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Talking across Disciplines with the Chair of the NEA and the Director of the Census Bureau
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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A special edition of Art Works a conversation between NEA Chair Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson and U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos, moderated ...

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


  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 5
“From Heritage to Health:” Bringing the diverse cultures of everyday life to medical care.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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A Conversation about “From Heritage to Health:” which demonstrates how storytelling and the arts can help medical professionals better treat cultur...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 27:57
  • Purchases: 7
Can art help fight climate change?
From: Possibly
Caption: Climate Stripes, Credit: Ed Hawkins
Today, we have a question from one of our reporters, Kolya Shields. They're an artist, and they want to know- can art help fight climate change?

Bought by Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, KMXT, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 4
Quick Study from the National Endowment for the Arts-Prescribing Art
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Quick Study
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A look at stats and stories to help us better understand the value of art in everyday life--from the National Endowment for the Arts

  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 08:08
Quick Study from the National Endowment for the Arts--Music and the pandemic
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Quick Study
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A look at stats and stories to help us better understand the value of art in everyday life--from the National Endowment for the Arts

  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 05:44
Using Art to Unpack Climate Change
From: Possibly
Caption: Our Changing Seas IV (2019), Credit: Courtney Mattison
On our show, we tell stories to make climate change seem less overwhelming. We know that our episodes are no replacement for massive policy changes...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
Renée Fleming: Music's Ability to Heal
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Renee Fleming with Hartmut Hoell, Credit: Bob Millard
Renée Fleming along with other musicians and scientists look at the remarkable ability of music to make us whole.

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 3
The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with poet Kim Roberts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kim Roberts
Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method

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  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Using the Power of Music To Rewire The Brain
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: After a year of neurologic music therapy with music therapist Tracy Bowdish, Jim Bob Rodriguez has regained some of the speech he lost after suffering a stroke., Credit: Sentara Norfolk General Hospital
Three years after a stroke robbed him of speech, a Virginia man is regaining his ability to sing and speak, thanks to revolutionary music therapy.

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 09:32
  • Purchases: 4
Rewire
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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After nine concussions, artist Raphael Diluzio woke up one morning not knowing his own identity.

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
Into the World of Synesthesia
From: Alex Lewis
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Synesthesia is a rare neurological condition. It usually involves the involuntary coupling together of two unrelated sensory or cognitive experienc...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 1
Adam as Machine
From: Ed Prosser
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Electricity, pumps & shunts: A forensic pathologist on life.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:23
Alder Hey's Dawn Chorus
From: Ed Prosser
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Find out how Europe's largest children's hospital is experimenting with the use of birdsong.

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 12/03/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THIRD OF NINE ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 01, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Exhibition explores the nexus of art and science
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: Artist Brigham Dimick with part of “Waxworks 2,” a series of three self-portraits that include observation hives with live honeybees., Credit: (UMSL/Terry Suhre)
There's an unusual art exhibition going on right now at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The exhibition showcases three artists from the St....

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Blue Morph
From: Claes Andreasson
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The Sound of a Butterfly's Metamorphosis

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 15, 2008
  • Length: 01:08:08
  • Purchases: 2
Author Stephen Poleskie in conversation about his life, art and his book "The Balloonist."
From: Tish Pearlman
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Stephen Poleskie in conversation about his life as an artist and writer

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 27:30
Digital Photographs
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Commentary on digital photograph storage

  • Added: May 25, 2007
  • Length: 05:10
Robot Music
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Melding art and technology to creat emusical robots

  • Added: Sep 18, 2006
  • Length: 10:33
The Museum of Jurassic Technology's David Wilson
From: M. Travis DiNicola
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An interview with David Wilson, the creator and curator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 13:23
The Singing Yeast Cell
From: Claes Andreasson
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The sounds that cells make

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2004
  • Length: 12:45
  • Purchases: 9