Marcie Sillman
Arts and Culture ReporterYear started with KUOW: 1985
Marcie Sillman arrived at KUOW in 1985 to produce the station's daily public affairs program, Seattle After Noon. One year later, she became the local voice of All Things Considered, NPR's flagship afternoon news magazine. After five years holding down the drive-time microphone, a new opportunity arose. Along with Dave Beck and Steve Scher, Marcie helped create Weekday, a daily, two-hour forum for newsmakers, artists and thinkers.
The new century brought new challenges. Marcie and Dave Beck created The Beat, Seattle's only broadcast program to focus specifically on arts and culture. In 2002, after more than 15 years as a daily host, Marcie decided to become a full-time cultural reporter. During her career, more than 100 of her stories have been heard on NPR's newsmagazines, as well as on The Voice of America. In 2005, she became KUOW's first special projects reporter. In this role, she produced in-depth audio portraits and documentary series about life and culture in the Puget Sound Region.
In September, 2013, Marcie was part of the team that created The Record, a daily news magazine focused on the issues and culture of the Puget Sound region. After two years as Senior Host of the program, Marcie returned to full-time cultural reporting.
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Despite the allure of technology, librarian Nancy Pearl says picture books still draw in readers of all ages.She tells KUOW's Marcie Sillman about two… -
John Feodorov is Native American. And he’s an artist. But don’t call his work “Native American art.”“Not everything I want to say needs to be adorned with… -
In Great Britain, the term "crime fiction" refers to everything from a cozy mystery to a police procedural. Here in the U.S., we divide our crime fiction…
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What happens when a person decides their gender at birth is not that one they were meant to be? If that person is a child, the question has ramifications…
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Ade Connere doesn’t have a personal gender pronoun preference.“It usually depends on what I’m wearing!”On this late winter afternoon, Ade is androgynous… -
In the 1980s Marsha Burns prowled Seattle's streets, looking for people to photograph.“I was doing pictures of edgy people, people who didn’t fit into the… -
You may have seen the movie Captain Fantastic.This week, actor Viggo Mortensen got an Academy Award nomination for his work in it.The film was shot in… -
I first met the artist Jacob Lawrence in his attic. That was more than 30 years ago, on a gray day, not so unusual for Seattle. A small window let in… -
Seattle’s long-running cabaret/dinner theater Teatro Zinzanni has been drawing crowds to its elegant vintage tent on lower Queen Anne since 2007.The tent… -
When Seattle theater artist Sara Porkalob was a kid, her family didn’t have much money.But they did have unconditional love for the little girl who lived…
