Ed will welcome back Debra Polich, President/CEO of The Arts Alliance. Ms. Polich will describe the Alliance’s many programs and art installations in the Ann Arbor area, and address the importance of ‘public art’ as a community enhancement and catalyst for cultural discussion.
More info at: http://www.a3arts.org/
June 13 • 3:00 – 4:00p.m.
Our guest is the distinguished actress and Michigan Shakespeare Festival artistic director, Janice L. Blixt, who will introduce us to the Festival’s new season productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV, and Sheridan’s The Rivals.
More info at: michiganshakespearefestival.
June 8 • 3:00 – 4:00p.m.
Tomorrow’s show is an encore broadcast of the Diana Preston interview from mid April.
Eminent historian Diana Preston will introduce her new book, A Higher Form of Killing, published by Bloomsbury Press, about events on the battlefield (use of poison gas), the high seas (the Lusitania sinking and unrestricted submarine attacks) and home front (Zeppelin bombings of cities and towns) in the spring of 1915 that changed warfare forever.
May 30 • 3:00 – 4:00p.m.
Prof. Philip Hallman, Film Studies Field Librarian for the Hatcher Graduate Library of UM will be my guest today. He spoke about the upcoming Orson Welles symposium,Wellespring, beginning Monday, June 8. Many of Welles’ most revered films, and some not so well known, will be shown at the Michigan Theater and State Theater.
May 23 • 3:00 – 4:00p.m.
Our distinguished guest will be Dr. Joseph Rosa, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Joe is returning to the show to share his insight into UMMA current exhibitions: Sophie Calle: North Pole; Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters; and He: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection. He will also speak with Ed about the cultural legacy of renowned Michigan philanthropist, A. Alfred Taubman.
More info at: http://www.umma.umich.edu/
May 9 • 3:00 – 4:00p.m.
To celebrate the upcoming 37th Annual Antiquarian Book Fair, we’ll welcome back Jay Platt, owner of Ann Arbor’s famed West Side Book Shop (113 W. Liberty St., 734-995-1891).
Jay will describe the Fair, held on Sunday, May 17, in the UM Union Building Ball Room, as well as aspects of book history and what to look for when buying a rare book.
May 2 • 3:00 – 3:30p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Colin Blakely, Art Dept. Head, Eastern Michigan University, and Steve Brown, Executive Director of the Oliver Art Center, will recount current achievements and outreach programs in Michigan art education.
May 2 • 3:30 – 4:00p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Our returning guest will be Carole McNamara, Senior Curator Emeritus of the University of Michigan Museum of Art. We will highlight Carole’s distinguished career with the UMMA and several of her stunning exhibitions, including The Lens of Impressionism; Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire; and Photographs of Colonial India and Egypt. We’ll also get an on-air peek of an important Renaissance piece just acquired for the collection.
More info at: http://www.umma.umich.edu/
April 25 • 3:00 – 3:30p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed will welcome back DIA Director Graham Beal, who will spotlight the new exhibition, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit, as well as Museum history and news.
More at: http://www.dia.org/
April 25 • 3:30 – 4 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed’s guest is Ann Arbor Huron High School teacher Jeffrey Stringer, who is directing The Huron Players in a beautiful, mood-filled production of The Uninvited. Based on Dorothy Macardle’s novel Uneasy Freehold, and filmed in 1944 with the new title (starring Ray Milland, U of M School of Drama alum Ruth Hussey, and newcomer Gail Russell), the film is considered a supernatural-thriller genre milestone. That Huron High School students would choose this story over the usual dramatic fare is a bold statement, indeed, and perhaps a harbinger of great things to come!
April 18 • 3-4 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
We’ll be joined by author Barbara Klein Moss, who will describe her lyrical novel, The Language of Paradise, published by W.W. Norton. Taking place in mid twentieth-century Massachusetts, the cradle of Transcendentalism, the story illuminates the lives of three people – a married couple and their mercurial friend – who seek to create a pure world, a new Eden, for themselves and a child.
April 11 • 3-4 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Eminent historian Diana Preston will introduce her new book, A Higher Form of Killing, published by Bloomsbury Press, about events on the battlefield (use of poison gas), the high seas (the Lusitaniasinking and unrestricted submarine attacks) and home front (Zeppelin bombings of cities and towns) in the spring of 1915 that changed warfare forever.