This Fall, the Switchboard team united four Oscar-qualified short films: Freeman Vines, Poreless, Rat Rod, and Saving Superman -- for a collective awards campaign. Together, these films have screened ...
Freeman Vines worked on guitars out of a workshop in Fountain, North Carolina. He spoke with WUNC on Dec. 4, 2024. A prominent guitar maker and blues musician from Pitt County has died. Freeman Vines ...
EXCLUSIVE: Switchboard, a platform that mixes distributing documentary and live-action shorts with longform journalism, is preparing for its first Oscar campaign after picking up four titles.
This is the latest installment in our Main Street NC series from the WUNC Politics Podcast. We're visiting communities across the state to hear from local leaders about the positives going on in their ...
A new exhibit has opened at the Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center introducing luthier Freeman Vine and the haunting guitars he carved from the wood of a “lynching tree” used in the murder of a Black ...
A North Carolina artist is creating more awareness of Black culture in America by turning something racially violent into something meaningful and impactful, and cementing himself in Black history ...
Freeman Vines makes guitars from found materials that echo a complicated past. Musician and luthier Freeman Vines makes guitars from found materials that come with a complicated and sometimes tragic ...