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Photosynthesis in Polka Dots
From: Devika Bakshi
Caption: Molly Bang in her studio at home in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Making science come alive, in pictures.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 2
Eat Walk Shoot Draw: A New Film on John James Audubon
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Al Reinert will premiere Audubon, a new documentary about the renowned bird artist, eloquent writer, and...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:10
The Traveling Solidarity Shawls Project
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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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...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 14:37
  • Purchases: 1
Director Donald Sanders--Making a Life on the Stage
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Ensemble for the Romantic Century blends chamber music with fully staged dramas and changes both theater and concerts in the process. Don Sanders i...

Bought by WABE, WNJR, KPIP-LP, and KPVL


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Help Wanted: Poet Wanted
From: Marita Murphy
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The Poet Laureate of Belfast Maine is trying to make a difference in his community -- one poem at a time.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
Audio Revolution: The After School Special - Part 1 (Live from YxYF 2015)
From: Littleglobe
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On the evening of April 16 Youth Media Project held a live radio broadcast at Warehouse 21 in Santa Fe, New Mexico during Youth X Youth Fest 2015. ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 19, 2015
  • Length: 27:54
  • Purchases: 1
Audio Revolution: Between Two Worlds - Part 1
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Refugiados (Refugees), 2013 by Camordino Mustafá Jethá (São Damanso, Maputo, Mozambique) Photo by Laura Marcus Green, courtesy of the Museum of International Folk Art
Students from the alternative education and positive youth development program ¡YouthWorks! share their perspective on immigration through intervie...

Bought by KUNM and KRZA


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 27:54
  • Purchases: 2
Help Wanted: Poet Wanted
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Poet Laureate of Belfast Maine is trying to make a difference in his community—one poem at a time.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
Somali artist Aziz Osman paints life, loss, and hope
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Somali artist Aziz Osman left home for Florence, Italy, as a young man to pursue his dream of becoming a painter, sculptor and architect. Extensiv...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:05
Psychology of Jazz (Ep. 11)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Jazz pianist Kenny Werner: the accidental guru of the musical self-help movement
Are jazz musicians more prone to mental illness? Can jazz be therapeutic? And what can musicians do to get over performance anxiety? We'll answer t...

Bought by WCPN, KMUN, KHNS, Radio New Zealand, WCPN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 26
The Jemima Code (Gravy Ep. 6)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Toni Tipton Martin making hot rolls.
There’s a whole lot more than recipes in Toni Tipton Martin’s cookbook collection… It contains a surprising culinary history of African Americans i...

Bought by KVLU, WBHM, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 22:28
  • Purchases: 4
Let's Hear it for Creative Placemaking!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr Maria Rosario Jackson
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson talks about urban planning that has art at its heart.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
WoodSongs 775: FullSet and Las Cafeteras
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: FullSet from Ireland makes their debut on WoodSongs.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes the LA Afro-Mexican ensemble Las Cafeteras plus award winning traditional...

Bought by KENW, RadioFreePalmer, WYAP, WLIW, WOUB and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
WoodSongs 770: Crowder and The Collection
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: David Crowder makes his WoodSongs debut.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes critically acclaimed artist and songwriter Crowder plus North Carolina fo...

Bought by KENW, WOUB, WYAP, RadioFreePalmer, WLIW and more


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
Tara and Lulama
From: Littleglobe
Caption: AIDS Skeletons, Credit: Bob Smith
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 08:22
Curtis and Kathy
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Curtis Billie from N'MPower
N’MPower participant and Program Manager, Curtis Billie, interviews Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, a potter from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, in a community ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 06:32
Anonymous and Diana
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Youth Poets Take the Stage
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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As a researcher and teacher, Korina Jocson has observed and analyzed how students use poetry to make sense of their experiences. But how can educat...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2014
  • Length: 10:45
WoodSongs 748: Tommy Castro & The Painkillers plus Tee Dee Young
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
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On this week's broadcast, it's a celebration of the blues as folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes blues guitar slinger Tommy Castro and his band t...

Bought by KENW, RadioFreePalmer, WLPR , WRGY, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2014
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
A Conversation with Innovator, Josh McManus
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Josh McManus talks about the thousand little things that make up creative placemaking. [27:17]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 27:17
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 07: Free Minds Book Club
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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Our time with Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop was powerful! D.C. youth who are shipped into the Federal prison system had little contact ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 19:20
  • Purchases: 1
As Big As A Bear: Sarah Maycock's Minimal Marks, Larger Than Life
From: Teosson Wells
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Free, audio book excerpt. Once upon a time, there was a girl who imagined a bear. Actually, she imagined a lot of bears. And then she drew them—bea...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2013
  • Length: 13:16
Liner Notes: Rudy Van Gelder
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Rudy Van Gelder
Rudy Van Gelder is a recording engineer who loved jazz and is most notably associated with the sound of Blue Note Records. He recorded many legenda...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 2
The Search for Essential Reality - William Stoer (The CollectiveArtsInk Podcast)
From: Jim Fricker
Series: The CollectiveArtsInk Podcast
Caption: William Stoehr
"Stoehr’s ability to create works with open-ended meaning and the techniques he utilizes to do so have intrigued Neuroesthetic researchers who are ...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2013
  • Length: 16:20