Episode 617
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- Guitarist Mary Flower
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- Mary Flower is a well-known and highly respected finger style blues musician who has performed on "Prairie Home Companion." She grew up in Indiana and moved to Portland late in her career. She performs live, demonstrating her intricate finger picking in the traditional southern style.
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- Coronas Artist Eva Castellenoz
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- Nyssa artist Eva Castellanoz received an NEA National Heritage Fellowship for her work preserving Mexican traditional arts. She uses wire, paper and wax to make beautiful flowers by hand. She's descended from Brazeros, the workers who migrated north to work in the factories and fields during World War II. Eva embraced her parents' lessons on heritage and her knowledge of plants and herbal rememdies is encyclopedic.
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- The Artful Blogger
- Wang Gongyi: Floating and Flowing
- by Jule Gilfillan | 03/04/2010
- The serenity of the watercolor-like washes and fluid gestures of Wang Gongyi’s prints give no indication of her turbulent past. Born in Tianjin, China in 1946, Wang was on a collision course with China’s Communist revolution. As a teen, she nearly starved to death during Mao’s disastrous Great Leap Forward, then later was “sent [...]
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