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The Current: Valerie Wedel’s Historic Correspondence

Valerie Wedel is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at William Woods University. She does installation art.

Most people might be challenged to take archival letters and turn them into public art. Not Valerie Wedel. The Columbia installation artist has found a series of letters at the State Historical Society of Missouri that are inspiring her.

In a recent KOPN radio interview, Wedel read from letters across time. This correspondence from a range of Missourians will likely inform a future installation that the William Woods art professor is planning.

This interview originally aired on ‘The Current’ on Columbia, Missouri’s community radio station, KOPN 89.5fm.

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By Trevor Harris

I enjoy listening to people's stories. Collecting them seemed like a logical marriage of my love of audio gathering and preserving the stories of those around me.

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