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Video: A six-story sculpture comes down in two minutes

By Jerome Weeks, KERA

Artist Mark di Suvero's "Proverb" sculpture was 60 feet tall and stood at the corner of Woodall Rodgers and Pearl Street in Dallas, T.X. for nearly 13 years.

WATCH: Family of ‘off-roading’ unicyclists savor Alaska’s rough terrain

By Alaska Public Media

A family carries on its tradition of rough-terrain unicycling across the beaches and mountains of Alaska.

Watch: This California ballerina takes ‘dancing in the street’ to a whole new level

By Abhi Singh, KQED

Miko Fogarty, a Bay-area teenager, is on her way to the U.K. to pursue a career as a professional ballerina for the prestigious Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Why a Japanese performance art celebrates weakness

By Twin Cities PBS

Butoh, a form of Japanese performance art, brings weakness and sadness to the surface in a society that often suppresses those feelings.

How opera helped a young singer from Ferguson succeed

By Nine Network

As the anniversary of Michael Brown's death approaches this weekend, young opera singer Melvin Bozeman reflected on his experience with the police in Ferguson and how the arts drove him to succeed.

Teen singers find their voice in ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement

By Kelly Whalen

How the "Black Lives Matter" movement is inspiring conversations among young singers about identity and the role of art in social change.

Artist keeps Austin weird by combining his love of skater culture with fine art

By KLRU

An exhibit at the University of Texas in Austin asks viewers to look at skateboarding as a process of creation.

Artist rearranges the world with objects she mines from Google Maps

By Joel Wanek and Kristin Farr, KQED

Ask Bay Area native Jenny Odell to describe her artistic practice and she just might tell you her work is more akin to a scientist or archivist. Typically it involves scouring the internet for images on Google Maps, YouTube, Yelp…

Here’s what a fantasy world full of ‘wayward creatures’ looks like

By Jackie Shafer, WOSU

Artist Amanda Louise Spayd has created a whole world populated by endearing doll-sized creatures. Her fabric creations bring to mind cast-off children’s toys and ill-conceived taxidermy experiments with crooked human teeth.

Bjork’s got nothing on this dress, designed with real swan feathers

By Alaska Public Media

Enzina Marrari designs dresses and garments using natural materials. Inspired by her chosen home of Alaska, she creates with wood and flowers, even swan feathers and horse hair.