Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR) is an independent, artist-run radio project committed to providing an alternative media platform for artists, activists, musicians, and community members. NPR’s motto is, “If it’s in the neighborhood and it makes noise we hope to put it on the air.” As the FCC attempts to make it easier for radio stations to be co-opted by large corporations, NPR plays with the notion that they will not be restricted from accessing the airwaves that are rightfully their own. NPR was founded in late 2003 and currently made up of Bay Area artists Linda Arnejo, Jon Brumit, Lee Montgomery, and Michael Trigilio. NPR made its first public presentation in January 2004 at 21 Grand in Oakland in the form of a five-day event and included contributions from a large roster of accomplished artists and musicians from the geographical and conceptual neighborhood surrounding the gallery. From September 9 – October 23, 2004, NPR was one of seven artists collectives who participated in SoEx’s 30th Anniversary exhibition The Way We Work. Over the course of thirty days, NPR featured hundreds of neighbors, artists, musicians, community groups, youth, and the public and provided a platform for this community to form and communicate to the public outside of the gallery. Subsequently, NPR organized projects at Artist’s Television Access on the street level around the theme of indecency in February 2005, as a part of Chicago’s Version 5 Festival in April 2005. From July- August 2005 traveled to Novi Sad, Serbia to collaborate with media activists and artists at kuda.org as part of a prestigious CEC Artslink grant. Neighborhood Public Radio has been named "Best Super Local Radio Station" by San Francisco Magazine and has been featured in Punk Planet Magazine, Artforum, and the Chicago Reader.

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