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Design the 2021 WBHM Pint Glass and Mug!

It’s that time again! We are thrilled to continue our popular pint glass series by inviting Birmingham artists to submit their best designs for our next pint glass! How do you “see” WBHM? What’s your vision of public radio in the heart Alabama? Where does your imagination take you when you listen to public radio? […]

for the beauty of: Birmingham

Charity Ponter is a photographer specializing in capturing artists in their creative spaces. But it wasn’t always that way. It took a while before she found the creative outlet that worked best for her. She spoke with WBHM’s Michael Krall about her recent book for the beauty of: Birmingham, and about her very specific career choice […]

WBHM’s New Spring 2016 Tote Bag, Designed by Beth Conklin

Birmingham artist Beth Conklin’s design is featured on the tote bag for the Spring 2016 Fund Drive. Hear Conklin describe the design and encourage you to support WBHM. The tote bag is available as a thank-you gift beginning at $15/month as a sustaining member or a one-time gift of $180. Make your gift HERE.  

The WBHM Artist Challenge Rules and Template

Click here for the Fall 2015 Pint Glass Design Rules and Template   For the last five fund drives, we at Public Radio WBHM 90.3 FM have had the pleasure of working with some of Birmingham’s best and brightest artists to produce the designs in our popular pint glass series. Now it’s your turn. How […]

Hale Woodruff’s Talladega College Murals At Birmingham Museum of Art

Hale Woodruff is regarded as one of the most important African-American artists of the 20th century. His best-known works are six very large murals he painted for the Talladega College library in the 1930s. An exhibition of the murals, along with early works from Woodruff’s career, opens this Saturday at the Birmingham Museum of Art. WBHM took a tour of the show this week with curators Kelli Morgan and Graham Boettcher.

WBHM’s Spring 2015 Fund Drive Runs Through April 18

Public Radio WBHM 90.3 FM’s Spring 2015 Fund Drive will begin Wednesday, April 8, and feature a collaboration with local artist Paul Cordes Wilm. Wilm has created a custom and public radio-inspired design for the station emphasizing Alabama’s connection to the world and the world’s connection to Alabama through WBHM. Wilm says the initial inspiration for his Public Radio WBHM 90.3 FM came from the children's game "telephone" in which one person whispers a message to another, which is passed through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the entire group.