horses
Ann Marie Fleming - Filmmaker and Animator - The French Guy, I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, and Window Ho...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with painter Kimberly Brooks
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kimberly Brooks
Kimberly Brooks talks about the language of painting

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 27:11
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates Spiderwoman Theater and Muriel Miguel
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: The Miguel Sisters
Forty years ago, Muriel Miguel co-founded Spiderwoman Theater the first Native-American women’s theater. It's still going strong!

  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 27:59
75: How To Redesign Your Life-Suz Somersall, founder of KiraKira
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Suz Somersall, founder KiraKira
Suz Somersall wanted to be an engineer when she grew up but was so uninspired by the classes, she turned to an art degree instead. It wasn’t until ...

Bought by KKRN, KCSB-FM, KWIT, KKRN, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Drawing Ideas with Roz Chast
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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In this audio piece, among other things, we learn how she joined The New Yorker’s staff and how her illustrations are infused with a particular kin...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 06:26
ALEXANDRA HEDISON, ex-actress and photographer
From: Out of Bounds
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Former actress talks about her journey into fine art photography

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Listening to Ladies: Beth Anderson
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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Composer Beth Anderson on phoning up John Cage, not "looking like" a composer, and the collage that is life. 

  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 27:19
The Slam Poet Laureate of Winona
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Nicholle Ramsey, slam poet, Credit: Sylvia Thomas
Slam poets and sonnet lovers usually don’t hang out together. But in Winona, Minnesota, they do. KFAI’s Sylvia Thomas reports on an unusual poetry ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 28, 2017
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Nerdette's Summer Homework Special
From: WBEZ
Series: Nerdette
Caption: Actor Tom Hanks on Nerdette
Guests on Nerdette always assign listeners homework, and we’ve compiled the BEST OF THE BEST into this hour-long Nerdette summer homework special. ...

Bought by KUNM, KZYX, WCNY, KOSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 30
RDD: Art, Science, and Information
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet Vanessa Snyder a freelance graphic designer, exhibit planner, and painter.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 1
Ragamala Dance Tours Rural Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Ragamala Dance, Credit: ragamaladance.org
The Ragamala Dance Company has brought their "emotional vistas" of Indian Dance to audiences large and small for the past 25 years. The troupe bri...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2017
  • Length: 11:35
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
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
Filmspotting 613 (12/02/16): The Edge of Seventeen, Top 5 Teen Girl Movies Directed by Women
From: WBEZ
Caption: Hailee Steinfeld in Kelly Fremon Craig's 'The Edge of Seventeen'
In most teen coming of age movies, it’s usually the boys who do the coming of age. But in "The Edge of Seventeen," the focus is squarely on the gir...

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


  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Article X: Control Alt Delete
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of "Art Beat" we visit with local author Ryan Witt on his new science fiction novel, "Article X". This book explores a society wher...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 24:02
No Matter What You Call It, It's Taja Will
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Taja Will (left) and Kathleen Pender., Credit: Sophie Nikitas
As a teenager, Taja Will shone as a cheerleader and opera singer-in-training. After a severe injury disrupted her path, she found a new direction i...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 03:42
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
21st Annual Woolgathering Event
From: renee wilde
Series: Culture Couch
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Annual fiber artist event started by four local artists is now in it's 21st year. It has become one of the largest fiber art events in the nation, ...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 05:02
Focus on Apartheid: The Photojournalism of Margaret Bourke-White
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechosl...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 56:31
Where@bouts - Episode 004 - The Magic Skates
From: Mad Genius
Series: Where@bouts
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"When I have my skates on, I'm awake and I'm alive. I don't have to take drugs." Where@bouts, the podcast that remixes the world, is back with a s...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 11:48
  • Purchases: 1
Documentary Filmmaker Frances McElroy turns her lens on Black Ballerinas
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Black Ballerina looks at different generations of dancers, but is it the same story?

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, Public Radio for All, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 4
RDD: La Grande Dame of the Arts (part 2)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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We have begun a new line of connections on The Rough Draft Diaries with the story of Edith Franklin. Last week began the story of the “The Godmothe...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 06:18
RDD: La Grande Dame of the Arts (part 1)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In a Rough Drafts Diaries first, the connections have run dry. In our last episode, our interview only gave one connection instead of the usual thr...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 06:11
We Don't Talk Like That ... 'Fargo' and the Midwest Psyche
From: Todd Melby
Caption: Frances McDormand as Police Chief Marge Gunderson., Credit: Gramercy Pictures
The 1996 movie "Fargo" stirred widespread curiosity about snowy winters, funny accents and bloody mayhem on the frozen tundra of North Dakota and M...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WYSO, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KMSU and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12