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Mississippi Arts Hour

MPB Think Radio

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 362

Each week, members of MAC's staff host The Mississippi Arts Hour, a radio program broadcast on Mississippi Public Broadcasting's FM and digital radio networks. The show features interviews with Mississippi artists, musicians, craftspeople, and others involved in arts and culture from around the state.

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The Mississippi Arts Hour| Mary Anderson Pickard

lundi 17 février 2025 • Duration 45:18

Kristen Brandt speaks with Mary Anderson Pickard, writer, painter, and eldest daughter of Walter Anderson. Mary has contributed to many publications that explore different parts of Walter Anderson’s artistic practice including A Symphony of Animals, Form and Fantasy: The Block Prints of Walter Anderson, and the recently reprinted Anderson’s Alice which pairs Lewis Carroll’s classic story Alice in Wonderland with Walter Anderson's visualizations inspired by the text. Mary is herself a painter and has been dedicated to the preservation of Oldfields, the historic home built by Alfred Lewis which became the residence of the Anderson family. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast.

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The Mississippi Arts Hour| David Johnson

dimanche 9 février 2025 • Duration 44:57

On this episode of the Mississippi Arts Hour, Larry Morrisey speaks with writer David Johnson about his new biography of legendary Mississippi bluesman Booker “Bukka” White. Johnson tells us about his rural upbringing, the records he made in the 1930s and 40s and the revival of his career during the blues revival of the 1960sIf you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast.

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The Mississippi Arts Hour| Eliot Parker

dimanche 1 décembre 2024 • Duration 44:23

Kristen Brandt talks to Eliot Parker. Eliot is an author based out of Oxford with a new book titled Double-Crossed. This thriller follows the continued stories of investigator Ronan McCullogh whose past adventures are chronicled in Parker’s earlier works A Knife’s Edge, an Amazon bestseller, and Fragile Brilliance which received the Literary Merit Award from the West Virginia Library Association. He is also the host of his own podcast program, Now Appalachia. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider contributing to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcast.

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The Mississippi Arts Hour| Ann Fisher-Wirth

dimanche 1 janvier 2023 • Duration 45:32

Lauren Rhoades talks with Dr.Ann Fisher-Wirth, the 2023 Governor’s Arts Award-winner for Excellence in Literature and Poetry. Fisher-Wirth is a poet, scholar, and environmental educator who has lived all over the world. Her seventh book of poems, Paradise Is Jagged, is forthcoming from Terrapin Books in February.

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The Mississippi Arts Hour| Keri Horn

dimanche 18 décembre 2022 • Duration 46:25

Leslie Barker talks with professional voice-over artist, actress, puppeteer, and writer, Keri Grayson Horn. Join us as Keri discusses her journey as an artist and her Emmy Award-winning Mississippi-made work.

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The Mississippi Arts Hour| Jamal Cyrus and Maude Schuyler Clay

dimanche 4 décembre 2022 • Duration 46:05

Lauren Rhoades talks with Jamal Cyrus and Maude Schuyler Clay, two artists who have special exhibitions now at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Jamal Cyrus is a Houston-based multidisciplinary artist whose works explore the evolution of African American identity. Maude Schuyler Clay is a Mississippi photographer with generational roots in the Delta. Tune in to learn about their artistic practices and current exhibitions: Cyrus’s “The End of My Beginning” and Clay’s “Portraits of a Place.”

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The Mississippi Arts Hour| Rob Detjen

dimanche 27 novembre 2022 • Duration 40:10

Leslie Barker talks with musician Rob Detjen. Rob plays the French horn for the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra and the Meridian Symphony Orchestra. In this interview, Rob Detjen will discuss his life as a professional musician as well as his work as an educator, specifically his work with Mississippi Whole Schools.

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The Mississippi Arts Hour| David Evans

dimanche 20 novembre 2022 • Duration 48:51

Larry Morrisey visits with David Evans, a retired University of Memphis professor and music researcher, on his new book “Goin’ Up the Country: Adventured in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s.” It recounts his trips to Mississippi and Louisiana during the mid-1960s to interview and record the last of the first generation of blues musicians. The book is a collaboration with the late folklorist Marina Bokelman, who collaborated with him on the project.

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An Arts Hour Extra!

vendredi 18 novembre 2022 • Duration 12:49

Poetry is alive and thriving in the Magnolia State! On the Mississippi Poetry Podcast you’ll hear poets sharing their work, telling their stories, and offering tips to help listeners flex their poetic muscles. In this episode, poet, fiction writer, and professor RaShell Smith-Spears joins host and Mississippi Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce to talk about verbs, influences, notebooks versus phones, and vampires.

A resource for educators or community groups can be found here: https://arts.ms.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/PodcastSupplement_Smith-Spears.pdf

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The Mississippi Arts Hour| Dr J. Janice Coleman

dimanche 13 novembre 2022 • Duration 47:30

Maria Zeringue talks with Dr. J. Janice Coleman, an accomplished quilter and English professor at Alcorn State University. She creates quilts that are in dialogue with Mississippi’s culture, heritage, and landscape, and she is often inspired by the Delta, where she grew up.

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