Curious Worlds: The Life And Art Of David Beck

WUNC | By Laura Lee,

Published March 31, 2015 at 12:06 PM EDT

Olympia Stone's film 'Curious Worlds' follows artist David Beck.

Artist David Beck carves, sculpts, paints and creates playful and imaginative creatures from dragonflies to elephants.

Much of his art is miniature, in contrast to the sculptures of many of his contemporaries. He has been praised as a “master craftsman and ingenious mechanic.”

Olympia Stone's latest film goes inside the magical world of miniature architect David Beck. Host Frank Stasio talks with Olympia Stone about her latest film, Curious Worlds

Host Frank Stasio talks with Stone about Curious Worlds which debuts at the Full Frame Film Festival on April10^th and screens at the River Run International Film Festival in Winston Salem on April 21st and 23rd.

Watch the trailer for Curious Worlds below.

https://vimeo.com/97384943

Laura Lee

Laura Lee began her journalism career as a producer and booker at NPR. She returned to her native North Carolina to manage The State of Things, a live daily statewide show on WUNC. After working as a managing editor of an education journalism start-up, she became a writer and editor at a national education publication, Edutopia. She then served as the news editor at Carolina Public Press, a statewide investigative newsroom. In 2022, she worked to build collaborative coverage of elections administration and democracy in North Carolina.

Laura received her master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree in political science and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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