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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with filmmaker Ava DuVernay about her new database, Array Crew, and how it may help diversify who works on the sets of Hollywood productions.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks nine-year-old Cooper Nelson of Loveland, Colo., about how he raised money for local food banks by starting an online subscription news site.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Christina Binkley of Vogue Business about the state of American fashion and whether New York Fashion Week is still the main stage for American designers.

People in Saranac Lake, NY have been building massive palaces out of ice since 1898. It's a folk art that requires a lot of caution and tolerance for bitter cold.

Leesa Kelly has collected more than 700 plywood boards from protests and boarded buildings from the summer of 2020. They represent preservation of the demonstrations as well as the trauma of it all.

As Cicely Tyson's memorial takes place in her home of Harlem, New York, NPR speaks with Black women whose lives were changed by Tyson's work and symbolic power.

The 2021 Sundance Film Festival will be mostly virtual this year. Highlights include a documentary from Questlove, a biopic about Rita Moreno and films made during the pandemic.

A new, nonfiction book series for kids ages 9 to 12 is written by young people who've experienced trauma, including living through Hurricane Maria and facing discrimination and arrest after 9/11.

As vaccination rates increase, this summer promises many more options for live entertainment than last and arts organizations are trying to figure out what audiences want for their "hot vax summer."

Disruptions from the pandemic hit performing artists hard. To wrap up our series on resilience, we consider the creative ways they survived and how they found strength to bounce back.