Monograph fans have a lot to look forward to this season.

Instead of four quarterly episodes, the 7th season will feature six 30-minute broadcasts, plus a bonus episode, airing weekly on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. and re-airing on Thursdays at 10:30 p.m.

Lisa Cordes, Series Producer, says this new format is intended to feel more like a typical season of television rather than a quarterly magazine. It also allowed the team to feature more artists than ever before.

The Monograph crew located expats from across the country to share how their roots have shaped their work and took a deep dive into local artists like Joe Minter to discover how activism inspires art.

“This will be our third time going out of state to feature how far Alabama reaches,” Cordes says. “Because it really is everywhere. Alabama is touching all corners of the world…and everybody’s doing really cool stuff.”

The season will open with Alabama Folk School at Camp McDowell in Winston County and feature two instructors, Artist Blacksmith Quinn McKay and basket weaver Sarah Bell.

Due to funding cuts, future seasons of Monograph have been canceled. The final bonus episode will include artist segments previously planned for next year and a farewell message from the crew.

“We didn’t think it was fair for [the artists] not to get their moment on TV. And we also wanted to say goodbye,” Cordes says. “We felt like we owed it to the folks that watch and to ourselves because every single person that worked on [this season] is so proud of it.”

PBS stations across the country have laid off hundreds of staff members after Congress voted to cut all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcast (CPB) earlier this year. CPB (no longer in operation as of Sept. 30, 2025) was a non-profit organization that funded public media stations like PBS, NPR and Alabama Public Television. This month, APT cut 15% of employees after 2.8 million in federal funding cuts.

“No, it wasn’t supposed to be our last season,” Cordes says. “We had the next two seasons planned out with room for happy surprises.”

Cordes has been the series producer since it first began production seven years ago in 2018.

“I think we hoped we’d be the exception, but we weren’t,” Cordes says. “There’s just so much I’m currently mourning. I’m currently mourning all the people we didn’t get to, in places we didn’t get to, because there’s just so much.”

Watch the Monograph season 7 premiere, “Alabama Folk School,” this Sunday at 6:30 p.m. on APT and the PBS app.

Check out our season 7 overview where we give you a preview of all 7 episodes.