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Burning Man is guided by "10 Principles." One is radical inclusion. What does that mean for people with disabilities?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 19:04
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1996 was a turning point for Burning Man. Two people were run over in their tents. And another person died in a head-on collision.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 27:08
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We begin where art meets motion with a family of first-time art car makers is hustling to finish up their vehicle.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 31:28
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The city is temporary and the intersections are conceptual. Are you ready to experience Burning Man — deep in the Nevada desert?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 04:37
Caption: Spiral design on the street
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 09:06
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Two episodes that might challenge your perspective on what it means to be a cowboy.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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For some eight years now, 34 Black women from the Bay Area — artists, scholars, midwives, nurses, an architect, an ice cream maker, a donut maker, ...

Bought by WRGY, WCQS, WKMS, Nevada Public Radio, KASU and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 53:27
  • Purchases: 49
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 10:12
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The Truth In This Art - Interview with Hrag Vartanian

  • Added: Mar 13, 2023
  • Length: 47:40
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How can a theatre modality called Theatre of the Oppressed work to raise awareness about the mechanisms of oppression that exist in societies, and ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Michelle Zamora on the set of Waffles+Mochi, Credit: Michelle Zamora
Michelle Zamora puppeteers Waffles on the hit Netflix series Waffles + Mochi. She’s performed and built puppets for TV shows including A Black Lad...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 48:00
Caption: Gord Robertson on Fraggle Rock, Credit: Gord Robertson
Gord Robertson was the puppeteer of Zoboomafoo, the talking Lemur from the television show of the same name. He also played Bill, the psychopathic...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 01:13:00
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From the Blushin Roulettes, an appaacahin swing duo who got their start on a farm in Mandescendo CA to Dr. Bacon, an appalacahin grass 6 piece from...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:01
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A look at the musicians we lost in 2022.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:03
Caption: Jennifer and Reed in Birch Bay, WA, Credit: Monica Jane Frisell
Portrait of US is a living, transforming and growing collection of stories from throughout the United States: Jennifer and Reed tell us their about...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2022
  • Length: 12:06
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Andy Truscott speaks with Maia Palmer, a 2022 Individual Artist Fellow and the current artist exhibiting in the Mezzanine Gallery at the Carvel Sta...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 21:58
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Andy Truscott speaks with Greg Hammond, an author from Wilmington, Delaware – and one of the Delaware Division of the Arts’ 2022 Emerging Individua...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 22:13
Caption: Robin Armstrong, Credit: Robin Armstrong Facebook
Robin Armstrong's music project, Cosmograf, has released a new album entitled 'Heroic Materials'. It's a song cycle based on the life of a World Wa...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2022
  • Length: 01:56:11
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Artist Joseph Matheny struggles to manage the chaos unleashed by the world’s first ARG “Ong’s Hat.”

  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:02:35
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack pays homage and respect to Doctor Rex Veeder, who pass...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Mike Quinn, Credit: Mike Quinn
Mike Quinn’s first professional puppetry gig was working for Jim Henson on The Great Muppet Caper. His second job was working on The Dark Crystal....

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 01:30:27
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we revisit KVSC’s broadcast from the opening day of the 2022 Minnesota State Fair. Your “fried radio...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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"To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world," said Mahler. Hear unique historical comment and quotes from biographers, authors, conductor...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WHRV


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:16
  • Purchases: 5
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Mishy Harman returns to a place he loved as a kid: the Israel Museum’s recycling workshop. There he meets Telma Schultz, who – for the past thirty ...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2022
  • Length: 05:03
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Have you ever heard of the cartoonist Oliver Harrington? Probably not, but the artist played an instrumental role in German-American history. From ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1