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ART ON THE AIR - WVLP 103.1 FM Fridays 11am Sunday 7pm Central time streaming at WVLP.org Lakeshore Public Radio 89.1FM Sunday at 7pm - Podcast at brech.com/aota
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ART ON THE AIR 5/6/2025
Art On The Air is pleased to announce
that it received three 2025 Communicators Awards.
4/17/2025 Thank you Art On The Air for supporting the arts and all you do for our community! Indiana Ballet Theatre
3/27/2025 Your show is so important and inspiring! Thank you for all that you do to support the arts! 3/5/2025
My husband and I just
listened to the podcast. It was wonderful. You and Ester are masters of
making people feel comfortable and leading them through their stories.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to tell my story.
Vickie Wheatley
2/28/2025 Hello! Thanks so much! It was an absolute honor to be on your show. Thanks again Charbria Shine
2/18/2025 Larry and Ester do a
great job of promoting the art and local authors and events in a
personal, Mark Taylor, 2/17/2025
You run an outstanding
program for Lakeshore Public Radio and I was honored to have been with
you both for Brian Byrn 2/17/2025 Impressive what you've built over the years with Art on the Air!
Patti DeNucci
Award-Winning Author. Speaker. Facilitator. Conversation Enthusiast 1/26/2025
It [my
interview] was a great experience chatting with you all!!
Mark
Taylor 1/26/2025 Love this [episode 325] - You are working tirelessly to expose talent, we’re all much obliged to you, Larry & Esther.
1/21/2025
I had the
absolute pleasure of connecting with Larry and Ester on Art
On The Air.
Aside from being
true professionals and having incredible radio voices, they
were extremely kind and engaging.
I felt our conversation could have continued on long past the show's cut off time. I find in many of their interviews, their great questions are posed at the perfect pace, naturally guiding the guest as well as the listener(s) further into the conversation. The topics are always engaging and interesting.
It was a true
joy to be a part of this show. I feel that I made two new
friends, and I am now a huge fan and look forward to
listening to Larry and Ester interview more incredible
guests on Art On The Air.
With Gratitude,
Risa August
12/26/2024
Larry A Brechner and Ester Golden ask the
right questions and offer great ideas and arts coverage.
Alan
Harrison
12/17/2024 I was
interviewed by Larry A Brechner and Ester Golden with Lakeshore Public
Media a while back, Patricia Tyson
11/5/2024
The interview was absolutely amazing with Lakeshore
Public Media's
Art On The Air !!
Patricia Tyson
11/4/2024
Thank you to ART ON THE AIR and Lakeshore
Public Media. Frank
Ferrante
10/29/2024
Art On The Air is pleased to announce
that it received a 2024 Bronze Signal Award in the Arts & Culture -
Individual Episode 10/28/2024
I'm thrilled to share that I participated in
an interview with
Art On The Air!
Molly Abraham
10/18/2024
Honored to have
been interviewed for
Art On The Air - it was a fun and
wide-ranging conversation from jewelry to craft shows to Broadway
musicals. Thanks to
Larry A Brechner and Ester for the
opportunity.
Bobbi Rafferty
9/22/2024
Hi Ester and Larry,
Yesterday's Fall
Innovation Forum, "Touring Creativity through Architecture,"
was a smash! As you know, we added a second tour to
accommodate the response. Truth be known, we could have
offered a third session with all the folks wanting to come.
We
appreciate you and Lakeshore Public Radio and all our
other community partners. Your help in spreading the
word to the community made a huge difference. Thank you!
Take
care...be well!
Cindy Hedge
Center for Creative
Solutions, Inc.®
6/4/2024
I never would have
guessed the [interview] time would go by so quickly,
Ken Rabbers
Photographic Artist Indiana Artisan
5/28/2024
Hope you had an enjoyable Memorial Day weekend. Ours
was made special listening to your interviews of us.
You and Esther do such a good job with your questions.
Thanks and be well,
Tom Sourlis
and Susan
Eleuterio
https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/show/art-on-the-air/2024-05-15/art-on-the-air-may-26-2024 5/22/2024
Larry and Ester are
fantastic hosts. They ask great questions and guide the guest to focus
on the “origin story,” Merry Bell Clark https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/show/art-on-the-air/2024-04-09/art-on-the-air-may-12-2024
5/20/2024
Thank you, Larry and
Ester
For all you do for
the arts in the area.
We appreciate you.
Sincerely,
Ray Scott Crawford
Canterbury Summer
Theatre
5/16/2024
Here's my
interview with Larry and Ester from Art On The Air. Thank you Art On The Air!!! Lynn
Heims Buckmaster
5/8/2024
Art On The Air is pleased to announce
that it received a 2024 Communicator Award of Distinction
2/24/2024
I wanted to thank you again
for the opportunity to be interviewed on your Lake Shore Public Media
broadcast. Also, I would like to extend thanks to Esther, for her insightful comments and questions.....some, which still linger with me as I'm working in the studio. Thank you and thanks for your inspiring program. David DeCesaris
2/14/2024 Thank you so much! I love art shows. I so appreciate all your time and information.You both are sooooooo great at what you do:)
Mary Porterfield
1/23/2024
"Power of the Airwaves"
Had to tell you this. We opened applications yesterday for this year's Indiana Artisan jury, and we received one today from an artisan in Hobart. She's connected with us through Facebook in recent months, and I'm pretty sure your show was her introduction to us.
Thanks for getting our name all over
the state, and particularly in the Region.
Ros
Rosalyn Demaree
Indiana Artisan
IndianaArtisan.org
1/16/2024 A genuine pleasure to be a guest on Art On The Air for this week's show! A very thought provoking interview!
Rob Quicke
1/15/2024
Thank you So much Larry & Esther!
One never likes to hear their voice but you made the 'flow' interesting to me and I hope the listeners enjoy the stories. You both have wonderful voices and professional approach to the interview process. It made me feel very at ease and appreciated.
Thanks for highlighting the museum and my career.
I
hope you come visit us sometime in the future.
Brian Bryn Director / Curator Midwest Museum of American Art
12/31/2023
Art On
The Air thanks to your show for the awareness you build about Indiana
art and artists.
12/20/2023
Art On The
Air is listed as the #2 of 25 arts
podcast December 2023 on NPR after Fresh Air, https://podcasts.feedspot.com/npr_art_podcasts/ 10/19/2023
I so
appreciated the opportunity to be interviewed on AOTA last
Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
(lakeshorepublicmedia.org/show/art-on-the-air/2023-10-17/art-on-the-air-october-29-2023 ). It was such a grand opportunity to share my story with your audience and to contribute to the ongoing conversations about how art is making a difference in the lives of people throughout the northern Indiana area.
The Host and
Hostess, Larry Brechner and Ester Golden, were welcoming and so
curious about the many
related aspects of my career and artistic endeavors. Their abilities to draw out and frame the conversation were helpful in guiding me to unfold and explore my work.
Thank you for your
support and providing this venue to artists like myself.
With much
appreciation,
Sue Scamihorn
6/14/2023
Congratulations to you Judith
Turner-Yamamoto and to the wonderful
team of Esther Golden and Larry
A Brechner.
3/1/2023 I want to take a moment to thank you for all that you do to support the arts and artists in our area. Your program guests and their wide-range of topics are informative and very interesting. Both of you are excellent and entertaining interviewers. Your programs are a welcome and necessary part of the artistic culture here. Thank you for your efforts and for all that you do on behalf of the artists in our area. Our cultural environment is richer for the Art on the Air broadcasts. With thanks and kind regards, Jeannie Jeannie Rapstad, MA President, Jeannie Rapstad Enterprises LLC 2/20/2023 AOTA [Art on the Air] is a wonderful resource for the region, providing in-depth looks into artists and arts organizations providing relevant content for listeners to make informed decisions about how they consume cultural content. Amy Davis Navardauks – Executive Director - Art Barn
2/10/2023
Art on the Air is a great
way for me to find out what cultural events are happening in the dunes.
Eve Landsman Wiersbicki – Executive Director Dig The Dunes 2/9/2023 February 9, 2023 Art on the Air on WVLP and Lakeshore Public Radio It is an honor to write this testimonial for Art on the Air at WVLP and Lakeshore Public Radio for their application to the Art Project Funding Program of the Indiana Arts Commission. I am impressed by the range of programming developed, given the perceived restriction of an hour, and audience outreach challenges in this age of scattered attention. Nonetheless, the program flourishes, each episode leaving the listener almost impatient for the week to whip by to the next episode. Art on the Air fulfills an invaluable service to not only the arts community and arts lovers in Northwest Indiana. In a state where one has to travel some distance to attend a concert or an art exhibit, Art on the Air, through its live broadcast and archives, enables everyone within the Lakeshore Public Radio listening area, and beyond, has access to the immense body of artistic endeavors produced by, and under the respected leadership of Larry Brechner. In fact, even though I have moved back to Boston, I can continue to be a listening fan. During my service on the Indiana Arts Commission, we were committed to a mission of IDEA, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access. In my opinion, Art on the Air embodies this mission. The programming reflects diversity of voices of our multiracial, multicultural composition of the region. Practically all the disciplines oft considered an art form are introduced and featured, from the professional and high school symphonies, to paintings and photography, and the simple yet complex discoveries of art created from found objects. To use a trite expression, there is something for everyone. Please be assured that the art featured is not just a hodge lodge of random artists and artworks; rather, each show is carefully curated and researched, and the narratives are always in-depth, engaging, and insightful.. I wish to note that my appreciation and observation center on the fact that: (A) Art on the Air demonstrates the pride of the region’s rich art heritage and potential, and not as a “poor cousin” of Chicago. When I first moved to the region from Chicago, an art leader exclaimed that “How wonderful that you can connect us with the Chicago art scene!” Not so, my friend, and Art on the Air demonstrates that NWI is proud of its art and cultural creativity. And (B) The programs honor artists in all phases of their careers, and in their varied backgrounds, from the yet-unknown rural painter, to the urban successful jewelry designer. All are given “pride of place” at the Art on the Air Table of Inclusion. I am proud to be a listener and supporter of Art on the Air, and am confident that new and seasoned listeners will continue to be dedicated to the exciting gift offered by this program. One additional comment: I truly believe that Larry, a professional and gifted photographer, has an acute yet relatable sense of aestheticism that informs his work as the producer of the show. Sincerely yours, Libby Chiu
libbychiu@yahoo.com
2/6/2023
Northwest Indiana is the
state’s second-largest metropolitan area and home to a thriving and
varied artistic community. Toiling away while tucked under the shadow of
big-city Chicago, artists in the Calumet Region unfortunately don’t
always get the media coverage they so richly deserve. But Art on the Air
on WVLP and Lakeshore Public Radio has shone a spotlight on many
talented local painters, photographers, sculptors, musicians, authors,
actors, theater directors and other artists working in many different
mediums.
Art on the Air also reaches audiences as a podcast, making it even more accessible to the public it keeps informed. It’s become a vital cultural resource in Northwest Indiana. It’s essential listening for artists and anyone with an interest in the arts. It’s a bright, shining light that deserves support.
–Joseph S. Pete, author and journalist with The Times of Northwest
Indiana
2/6/2023 Dear Indiana Arts Commission: Hello. I hope this arrives to find you well. I am a supporter of Dr. Brechner and Art on the Air. I appreciate the love with which Ester and Dr. Brechner curate the topics for the program. It is the only regularly scheduled program of its kind in our area dealing with the fine arts and culture in Northwest Indiana. The fine arts, the arts and the humanities are needed now more than ever to ameliorate our politics and to inform better judgments in the areas of law, government, commerce and philanthropy. The underlying rationale for all of these important areas of our society are informed by the arts and what it releases. As President Kennedy so ably noted in his address at Amhurst College in 1963, “When power leads men toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.” I support the Art on the Air Program. I hope the Indiana Arts Commission will support it too and renew its grant for the application period. Thank you. Michael W. Griffin, M.P.A., MMC/CPFA/ACPFIM Citizen Servant Highland Clerk-Treasurer (1.1.1992 to 2.72022) • State Senator (2.7.2022 to 1109.2022) 2/6/2023 I really enjoy listening to Arts on the Air, because the information is timely useful. They give you a behind the scenes look at local arts organizations as well as individual artists that we don’t often get a chance to see. I know for me, I get a greater appreciation for the artists and organizations featured in the Arts on the Air. Something that I believe increases community interest in our local arts organizations and individual artists something that is very valuable to all of our communities here in Northwest Indiana Larry Brewer, Executive Director, South Shore Dance Alliance Inc 2/6/2023 Dear Art on the Air, I was deeply touched when Ester informed me that you wanted to interview me for my upcoming shows at Gallery Guichard and the Chicago Art Dept. Your interest in my art and background as a self-taught artist meant so much to me, as it has often been a challenge for me to find an audience that appreciates my work. Your interview was a true validation of my professional status as an artist, as you asked insightful questions about my techniques and inspirations. Your approach created a warm and familiar atmosphere, and I felt comfortable sharing my story with you and your listeners. Thank you for the incredible work you do in promoting and supporting artists like myself, and for giving us the opportunity to share my passion with your audience. I fully support your efforts and look forward to the possibility of future interviews with you. Namaste, Lammie D. LAMMIE-HANSON Contemporary Metalpoint and Painter
2/4/2023 Don Widmer (on Instragram) donwidmerpaperarts I
enjoyed my conversation with Larry and Ester for @artontheairnwi .
or https://www.npr.org/podcasts/810025328/art-on-the-air #donwidmerpaperarts #pulppainting #handmadepaper #artontheair #lakeshorepublicradio 2/3/2023 Art on the Air is a significant asset to the Northwest Indiana community. I am not only a listener but also was interviewed as an artist. The two interviewers, Esther and Larry are kind and always give a positive outlook and that makes the show so enjoyable. It's a gem and uplifts the spirit. I also want to mention how important art is to our community. When Art on the Air broadcasts, there are budding artists of all ages listening. I have been contacted by listeners asking me about my art and how I started as they would like to paint, or make but haven't had the confidence to do so. There are many shows and podcasts to choose from and Art on the Air is a great choice as it is valuable and fun. We really need this good news today ! Thanks for providing. Sincerely, Dorothy Graden Thanks
!! Dorothy Graden Artist LLC
2/3/2023 I have listened to Art on the Air with Larry and Ester for several years. Their show makes an essential contribution to the art ecosystem of our region and opens the possibilities of engagement in the arts to their audience. In the past year, my partner and I have been guests on the show to speak about exhibitions we curated; it was a wonderful experience; they were informed about our topic and asked great questions. As interviewers, they are warm and curious, which makes the show fun for everyone. Linda Dorman DORMAN + TORLUEMKE
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looking forward to tuning in!
Patti DeNucci
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