New Year’s Resolution: Team Work Makes the Dream Work
Earlier this year, we asked for your creative New Year’s resolutions. We heard from hundreds of people, and we’re following four aspiring artists all year. Gabriel Walker of Maysville, Kentucky, is a...
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You've Got the Yellow Dog Blues
W.C. Handy was the first to publish a body of songs identified as blues, based on lyrics and melodies from black Southern culture, that became known throughout America. Two of his biggest hits, “St....
View ArticleStudio 360's 1914 Blues Challenge: Listener Submissions
Our pals over at Studio 360 have challenged listeners to create a modern cover of the classic 1914 blues song "Yellow Dog Blues." W.C. Handy's hit helped him earn the moniker "the father of the blues,"...
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Give Us the Yellow Dog Blues
W.C. Handy was the first to publish a body of songs identified as blues, based on lyrics and melodies from black Southern culture, that became known throughout America. Two of his biggest hits, “St....
View ArticleFinding the Theme
In December 2013, we asked to hear your resolutions about making time for creative projects.Adrienne Ognibene said she wanted to rediscover her talent for painting — and, without a home studio, she'd...
View Article1914 Blues Challenge: Marc Anthony Thompson Picks a Winner(s)
W.C. Handy was the first to publish a body of songs identified as blues, based on lyrics and melodies from black Southern culture. Two of his biggest hits, “St. Louis Blues” and “Yellow Dog Blues,”...
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Studio 360’s Summer Poetry Challenge: Battle of the High School Bards
Attention young poets: We want to hear your voices! Don’t leave your best work inside a notebook — send it to us. We’re looking for poetry by students who are about to start high school, in high...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolution: Mike Doughty Goes to Hell
At the beginning of the year we asked for your creative New Year’s Resolutions, and you came through with hundreds. We picked a few brave souls who agreed to let us check in with them over the course...
View ArticleExtra Credit Poetry Challenge: Magdalena from New Mexico
Earlier this summer, Studio 360 is calling for high school authors to send in their poems inspired by the season. We’ll reveal the winner in September.There’s still time to enter your poetry — the...
View ArticleHigh School Poets Write Summer Heartbreak
All this summer, Studio 360 has been collecting high school students’ poetry about the season for our latest listener challenge, the Battle of the High School Bards.Enter the contest — deadline:...
View ArticlePoetry Challenge: Navya from Arizona
In our latest listener challenge, the Battle of the High School Bards, we asked young authors to send in their poems about summer. The deadline has passed, and we’ll announce the winner on the show in...
View ArticlePoetry Challenge: Dorothea Lasky Picks a Winner
All summer, we asked for high school students to send us their poetry inspired by the season for the Battle of the High School Bards. Our challenge was co-presented by the Alliance for Young Artists...
View ArticleChanging Jobs, Changing Seasons
In December 2013, we asked to hear your resolutions about making time for creative projects.Adrienne Ognibene said she wanted to rediscover her talent for painting — and, without a home studio, she'd...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolution: Comedy Is a Dream Deferred, For Now
Throughout the year, we’ve we’re been following a few brave listeners who told us about their creative New Year’s Resolutions for 2014 — including a lawyer turned painter and a rock star hoping to...
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The Great Studio 360 Doodle Dare
Inspired by vintage doodle books, our challenge gives you a fragment of a drawing to complete any way you’d like. Alison Bechdel, the noted cartoonist and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship (a.k.a. the...
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Alison Bechdel Passes the Test
Any time you see a movie with two female characters who talk to each other — about something other than a man — that movie has passed what’s become known as the Bechdel Test, and you might be...
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Doodle Dare: Superheroes Among Us
Last week, we challenged you to The Great Studio 360 Doodle Dare. Alison Bechdel — graphic novelist and newly-minted MacArthur “genius” — started a drawing and your task is to finish it. She’ll be back...
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Taking on the Great Doodle Dare
ENTER HERE! The Great Studio 360 Doodle Dare!For our latest Extra Credit challenge, The Great Studio 360 Doodle Dare, the cartoonist and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship (a.k.a. the “genius” grant)...
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Doodle Dare: The Struggle Is Real
In October, we challenged you to The Great Studio 360 Doodle Dare. Alison Bechdel — graphic novelist and newly-minted MacArthur “genius” — started a drawing and your task is to finish it. She’ll be...
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Last Call for the Great Studio 360 Doodle Dare
We teamed up with cartoonist and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship (a.k.a. the “genius” grant) Alison Bechdel for our latest Extra Credit challenge, The Great Studio 360 Doodle Dare. We asked you to...
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A Painter Makes Peace with Working in the Kitchen
We’ve all got creative aspirations that we’ve put aside — that novel in the drawer, half-completed album, or sketchbook gathering dust — in the pursuit of practical goals. At the end of last year, we...
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Alison Bechdel's Doodle Dare Favorites
Last month, we challenged you to The Great Studio 360 Doodle Dare. We asked you to finish a drawing started by Alison Bechdel, the noted cartoonist and newly-minted MacArthur "genius." How you finished...
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Alison Bechdel’s Winner: The Great Studio 360 Doodle Dare
Last month, we challenged you to The Great Studio 360 Doodle Dare. Cartoonist and newly-minted MacArthur “genius” grant winner Alison Bechdel started a drawing — of a disconcerted young woman grasping...
View ArticleDIY Mermaid
At the end of last year, we asked listeners to declare their creative New Years resolutions for 2014. We picked four people to follow. And although Jolene Oldham from Ringwood, New Jersey wasn't among...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Creative New Year’s Resolution for 2015?
Most New Year’s resolutions are like diets: no fun and abandoned by Valentine’s Day. But for the last couple years, we’ve given you a different challenge: what’s the creative project you’ve wanted to...
View Article30-Second Rom-Com
The meet cute, the first kiss, the misunderstanding, the chase, the wedding — we all know the scenes that make a romantic comedy both predictable and irresistible. Your challenge: write and shoot a...
View Article1914 Blues Challenge: Marc Anthony Thompson Picks a Winner(s)
W.C. Handy was the first to publish a body of songs identified as blues, based on lyrics and melodies from black Southern culture. Two of his biggest hits, “St. Louis Blues” and “Yellow Dog Blues,”...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolution: A DJ Gets Back on the Mic
At the end of 2014, we asked for your creative New Year’s resolutions, and we’ll pick several people to follow throughout 2015. More than one hundred people got in touch, including Maria Thornton. She...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolution: Having a Good Sense of Tumor
At the end of 2014, we asked for your creative New Year’s resolutions— we’ll pick several people to follow throughout 2015. Joseph Riedel (Croton-on-Hudson, New York) wrote:I’ve spent the past few...
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New Year’s Resolution: 12 Dioramas in 12 Months
We asked for your creative New Year’s resolutions — and you sent us more than 100. This year we’ll follow four listeners and hear about their progress. Charis Stiles (of Oakland, California) wrote:My...
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Creative New Year’s Resolutions: Raising Eyebrows
At the end of last year, Studio 360 asked for your creative New Year’s Resolutions for this year. And we are following four of you as you try to make good on those projects. Maria Thornton, of Yellow...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolution: Out of the Hospital and Back to Work
At the end of 2014, we asked for your creative resolutions for the New Year — and we heard from hundreds of you. We’re following four people throughout 2015, including a calligrapher in Washington...
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Funny Ha Ha: B.J. Novak Wants Your Humor Writing
Enter Here Calling all young humorists: we want you to make us laugh! Studio 360 and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are looking for humor writing by students who are about to start high...
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Kurt's Five Lessons of Comedy
This summer, Studio 360 and Scholastic have a challenge for high school students: write something that makes us laugh. Before he was a public radio host, Kurt Andersen launched the groundbreaking humor...
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New Year's Resolution: First Day of Filming (Finally!)
Joseph Riedel’s dreams of becoming a screenwriter were interrupted by a cancer diagnosis — so he’s turning his illness into material for a web series as part of his 2015 Creative New Year's...
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B.J. Novak Picks the Funniest High School Comedy Writer
Guest judge B.J. Novak returns to Studio 360 to announce the winner of our summer humor writing challenge, Funny Ha Ha. Novak picked a winner and a runner-up, and he admits that he’s impressed by the...
View ArticleNick Offerman’s Ultimate Popsicle Stick Throwdown
It’s been a hot summer, so if you’re like us, you’ve been eating a lot of popsicles — which means you probably have a lot of popsicle sticks hanging around, and Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson on Parks...
View ArticleExtra Credit: How to Make America Out of Popsicle Sticks
A few weeks ago, we launched Nick Offerman’s Ultimate Popsicle Stick Throwdown, challenging listeners to make a sculpture out of popsicle sticks and post a picture with the hashtag #MadeForNick. We’ve...
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Extra Credit: Learning from the Popsicle Stick Master
David Hrobowski is a master crafter. His medium of choice? The humble popsicle stick. David has pushed the limits of this craft store staple, using it to build tables, sculptural chairs, and even an...
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Nick Offerman Crowns a Popsicle Stick Winner
We’re always looking for ways to challenge you to flex your creative muscles. Over the summer, we teamed up with the comedian and actor Nick Offerman — who played Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation...
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Jenny Slate Presents: It’s a Wonderful Short
Judge Jenny Slate(Emily Weiss)Nothing says “holiday season” quite like the wall-to-wall reruns of It’s a Wonderful Life that start around Thanksgiving. But Frank Capra’s classic isn’t everyone’s...
View ArticleYour Wonderful Holiday Shorts
For the past month, Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen and comedian Jenny Slate have been asking our listeners to spread a bit of holiday cheer and send in a 30-second short film about the holidays — any...
View ArticleWhat's Your Creative New Years Resolution for 2016?
For the last three years, Studio 360 has been asking you to make a New Years Resolution that's way more fun that diets or exercise: we want to hear what creative project you're going to take on next...
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Yo La Tengo Takes It Higher
Yo La Tengo knows how to cover a song. On past albums, they've brought their signature sound to everything from Cat Stevens to Jackson Browne to Petula Clark. So, in celebration of their newest album...
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Creative New Years Resolutions: Celebrating Success
Last year, Studio 360 asked listeners for their Creative New Years Resolutions— the artistic projects they wanted to take on in 2015. (We’re asking again this year! Throw your hat in for 2016.) We...
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My GIFy Valentine
Valentine’s Day is all about feelings. Sweet feelings, romantic feelings … or the kind of feelings you bury in a pint of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.Studio 360 wants you to express those...
View ArticleTeach Me How to GIFy
Sharing GIFs is easy. Making GIFs is a bit harder — but only a bit. There are lots of great tools you can use to enter our GIFy Valentine challenge, and you don't need any special equipment. Many of...
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The Winning Valentine GIF
For the last month we’ve been asking you to make a GIF for Valentine’s Day. Happy, sad, or angry — we accepted the full spectrum. Although our judges did hint at what would make a great entry: when we...
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