Listen in as John Vanausdall, Eiteljorg president and CEO, Jonathan Hess, architect with Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf and architect of the Eiteljorg Museum and Roger Eiteljorg, museum's board chair and son of museum founder Harrison Eiteljorg.

This week guest host Angela Hurley, the Eiteljorg's membership manager, talks with Indiana's former first lady, Judy O'Bannon. They talk about Mrs. O'Bannon's experiences through the history of the museum and what being a member has meant to her.

On this episode, we talk with artist in residence Marty Gradolf (Winnebago). She is a weaver and works to make statements with her work. She started from very practical means with placemats and the like and now teaches and creates beautiful work making statements on Native American issues. Her work can be found in the collection of the Eiteljorg Museum in the special exhibtion Facing West: Celebrating 20 years of the Eiteljorg Museum. Find more information about Marty on our show notes page www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_AudioVideo/shownotes.asp.

This week we talk with Modupe Labode, Assistant Professor History and Museum Studies at IUPUI. She talks with us about slavery and the emancipation proclamation and its impacts in the Colorado Territory.

John Pigeon is a member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. He specializes in black ash basketry which involves pounding the wood of a black ash tree until he can pull long strips from it. His knowledge of basketry comes from his parents and grandparents and he continues the tradition with his children who have also become weavers.

Miles and Fields, artists-in-residence at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, shared their unique creativity with IPS students, joining budding artists from Arsenal Tech High School, Harshman Middle School and Schools 14 and 54, to create a mural that will travel to each of the schools and find a permanent home at the John H. Boner Community Center on the Indianapolis' East Side.

On this segment of Storytime with Sue, she presents the holiday classic 12 Days of Christmas but with a little twist. The music found in this podcast is by The Mystery Renderer.

This week we talk to Kendra Tagoona and Charlotte Qamaniq both throat singers from Ottawa, Canada. They let us in on how they got into throat singing, the history of it and what throat singing is. Visit the Our Land opening events page on our Website to see an example of throat singing.

This week Tamara Winfrey Harris speaks with artist-in-residence Catalina Degado Trunk. While Catalina Delgado Trunk's academic art training focused on painting and drawing, her current work is rooted in the folk arts of her native Mexico. Catalina integrates traditional Mexican art forms–such as public ofrendas (temporary altars) and papel picado (cut paper)–with non-traditional or unusual themes that reflect today’s society. Trunk talks about how most of her works of art consist of altars or cut paper images that echo mythical, spiritual, and religious iconography or honor historic and contemporary personalities. In this episode she talks about her work and the Mexican celebration of Día de los Muertos.

This week producer Anthony Scott takes the reigns for an interview with Baxter Black. This cowboy poet and former large animal vet tells some great stories of the range and how got started.

This week, host, Tamara Winfrey Harris talks with Kristen Kuntz. She is interning with the marketing and communications department of the musem and talks about what she likes about the museum.

This week we talk with Alex Neff, a marketing intern for the Eiteljorg Museum, as she tells us about some of the things she enjoys about the museum and how the museum's collection has similarities to European styles of art.

Storytime with Sue returns as she tells us Mark Twain's tale of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.

This week host, Tamara Winfrey Harris talks with TahNibaa Naataani, whos is a Navajo weaver; Tony Showa, a Navajo drum maker; and Jody Rust, who is a cast worker for the American Indian Center in Indianapolis and also was a teacher on a Navajo reservation. They discuss ther experiences on the reservation, as artists and more.

This week on EM Radio we sit down with katsina artist, Debbie Drye (Hopi). She talks about her experiences as a women artist in an artform dominated by men and how that has impacted her work. She also tells us about how she bcame an artist in this medium and what katsinas are.

Vice President and chief curatorial officer, James Nottage talks to Tamara this week about the Exidusters. Find out how this group of African Americans impacted the settlement of the West.

Leading up to the American Girl Kaya day at the Eitlejorg Museum Sue Thompson, EM Radio's resident storyteller, tells the Nez Pearce story of snowshoe rabbit and cottontail rabbit.