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10/11/11 NPR's All Things Considered

Our latest story for National Public Radio is about a Native American Hip Hop artist whose music has followed the dramatic trajectory of his life on the Crow Reservation in southeastern Montana.



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Humans have always looked to poets, writers, visual artists and singers to take the pulse of the world.  Artists are like canaries in a coal mine—the first to taste the poison, the first to fly to freedom. Art generally reflects the artist’s ideas about beauty and truth. Artists are compelled to express their lives—the place they live, the times, the traditions they cherish. Expressing Montana was a project of the Western Folklife Center seeking to document and present the artists from this place, who make social, political, spiritual or environmental commentary.

Expressing Montana included an exhibit at the Missoula Art Museum, June 10 through August 28, 2011 with a gallery talk and live concert event on July 7; an hour-long public radio special that aired at 7:30 pm June 27 on Montana Public Radio, and at 7:00 pm July 6 on Yellowstone Public Radio; and a web presence that includes audio, video and pictures of the 27 artists the Media staff interviewed for the program.

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