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Nico Cathcart: A Contemporary Renaissance. Part 2 (Conclusion)
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Nico Cathcart working on a mural on Lakeside Avenue, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 27:38
Nico Cathcart: A Contemporary Renaissance. Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Nico at the unveiling of her three-story mural, A New Dawn in Hopewell, Virginia., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 25:47
Savannah Bustillo's Tongue Twisters in Graphite
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: "Enchilada" , Credit: Savannah Bustillo
In the world of audio recording, sound is visually represented in what’s called a wave form. They often look like tall ovals with vertical spikes. ...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:42
01 | Bobbi Mastrangelo
From: Natalia Guerrero
Series: Avant
Caption: Avant 01 | Bobbi Mastrangelo
Avant interviews manhole artist, Bobbi Mastrangelo, who has a decades-long career celebrating the humble manhole cover, advocating for clean water,...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2021
  • Length: 19:46
Flipping the Gaze, "Refresh" in VR Embodies the Disembodied
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Lela Pierce stands before a projection by Snow Yunxue Fu, Credit: Courtesy of the Gordon Parks Gallery in St. Paul
How do we experience a gallery in digital space? That question gets explored by new media artist Snow Yunxue Fu and dance artist Lela Pierce in "Re...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
NEA Jazz Moments with Pianist, Joanne Brackeen (round two)
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Joanne Brackeen is the only female to join Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and talks working with Stan Getz.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 8
Behind the Walls
From: Martine Chaussard
Caption: Pat Stark shows her first handwritten catalogue of Sam Feinstein’s paintings.
Fifteen years ago, Pat Stark discovered a lifetime of artwork in her home. Most of the art she found had never been seen by anyone but the artist, ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 2
Susan Jacobs on the Art of Music Supervision
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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In this piece, the *brand new* Emmy Award-winning Jacobs discusses the art of music supervision and shares stories from her work on four projects i...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 09:23
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
The Jemima Code (Gravy Ep. 6)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Toni Tipton Martin making hot rolls.
There’s a whole lot more than recipes in Toni Tipton Martin’s cookbook collection… It contains a surprising culinary history of African Americans i...

Bought by KVLU, WBHM, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 22:28
  • Purchases: 4
Body of Water
From: Veronica Simmonds
Caption: http://bodyofwater.ca/, Credit: Rebecca Roher
An ode to urban lake swimming

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
Paradise in the Everglades
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Maureen and Lucky Cole, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Two of the only human inhabitants of the Everglades live just off Loop Road less than a mile before it links back up with Tamiani Trail. Their comp...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 26:16
Remembering Eudora Welty
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Eudora Welty, New Haven, CT, 1974, Credit: William Ferris
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 13:47
  • Purchases: 2
Bestselling Novelist Cassandra King
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Cassandra King, Credit: Tanner Latham
Bestselling novelist Cassandra King talks about her new book Moonrise as well as her writing relationship with her husband, famous author Pat Conro...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 20:07
  • Purchases: 2
To Teach To Learn To Eat
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Chef Roscoe Hall, Credit: Tanner Latham
In our food-obsessed culture, we likely never think about what's on the menu at an eating disorder clinic. A couple of gourmet chefs bring their in...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 3
Amber Doll
From: Cassie Wagler
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Queer identity, sex dolls, performance art, love.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 08:55
New Life
From: Veronica Simmonds
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Every thing deserves a second chance

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:29
A Fish Tale
From: Emily Hsiao
Caption: Taxidermist Janet Messineo in her basement workshop, Credit: Emily Hsiao
Janet Messineo is a taxidermist on Martha's Vineyard. But you won't find any deer heads or bears in her workshop--just lots and lots of fish.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT


  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 2
You're the Driver?
From: Jennifer Swann
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A documentary on Adrian Chi Tenney, a female professional driver in Los Angeles, CA.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
Capes & Corsets
From: Frances Harlow
Caption: Nicole Jean dressed as Emma Frost., Credit: Wolfgang Daniel, courtesy of the Salt archives.
Comic books and women's fandom.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 2
Boat Building as Art
From: Alex Lewis
Caption: Suzanne Leahy in her workshop in Orleans.
Despite being a woman in what's traditionally considered a man’s field, Suzanne Leahy has worked her way to becoming a master wooden boat builder -...

Bought by WABE and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 2
Vidal Sassoon: Inspired by Architecture
From: Sarah Lilley
Caption: Mary Quant, as styled by Vidal Sassoon
In this evergreen single-voice portrait, renowned hair designer Vidal Sassoon discusses one of his greatest artistic inspirations with charm and in...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
Not Quite Nutcracker (and way better than christmas carols)
From: Emily Corwin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Set to the entire score of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet, Vanessa White's The Slutcracker is a wholesome kind of raunchy...

Bought by WFHB, KUT, and KUT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 21:14
  • Purchases: 3
Weberdance: An Audio Portrait
From: Chris Engles
Caption: Weberdance, Credit: Chris Engles
Audio portrait of a dance company in Boston, MA.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 07, 2010
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1
Mothers and Sons
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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a sonic memorial to the healing power of art

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, KTNA, NPR Illinois, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2008
  • Length: 26:44
  • Purchases: 10