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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 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.

Tuesday May 09, 2023
Radio Free Book Club-Every Man A King by Walter Mosley
Tuesday May 09, 2023
Tuesday May 09, 2023
This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of Every Man A King by Walter Mosley . Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Christine Hudson, Steve Woods, and Craig Von Deylen only on 99.1 WQRT

Tuesday May 09, 2023
Radio Free Book Club-Trust by Hernan Diaz
Tuesday May 09, 2023
Tuesday May 09, 2023
This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of fantasy author Hernan Diaz 2022 Best Seller, Trust. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Traci Cumbay, Barb Shoup, and Robin Beery only on 99.1 WQRT.

Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Create Hear- Nat Russell
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Thursday Mar 09, 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, Jim Walker of Big Car talks with artist Nathaniel Russell

Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Radio Free Book Club- Alex Jennings, The Ballad of Perilous Graves
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of fantasy author Alex Jennings, The Ballad of Perilous Graves Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Christine Hudson, Maurice Broaddus, and Alex Mattingly only on 99.1 WQRT

Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Create Hear-Betsy Stirratt
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Big Car's Director of Programs and Exhibitions, Shauta Marsh interviews visual artist Betsy Stirratt. Stirratt’s creative practice focuses on themes about nature, collections and the environment. She is the Founding Director of the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University Bloomington where she has curated exhibitions and published catalogs since 1987. Exhibiting her own work widely since 1983, solo exhibitions include La Maladie at The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia and the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago and Veiled Taxonomies at the Center for Book Arts in New York. Her work has been included in group exhibits at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and White Columns and Art in General in New York among others. She is the recipient of a Visual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Radio Free Book Club-When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Join the Radio Free Book Club team—Dan Barden, Susan Neville, Traci Cumbay, and host Ken Honeywell for a no-holds-barred discussion of the provocative novel - When We Cease to Understand the World.
Radio Free Book Club is a radio show book club produced monthly at 99.1 WQRT in Indianapolis. We talk about contemporary novels, with an alternating cast to book club members. Yes: There will be spoilers. We hope you’ll join us!