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Tampa's Barrio Latino Commission allows Roosevelt 2.0 to keep its Ybor City mural listen
05/21/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Roosevelt 2.0, Ybor City, art, mural, Barrio Latino Commission
Tuesday the City of Tampa dedicated a giant outdoor mural on an Ybor City warehouse along Adamo Drive.
But a much smaller mural caused controversy at this morning’s meeting of the Barrio Latino Commission. City staff recommended removal of a mural outside the R...
Be the first to commentDirector Oliver Stone: films cast imprint on American culture listen
04/26/13 Jim BleyerWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rollins College, Oliver Stone, film, art, society
Film director Oliver Stone has challenged socially accepted views of American history through films like Platoon and Wall Street. Stone spoke this month at Rollins College in Winter Park and he emphasized the roll of film on society.
Stone asserts movies wield enormous power to persuade and manipulate. The controversial director laments that unconventional views are underrepresented in the cinema. We were not allowed to interview Stone or record [his speech](http://www.rollins.edu/wpi/eve...
Be the first to commentDirectors Lana Wilson and Martha Shane discuss the documentary After Tiller
04/11/13 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Tags: women's issues, abortion, choice, film, art
Lana Wilson and Martha Shane, the directors of After Tiller, discuss their film. After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, four American physicians-Dr. Leroy Carhart, Dr. Warren Hern, Dr. Shelley Sella and Dr. Susan Robinson were the only remaining providers of late-term abortions in the United States. Living under constant threat of violence, they continue to do their work. With unprecedented access into the lives of these doctors and the patients who seek their help...
Be the first to commentTribute to Jane Cortez
01/03/13 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Tags: art
A brief tribute to the recently deceased Jane Cortez-poet, humanist, writer. and woman extraordinaire was done with history and her poems. She passed on December 28, 2012. Her latest CD is a compilation of her work from 2003-2008 and is titled "Find Your Voice."
Be the first to commentGraffiti art is changing the face of Miami's Wynwood neighborhood listen
12/20/12 Lenka Davis and Christopher DavisWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: art, Art Basel, Miami, Tampa
The sound of a graffiti artist’s can of spray paint may mean different things to different people. For people in the Wynwood and Overtown districts of Miami, it is the sound of the inner and outer transformation of their neighborhood.
Rob Fogel is a graffiti artist painting a mural on the border between the two districts. It is the middle of the night, but police spotlights are lighting up the wall, so Fogle carries on painting. But, the police are not here to help him finish his mural o...
Be the first to commentPinellas art students from Osceola High School study at Art Basel in Miami Beach listen
12/10/12 Lenka DavisWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: art, Art Basel, Miami, Pinellas County Schools, education
Over the weekend weekend the town of Miami dedicated almost every public and private space to art, paying tribute to one of the world’s biggest art shows, Art Basel Miami Beach. People come from all across the world to be a part of it, including fifty art students from Osceola High School in Pinellas County.
After walking across the Art Public exhibition in Collins Park and Bass museum, John Stewart, Osceola High’s art, art history and literature teacher, and his students take a break for ...
Be the first to commentPreview of Art Basel Miami Beach listen
12/06/12 Lenka DavisWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Thursday was the official opening of Art Basel Miami Beach, the largest art expo in North America. It is being held at the Miami Beach Convention center until Sunday.
Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, all for sale under one roof with hundreds of artists you may have never heard of, but will still awe and inspire you. Screenings and performances, discussions and public art, this eclectic mix makes up only a portion of Art Basel Miami Beach 2012. Bob Goodman, the Florida...
Be the first to commentEve Ensler from The Vagina Monologues - Birth
06/21/12 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Eve Ensler performed from The Vagina Monologues her piece - "I was There-Birth"
Be the first to commentSalvador Dali artwork gets a bath at St. Pete museum listen
06/12/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Salvador Dali, Dali, Rustin Levenson, art
Museum patrons in St. Petersburg will have the first ever opportunity to watch giant canvas paintings get cleaned at the Salvador Dali museum. Four of his largest works displayed at the new waterfront museum will be washed and restored over the next two weeks by a team of professional art conservators in an exhibit open to patrons.
“Some of it is very simple. Some of it is vacuum cleaners.”
Hank Hine is the director of The Salvador Dali museum. He said over t...
Be the first to commentCommunity Stepping Stones offers classes for at risk teens listen
04/16/12 Andrea LypkaWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Community Stepping Stones, Tampa, Art, youth, education, volunteering
Recent budget cuts have prompted some nonprofit organizations in Tampa Bay to scale back on their programs. But one organization in the Sulphur Springs neighborhood of Tampa instead offers more classes and extends their urban arts program to youth and adults.
Until the recent budget cuts at Hillsborough County public schools, for the past 15 years, artist Terry Klaaren has been transforming the walls of public schools into community mural projects.
"And the schools had better budgets a...
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