Arthur Bradford is an American O Henry Award winning writer and Emmy-nominated filmmaker. His writing has appeared in Esquire, McSweeney's, Vice, Men's Journal, and many other publications. He is the author of Dogwalker (Knopf) and Turtleface and Beyond (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) as well as the children's book Benny's Bridge (McSweeney's, with Illustrations by Lisa Hanwalt). Bradford is also the creator and director of the acclaimed "How's Your News?" documentary series, versions of which have been broadcast on HBO/Cinemax, PBS, and Channel Four England. He developed the concept into a series for MTV which ran throughout 2009. The film in the series, "Election 2012" was released Oct. 2012. Bradford directed the Emmy-nominated documentary Six Days to Air about the making of South Park for Comedy Central and is currently shooting a feature documentary about Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the show's creators. Bradford's live storytelling can be heard on “The Moth” and “This American Life” on NPR. He lives in Portland, OR where he hosts a live call-in radio show on XRAY.FM, writes about the Portland Trailblazers for the local paper, and teaches writing and filmmaking at a public high school.
Arthur Bradford
Studios
Chapman
Arthur Bradford worked in the Chapman studio.
Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…