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Today on Art Beat we continue our visit to the Winona County Fair. First up we meet Dave Watson a wood sculptor who uses a chainsaw to execute his ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 15:27
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Today on Art Beat, we listen to a reading and interview a Minnesota based author, on his new book “The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 56:08
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Conversations with artists of all kinds doing work in and about the real world. Hour long, magazine format episode of Word of Mouth.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
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On this episode of "Art Beat" we find out how you can attend a free play reading this Friday, January 25th at the Lanesboro Commonweal Theatre. The...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 23:14
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of Art Beat, we learn about the music theatre production of "I am Anne Frank" being presented by Nautilus Music-Theatre company out...

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2013
  • Length: 18:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Bryan Doerries discusses how bringing Greek tragedies to service members opens up new conversations. [30:31]

  • Added: Aug 16, 2012
  • Length: 30:34
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A writer and Vietnam Veteran discusses Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. [28:31]

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 2
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Melissa Walker discusses healing wounded service members through art at Walter Reed. [25:44]

  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 25:45
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes. This month's program is about human rights.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:03:38
Caption: Blood & Tears, Credit: George Gittoes
George Gittoes, a middle-aged painter, stands in his studio. Looking down on him, with her eyes filled with hatred, is his painting of a Rwandan wo...

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:18
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In a war you have your typical players. They're the soldiers, the medics. Politicians and journalists. The translators and engineers too. And then ...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 5
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Cartoonist Garry Trudeau sits down for an hour of conversation about his Pulitzer-prize winning comic strip Doonesbury. He discusses a wide range o...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
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Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (1990) is considered one of the finest books about the Vietnam War. But it's almost less about the war and m...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
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Picking up a paint brush or decorating a mask is something we often associate with child’s play. But it turns out that art-making has the power to...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 08:58
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...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:38
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One night, entering a clearing, he and a companion came face to face with a well-armed Nazi patrol. Desperately outnumbered, he took an amazing cha...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Bollywood posters for sale in Afghani store., Credit: AP
From "Bollywood Across Borders" 9/10/2010: War News Radio reports on the Afghans' love for Bollywood cinema.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2010
  • Length: 07:47
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From "Warrior Writers" 8/20/2010: War News Radio reports on the Warrior Writers program, which helps US veterans channel their feelings and experie...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 07:52
Caption: US veteran sharing his thoughts with Warrior Writers., Credit: Photo courtesy of Warrior Writers.
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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In this feature, Bob Carter, with WTIP North Shore Community Radio, speaks with Kaziah Hancock, a goat rancher and painter who created Project Comp...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2010
  • Length: 23:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jasmyn Belcher speaking with Sama Alshaibi, Credit: Kate Percival
Sama Alshaibi is an artist of Iraqi and Palestinian descent who uses photography, video and performance to evoke the language of displacement and l...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2010
  • Length: 11:20
Caption: A Vietnamese boy exposed to Agent Orange., Credit: Kirk Torregrossa
A Dartmouth student travels to Vietnam to document in sculpture the legacy of Agent Orange.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2009
  • Length: 07:13
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The marine reserve colonel is angry that scholars are involved in authenticating stolen Iraqi antiquities that terrorists use to buy weapons that a...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2009
  • Length: 30:30
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From "Grounded" (April 10, 2009): War News Radio features a story about how Iraqis after the fall of Saddam found their voices through graffiti, an...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2009
  • Length: 07:29
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Syria has the largest concentration of Iraqi refugees in the region, with more than a million in Damascus alone. With the war now six years old, a...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2009
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1