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About Anne @Annedavenport

Anne Azzi Davenport is the Senior Producer of CANVAS at PBS News Hour.

As Senior Producer of CANVAS, Anne Davenport is the primary field producer of arts and culture pieces and oversees all coverage. She has been leading Canvas since its beginning, collaborating with Chief Arts Correspondent Jeffrey Brown for most of her 24 years at PBS News Hour as well as with others. She arrived at the NewsHour as the Media Producer after serving for 15 years as a political producer at ABC and CBS News and as a producer and on-air reporter for NBC stations. She supervises the Brief But Spectacular and Race Matters series as well as the PBS Primetime show "Beyond the Canvas".

She is a graduate of Brown University. Anne lives outside of Washington with her husband and their daughter and son.

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Arts Dec 15

12 books to read from 2022

Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, and New York Times books editor Gilbert Cruz share some of their favorite books of the year.

Arts Dec 09

Author and Nobel Prize Laureate Annie Ernaux discusses her genre-bending work

French writer Annie Ernaux delivered her Nobel lecture on Wednesday in Stockholm, Sweden, and spoke of how she hopes her work, which mixes fiction and memoir, has affected others. And this weekend, she and this year’s other Nobel Laureates will…

Arts Dec 07

Museum works to repatriate artifacts looted from West Africa

As a debate over how and when to repatriate art continues to roil, one clear-cut case of looting in the 19th century has art leaders taking strong stands now. Jeffrey Brown went to look at a museum that is confronting…

Poetry Dec 05

Mother and son who are both poet laureates work to inspire others

Becoming a poet laureate is a coveted role and rare honor. Rarer still is having two laureates in the same family. Jeffrey Brown traveled to Philadelphia to meet with a poetic family and hear how a mother-son duo is working…

Arts Dec 02

Musician and actor Tobe Nwigwe finds his purpose

Musician and actor Tobe Nwigwe is a first-generation child of Nigerian immigrants. He built a following through his music and acting after asking himself, and then others, "What is your purpose?" Jeffrey Brown sat down with Nwigwe to learn more…

Arts Nov 22

Adaptation of ‘The Hours’ becomes opera event of the year

One day in the lives of three women, from three different times and places, brought together onstage through the magic of opera. “The Hours” is a new work opening on one of the world's biggest stages: the Metropolitan Opera in…

Arts Nov 17

Musician iLe condemns colonization and Puerto Rico’s political limbo on new album

Puerto Rican musician iLe is addressing the challenges of her homeland as it is still suffering from the recent Hurricane Fiona and lacking true representation in U.S. politics. Jeffrey Brown spoke with the Latin Grammy winner about her new album…

Arts Nov 02

Bono on activism and connecting music to a larger meaning

Bono recently sat down with Jeffrey Brown to talk about his new memoir, "Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story." In part two of that interview, they discuss Bono's activism and connecting his music to a larger meaning. It's for our arts…

Arts Nov 01

Bono’s new memoir ‘Surrender’ details his long career in music and activism

By any measure, U2 is one of the world's biggest bands, and lead singer Bono is one of music's biggest stars. He's telling his own story in a new memoir, "Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story." Bono sat down with Jeffrey…

Arts Oct 27

Art exhibition reveals Vermeer’s secrets using technology to look under paintings

A painting thought to be by Johannes Vermeer isn’t a Vermeer after all. The 17th-century Dutch master left behind few works, so take even one away and it’s a big deal. New technology is allowing experts to see art in…

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