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, May 22, 2008

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On this episode we'll take a look at how some artists have found ways to reduce, re-use and recycle through the arts.

First, a look at mass consumption and waste through the lens of Photographer Chris Jordan. In his latest exhibit, Running the Numbers, Chris takes a close look at our throw-away society by turning some staggering statistics of waste in America into large scale recognizable images. Not long ago Chris joined host Dee Perry by phone for a conversation on Around Noon on 90.3 WCPN where he started off out by telling how he conceived of this exhibit after questioning the kind of impact of his work.

As the Euclid Corridor Project begins to take shape from Public Square to University Circle, chances are you may have walked or driven past one of the many public art projects along Euclid Avenue. We'll take a look at the project that pays homage to the working people of Northeast Ohio who are connected by its many bridges.

Artist Mark Thomas didn't start out to clean up Euclid Avenue. But his eye catching stainless steel trash cans that are part of the Euclid Corridor Project have people pitching in to reduce the amount of trash alone Euclid Avenue.

Artist Phil Costanzo began his career in the arts as painter. But a few years ago he came across a process that literally allows him to paint with plastic. And although he wouldn't share the secret for turning trash to treasures we thought it was worth taking a look at the art of this Plastic Man.

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