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
Clifford Murphy
In this podcast, Clifford Murphy, National Endowment for the Arts Director of Folk and Traditional Arts, introduces the recently announced 2020 NEA National Heritage Fellows. This is the country’s hi…
00:29:20 |
Thu 25 Jun 2020
Adrian Matejka
Jack Johnson is an unlikely subject for a book of poetry. But that’s exactly what poet and NEA Big Read author Adrian Matejka did when he wrote The Big Smoke-- a collection of 52 poems about Johnson,…
00:32:17 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
Michael R Jackson
Playwright, composer, lyricist Michael R. Jackson's play A Strange Loop had an extraordinary year--it has won Lambda Literary Award for Drama, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Pulitze…
00:32:22 |
Fri 12 Jun 2020
Jesmyn Ward
Today, we re-visit a discussion with two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward about her memoir Men We Reaped. In her memoir, Jesmyn attempts to understand the death of five young black men, in…
00:29:16 |
Thu 04 Jun 2020
Brent Benjamin
Brent Benjamin is the director of The St. Louis Art Museum (SLAM) and president of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). And so we take a close look at one museum through its closing to its…
00:27:09 |
Fri 29 May 2020
Vanessa Hua
Author and 2020 NEA Literature Fellow Vanessa Hua has a sense of humor and a feel for an apt turn of phrase. She describes her novel A River of Stars as “a pregnant Chinese Thelma and Louise.” She’s …
00:30:12 |
Thu 21 May 2020
Pt 1 Brandon Gryde Director of Presenting and Multidisciplinary Works -- Pt 2 Peter Szep Founding director of New York Opera Fest and co-founder of New York Opera Alliance
This week is a bit different: the podcast is divided into two parts with one subject-- Festivals. We begin by taking a broad look at festivals, their place in the cultural landscape, and their adjust…
00:32:50 |
Thu 14 May 2020
Elizabeth Acevedo
Elizabeth Acevedo is a poet and novelist whose books are alive with Dominican-American and Afro- Caribbean culture and community and have at their centers teenage girls learning to navigate life, rel…
00:34:33 |
Thu 07 May 2020
Chick Corea
Pianist, composer, and 2006 NEA Jazz Master Chick Corea is a musical shape-shifter. Beginning a brilliant solo career in the mid-1960s, he has moved effortlessly from straight-up jazz to avant-garde,…
00:29:26 |
Fri 01 May 2020
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo (Muscogee/Creek) the Poet Laureate of the United States (and NEA Big Read author) joins me this week for a far-ranging conversation about poetry and music. We talk about—and she reads poems…
00:32:02 |
Thu 16 Apr 2020
Roscoe Mitchell
Saxophonist, composer and 2020 NEA Jazz Master Roscoe Mitchell is a musical seeker. He’s interested in sound and its colors. He is one of the most influential (and prolific) jazz musicians around who…
00:31:44 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
Amy Stolls
The National Endowment for the Arts' Literary Arts Director Amy Stolls joins me for a conversation about books that can see us through difficult times. From children's books to YA to short stories to…
00:27:37 |
Fri 27 Mar 2020
Charlotte Mangin
Unladylike 2020 is the brainchild of documentary filmmaker Charlotte Mangin. It's an innovative multimedia series about little known but extraordinary women at turn of the 20th century whose legacies…
00:30:08 |
Thu 19 Mar 2020
Anna Needham (Red Lake Anishinaabe)
Anna Needham (Red Lake Anishinaabe) is an emerging theater artist, arts administrator, and a former NEA intern with Folk and Traditional Arts. Theater arts typically is an uneven career path (the per…
00:23:56 |
Fri 13 Mar 2020
Lauren Gunderson
It may come as a surprise to discover that in the 2019-2020 season, (Shakespeare aside) Lauren Gunderson is the most produced playwright in America. She’s achieved this in no small part by putting wo…
00:30:17 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
Cord Jefferson
Cord Jefferson began his career as a journalist, but six years ago he began writing for television. Since that time, he has put together a jaw-dropping resume—writing for shows like Succession, Maste…
00:29:26 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Trey Ellis
Filmmaker, writer, and teacher Trey Ellis knows how to tell a story—whatever the genre. He recently moved into documentary filmmaking, working with the acclaimed documentarian Peter Kunhardt on what …
00:30:59 |
Thu 20 Feb 2020
Nate Powell
Cartoonist Nate Powell is the 2016 National Book Award co-winner for Young People’s Literature. He shared the prize with Rep. John Lewis and Andrew Aydin for the graphic memoir/history March. March i…
00:28:09 |
Fri 14 Feb 2020
Reggie Workman
Bassist and 2020 NEA Jazz Master Reggie Workman is aptly named. The man might not have played with everyone in jazz, but he has come close. I don’t want this to turn into a list of Workman’s gigs, so…
00:32:13 |
Thu 06 Feb 2020
James F. Jackson
Leatherworker and 2019 National Heritage Fellow James F. Jackson creates sculpture by carving leather. Go to his website and check out his work—then listen to the podcast. You really have to see the …
00:24:33 |
Fri 31 Jan 2020
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