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, September 11, 2008

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The John Carroll University Northeast Ohio Broadcast Archives were established in 1988 to provide a permanent home for radio, television and print material related to this geographic area. We’ll track down an American symbol that’s still flying high - join us as the Museum of Natural History’s Harvey Webster leads a search for the Bald Eagle in Ohio. There's a place in Ohio where the world's most inventive minds hang out... as exhibits. We'll take you to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron.

If "Creativity" and "Practicality" were the names of two streets, they'd probably never cross. For most of his life, John Balazs of Ravenna has found the winding path of Creativity to be the more interesting route. Of course, as an industrial design student at the Cleveland Institute of Art, he learned to apply imaginative solutions to practical problems. And he passed that mindset on to his students at Kent State University. But now, in retirement, he's quite happy to use his skills in the pursuit of whimsy, inspiration and wonder. ideastream's David C. Barnett produced a portrait of a man and his muse.

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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

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.