Applause is an Emmy award-winning locally produced TV show that celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Each week this on-air arts magazine broadcasts a fresh half-hour of features, performances, on-location reports, and interviews from the studios of WVIZ/PBS ideastream. Special thanks to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano on Around Noon/Applause.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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On this episode of Applause we look back at one of the most controversial figures in U.S. history who drew attention to the issue of slavery, abolitionist John Brown, who spent much of his life in Hudson, Ohio (exhibits are at the Akron Art Museum, Hudson Library & Historical Society, online at Oberlin College and the Summit County Historical Society. And we see how a group of Israeli artists are coming to grips with the complex issues facing their homeland in the exhibit Hugging and Wrestling: Contemporary Israeli Photography and Video. Plus we see how Micol Bayer draws on her Jewish heritage to create some amazing designs.

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Production of Applause on WVIZ/PBS is made possible by grants from:

The Cleveland Foundation
The George Gund Foundation
The John P. Murphy Foundation
Kulas Foundation

United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland, Inc.

The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.