KUAF and The Medium present: Creative Callbacks

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KUAF and The Medium present the 2025 Creative Exchange Fund artist residency series.

Episodes

  1. 5D AGO

    Creative Callbacks: Joel Darling

    Now in its third year, the Creative Exchange Fund, administered by The Medium in downtown Springdale, supports local artists by providing financial support and a space to take creative risks. KUAF is partnering with The Medium to profile some of this year’s 37 multidisciplinary artists. We’ll hear about their art, their process, and what it means to be a creative in northwest Arkansas right now. Joel Darling discusses his work at the Medium, which was conceptualized during the COVID-19 pandemic under the moniker "Half Power".

    10 min

  2. MAR 23

    Creative Callbacks: Katy Kane

    Now in its third year, the Creative Exchange Fund, administered by The Medium in downtown Springdale, supports local artists by providing financial support and a space to take creative risks. Katy Kane's studio space at The Medium is full of her art — finished pieces and works in progress. She's an artist, designer and practitioner of therapeutic arts. Her work can include collage and take aim at patriarchy, or be vibrant images of tigers or cheetahs. She creates murals for homes and businesses and pet portraits, too. Katy's current project, "Art with a Cause," combines painting, collage, origami and original interviews. Here, in her own words, more about her and her art — including the attraction of assembling collage.

    7 min

  3. MAR 16

    Creative Callbacks: NWA Fat Fashion Show

    Now in its third year, the Creative Exchange Fund, administered by The Medium in downtown Springdale, supports local artists by providing financial support and a space to take creative risks. KUAF is partnering with The Medium to profile some of this year’s 37 multidisciplinary artists. We’ll hear about their art, their process, and what it means to be a creative in northwest Arkansas right now. Katie Fitzwilson and Annalise Robins are the producers of the Northwest Arkansas Fat Fashion Show, and discuss the event with Ozarks at Large's Sophia Nourani.

    8 min

  4. FEB 11

    Creative Callbacks: Brett Pitts

    Now in its third year, the Creative Exchange Fund, administered by The Medium in downtown Springdale, supports local artists by providing financial support and a space to take creative risks. KUAF is partnering with The Medium to profile some of this year’s 37 multidisciplinary artists. We’ll hear about their art, their process, and what it means to be a creative in northwest Arkansas right now. Photographer Brett Pitts reflects on housing insecurity, community and film photography in his new project “Home,” documenting Fayetteville’s unhoused neighbors.

    15 min

  5. 11/10/2025

    Creative Callbacks: Xanat Howe

    Now in its third year, the Creative Exchange Fund, administered by The Medium in downtown Springdale, supports local artists by providing financial support and a space to take creative risks. KUAF is partnering with The Medium to profile some of this year’s 37 multidisciplinary artists. We’ll hear about their art, their process, and what it means to be a creative in Northwest Arkansas right now. Xanat Howe is a ceramist from Mexico City. In her new collaborative installation at The Medium, she uses her craft as a way to connect to indigenous Mexican medicine tradition. The installation also includes a soundscape and film by musician Ben Drane and filmmaker Justin Howe.

    9 min

  6. 10/24/2025

    Creative Callbacks: Drum Roll, Please

    Now in its third year, the Creative Exchange Fund, administered by The Medium in downtown Springdale, supports local artists by providing financial support and a space to take creative risks. KUAF is partnering with The Medium to profile some of this year’s 37 multidisciplinary artists. We’ll hear about their art, their process, and what it means to be a creative in Northwest Arkansas right now. Jennifer Baugh is a multimedia artist born and raised in Fayetteville. Baugh describes herself as being an immersive artist.

    9 min

  7. 10/06/2025

    Creative Callbacks: Three Dead Idols

    3 Dead Idols, or Tyler Bolden, is one of 37 multidisciplinary artists awarded the grants through the Creative Exchange Fund. The Creative Exchange Fund provides financial support and studio space for Arkansas artists to take creative risks.

    8 min

  8. 09/29/2025

    Creative Callbacks: Felt Piano Dream Show

    Pianist and composer Lauren Sonder will present her felt piano dream show at The Medium in Springdale, part of the Creative Exchange Fund Mixtape series that highlights multidisciplinary artists in Northwest Arkansas.

    7 min

  9. 09/25/2025

    Creative Callbacks: The Bloom Room

    Lyshell McBride’s immersive installation “Bloom Room” is dedicated to survivors of domestic violence and the agencies who help them.  LyShell, who took up painting when she was 47, talked with us about “Bloom Room” while seated inside her paint-n-sip studio “Paint Your Power” on North Second Street in Rogers.

    6 min
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KUAF and The Medium present the 2025 Creative Exchange Fund artist residency series.

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