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Sharon Mansur, Dreaming Under A Cedar Tree
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this week's Art Beat we visit with Sharon Mansur, a Winona based contemporary dance and visual artist who's performance/installation, Dreaming U...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 30:40
Artists, singers from this year's Inuit Premiere stop by The Roadhouse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Every year, Sivertson Gallery in Grand Marais holds the Inuit Premiere, featuring Inuit art and throat singing. This year's featured artist, Ningiu...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 20:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Billy Curmano Part 1
From: KQAL
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This episode we visit with Billy Curmano, a Minnesota artist who's works often deal with the environment and politics. We learn how Billy started h...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 30:54
Eric Kaiser's Pursuit of Perfection
From: Mitchell Borden
Caption: Eric Kaiser and his Tern Sculpture. April 12th,2017. Cotuit. , Credit: Mitch Borden
Eric Kaiser started wood carving for a simple reason: he wanted a creative challenge. He decided to focus on one subject only, over and over. Birds...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:26
An Interview with Lydia Pense
From: Brian Bahouth
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Lydia Pense & Cold Blood first rocked the Bay Area in 1968, and along with Tower of Power helped forge the funky, soulful sound known in rock histo...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2017
  • Length: 08:15
What We Talk about When We Talk about Two Bears High-Fiving
From: The Organist
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Hermann Rorschach’s inkblot test has become ubiquitous in pop-culture as shorthand for both psychiatry and the subconscious. The first biography of...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1582 (Hour 1 & 2) - 05/25/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Starting at the location of Roy Gaines’ blues, there is no time like now for the polytonality of Woody Shaw. The old Rotten Kid Buddy Rich plays a ...

Bought by WMOT, WYAP, WVBI-LP, WJSU, WOUB and more


  • Added: May 24, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 7
Poet and Visual Artist Bianca Stone
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet and visual artist Bianca Stone talks about her various projects, from her first full length book SOMEONE ELSE'S WEDDING VOWS to her 2016 illus...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Cool Gaze of Madame Realism
From: The Organist
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In an era of fake news and alternative facts, what is the role of literature that blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction? Novelist Lynne Ti...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 30:55
The Untold Story of St. Cloud State University's Salome
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In this visually transcendent installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack gets a chance ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 30:07
Ireland And The Circus ~ Part 3
From: Mark Baker
Series: Ireland And The Circus
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An insight into Irish contemporary circus, with regards to the many circus schools and institutions popping up around the country. And a look at th...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 27:56
Piano
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: New from Shai Wosner, Concertos & Capriccios, Credit: http://www.shumanassociates.net/
Ligeti and Haydn concertos from pianist Shai Wosner, plus music by Yedida, Rachmaninoff, and Ustvolskaya.

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, WETS and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Colors
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Composer Christopher Theofanidis, Credit: Pilar Timpane
We'll hear works based on primary colors: Blue, Red, and Yellow; plus feature Rainbow Body, Synethésie, and a Nick Drake song, Pink Moon!

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KVNO, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Bigfoot Bluegrass Festival in Remer, MN
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: bigfoot warning in forest, Credit: bigfootevidence.blogspot.com
Bigfoot is the subject of many tales and lore around the community of Remer, MN. This weekend kicks off their first annual Bigfoot Bluegrass festi...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 23, 2016
  • Length: 10:16
  • Purchases: 1
Jim Denomie: Contemporary Ojibwe Artist
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Contemporary Ojibwe artist Jim Denomie currently has an exhibit at the Nemeth Art Center in Park Rapids, MN. He has a unique way of holding a lens...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1
A Fire in the Head
From: Ryan Sweikert
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For years, Michael Page has struggled to work out his troubles through art, creating a catalog of dark and strange music.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
Fresh Talk: Rachel Armstrong
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Rachel Armstrong, Credit: Robert Styblo
Rachel Armstrong, professor of experimental architecture, talks about the IDEA Laboratory in Venice, Italy.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 10:23
WoodSongs 826F: Celebration of the Music of Appalachia
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: the students of The Kentucky Center for Traditional Music perform on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, it's a Celebration of the Music of Appalachia as folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Raymond McLain...

Bought by KEOS, Yellowstone Public Radio, WOUB, KCMJ Community Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 10
Alice Blessing: Fine Art Finger Painter
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 12:14
  • Purchases: 1
Fall Quiet
From: Richard Fair
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An atmospheric poem for Halloween.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2015
  • Length: 03:17
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1492 (Hour 1 & 2) - 09/03/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Meat & potatoes Les McCann & Houston Person begin our journey up and down hills & valleys, then along the Long Yellow Road with Toshiko & Tabackin....

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KPVL, WYAP and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 6
Can Creativity Save a Small Town?
From: Rendered
Caption: The view looking west down Wisconsin Ave. in Tieton, WA. , Credit: Photo by Phoebe Flanigan
How a detour, a patch of goathead thorns, and a flat tire changed one guy's life, and brought an economic boost to a sleepy, little town in rural W...

Bought by WMMT, KALW, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 20:03
  • Purchases: 3
All Mixed Up-Ornette Coleman & Christopher Lee
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Ornette in Green
Celebrating Ornette Coleman, Christopher Lee and Jim Ed Brown. Improvisational sound mixed with harmonics and theory in "The Blood Is The Life" tri...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:19
Fresh Talk: Cheryl Pope
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Cheryl Pope, Up Against, Credit: Auto Body
Chicago-based artist Cheryl Pope talks about Up Against, a performance in which she boxes down 700 water-filled balloons suspended from the ceiling...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 10:10
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1472 (Hour 1 & 2) - 04/16/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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For the fourth year in a row, Hacksaw Jazz broadcast from Boston Street, to the south of the main stage at the 2015 Chandler Jazz Festival, happeni...

Bought by WYAP, WVBI-LP, KPVL, and WOUB


  • Added: Apr 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:52
  • Purchases: 4

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