Elizabeth Howard

Short Fuse Podcast #60: Memory. Healing. Conversation. Through Public Art

February 9, 2023
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to Stephanie Dockery, who manages Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Public Art Challenge, about how cities across the country are making use of public art projects.

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Short Fuse Podcast #58: Breath, Suspended

December 7, 2022
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In this episode of the podcast, Elizabeth Howard talks to poets Diane Alters and Edward Hirsch about the ways we think about grief, publicly and privately.

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Short Fuse Podcast #57: “Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights”

October 27, 2022
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to Valena Beety, author of Manifesting Justice , and Tasha Mercedes Shelby, calling in on a telephone from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility.

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Short Fuse Podcast #55: Talking to Author Meredith Hall about “Beneficence”

June 14, 2022
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to author Meredith Hall about her debut novel Beneficence, which deals with a family traumatized by death of a child by a gun.

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Short Fuse Podcast #54: From Madison Avenue to Rikers Island

June 1, 2022
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to Mark Goldsmith about his book Madison Avenue to Rikers Island. He is the founder and CEO emeritus of Getting Out and Staying Out, a nonprofit that provides educational, vocational, job readiness, counseling, and other services to young men who have been incarcerated.

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Short Fuse Podcast #51: Desmond Tutu — Then and Now

March 29, 2022
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to South African photojournalists Sumaya Hisham and Eric Miller about how their work documents the life and ideals of the late Archbishop and Noble Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu.

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Short Fuse Podcast #48: Lessons Superpredators Teach Us

December 7, 2021
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Host Elizabeth Howard and artist Halim A. Flowers engage in a provocative conversation around issues raised by art, the criminal justice system, and how it felt to be incarcerated as a minor.

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Short Fuse Podcast #47: “Our Town” — The Greatest American Play?

November 2, 2021
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In this episode, Bryan Halperin and Howard Sherman talk about the enduring power of Our Town with host Elizabeth Howard.

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Short Fuse Podcast #46: Zakes Mda’s “Washboards and Mirrors” at the South African Cultural Center

October 19, 2021
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A conversation with South African writer and artist Zakes Mda about his recent projects, which include a London production of his play And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses, two books, and a solo exhibition of his collages.

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Short Fuse Podcast #44: Bloodlines, Punk, and Other Delights

September 28, 2021
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Elizabeth Howard talks to Stephen Petronio, choreographer, dancer, and the artistic director of the Stephen Petronio Company, about what plans forward-thinking artists have for the future.

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