Area Voices

Series produced by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

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Area Voices explores the arts, culture, and history of Northern Minnesota. Through in-depth interviews, hosts of Northern Community Radio's Morning Show connect listeners to the area's unique cultural heritage and the experience of life in northern Minnesota.

Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

Area Voices explores the arts, culture, and history of Northern Minnesota. Through in-depth interviews, hosts of Northern Community Radio's Morning Show keep you up-to-date on the local arts scene, help you stay informed on cultural happenings, and transport you to Minnesota's storied past. Connecting listeners to the area's unique cultural heritage and the experience of life in Northern Minnesota. All in a week's work on Area Voices.

Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.


783 Pieces

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Caption: Vivienne Morgan: Nature/Nurture/Typology/ Beltrami County, Cumbria
Close your left eye. Now close your right eye. See how everything shifts? That’s Vivienne Morgan’s approach to photography. Vivenne talked with Are...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1
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The numbers are hard to calculate. But we know that sexual assault impacts our communities in significant and damaging ways. The number of survivor...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 14:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Keila McCracken at the Hattersley Loom
Keila McCracken says that clothing can tell people who we are, what we like, and even where we're from. And she should know. She's a sustainable fa...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 13:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Cover Designed by Riverplace
A shelterbelt is a line of trees, meant to protect from the wind and snow. Farmers plant them to keep fields from eroding or topsoil from blowing a...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 15:07
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jessica Ross
Jessica Ross has been painting the town of Fisher, Minnesota for years. She’s painted farm logos on tractors, created a mural for Fisher High Schoo...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Anton Treuer helped get the grassroots Truth and Reconciliation group up and running in Bemidji. The group meets regularly to talk about race and t...

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 06:23
  • Purchases: 3
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Annie Humphrey was born in Northern Minnesota on the Leech Lake Reservation. She grew up making Northern Minnesota a more musical place. Annie is a...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2015
  • Length: 18:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Filmmaking isn't necessarily what Minnesota's Iron Range is known for, but Ironbound Studios hopes to change that. The studios opened their doors e...

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 15:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Have you ever looked at a rotten oak burl and thought, “Man, that’s beautiful?” Phil Holtan has. Plenty of times. Phil is a master wood turner in ...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 12:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Alice Blessing Self-Portrait
Alice Blessing is a fine art painter who specializes in portraits. Her favorite medium? Acrylics on canvas. Her preferred technique? Fingerpainting...

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 12:14
  • Purchases: 1
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Anton Treuer is an author and professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University. He’s also one of the founding members of a grassroots group in Bemid...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Holly Alcott
Holly Alcott does it all. She’s a graphic designer, illustrator, grants administrator and arts advocate. She even makes time to have a personal lif...

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  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 14:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A Pinetree Patchworkers Quilt
Crow Wing and Cass Counties have a lot of outlets for human services. Those services are meant to help children and families in need of support. A ...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 10:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Women make up 47% of the US workforce, but hold only a small fraction of computer and IT jobs in the US. The latest stats from the Department of La...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Betsy Bowen's Woodcut Illustrations
Area Voices producer Alauna Yust got the chance to interview one of her favorite children’s book authors last week. She sat down with Betsy Bowen, ...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 11:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Macramé used to be a pretty trendy craft. In the ‘70s, a lot of people were making their own decorative items, like macramé owls and hanging potted...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 13:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Anton Treuer wrote the book “Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask.” People have questions, he says, but feel uncomfor...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 2
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Grand Rapids graduates Brittany Shrimpton and Shannon McDonald are two of the three creative brains behind Backyard to Broadway Productions. They t...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Truth and Reconciliation about race cannot happen during a single event. That’s the premise of this week’s Anishinaabenaajimon: Minnesota’s Tribal ...

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  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The woods of Northern Minnesota tend to be thick and brushy. That makes Ojibwe-styled snowshoes ideal for these parts. Master woodworker John Beltm...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2016
  • Length: 12:32
  • Purchases: 2