Art Works Podcast
The National Endowment for the Arts podcast that goes behind the scenes with some of the nation’s great artists to explore how art works.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 696
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Jenny Koons
Jenny Koons is a director on the cutting edge of immersive theater. She specializes in bringing diverse artists together to create original cross-disciplinary work through a collaborative process. C…
00:32:51 |
Thu 27 May 2021
Ethan Heard
If you think opera is staid and calcified, then let me introduce you to the work of Heartbeat Opera—a small and radically innovative company. The brain-child of co-artistic directors Ethan Heard and …
00:32:50 |
Thu 20 May 2021
Charles Yu
Charles Yu’s novel (and National Book Award winner) Interior Chinatown is an insightful, searing, and inventive exploration of Asian-American identity and representation in popular culture. Written i…
00:28:29 |
Thu 13 May 2021
Mequitta Ahuja
Painter Mequitta Ahuja has been re-visioning self-portraiture. While her large colorful canvasses have centrally positioned her own African-American and Indian-American identity, she also claims her …
00:30:30 |
Thu 06 May 2021
Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Born in Panama and currently based in New York City, Darrel Alejandro Holnes is equally at home in poetry and theater. A former I Am Soul Resident Playwright at the Black National Theater, Holnes …
00:36:56 |
Thu 29 Apr 2021
Terri Lyne Carrington
Drummer, producer, educator and 2021 NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington is not only a virtuoso musician, she’s also a strong advocate for social justice and gender equity. She has spent her life i…
00:39:06 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
Camille T. Dungy
Award-winning writer and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T. Dungy is one of the significant voices in ecopoetry. Ecopoetry is a challenge to classic nature poetry, which was often written by p…
00:36:42 |
Thu 15 Apr 2021
Albert “Tootie” Heath
The Heath Brothers are jazz legends—2002 NEA Jazz master Percy was a bassist, 2003 NEA Jazz Master Jimmy was saxophonist, composer, and arranger and now their youngest brother Albert, known to all as…
00:37:25 |
Thu 08 Apr 2021
Phil Schaap
2021 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellow for Jazz Advocacy Phil Schaap is an original—a legendary radio host since 1970 at WKCR, an award-winning audio engineer with a facility for remastering jazz…
00:39:23 |
Thu 01 Apr 2021
Sally Wen Mao
Sally Wen Mao’s second collection of poetry Oculus has gotten a great deal of well-deserved attention. The word Oculus comes from the Latin; it means “eye.” It can also refer to the lens of a camera…
00:35:38 |
Thu 25 Mar 2021
Tana French
Tana French reigns over Irish crime fiction. She pushes the genre with descriptive lyrical language in novels that are character-driven and densely atmospheric. Her first six books center on the Dubl…
00:36:23 |
Thu 18 Mar 2021
Nataki Garrett
When Nataki Garrett was named the artistic director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Spring 2019, people took notice for multiple reasons: Garrett is only OSF’s sixth artistic director and its…
00:30:32 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
Rhiannon Giddens
In July, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens was named as the new artistic director of Silkroad. A classically-trained singer, MacArthur Fellow, banjo and fiddle-player an…
00:33:32 |
Thu 04 Mar 2021
Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill remains one of music’s great innovators—as a composer and as a musician. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2016 for his album In for a Penny, In for a Pound, becoming on…
00:35:17 |
Thu 25 Feb 2021
Danielle Evans
In The Office of Historical Corrections., Danielle Evans weaves themes of race, memory, and history throughout her finely-crafted stories. With extraordinary artistry, she complicates these issues w…
00:30:18 |
Fri 19 Feb 2021
Tracy K. Smith
Here’s a conversation with Tracy K. Smith about poetry, history, memory, and wonder. Smith collects awards and prizes the way the rest of us collect traffic tickets (only hers are well-deserved!) She…
00:38:09 |
Thu 11 Feb 2021
Amanda Morgan
Amanda Morgan is in the corps of the prestigious Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) based in Seattle. PNB is one of the largest and best-regarded companies in the United States with a deep commitment to …
00:31:04 |
Thu 04 Feb 2021
Duke Dang, GM of Works & Process at the Guggenheim
A conversation with Duke Dang—he’s the general manager of Works & Process the performing arts series at the Guggenheim Museum. Since 1984, Works & Process has been bringing audiences into the creativ…
00:24:56 |
Thu 28 Jan 2021
Violinist and Social Entrepreneur Aaron Dworkin
Aaron Dworkin is a man of many talents: he’s a violinist, social entrepreneur, professor, author, MacArthur Fellow and member of the National Council on the Arts. In this time of a long overdue racia…
00:37:21 |
Thu 14 Jan 2021
Suni Paz
2020 National Heritage Fellow singer and songwriter Suni Paz is part of the progressive Latin American music movement known as nueva canción (new song). For decades, Paz has been guided by twin pas…
00:36:18 |
Thu 07 Jan 2021
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