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Artists with Disabilities Rebel in Joy
From: KRCL
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An interview with Stan Clawson of Art Access, a nonprofit that increases accessibility in the arts through opportunities for artists with disabilit...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 05:26
Is Pixar In Decline?
From: Jon Negroni
Series: Cinemaholics
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Jon Negroni and T.J. Wolsos discuss the state of Pixar, and if the quality of their films has taken a change for the worse.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 17:58
Whithervanes: The Art of Anxiety
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Connecting art with streaming social media and news technology, Whithervane designers Cezanne Charles and John Marshall invite us to think about th...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2018
  • Length: 11:20
GN_4.47_SwingBomb
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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A renegade California group creates pop-up swings throughout the city.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
Knits For Flint
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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A knitting group in Frankenmuth, Michigan is doing their part to help children in Flint, whose families are still financially affected by the Flint...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
Artist paddles the Erie Canal from Buffalo to NYC
From: Great Lakes Today
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Well known artist and adventurer braves the urban waterways in New York in search for art. Her project called Tide and Current taxi takes her on a ...

Bought by WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 4
Exploring and Planning For Death At A New Kind of Festival
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Tom Davis, 62, starts his tour of Crown Hill Cemetery at the Before I Die Wall. Davis suffered a heart attack on March 22., Credit: Jake Harper/Side Effects
The original Before I Die Festival was held in Cardiff, Wales in 2013, and the idea has since spread to the U.K. and now, Indianapolis. The purpos...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and WNIN


  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 3
Ins and Outs of Money – Artists Approaching Finances (repeat)
From: WFHB
Series: Ins and Outs of Money
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Artists Approaching Finances

Bought by KUPR low power FM and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 2
The Painter of Light and Industry
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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J.M.W. Turner is perhaps the most important British painter--you would surely recognize an image of Tintern Abbey--and yet his life story has remai...

Bought by KENW and KKRN


  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law #48: Boiled Angel
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Freedom of speech is a right guaranteed in the first amendment of the constitution. One exception to the rule is obscenity. But determining what is...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 16:05
The Glass Sho: Episode 33 (Willie Nile)
From: Chris McGovern
Series: The Glass Sho
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Singer-songwriter Willie Nile discusses his latest album as well as other things in his career.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:02:27
NaNoWriMo
From: David Berner
Caption: Fifty-thousand words in a month. How's it going?, Credit: National Novel Writing Month Organizatoin
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 2
Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Renaissance artist Michelangelo are now on a rare, two-stop tour in America. Kelley Libby attended the first le...

Bought by KENW and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane
From: Kelley Libby
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Twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Renaissance artist Michelangelo are now on a rare, two-stop tour in America. Producer Kelley Libby attended the...

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
Italian Tailors: An Age-Old Tradition Unravels
From: Nancy Greenleese
Series: Made In Italy...For Now
Caption: Paola Gueli is one of a dwindling number of tailors in Italy, a country renowned for its tailoring tradition. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni
Skilled tailoring is a dying art. Many of the best tailors hail from Italy where the tradition is unraveling due to a lack of training opportuniti...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 2
A picture of American consumerism
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With the March announcement that Best Buy is closing 50 large stores around the country, the dominance of big box retail has been called into quest...

Bought by KENW and KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 2
Indie on Demand Reviews TAKE SHELTER
From: Daniel Persons
Series: The Indie on Demand Movie Review
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A Review of Director Jeff Nichols' Topical, Enigmatic Drama

  • Added: Feb 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
Walking Home: An Interview with Laura Milkins
From: Aengus Anderson
Caption: Camera on head, Laura Milkins walks across Tucson, AZ, Credit: Tom Willette
Laura Milkins is walking from Tucson, Arizona to Grand Rapids, Michigan—with a streaming webcam attached to her head. Milkins is a performance art...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Manton Avenue Project
From: BSR Radio
Series: Off the Beat
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The Providence based Manton Avenue Project works to train young children in playwriting. The final result of the project is a full-fledged play pe...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2010
  • Length: 07:49
Rebuilding Art in Haiti
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, and it’s been wracked with political turmoil. Even the recent elections were marred by allegat...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
Peasant DaVincis
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Shanghai is host to the World Expo this summer, but it’s another exhibit in town that’s stealing the show. It’s a display of robots made from scra...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 04:20
Faceless Painter
From: World Vision Report
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In a speech at a US military base in South Korea this week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said “North Korea is a lethal and destabilizing force in...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 05:26
Hartbeat
From: World Vision Report
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US unemployment rates continue to rise. That’s keeping career advisors and social workers busy. In Hartford, Connecticut, a hometown theater ense...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
Truck Decorator
From: World Vision Report
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A truck is a truck is a truck. Except in Pakistan. We’ll let reporter Jessica Partnow tell you about it. She sent us this story from Karachi.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 19, 2009
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 1
Musician Tip No. 23 - Andy Hall
From: WAMU
Series: Musician Tips
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Tips about sound reinforcement from Andy Hall.

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: 01:09