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Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis
From: Samuel Robinson
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
New Libraries, Old Buildings
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Libraries weren't always located in their own stately buildings. Many of our branches used to operate out of pharmacies, laundry rooms, storefronts...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 26:16
  • Purchases: 1
Oh! What A Poetical War!
From: Sue Zizza
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Featuring the popular poetry of the time before and during the Great War: the Music Hall songs; the songs the soldiers sang; the poems that served ...

Bought by KAAD-LP, Prairie Public, and KAAD-LP


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tyrus Wong: Chinese American Artist Broke Barriers, Reached Back Centuries to Create Bambi
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Tyrus Wong at his home in CA in 2004, Credit: Courtesy Walt Disney Family Museum
Tyrus Wong, a pioneering Chinese American artist who created the look of the movie, "Bambi," left a great legacy and continues to inspire artists a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 05, 2017
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dayton Indy Garment Makers Band Together
From: renee wilde
Series: Culture Couch
Caption: Tracy McElfresh and Lawanda Stonerock, Credit: Renee Wilde
Dayton has an eclectic population of independent fashion designers and craftspeople. Today on Culture Couch, Renee Wilde introduces listeners two l...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2017
  • Length: 05:59
Voices of Youth Keep Lushootseed Language Alive
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Maria Martin teaches Lushootseed to preschoolers at the Tulalip Montessori School., Credit: KUOW Photo/Ben Gauld
Linguists say that by the end of the century, 80% of all world languages will fall out of use. The spread of global languages like English and Span...

Bought by KALW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 2
Rolanda Scott: The Art of Transformation Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Rolanda Scott, Credit: John MacLellan
Art teacher and glass sculptor Rolanda Scott was first diagnosed with breast cancer years ago, but she kept teaching and for the longest while surv...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 28:20
Rolanda Scott: The Art of Transformation Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Rolanda Scott , Credit: John MacLellan
Sometimes art can ease your pain, maybe even save your life. And the medium you started working in sometimes becomes another form all together. Rol...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 25:30
Designer's Creative Focus Shifts With Diagnosis
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Andrea Leggitt's mobile designs draw on memes and pop culture favorites., Credit: Andrea Leggitt
Andrea Leggitt's life and creative focus changed when she got some unexpected news shortly after she graduated from Arizona State University with a...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 07:37
Latitude News Podcast #4 - Channeling Venice in Cleveland
From: Latitude News
Caption: Giancarlo Calicchia's "Genesis," a 28-foot long, 2,000+ pound wooden sculpture., Credit: Dan Moulthrop
Cleveland’s Renaissance man hopes to rejuvenate the Rust Belt with art.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 12:52
  • Purchases: 1
Drips, Smears and Smudges
From: Cheryl Bowlan
Caption: Tim Lynn, artist, Credit: Cheryl Bowlan
Paralyzed from the shoulders down and colorblind, Tim Lynn managed to become a talented painter whose work has hung in several San Francisco Bay Ar...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2011
  • Length: 11:14
Portrait artist on a mission to paint the fallen
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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Vietnam Vet has a new mission: to draw portraits of fallen soliders in the Iraq War, for free

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 1
Loring Cornish
From: Justin Levy
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Artist Loring Cornish offers a tour of the Baltimore rowhouse he's transformed into an enormous work of art, as well as a home.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2008
  • Length: 09:50
Collecting Christmas Creches
From: John Hingsbergen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One of the world's largest collections of Christmas creches at the University of Dayton (Ohio)

  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 04:22
Art Of Ohio: David Hostetler - On Carving and Life
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
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At the age of 80, internationally know sculptor David Hostetler, has no intention of sitting back and taking it easy. He says, for him, art is not ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2007
  • Length: 05:30
For the Love of Craft
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Eric Stockinger and MIchael Norgang embark on a 400 year old tradition of wooden boat building in Maine.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Family
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Jon Joyce, an artist with down syndrome, offers support and love to his 94 year old mother.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2007
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Sonic World of Nancy Scott
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sound artist Nancy Scott's ears are tuned to the sounds most of us overlook.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 1
Before & After: The Second Spirit of a One-Eyed Photographer
From: Rebecca Sheir
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When she lost her sight, she found her vision.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2006
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 1
How To Destroy A Book
From: Peter Crimmins
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A San Francisco library book vandal evokes artistic reaction.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMPG, WBEZ, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2005
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 4
Sounds of Democracy
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Portland Public Library's free piano offers more than music the folks who play it.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 3
On The Line: Union Actors In New York
From: Eevin Hartsough
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New York actors face ridiculous odds trying to get work, but persevere nonetheless

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMNF, Marfa Public Radio, Public Interactive, and WHQR


  • Added: Apr 19, 2005
  • Length: 09:46
  • Purchases: 5
Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship Documentary
From: M. Travis DiNicola
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A documentary about Indianapolis' Creative Renewal Arts Fellowships which has granted 150 "artistic sabbaticals" since 1999.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 29:55
Polly Thayer Starr and a Student Drawing
From: Jackson Braider
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An artist remembers an early piece of work

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 12, 2004
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1