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99.1 FM WQRT-LP is a non-commercial, experimental on-air home for contemporary art, music, and community. Licensed by the FCC with a reach of most of the city of Indianapolis, Indiana (500,000+ people), WQRT is owned and managed by Big Car Collaborative — a nonprofit arts organization and cross-discipline collective of artists. With the help of volunteers, we broadcast from Listen Hear — our sound-art space and audio studio in the Garfield Park neighborhood.
Episodes

Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Radio Free Book Club- Napoleon Could Not Do
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of Napoleon Could Not Do. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Kate and Barbara Shoup as well as Traci Cumbay only on 99.1 WQRT.

Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Radio Free Book Club-Birnam Wood
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of the Eco-Thriller by Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Susan Neville, Jen Bingham, and Dan Barden only on 99.1 WQRT.

Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Radio Free Book Club-I Have Some Questions For You
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of the feminist murder mystery by Rebecca Makkai , I Have Some Questions For You. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Traci Cumbay, Jen Bingham, and Alex Mattingly only on 99.1 WQRT.

Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Create Hear-Charlie Sutphin and Madeline Walsh
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis. In this episode, Jim Walker talks with Charlie Sutphin and Madeline Walsh about the Katharine B. Suthpin Retrospective.
Opening at the Harrison Center for the Arts in Indianapolis on Sept. 1, 2023, this is a collection of the surviving work of Katharine Sutphin, a painter originally from Indianapolis who died in 2014. Charlie shares about his sister's life and work and he and Madeline discuss the the process of curating this retrospective. Get more details about the exhibition at https://www.harrisoncenter.org/first-fridays/2023/8/11/september-2023-katharine-b-sutphin-retrospective
Find out more about WQRT, stream us live, and access additional episodes at www.wqrt.org

Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Create Hear- Brian DePauli
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond.
In this Episode Rob Funkhouser talks with artist, Brian DePauli

Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Create Hear-Aaron R.Turner
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond.
In this Episode Mary Goodwin talks with artist Aaron R. Turner

Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Create Hear-Nasreen Kahn
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Produced by Big Car Collaborative — the nonprofit arts organization behind WQRT — Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front. In this episode, Shauta Marsh talks with artist Nasreen Khan about her latest exhibition Cicatrix.
Find more info at https://nasreenkhan.art/

Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Create Hear-Ian Lewandowski
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis and beyond. In this episode, Mary Goodwin of Aurora PhotoCenter talks with Artist Ian Lewandowski.
During his two-week residency, 2023 Aurora Project Resident Ian Lewandowski will focus on making large-format portraits of queer Hoosiers, in June during Indy Pride, in a continuation of his long-term work imaging queer Midwesterners, notably in his series My Man Mitch.

Tuesday May 30, 2023
Re-Rooting-Episode 3: Iryna Bondar
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Indianapolis is home to first-generation immigrants from all over the world, many of them practicing artists. Tune in to hear their stories about finding inspiration, bridging an art practice across cultures, and creating home in a new place.
This series is hosted by Tiffany Black, resident of Big Car Collaborative’s Artist & Public Life Residency, a long-term artist housing program. Airing every 2nd Saturday at 3pm EST.
Artwork credit: Below And Beyond No.4 by Asli Narin.

Tuesday May 30, 2023
Create Hear-Lee Bennett
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Produced by Big Car Collaborative — the nonprofit arts organization behind WQRT — Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front. In this episode, Jim Walker talks with Lee Bennett of the Indianapolis-based publisher, Read Write Books. Bennett is editor of Quotidian Magazine, which features visual art and writing focused on the beauty and importance of the seemingly mundane and everyday aspects of life. Find out more and access additional episodes at wqrt.org.