Issues & Ideas

Issues & Ideas

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Issues & Ideas episodes

  • Ears on Art: A glass blower and cow creator in Los Osos
    This week 'Ears on Art" visits with Los Osos-based artist Ted Emrick. Emrick is a sculptor working in a variety of materials, with glass being one of his favorites. He loves to teach and volunteers at Morro Bay High School, where last year he helped students create one of the cows for the Cow Parade , an international public art exhibit that features fiberglass cows painted, modified and decorated by local artists.
    21 min
  • Ears on Art: Blowing Glass
    This month Ears on Art visits George Jercich George, a glass blower and sculptor who lives in Los Osos. In 1976 he was hired as a lecturer in the Art and Design Department at Cal Poly. He was asked to develop a glass program which he did very successfully. Jercich provides some interesting history of the local and national ground swell of glass programs in university art departments.
    20 min
  • Issues and Ideas: Coming of age in "This I Know"
    The human struggle--especially for young girls--to fit in and to embrace one's unique gifts is very real. Local author Eldonna Edwards explores this struggle in her new book, This I Know . Issues and Ideas host Brian Reynolds talks with Eldonna Edwards this month about her novel that is garnering a buzz in the literary world, including a June book club selection by syndicated radio host Delilah. Set in a small Midwest town in the late 1960s and helmed by an unforgettable young protagonist, This
    32 min
  • Issues and Ideas: Celebrating Juneteenth in San Luis Obispo
    Tuesday June 19 was Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day. It's a holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas and signified the emancipation of slaves throughout the United States. It came two years after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
    14 min
  • California Central Coast’s WWII aviators honored and remembered
    Historian Jim Gregory shares insights about his new book Central Coast Aviators in WW II. Gregory shares the ells the stories of local men and women who served as pilots and crew during WW II. Stories include how Cal Poly State University was transformed in to a Naval aviation pre-flight training center and Santa Maria’ Hancock Field trained thousands of pilots and crew.
    41 min

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"Issues and Ideas" is a weekly magazine program exploring news, arts, and culture in California and on the Central Coast.Regular audio segments are produced by the following contributors:People and…