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Oud-player and composer Rahim AlHaj prisoner, exile, and brilliant musician
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Rahim AlHaj, Credit: Dan Merlo
Rahim AlHaj is quite simply one of the best oud players in the world. In this broadcast, Rahim performs and shares his story of leaving Iraq and c...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WABE, WMMT, WNJR, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Author and MacArthur Fellow Edwidge Danticat talks about her memoir
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Edwidge Danticat, Credit: Jonathan Demme
In this conversation, Edwidge explores the writing of her powerful memoir, Brother, I’m Dying.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi & "The Water Knife"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This Paonia, Colorado National Book Award finalist describes a thriller version of possible future water wars in the American Southwest. Is this an...

Bought by KRZA, Radio Newark, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 3
The late Joe Wilson--the great friend of American folk culture
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Joe Wilson at the Henderson Festival, 2014, Credit: Ginger Correll
2001 National Heritage Fellow Joe Wilson weaves his storytelling spell into the history of Blue Ridge Mountain culture.

Bought by WNJR, WABE, WMMT, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 4
Ukrainian folk textile artist Vera Nakonechny traces her artistic journey.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Vera Nakonechny, Credit: Yury Nakonechny
Ukrainian embroiderer, weaver and bead worker Vera Nakonechny keeps a traditional culture alive.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Poet Dan Vera translates the immigrant experience
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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In his recent book, Speaking Wiri Wiri, poet Dan Vera brings light and often laughter to the immigrant experience.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
All that Jazz with Carla Bley
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Carla Bley, Credit: D.D. Rider
Carla Bley is a prolific and agile composer and jazz pianist. She talks about her career--from Birdland to Montreux.

Bought by KPIP-LP, Harford Community Radio, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 4
Poet Taylor Mali:poetry on stage and page
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali connects stage and page.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Jazz great Charles Lloyd takes us on his journey
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The world legend is thrown around a lot, but saxophonist, flutist and composer Charles Lloyd is the real deal. He's much of a musical innovator tod...

Bought by KPIP-LP, Harford Community Radio, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 4
Sam White: Making Theater on the streets of Detroit
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sam White and Othello cast, Credit: Cybelle Codish
Sam White loves Detroit and loves Shakespeare. So, she emptied her bank account and started a site-specific professional theater company, Shakespea...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
First Novel to TV Series: Author Jason Mott and “The Returned"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Jason’s first novel was inspired by a dream in which his late mother visited him. He goes on to describe his day job while he was writing the book ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 2
Filmmaker Sam Pollard celebrates August Wilson.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" Playbill., Credit: Photofest, Inc.
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
Telling Black History with needle and thread, National Heritage Fellow Carolyn Mazloomi
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Carolyn Mazloomi, Credit: Gale Zucker
Carolyn Mazloomi shines a powerful light on the African American community through narrative quilts.

Bought by KDNK, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Who Decides What’s Fair? Author Ausma Zehanet Khan
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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An international human rights lawyer, Ausma Zehanet Khan in “The Unquiet Dead” introduces two Canadian police inspectors, Rachel Getty and Esa Khat...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
2: Kirsten Tobey & Kristin Richmond, Revolution Foods; Alex Bernadotte, Beyond12: Hot Food and High Tech
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Kristin Richmond & Kirsten Tobey, Revolution Foods
How good food and good data improves student success. The female founders of Revolution Foods and Beyond 12.

Bought by WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
Dinaw Mengestu talks about his latest book, All Our Names
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dinaw Mengestu, Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
In All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu explores unlikely love in the midst of conflict.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
A conversation about Folk Arts: Grassroots self-expression
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Barry Bergey with Mavis Staples, Credit: Tom Pich
The NEA's recently retired Director of Folk and Traditional Arts Barry Bergey shares some memories about a lifetime immersed in folk and tradition...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Theater artist Ping Chong shines a spotlight on race in America with Collidescope.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Moriamo Akibu in COLLIDESCOPE , Credit: Stan Barouh
Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-R...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Arts in the Schools!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Multifacted, Credit: Nati Soti of Zero One Projects.
Diana Green and Cathy Gassenheimer have a mission: Arts Education for Every Alabama pre-k thru 12 Student!

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: :54
  • Purchases: 1
Shirley Sneve on getting the voices of Native-Americans on the airwaves.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Shirley Sneve talks about Native American Public Telecommunications which shares stories of Native American people on television and radio.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 2
Nathaniel Philbrick winner of the 2000 National Book Award for his history In the Heart of the Sea talks about the glories of Moby-Dick
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Charles W. Morgan at Sea
In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
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
Author Max Brooks has put zombies on the global map!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The World War Z author Max Brooks isn't kidding when it comes to zombies.

Bought by WABE, KPIP-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
2011 National Book Award Winner Jesmyn Ward finds the past is often present in rural Mississippi.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jesmyn Ward, Credit: Tony Cook
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.

Bought by WABE, KPIP-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
A conversation with award-winning Indie filmmaker Nicole Gomez Fisher
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Gina Rodriguez and Ana Ortiz in "Sleeping with the Fishes", Credit: Breaking Glass Pictures
Nicole Gomez Fisher brings it all back home in her film, Sleeping with the Fishes... and goes on to win the award for Best New Director at the Broo...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2