February 16, 1981 - This program focuses on artists currently working in new areas and looks at how vanguards have formed, split, and re-formed in the last three decades. Part two of Meaning of Modernism series, this is a continuing of "Ascent of the Vanguard".
February 18, 1981 - On this Midday program, author and illustrator Tomie dePaola talks about writing children's books and answers listener questions. He also discusses the stage version of his children's book, Clown of God, being produced by the Children's Theater Company of Minneapolis.
February 21, 1981 - On this edition of New Letters on the Air, poet Philip Levine is profiled. Levine reads his poems and discusses his childhood in Detroit, the setting of many of his poems, as well as his experience in post-Franco Spain.
February 22, 1981 - Quilts and the art of quilting are a significant part of American arts and crafts history. Art historian Susan Murphy discusses the history of quilting.
February 23, 1981 - Myth/ritual is a program from the Meanings of Modernism series, produced by Nancy Fushan. Part three of Meaning of Modernism series, this is "Myth/Ritual".
February 28, 1981 - This episode of KCUR’s New Letters on the Air is devoted to the work of California writer Kenneth Rexroth.
February 28, 1981 - Nancy Fushan previews Viking art and artifacts opening this week at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, organized by the British Museum in London.
March 7, 1981 - On this Weekend program, MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews artist Harmony Hammond. Hammond lived in the Twin Cities while going to school in the 1960s. She left Minnesota for New York where she helped to create Heresies, a women's art collective. During the transition, her art changed course. Hammond prefers to describe herself as a feminist artist struggling to find herself. The results of that struggle are on view at the WARM and Glen Hanson's galleries in downtown Minneapolis.
March 7, 1981 - Playwright Corinne Jacker discusses her plays Bits and Pieces, performed by the At Random company at the Hennepin Center for the Arts; and Domestic Issues, which will be read at the Playwrights' Center.
March 14, 1981 -