Podcast Episodes

Delaware State of the Arts Podcast – October 30, 2021

This week on Delaware State of the Arts Podcast, Kaitlin Ammon interviews Raye Jones Avery, a cultural activist in Wilmington, and James Ray Rhodes, the executive director of Christina Cultural Arts Center (CCAC), also in Wilmington, about the CCAC’s upcoming event, “Sounds of Resilience.” The performance features Raye Jones Avery accompanied by a nine-piece orchestra […]

October 30, 2021

Delaware State of the Arts Podcast – October 23, 2021

This week on Delaware State of the Arts Podcast, Michelle Kramer-Fitzgerald interviews Nanci Hersh, a mixed media visual artist and the executive director of Delaware Institute for the Arts in Education, about her recent series Unmasked: Portraits from the Zoom Room and her upcoming exhibition of the same name. Kramer-Fitzgerald and Hersh discuss the inspiration […]

October 23, 2021

Delaware State of the Arts Podcast – October 9, 2021

This week on Delaware State of the Arts Podcast, Kaitlin Ammon interviews Delaware poets Jane Miller, a 2021 Established Fellow in Literature: Poetry, and Jack Mackey, a 2021 Emerging Fellow in Literature: Poetry, about their upcoming, joint poetry reading. They also discuss ൪uartet, the online poetry journal that Miller helped to found and now co-edits, […]

October 9, 2021

Delaware State of the Arts Podcast – October 2, 2021

This week on Delaware State of the Arts Podcast, Kaitlin Ammon interviews Cassandra Lewis, a Delaware playwright and author and a 2021 Established Fellow in Literature: Playwriting, about her latest play, Visitation, and its upcoming online reading that is being hosted by the ACLU of Delaware. To start, Ammon and Lewis discuss the different places […]

October 2, 2021

Delaware State of the Arts Podcast – September 25, 2021

This week on Delaware State of the Arts Podcast, Michelle Kramer-Fitzgerald interviews Nataki Oliver, owner and gallerist of The Sold Firm, and 7GOD, a local artist who recently collaborated with the gallery on a visual art installation and short film. Kramer-Fitzgerald and Oliver discuss the founding of The Sold Firm and how it is more […]

September 25, 2021

Delaware State of the Arts Podcast – September 11, 2021

This week on Delaware State of the Arts Podcast, Kristin Pleasanton interviews Mark Fields, Executive Director of The Grand, about The Grand’s upcoming 2021-2022 season at its three venues: Copeland Hall at the Grand, the baby grand, and The Playhouse on Rodney Square.  After touching on the programming and events The Grand provided to the […]

September 11, 2021

Delaware State of the Arts Podcast – July 31, 2021

 Paul Weagraff interviews Tina Betz, the Director of Cultural Affairs for the City of Wilmington, about Clifford Brown and the jazz festival named in his honor.

July 31, 2021

Delaware State of the Arts Podcast – July 24, 2021

 Paul Weagraff chats with Alex Johnson, founder of House Lights, about a summer initiative in three Delaware libraries designed to bring together community members, social services, and local leaders around a common artistic project.

July 24, 2021

Delaware State of the Arts Podcast – July 17, 2021

 Paul Weagraff interviews jazz musician Fostina Dixon about her training, career, and upcoming program at the Delaware Theatre Company entitled “Five Women”

July 17, 2021

Delaware State of the Arts Podcast – July 10, 2021

 Paul Weagraff chats with Molly Giordano, executive director of the Delaware Art Museum, about the work of the museum, its expanded mission, and it recent success in receiving a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This grant will support a historical exhibition honoring the art produced by the 1973 Federal Comprehensive Employment and […]

July 10, 2021

Delaware State of the Arts Podcast – July 3, 2021

Paul Weagraff interviews Dr. Jennifer Margaret Barker, Professor of Music at the University of Delaware, and 2021 recipient of a Masters Fellowship in Music Composition from the Delaware Division of the Arts.

July 3, 2021

Delaware State of the Arts Podcast – June 12, 2021

 Paul Weagraff interviews Jonathan Whitney, local performing artist and percussionist, about his evolution as a musician, his work with drumming circles in Wilmington, and his new entrepreneurial enterprise, Flux Creative Consulting.

June 12, 2021