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Encore: She inscribed 120,000 pennies with a pandemic message. Is one in your pocket?

By Jennifer Vanasco

Published May 19, 2022 at 6:39 PM EDT

As part of a public art project, 120,000 pennies modified by an artist have been released through delis and bodegas. The project connects the fragility of the economy with the losses of COVID.

Jennifer Vanasco

Jennifer Vanasco is an editor on the NPR Culture Desk, where she also reports on theater, visual arts, cultural institutions, the intersection of tech/culture and the economics of the arts.

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An 'anti-World's Fair' makes its case: give land back to Native Americans

Jennifer Vanasco

A new art installation asks people and institutions to go beyond land acknowledgements — and give property back to Indigenous tribes. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Oct. 9, 2023.)
An 'anti-World's Fair' makes its case: give land back to Native Americans

Jennifer Vanasco

A new art installation asks people and institutions to go beyond land acknowledgements - and give property back to Indigenous tribes.
Free babysitting on Broadway? This nonprofit helps parents get to the theater

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Broadway tickets are expensive — add babysitting to that and the costs are often prohibitive. But a nonprofit is trying to bring free babysitting to theaters around the country.