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
Joy Harjo (Muscogee/Creek)
To honor the Winter Solstice, (more specifically, that the days are getting longer from here on in), as well as Jupiter and Saturn having their closest visible alignment in 800 years and to celebrate…
00:31:37 |
Tue 22 Dec 2020
Lora Bottinelli
Executive Director of the National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) Lora Bottinelli joins me to talk about the central place of traditional art and traditional artists in the American experien…
00:29:45 |
Thu 10 Dec 2020
Rick Dildine
Theaters (and all live performance) are struggling to get through the pandemic. Most have been closed since March, and artistic directors are kept up at night with a host of questions: when people wi…
00:26:42 |
Fri 04 Dec 2020
Rebekah Taussig
Teacher and advocate Rebekah Taussig recently published her first book Sitting Pretty The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body. Rebekah, who has a Ph.D in Disability Studies and Creative Non…
00:35:15 |
Fri 20 Nov 2020
Meet 2020 National Heritage Fellow Wayne Valliere (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe)
Culture-bearer and 2020 National Heritage Fellow Wayne Valliere (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe) is one of a handful of birch bark canoe builders left in the United States. The Ojibwe is a nation and cultura…
00:22:26 |
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Scott Yoo
Scott Yoo is a wonderful guide to the music and the influences of some of the great composers of western classical music. [Now Hear This](https://www.thirteen.org/search-results/?q=Now+Hear+This#gsc.…
00:32:03 |
Fri 06 Nov 2020
Halloween 2020
In this podcast, we’re marking Halloween by revisiting interviews with authors who have created work that focus on monsters. We hit all the major horror figures with NEA literature fellow Ben Percy (…
00:37:54 |
Fri 30 Oct 2020
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle
The exhibit Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle is an American epic--depicting moments in early American history from 1775 thru 1817--some well-known, others not-- often seen through the eyes of ma…
00:36:28 |
Fri 16 Oct 2020
Erika L. Sánchez
Poet, novelist and essayist Erika L. Sánchez may have been a National Book Award Finalist, a 2017-2019 Princeton Arts Fellow, a 2019 NEA Literature Fellow and currently the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz…
00:30:11 |
Thu 08 Oct 2020
Maria Manuela Goyanes
Maria Manuela Goyanes, artistic director of Washington DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, is a theatrical force of nature. She arrived from New York City’s Public Theater in 2018 where she had be…
00:34:50 |
Thu 01 Oct 2020
Loira Limbal
In Through the Night documentary filmmaker Loira Limbal looks at a home-based 24-hour day care center run by Deloris and Patrick Hogan. Deloris, known to all as Nunu, is at the heart of this film as …
00:38:20 |
Fri 25 Sep 2020
Hugo Morales
Poet Jose Marti wrote “With the poor people of the earth I want to cast my lot.” 2020 National Heritage Fellow and Founder and Executive Director of Radio Bilingüe Hugo Morales could well write the s…
00:34:40 |
Mon 21 Sep 2020
Sonny Rollins
This week, the great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins turned 90 years old. To celebrate, we’re revisiting my 2017 interview with this 1983 NEA Jazz Master and 2010 National Medal of Arts recipient. So…
00:29:55 |
Thu 10 Sep 2020
Amanda C. Burdan
Many women won a political victory 100 years ago with the passage of the 19th amendment which declares that the right of citizens to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by a…
00:36:52 |
Mon 07 Sep 2020
Dorthaan Kirk
Dorthaan Kirk has been named a 2020 NEA Jazz Master for her jazz advocacy…and it’s easy to see why. For more than 40 years, Dorthaan has been a major force at WBGO, Newark Public Radio—the only full-…
00:28:06 |
Sun 06 Sep 2020
William Bell
2020 National Heritage Fellow Singer/Songwriter William Bell was the first male solo artist signed by the legendary Stax record label in the early 1960s. With his great sense of melody, rhythm, and l…
00:38:44 |
Sun 06 Sep 2020
Karen Ann Hoffman (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin)
2020 NEA National Heritage Fellow and Haudenosaunee Raised Beadworker, Karen Ann Hoffman (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin) creates contemporary art that is deeply rooted in the past. Haudenosaunee raised …
00:32:55 |
Thu 30 Jul 2020
Gordon Sasaki
Last December, the Office of Accessibility held a webinar in which three successful artists discussed how they navigated their careers working with a disability. To no one’s surprise, one of the invi…
00:27:24 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Director Jenna Worsham and Playwright Catya McMullen
What do a playwright and a director do when the theaters are closed, a pandemic is raging, and they want to be useful? Well, if they’re playwright Catya McMullen and director Jenna Worsham, they brin…
00:24:29 |
Thu 16 Jul 2020
Randall Kline
Founder and executive artistic director of SFJAZZ Randall Kline takes us behind the scenes of Fridays at Five—a weekly digital series which offers hour-long concerts filmed at the SFJAZZ Center over …
00:29:51 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
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