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The Graffiti of War
From: War News Radio
Caption: Sgt Brandon Benton sent this to his wife Emily Benton, who waited for him at home near Fort Hood, Texas, when he got word of a return date., Credit: graffitiofwar.com
War News Radio talks with the founder of the Graffiti of War Project, which collects service members’ art left on the walls and buildings in the ba...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 1
Economy of the Arts
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack explores the local economics of the arts. With the Downtown St. Cloud Art Cra...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 29:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Green Band presents Making Music for Making Changes
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this news feature, Arts and Cultural Heritage producer Jeff Carmack visits with Justin Michael, Executive Director of the Green Band of St. Clou...

  • Added: May 20, 2011
  • Length: 27:00
Young Artist Exhibition Mentorship Program
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack heads downstairs to the Paramount Theater studios to talk with Heidi Stedman f...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2010
  • Length: 29:46
Vito Acconci: The Architect Can Never Go Home
From: Gretta Cohn
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Vito Acconci's work as an artist and architect often confuses the boundaries between public and private space. In 1964 Acconci saw a movie that wou...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2010
  • Length: 06:09
Prairie Artscience
From: Chris Mortenson
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A piece about preserving prairie.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2010
  • Length: 10:39
Portrait of an Artist: a semi-regular series
From: KUT
Series: Portrait of an Artist-a semi-regular series
Caption: Tomas Q. Morin
Poet, Scholar and Artist Tomas Q. Morin talks about his life and career, and reads a few of his own works.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: 10:59
The Girl with the GNR T-Shirt
From: andy boyd
Series: I Am Not a Metaphor
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Andy meets a girl with a GNR T-Shirt

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Dec 24, 2009
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 1
Men Of Craft
From: NPR Intern Edition
Caption: Elijah Wyman, ellusive 'craftsman' and owner of 'Figs & Ginger', Credit: Illustration by Jess Gitner
The indie crafts scene may have metallic bunnies and hand-stenciled suitcases, but there's still something missing: men!

  • Added: Nov 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:50
How The Arts Evolved
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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In this edition we talk about ‘The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution” based on a book by our guest Denis Dutton.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2009
  • Length: 28:59
When Silence Sings
From: Joanne Coombs
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Tonie Flaathen has been profoundly deaf from birth. That doesn't stop her from absorbing and relishing the sounds that surround and 'sound' throug...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:22
  • Purchases: 1
Rolanda Scott, The Art of Transformation, pt. 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Rolanda Scott, an art teacher and glass sculptor, has had one bout of cancer after another for the past eight years. When her time comes Rolanda's ...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:23
Mothers and Sons
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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a sonic memorial to the healing power of art

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, KTNA, NPR Illinois, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2008
  • Length: 26:44
  • Purchases: 10
Fake City, Real Dreams
From: Zak Rosen
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A fake city comes to life to prove that dialogue and ideas can transform a region.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Louisville Public Media, PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: 17:51
  • Purchases: 6
An Audio Portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir
From: Alina Freiman
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A short piece portraying Renoir with audio imagery

  • Added: Jul 14, 2008
  • Length: 05:17
A Portrait of War
From: Hannah Krakauer
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A San Francisco artist takes on the ambitious project of drawing individual portraits of all the American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: May 24, 2008
  • Length: 20:52
Creative Time: 33 Years of Public Art in NYC, John Kelly
From: Megan Martin
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John Kelly & Love of a Poet: an audio stop on a tour of Creative Time's 33 Years of Public Art series

  • Added: Mar 04, 2008
  • Length: 02:20
A 21st Century Pioneer Experience
From: Megan Martin
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John Coffer, a Tintype photographer, takes us on a wagon ride into Dundee, NY

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Mar 04, 2008
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 2
Aha Moment: The Heidelberg Project
From: Zak Rosen
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Jenenne Whitfield was a banker until she stumbled upon the Heidelberg Project

Bought by KUOW, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 3
Unintended Detours Episode 3: What Remains
From: Sue Mell
Series: Unintended Detours
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What Remains: a painter's legacy.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 12:19
  • Purchases: 2
Red Crystal Palace ~ 5: Conclusion
From: Fereshteh Toosi
Series: Red Crystal Palace
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RED CRYSTAL PALACE is a mobile tent with a crystal ball inside, operated by a nurse seeking predictions about the future from people on the street.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2007
  • Length: 04:17
Red Crystal Palace ~ 3: Where will you be five years from now?
From: Fereshteh Toosi
Series: Red Crystal Palace
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RED CRYSTAL PALACE is a mobile tent with a crystal ball inside, operated by a nurse seeking predictions about the future from people on the street.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2007
  • Length: 01:31
Scab Artist
From: Sean McCandless
Series: Shards
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A piece from the heart, surveying the urban mental landscape through the eyes of a "Scab Artist"

Bought by BSR Radio and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Nov 05, 2007
  • Length: 18:07
  • Purchases: 2
What Remains --a painter's legacy.
From: Sue Mell
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A portrait of the painter Mary Yntema.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2007
  • Length: 09:47
In Splendid Isolation (a clip of documentary)
From: Ita Kane-Wilson
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An exploration of how four individual artists survive living in the splendid isolation of Connemara, a remote corner of the west coast of Ireland.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2007
  • Length: 07:54

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