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Behind the Scenes with Actors Sylvia Kwan and Jacob Yeh
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Actors Sylvia Kwan and Jacob Yeh discuss their many roles in Lauren Yee's play "The King of the Yees."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KZUM


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:07
  • Purchases: 4
Leading an arts center into the future
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sonja Kostich and Stella Abrera, Credit: Quinn Wharton
Sonja Kostich and Stella Abrera—both Asian Americans, former dancers, and co-leaders of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park—talk about the organization and its...

Bought by WMPG, RADIOLEX, KZUM, WDCB, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 6
Daniel K. Isaac from "Billions" to Broadway
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Daniel K. Isaac, Credit: Emil Cohen
You may know Daniel K. Isaac as Ben Kim from the television series “Billions,” but he’s also a committed and talented actor in theater and an accom...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:57
  • Purchases: 4
An Elephant Sitting Still
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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In an industrial town in China, the lives of four people (three young, one old) intertwine on a day darkened by hostility, powerlessness, and reven...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:30
Meet Heartbeat Opera and Its Artistic Director Ethan Heard
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ethan Heard, Credit: Stanley Bohorek
Ethan Heard and Heartbeat Opera re-visions opera for the 21st Century.

Bought by KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 3
Painter Mequitta Ahuja Talks about identity and self-portraiture.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Mequitta Ahuja, Portrait of Her Mother, oil on canvas, Credit: Courtesy of the artist
Visual artist Mequitta Ahuja joins us on the podcast to talk about how she approaches portraiture, art-making as a form of grieving, and being insp...

Bought by KWMR, WMPG, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Visual Artist and Disability Rights Advocate Gordon Sasaki talks about the art of visibility.

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 27:29
  • Purchases: 1
Author R.O. Kwon's novel The Incendiaries has everyone talking and for good reason
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: R.O. Kwon, Credit: Smeeta Mahanti
Author R.O. Kwon's book The Incendiaries has been named a best book of the year by over forty publications. Not bad for a first book! But it's als...

Bought by KZUM and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2
CYJO on the Complexities of Photographing Identity
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Miami-based Korean American visual artist CYJO takes us to discover exceptional work in the photographic medium at the Art Basel Miami Beach art fa...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 25:13
Susie Lee: Listening to Your Body Before Changing Your Life
From: The Art of Risk
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What did want to be when she grew up? A plastic surgeon! No, a science teacher! No, I know—an artist. No, wait—company CEO! Susie Lee CEO of Siren...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 42:43
Sharing Patchwork: The Quilts of Southwest China
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A bedcover made by sisters Wei Guoer and Wei Guofeng of Guangxi Province. (Courtesy of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures)
The exhibition, The Quilts of Southwest China, was organized by a bi-national consortium of Chinese and American museums, including the Mathers Mus...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:05
Michael Berry and the art of translation
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Yu Hua and Michael Berry Beijing August 2010 , Credit: courtesy of Michael Berry
Michael Berry reflects on the art of translating Yu Hua’s influential novel and new Big Read title To Live into English

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


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
A Conversation with sound architect Bora Yoon
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Bora Yoon, Credit: Leslie Van Stelte.
Bora Yoon talks about building the sonic design of her album Sunken Cathedral.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with novelist, Julie Otsuka
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Julie Otsuka, Credit: Robert Bessoir
Julie Otsuka’s first novel When the Emperor Was Divine explores her family’s history in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Jane Chu--the new chair of the National Endowment for the Arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jane Chu, Credit: Courtesy of the Kauffman Center for the Arts
Jane Chu shares her ideas for the agency and the place of art in her own life.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with David Mura
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: David Mura, Credit: Courtesy of American Program Bureau, Inc.
Poet, Writer and Spoken-Word Performer David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it me...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 27:29
  • Purchases: 1
Catch 311
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
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On March 11th, 2011 Justine Beed was sitting in an English classroom outside of Tokyo, when the 9.0 Earthquake hit near Fukushima.

Bought by MPR News Stations


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 1
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY -- Alison Klayman Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Filmmaker Alison Klayman talks freedom of expression, universal struggles, and the limits of subtitles.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2012
  • Length: 18:25
WorldCanvass (excerpt): Nov 2009, Human Rights and the Philippine Reservation
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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The most popular exhibit and biggest money-maker at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair was the "Philippine Reservation." 1,000 Filipinos lived in thi...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 17:32
  • Purchases: 1
Yamamoto's Waves
From: Sofia Saldanha
Series: The Wapping Project Podcast
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"A silk dress with a bamboo crinoline hangs upside down over a lake in the center of a former power station. The dress' reflection, distorted by a ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 09:42
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Electric Kulintang - Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Susie Ibarra
“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...

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


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 4
War Rugs: What Little Girls Make
From: Susan Barrett Price
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Contemplating a war rug made during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WFUV, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
Crossing East: Jon Jang Music Feature
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Profile of Composer and Pianist Jon Jang

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 04:59