Jun 10 Bead for Life Participant: Don't Keep Your Money, Invest It By David Pelcyger EmbedVideo(6568, 482, 304); A co-founder of Bead for Life and its participants talk about the business training program. In 2009, the PBS NewsHour profiled a group, Bead for Life, that trained Ugandan women to start businesses by rolling… Continue reading
Jun 07 Watch Daughter's Search for Her Dissident Father Inspires Fictional Retelling Daughter's Search for Her Dissident Father Inspires Fictional Retelling… Continue watching
Jun 07 One Photographer's Experience Documenting Mentally Ill Inmates By Victoria Fleischer For her project "Trapped," photographer Jenn Ackerman spent months in the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit (CPTU) of the Kentucky State Reformatory to learn about the experiences of the mentally ill confined in the prison system. Continue reading
Jun 07 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro Visitors gather on artist Ryoji Ikeda's "Test Pattern," an installation featuring sound and light components, during the VIVID Sydney festival in Australia. Continue reading
Jun 06 Breadwinners At Work: Rice, Power, Evers & Obama Myrlie Evers-Williams, Samantha Power, Michelle Obama and Susan Rice -- unwavering women who all drew headlines this week. Four women who dominated headlines this week could not be more different from one another. But each one, we are told, possesses… Continue reading
Jun 05 Around the Nation By Tom LeGro Here are four arts and culture videos from public media partners around the nation. Continue reading
Jun 05 One Photographer's Experience Documenting Mentally Ill Inmates By Victoria Fleischer Minneapolis photographer Jenn Ackerman spent months in the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit (CPTU) of the Kentucky State Reformatory to learn about the experiences of prisoners with mental illness. Continue reading
Jun 05 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro A Turkish art group performs in support of protestors Wednesday at Taksim Square in Istanbul. Protests, which initially began over the fate of Taksim Gezi Park, one of the last significant green spaces in the center of the city, have… Continue reading
Jun 04 The Tuesday Cutline...a Winner! By News Desk It was "ruff" choosing a winner this week. Continue reading
Jun 04 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro Models pose in a tableaux vivant, or 'living picture," of Frederic S. Remington's "A Dash for the Timber" during the 81st annual festival Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, Calif. The event features works of art recreated by real… Continue reading