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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
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.

Tuesday May 09, 2023
Re-Rooting-Episode 2: Salama Taman
Tuesday May 09, 2023
Tuesday May 09, 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 09, 2023
Re-Rooting - Episode 1: Asli Narin
Tuesday May 09, 2023
Tuesday May 09, 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 09, 2023
Create Hear-Yeabsera Tabb
Tuesday May 09, 2023
Tuesday May 09, 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, Shauta Marsh of Big Car talks with Indianapolis-based artist Yeabsera Tabb

Tuesday May 09, 2023
Create Hear-Jason Gray
Tuesday May 09, 2023
Tuesday May 09, 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, Shauta Marsh of Big Car talks with Artist and Lead Builder Jason Gray about his exhibit Cthutopia, Chicken Chapel, and other projects on the Tube Factory Artspace campus.