WABE Arts

Emmy and Golden Globe winner S. Epatha Merkerson stopped by WABE Studios after receiving the Black Women Film Network's On Her Shoulders Preservation Award and ahead of a special exhibit at Atlanta's Apex Museum showcasing costumes from her role as Sharon Goodwin on NBC's "Chicago Med." She talked with WABE Arts editor Sherri Daye Scott about what the honors mean, why Atlanta's creative scene is "jumping," and what still surprises her after four decades in the business. The Apex Museum exhibit runs through April

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

enty years after Gordon Parks documented the segregated South for Life Magazine, more than 40 of those photographs are coming to Atlanta. Jackson Fine Art co-owner Anna Walker Skillman traces the gallery's decade-long relationship with the Gordon Parks Foundation — from a meeting in Paris in 2011 to this landmark exhibition, curated by MacArthur Fellow Dawoud Bey. On view at Jackson Fine Art in Buckhead through June 13, 2026.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As Women's History Month comes to a close, Atlanta artist/activist and Living Walls co-founder Monica Campana shares how Mexican painter Frida Kahlo saved her life. Campana , who moved to the U.S. from Peru at 15, her the story of identity, displacement, and why stepping out of her front door is an act of resistance with with WABE Arts and Culture Editor Sherri Daye Scott . 🎧

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

🎭 Spring arrives with live music at sunset on Callanwolde's estate grounds. WABE Arts and Culture Editor Sherri Daye Scott talks with Executive Director Andrew Keenan and Operations Director Adam Faust about the 2026 Spring Concert Series: sixteen artists across four outdoor nights, running through May 8th. The lineup spans blues, soul, Americana, jazz, and classic pop.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

onne Warwick has been making hits for nearly six decades — and she's not done yet. Ahead of her March 20 performance at Atlanta Symphony Hall, the six-time Grammy winner and 2023 Kennedy Center honoree sits down for WABE Arts' "What's Feeding You?" series. She talks classic TV, a new album of Diane Warren songs with emerging artists, and a long-awaited collaboration with Earth, Wind and Fire that is finally in the works.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What happens when a world-class cultural destination decides Atlanta is its next partner?

🎧 Meryanne Loum-Martin built Jnane Tamsna, an acclaimed nine-acre boutique hotel in Marrakech, into a gathering place for the global Black diaspora. Now she's bringing that vision to Atlanta. If you care about Black cultural leadership, global art, and what it looks like to build real economic ecosystems across continents, this conversation is for you.

WABE Arts host Sherri Daye Scott speaks with Loum-Martin about the Atlanta artists whose work hangs in her hotel, the impromptu 95-person party that started it all, and why she launched the Diaspora Salon, an annual gathering of thinkers, artists, and entrepreneurs from 27 countries. Plus: her plans for a Black-owned boutique hotel brand and HBCU pipeline she wants to build with Atlanta at the center.

Listen now and follow WABE Arts on your favorite podcast platform for more conversations at the intersection of Atlanta and the world.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cultural icon Fab Five Freddy brings his debut memoir, "Everybody's Fly" to Atlanta's Tara Theatre. He spoke WABE's Sherri Daye Scott about the worlds that shaped him, bridging hip-hop and downtown New York's art scene, and the curiosity that drove it all. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

️ A wealthy family. A 10-acre farm in Cherokee County, Georgia. And a murder. Award-winning CBS News correspondent Peter Van Sant covered the Farris family murder case for "48 Hours,” now he’s going deeper with his new six-episode podcast, “Blood Is Thicker: The Farris Wheel.”  WABE Arts & Culture Editor Sherri Daye Scott talked with Van Sant about what drew him to the case, what the podcast format unlocks that television couldn’t, and how 42 years of hard-news journalism shape his approach to true crime storytelling. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Boris Kodjoe has spent 25 years building a career between Hollywood and the world — from “Madea’s Family Reunion” and “House of Cards” to the Full Circle Festival in Ghana to the Kodjoe Family Foundation. At the United Way of Greater Atlanta’s 10th Annual African-American Partnership Leadership Luncheon, he sat down with WABE Arts & Culture Editor Sherri Daye Scott for our What’s Feeding You? series — on what grounds him, what he tells young people about community, and why giving to others is the thing we talk about least and need most.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Playwright Beth Hyland on ‘Fires, Ohio,’ a Chekhov-inspired world premiere at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre through March 22.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.