Michigan artists

A massive NCAA conference realignment, a new EP rock trio from Patty PerShayla and The Mayhaps, and the curation process for crosswords and the Wordle at the New York Times.

More on the smoke in Michigan and the weather patterns bringing it in, then a glass blowing artist based in West Michigan.

West Michigan-based artist Norwood Viviano uses glass to create intricate sculptures that tell the stories of our changing cities.

Wrapping on the Mackinac Policy Conference, hearing about a new musical about a historical Michigander, then we took a trip to a famous Ypsilanti restaurant that has flown above the test of time.

Hear about the drug shortages in Michigan, a new independent film from a former Midland resident, a piano that has mysteriously appeared in Petoskey, and finally, what more environmentally aware packaging might look like.

One of the Detroit 3 looks to cut thousands of jobs, grieving the mother you never met, Michigan's affordable landfills nearing capacity and new details about the alleged MSU gunman.

We hear about Livingston County's reaction to potential red-flag laws, followed by a story about a rare goose spotted in northern Michigan. Then, we took a visit to a prominent Flint artist.

On today's show, we remembered the victims of the Monday night shooting at Michigan State University and spoke to a gun violence researcher. Plus, Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd joined to speak about her work and poetry.

Photographers John Hanson and Joey Schultz travelled across all 50 states to take portraits of grandmothers and archive their wisdom in the new book, Grandmothers of America.

Today, we relistened to three conversations about the arts in southeast Michigan. One was with a landscape designer whose work is on Belle Isle; another with a quilting artist from Ann Arbor; and the last with a Detroit-based sculptor.