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  • Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
    Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

    Topic: The role of the arts in economic development

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  • Producer/Host: John Zavodny
    Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

    Topic: The Mid-Coast Art Scene

    How has the art of Steve Mumford made an impact on perceptions of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars?
    What is happening at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in summer 2011?
    What programs are available at Waterfall Arts in summer 2011?

    Guests:
    Suzette McAvoy, Executive Director of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland Maine; Martha Piscuskas, Program Director of Waterfall Arts, Belfast Maine; Steve Mumford, Iraq war veteran, he has periodically returned to the region, producing drawings and watercolors on site that document the daily lives of local citizens and US soldiers.

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  • Producer/Host: Cathy Melio

    The monthly “Fear No Art” edition of Voices

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  • “Fear No Art” Edition

    Host: Cathy Melio

    Topic: Maine’s “Imagination Intensive Communities”

    What are the “Imagination Intensive Communities”?  What was the statewide “Arts Census”?  How can people access the census data?

    Guest: Argy Nestor, Arts Specialist at the Maine Department of Education

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  • Producer/Host: Cathy Melio

    “Fear No Art” monthly feature

    Topic: Contemporary Art in Maine
    What opportunities do Maine artists have for exhibiting contemporary art?  What sort of artwork is in the UMMA collection?  Where can people in the midcoast hear live music?
    Guest: George Kinghorn, director of the University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) in Bangor   www.umma.org

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  • Producer/Host: Cathy Melio

    The monthly “Fear No Art” edition of “Voices”.

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  • Producer/Host: Amy Browne
    Contributors: Cathy Melio, Linda Washburn
    Segment 1: “Artist’s Voice”, produced in collaboration with the Center for Maine Contemporary Art
    Segment 2: The second annual Midcoast Maine Women’s Health Conference, to be held May 15-16, Point Lookout, Northport, Maine:
    Linda Washburn (Women’s Windows) interviews Holly Noonan, spokesperson for the conference, regarding it’s history and this year’s program. What activities will participants find at this year’s conference? What are the primary health concerns of Maine women?
    What grassroots resources are available to women who want a proactive role in their own health care? What does the future hold for women’s health care in Maine?
    FMI: Holly Noonan, spokesperson for the Midcoast Maine Women’s Health Conference, Contact info for the Conference: 930-2694; womenshealth@wchi,com, For Holly: holly@mindbodynutrition.net
    (This interview, in an expanded version, originally aired on “Women’s Windows”, a program combining women’s music and spoken word, which airs every Sunday from 8-10pm on WERU)

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  • Producer/Host: Magdalen

    Topic: Terry Tempest Williams’ new book: Finding Beauty in a Broken World
    How has art, the creation of beautiful objects, helped one Rwandan community to recover from the Rwandan Genocide? How does art imitate life in the concept of “mosaic”? How does observing others, keeping one’s eyes open, affect one’s own reality?

    Guest: Terry Tempest Williams

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