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American artist Sanford Biggers talks about what inspires him to radically alter old quilts and African sculptures.
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 10:13
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...
- Added: Mar 24, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
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
Poets and social workers, Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills' primary audience have been Wilmington’s under served children.
Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
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
From Pericles to Tupac Shakur, Wayne Carr has the uncanny ability to embody fully-realized characters.
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 28:30
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
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
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
Tameka Norris talks about her first feature-length film—she plays a version of herself in Meka Jean: How She Got Good. The film debuted during Pros...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 12:07
Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new documentary
August Wilson: The Ground on which I Stand
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 4
Writer, director, and actor, Thomas W. Jones II makes sense of the world through theater
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Carolyn Mazloomi shines a powerful light on the African American community through narrative quilts.
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson talks about urban planning that has art at its heart.
- Added: Jan 23, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
With a new exhibit and catalog-- both titled Represent, the Philadelphia Museum of Art puts its extensive collection of African American art on vie...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Marc Steiner Show producer Mark Gunnery shares an appreciation and review of the latest John Coltrane release, Offering: Live at Temple University....
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
Now in its third iteration, the city-wide international art exhibition known as Prospect New Orleans is beginning to feel at home. This Fresh Talk ...
- Added: Nov 20, 2014
- Length: 09:26
Choclatt Jared has played his bucket drums on 42nd Street, at the Grammy Awards, the Tony Awards, the Academy Awards, and on Saturday Night Live. H...
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 30:13
This episode features A Subtlety, the first ever public art project by American artist Kara Walker.
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 14:53
Anthony Braxton may be considered avant garde but he embraces all musical traditions
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 40:46
Tope Folarin becomes the first writer born outside of Africa to win the Caine Prize with his short story set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian ch...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 28:24
- Purchases: 1
Daniel Beaty's play and bravura performance in The Tallest Tree in the Forest shines a light on the artistry and activism of Paul Robeson.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 31:49
- Purchases: 1
In this unedited podcast, Cathy Byrd shares a conversation with artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, that she recorded in his Houston, Texas, studio.
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 24:25
Recorded in Berlin, on October 27, 2012, this unedited podcast features Cathy Byrd, Fresh Talk producer, in conversation with Jean-Ulrick Désert.
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 34:36
This Fresh Talk episode features Jean-Ulrick Désert and Trenton Doyle Hancock, two of the artists participating in the exhibition Radical Presence:...
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 13:28
