Jim Cotter
Director
Articulate (2015)
Season 8
Articulate connects audiences to the human stories behind art, offering a trustworthy, visually stimulating, never ordinary take on classical, contemporary, and popular art forms. From acclaimed musicians and best-selling authors to designers changing the way we live, each episode explores what great creative thinkers and doers can tell us about who we are, who we’ve been, and who we might become.
Released May 4, 2017
10+
Genres: Documentary, Reality TV, Short
Keywords: tmdb.biography, tmdb.art, tmdb.culture
Watch Providers: KQED, Thirteen, WETA+
Production Companies: Articulate Studios, American Public Television (APT)
Network: PBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S8E1 - Resilience
Even after 50 years of accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize at 26 for his Doonesbury comic strip, Garry Trudeau reckons he may have gotten too much too young. And despite her mastery of the written word, Joyce Carol Oates is skeptical about how well conversation can express the complexities of thought and emotions.
Oct. 8, 2021, midnight
S8E2 - Making Her Way
Natalie Merchant has experienced enough for several lives: teen rock star, fiercely independent solo artist, mother, wildly successful environmental campaigner. She’s been around the world and back, and she's done it in her own inimitable style.
Oct. 15, 2021, midnight
S8E3 - Taking Time
A fatal accident in his teens would come to define life for Darin Strauss. Also, from champion skier to acclaimed composer, Steven Mackey has never lost his rhythm.
Oct. 22, 2021, midnight
S8E4 - Indefatigables
Singer-songwriter Valerie June has been knocked down, but never out, by heartbreak, illness, and hardship. Now in his early 60s, choreographer and dancer Stephen Petronio has built a life and a body of work by deciding whose rules he is prepared to follow.
Oct. 29, 2021, midnight
S8E5 - World of Words
Writer Tochi Onyebuchi and visual artist Stephen Powers are both trying to change the world, one word at a time.
Nov. 5, 2021, midnight
S8E6 - A Place of Their Own
Playwright Sarah Gancher and folk musicians Jay Ungar and Molly Mason travelled far to find home.
Nov. 12, 2021, midnight
S8E7 - Singular Purpose
Poet Terrance Hayes and clarinetist Anthony McGill have been resolute in pursuit of their destinies.
Nov. 19, 2021, midnight
S8E8 - Triumph Over Affliction
Deborah Eisenberg and Shira Erlichman fought inner conflicts in search of personal peace.
Nov. 26, 2021, midnight
S8E9 - Displacement
Early on, singer-songwriter David Gray and writer Aleksandar Hemon struggled to be heard at home. But when they found acceptance abroad, their own countries—and the world—soon caught up.
Dec. 3, 2021, midnight
S8E10 - Self Realization
Author Yiyun Li and choreographer Miguel Gutierrez make work that fuels—and is fueled by—self-understanding.
Dec. 10, 2021, midnight
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May 4, 2017
June 30, 2023, midnight
Returning Series
TV-PG / 10+
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