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Articulate
Michelle Cuevas/Mason Bates/Antonio Martorell/Joan Shelley
Season 2
Episode 11
The characters in Michelle Cuevas’s children’s books leap off the page. Mason Bates challenges existing notions of what belongs in the concert hall. Antonio Martorell has been at the forefront of Puerto Rican art for over half a century. The anthropological perspective of singer-songwriter Joan Shelley.
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