Audio/Video: Performing Arts Center Dedication
Art&Seek was on the ground for Monday's dedication of the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Click through for KERA reporter BJ Austin's radio report and KERA videographer Ivey Suber's video of the day.
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Art&Seek was on the ground for Monday's dedication of the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Click through for KERA reporter BJ Austin's radio report and KERA videographer Ivey Suber's video of the day.
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll honor a Texan who performed in both churches and bordellos before becoming one of the most prolific and influential blues musicians of all time.
Art&Seek presents This Week in Texas Music History. Every week, we’ll spotlight a different moment and the musician who made it. For the week of Sept. 12, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman looks back at an event that pushed the Texas punk scene into the national spotlight.
Miss Emma was the force behind Black Images Book Bazaar for three decades and now devotes all of her time to a long list of lucky North Texas nonprofits. On Saturday, a grand bash will be held in honor of her 65th birthday. Meet Emma Rodgers in this week's Art&Seek Q&A.
This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at Milton Brown, whose meeting with Bob Wills in Fort Worth led to the formation of one of the most distinguished acts in the history of western swing, the Light Crust Doughboys.
Back in eighth grade, Lupe Vargas won a music scholarship to honor Texs guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan. Now all grown up, she has returned to teach music in the neighborhood where both she and S.R.V. began to play. Meet Lupe Vargas in this week's Art&Seek Q&A.
Walton Muyumba joins us for this week's Art&Seek segment on Think TV. Muyumba is the author of the newly released The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism.
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll look at a singer who was born in a railroad boxcar but went on to tour with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.
In the Saturday Spotlight, we’re talking books at the 7th Annual Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair and Arts Festival.
Talented artists are a rare breed, so it’s fascinating when two of them flock together and couple up. James Cope, 32, is the Associate Curator at the Goss-Michael Foundation and Cassie Edmondson, 30, teaches drawing and photography at Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and Performing Arts. He’s British and she’s a Texas gal from Plano. Both are on the same wavelength when it comes to their artistic tastes, except when it comes to television.