n the season premiere of our 11th time around the fiscal year of the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund, the Granite City Radio Theater brought the groovy vibes to the Pioneer Place on 5th Theater on Wednesday, October 26th in the year of our agreed upon calendar 2022! Special Musical Guest joining house band Collective Unconscious was Chris Castino of The Big Wu, who happen […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits with St. Cloud State University Archivist Tom Steman.  Located on the top floor of the Miller Learning Resource Center, the University Archives hosts and provides access to an amazing depth of historic material.  In today’s conversation, Tom talks about newly digitized video […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Trail Mix Art Exhibit Project Coordinator Deborah Vander Eyk. With a lively opening reception on November 11 at the Whit Gallery, the Trail Mix Art Exhibit is a juried exhibition with the theme of “Honor the Earth.”  Jurors include Karen […]

St. Cloud State University has its first named department thanks to a generous $1 million gift from Judy C. Pearson, who was celebrated on campus on September 22, 2022. The Judy C. Pearson Department of Communications Studies gift will help students, faculty and the community with international educational grants and scholarships, academic conference grants and […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes us to Antarctica with KVSC Alumnus Tony Abfalter.   The Director of Engineering for Leighton Broadcasting just recently returned from six months at the South Pole where he oversaw communication technology at McMurdo Station for the National Science Foundation base.  Jeff and Tony talk […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack pays homage and respect to Dr. Rex Veeder, who passed away on September 2, 2022 at a hospice in Arizona.  A friend and mentor to numerous over his years with the SCSU English Department, Veeder’s creativity brought science and art together in […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Art & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the rehearsal for Back on Track, a GREAT Theatre Youth Mental Health Project.  With two of GREAT’s directors and a mental health professional from CentraCare, nine area students are collaborating and creating a unique performance that addresses mental health issues faced […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we revisit KVSC’s broadcast from the opening day of the 2022 Minnesota State Fair.  Your “fried radio on a stick” featured the sounds of the Fair and numerous interviews throughout the day with organizations whose presence at the Fair is in itself a tradition. We talked with folks from […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with GREAT Theatre’s new Executive Director Lacey Schirmers. In its 25 year history, the Great River Educational Arts Theater has had a profound impact upon the community by engaging youth and adults through the production of stage performances in a way where everyone is […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we experience the blending of historic preservation and the development of an artistic community as Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack travels to Farwell, MN.  This exemplar of what defines a rural Minnesota town was facing what would be considered the typical economic struggles associated with having […]