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Art! What is it Good For?
From: Tamar Avishai
Series: The Lonely Palette
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Art is everywhere. Why shouldn't it be for everyone, no matter how fluent you are in art history? This podcast says it should.

  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 17:03
Start a Neo-Modernist Movement #529
From: Teosson Wells
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Rediscover a Creative and Artistic Modern Age

  • Added: Sep 12, 2016
  • Length: 10:24
United Arts of Central Minnesota's Cindy Hawker Takes Us on the Sculpture Walk Through St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Have you noticed all those strange shapes popping up all around Lake George and downtown St. Cloud? Well, these aren’t new Pokemon exploding int...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
Little Falls Students Practice for the Regional History Day Competition
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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From the discovery of a Chicken Pox vaccine to Louis Armstrong’s influence on music to the numerous ways that women have fought for equal rights ov...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:51
Bemidji's Creative Spirit Fiber Festival
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Collage Quilt, Credit: Dee Dee Menge
It’s a big week for fiber artists in Northern Minnesota. The Needle and Thread Exhibition opens Thursday in Mahnomen. And this Saturday, Bemidji’s ...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 09:51
  • Purchases: 1
Black Mountain College: 'The Grass-Roots of Democracy'
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In 1933, a group of freethinking American educators and academics took a look at their fresh, interwar world — and set about trying to remake it.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Father of the Man In America
From: Richard Paul - with Folger Library
Series: Shakespeare in American Life with Sam Waterston
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Shakespeare in American Civic Life and Education

Bought by WCPN, WSKG, KCPW Salt Lake City, WHYY, WVPE and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 9
The Search for Fort Holes, Dakota Conflict Era Settlers Fort, Begins on the SCSU Campus
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Today’s Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is about a critical St. Cloud building that hasn’t existed for over 100 years and the Minnesota Histori...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 29:45
Minnesota Historical Society Has Been Saving The Oral History of Minnesota for Decades. Here's How You Can Add Yours!
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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We’ve all got stories, but as the years go by sometimes these stories can get lost. The Minnesota Historical Society, however, has been actively c...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
04 - Good as Gould
From: Peabody Essex Museum
Series: The PEMcast
Caption: The PEMcast, Credit: Chip Van Dyke
The hidden legacy of Nathaniel Gould, cabinetmaker.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 12:55
Ellis Island
From: Sidewalk Radio
Series: Sidewalk Radio with Gene Kansas
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Standing proudly in Upper New York Bay, the Statue of Liberty is an American icon and a symbol of freedom known the world over. While grand and sy...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 15:09
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
The Harvey Brooks Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Harvey Brooks is an electric bass player who came of age as a musician and a producer in New York in the early sixties. He played on Bob Dylan's ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 10:25
The Peter Yarrow Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
The Taj Mahal Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:13
Art and Nationhood
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
Caption: Frederic Church, “Our Banner in the Sky” (1861)
Professor Angela Miller uses examples of portraits, landscape and genre paintings, folk art, and more to describe the intersection of American arts...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:58
  • Purchases: 1
Collective Memory of the Arts in St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with retired SCSU Arts Professor Ted Sherarts about the Collective Memor...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2012
  • Length: 28:39
Eric Dregni on Viking Culture and History
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of "Culture Clique" KQAL's Teri Tenseth visits with Minnesota author Eric Dregni on his new book, "Vikings in the Attic: In Search ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 32:48
  • Purchases: 1
NEA Jazz Master Marian McPartland on Sidney Bechet Style
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA JAZZ MASTER MARIAN MCPARTLAND WAS A BIG FAN OF CLARINET AND SAX PLAYER, SIDNEY BECHET.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, KMUW and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 10
NEA Jazz Master Marian McPartland on Jazz in the Beginning
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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MCPARTLAND’S MUSICAL EDUCATION CONTINUED AT LONDON’S GUIDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC WHERE SHE STUDIED CLASSICAL PIANO.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KBEM, KCSM, WICR, WUSF and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 10
NEA Jazz Master Marian McPartland on Duke & Monk Visiting
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA JAZZ MASTER MARIAN MCPARTLAND AND HER TRIO PLAYED A LONG RUNNING GIG AT THE HICKORY HOUSE, A FAMOUS NEW YORK NIGHTCLUB. EVERYONE USED TO STOP ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, KMUW, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 8
NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods on his Teacher's Influence
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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SOME YOUNG MUSICIANS STUMBLE UPON A TEACHER WHO COMPLETELY CHANGES THE COURSE OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT. 2007 NEA JAZZ MASTER PHIL WOODS WAS ONE OF THE...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, WRTI and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 10
NEA Jazz Master Abbey Lincoln on her early influences
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG, NEA JAZZ MASTER ABBEY LINCOLN HEARD HER PARENTS’ BEAUTIFUL VOICES SINGING AROUND THE HOUSE AND IN CHURCH. AT AGE FOURTEEN, HER ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2009
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 8
NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods on Composing Music
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods describes how he composes music.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2009
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 8