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
Colonel Don Schofield, U.S. Air Force
Commander and conductor of the US Air Force Band Colonel Don Schofield leads a remarkably diverse set of musicians. The Air Force Band consists of 172 members and six ensembles playing music that ran…
00:31:48 |
Fri 24 Jan 2020
Ken Ludwig
Playwright Ken Ludwig has a resume most theater folks would envy: his ear and eye for humor has given him hit after hit. His first play on Broadway was Lend Me a Tenor which had already opened in Lon…
00:31:06 |
Wed 15 Jan 2020
Bob Fulcher
For more than 40 years, folklorist, state park manager, and 2019 National Heritage Fellow Bobby Fulcher has been seeking out and recording traditional artists, creating programming around these artis…
00:32:47 |
Fri 10 Jan 2020
Kevin Gover
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Director Kevin Gover (Pawnee) has been leading the only national museum devoted exclusively to Native peoples since 2007. Established by an…
00:30:08 |
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Jenifer McShane
Documentary filmmaker Jenifer McShane’s new filmErnie and Joeputs the viewer in the car of two police officers who are part of the San Antonio Police Department’s ten-person mental health unit. As pa…
00:29:18 |
Wed 11 Dec 2019
Ayana Workman
For a young actor, only four years out of the conservatory, Ayana Workman has amassed an impressive resume, including: Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (at the public Theater in NYC and the Shakespeare The…
00:29:43 |
Tue 03 Dec 2019
Jeffrey Palmer
Christmas has come early this year: filmmaker Jeffrey Palmer has made N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear a documentary about novelist, poet and painter N. Scott Momaday. Momaday is an artistic force…
00:34:18 |
Fri 22 Nov 2019
Sam Pressler and Brian Jenkins
In 2013, when Sam Pressler was an undergraduate, he came to a profound understanding of the civilian/military divide and the sobering realities many veterans face when they return to civilian life. B…
00:28:32 |
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Daniel Mason
Author, physician, and National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow Daniel Mason wrote and published his first novel while he was still in medical school. The Piano Tuner received internat…
00:29:10 |
Thu 07 Nov 2019
John Kevin Jones
Here’s a podcast for your Halloween listening pleasure: Actor and Executive Director of Summoners Ensemble Theatre John Kevin Jones talks about his one-man show Killing an Evening with Edgar Allan Po…
00:35:04 |
Wed 30 Oct 2019
Crys Matthews
Singer/songwriter Crys Matthews makes music that is absolutely her own. Sometimes the songs are bluesy, at other times they’re country soul. Maybe a song has a little funk or maybe it’s absolutely bl…
00:28:33 |
Wed 23 Oct 2019
Madeline Miller
In Circe --Madeline Miller’s second novel and our newest NEA Big Read title—the goddess/witch moves from the sidelines of The Odyssey to the center stage of her own story. Miller knows and loves the …
00:33:50 |
Wed 16 Oct 2019
Pam Muñoz Ryan
For young adult novelist Pam Muñoz Ryan, a multi-cultural perspective comes naturally. She grew up in Bakersfield, California, with her grandmother who was an Oklahoma pioneer woman moving in as she …
00:26:54 |
Thu 03 Oct 2019
Irene Taylor Brodsky
Documentary Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky is the daughter of two deaf parents and the mother of a deaf son. Clearly she has thought long and deeply about deafness; as she says, “I’ve never known a l…
00:34:17 |
Wed 02 Oct 2019
R.O. Kwon
Novelist and 2016 NEA Literature Fellow R.O. Kwon's first novel, The Incendiaries, was ten years in the making. But that persistence and hard work paid off: the debut novel was named a best book of t…
00:31:04 |
Tue 24 Sep 2019
Dan Ansotegui
2019 National Heritage Fellow Basque musician, teacher and restauranteur Dan Ansotegui brings his passion for the Basque culture into everything he does. But he also sees culture as a breathing entit…
00:29:30 |
Wed 18 Sep 2019
Rosa Joshi
Director Rosa Joshi is a lover of classical theater, particularly the work of William Shakespeare. She is also committed to producing theater in which the cast reflects the demographics of the audien…
00:27:59 |
Thu 12 Sep 2019
Rich Smoker
2019 National Heritage Fellow Rich Smoker has been carving decoys for half a century. He is one of the people who elevated this utilitarian craft to an art form. Rich is a self-described river rat: h…
00:32:19 |
Thu 05 Sep 2019
Julia Alvarez
Twenty-five years ago, Julia Alvarez published In the Time of the Butterflies, which was chosen as a Big Read title in 2010. Set in the Dominican Republic, In the Time of the Butterflies is a fiction…
00:22:15 |
Thu 22 Aug 2019
J. Dash
You might know J. Dash as the man who wrote and performed the double platinum song “WOP,” but that hardly scratches the surface. J. is a musician, composer, and producer who is also a great advocate …
00:32:12 |
Thu 15 Aug 2019
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