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201: Jane Sapp Knows Music is a Powerful Force for Social Change
Episode 201
"Have Match, Will Burn." That's what Jane Sapp's college classmates called her. Her maiden name was Wilburn, and the passion fit.
Singer, songwriter, …
2 days, 5 hours ago
200: A 2026 Election Call for Artists
Episode 200
CALL TO ARTISTS: Share your story: 3 minutes from the field
Already doing arts-based work to support free and fair elections, or about to? Record a me…
1 week, 2 days ago
199: The Censor Upstream: Who Decides What Art Gets Shared?
Episode 199
Who decides
There are lots of ways to censor an artist. You can ban the book, close the exhibition, cancel the performance. We know what those look l…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
198: Mark Kendall Thinks A Good Joke Can Help Us Change Our Communities.
Episode 198
What's So Funny?
This episode's guest is Mark Kendall — comedian, filmmaker, and co-founder, alongside Bill Worley, of the Atlanta production company …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
197: Sierra Leone Believes Poetry Is Essential Civic Infrastructure: Part 2
Episode 197
Where do poetry and democracy intersect?
In part two of our conversation with Dayton poet laureate, educator, activist, culture keeper, and Kettering …
1 month ago
196: Sierra Leone Believes Poetry Is Essential Civic Infrastructure: Part 1
Episode 196
Sierra Leone Believes Poetry
Is Essential Civic Infrastructure
In this episode we meet Sierra Leone—a poet, educator, activist, and cultural organizer…
1 month, 1 week ago
195: Liz Lerman Part 2: What Can Witches Teach us About Art & Social Change
Episode 195
An outside artist does not become effective by knowing everything about a place.
Effectiveness begins with recognizing how much they do not know.
That …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
194: Liz Lerman Part 1: The Critical, the Horizontal, & the Heretic's Path
Episode 194
Can an artist who comes from outside a community become an effective partner in creating change?
That was the question we explored in an earlier episo…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
193: Eric Gottesman Asks: Whose Questions Get Asked -Whose Story is Told?
Episode 193
What happens an artist realizes that they can never
be the only one with questions?
From that reckoning, artist Eric Gottesman spent the next twenty-f…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
192: Can Art Build Trust & Love Between Separated Communities?
Episode 192
What can happen when art carries people across
boundaries they rarely cross?
in 2019, a remarkable theater project brought together two very different…
2 months ago