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
Matthew Nicola
Matt Nicola, the artistic director of the Highwood Theatre, believes deeply in the company’s double-pronged philosophy: “anyone can do theater” and “theater builds community.” Highwood is an educatio…
00:30:28 |
Wed 07 Aug 2019
Junious Brickhouse
Junious Brickhouse is a dancer, choreographer, and executive director of two cultural organizations—Urban Artistry and Next Level . He’s a powerhouse who is on a mission to teach and preserve urban d…
00:28:55 |
Wed 31 Jul 2019
Stephanie Kline
Marine Corps veteran Stephanie Kline is a DC-based stand-up comic. At loose ends after leaving the Marine Corps and then dealing with the end of her marriage, Stephanie turned to comedy through a wor…
00:30:48 |
Thu 25 Jul 2019
Dr. Nina Kraus
Dr. Nina Kraus is a professor of neurobiology at Northwestern University where she directs the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, also known as Brainvolts. She has made the study of how we biologicall…
00:26:43 |
Thu 18 Jul 2019
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Sculptor and three-time NEA grantee Ursula von Rydingsvard’s art is unlike anything else. While she works with all manner of organic material—including the fourth stomach of a cow—von Rydingsvard is …
00:32:56 |
Thu 11 Jul 2019
Phil and Lauren Grucci
Fireworks are such a wonderful amalgam of artistry, science and tradition; and, for six generations the Grucci family has been lighting up the skies with innovative pyrotechnics. Just in time for Jul…
00:34:46 |
Wed 03 Jul 2019
Victor Lodato
Author Victor Lodato has written two highly acclaimed novels Matilda Savitch and Edgar and Lucy. Nearly a decade in the making, Victor calls Edgar and Lucy “my New Jersey gothic.” And he’s not wrong.…
00:29:15 |
Wed 26 Jun 2019
Linda Goss
Storyteller Linda Goss, one of the pioneers of the Black Storytelling Movement, has just been named a 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellow. Goss is known as “Mama Linda” because of her pathbreaking work…
00:31:31 |
Wed 19 Jun 2019
Jeff VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer writes fiction that defies classification—it has elements of speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and eco-fiction, with an attention to language that literary fiction would …
00:32:50 |
Tue 11 Jun 2019
Stephan Wolfert
Stephan Wolfert had been in the army for six years when he saw his close friend killed during a training exercise. Wolfert “lost it,” as he put it, hopped a train, and went on a drinking binge that l…
00:28:50 |
Thu 23 May 2019
Jennifer Croft
Literary translator and National Endowment for the Arts fellow Jennifer Croft was passionate about Polish author Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Flights—so much so that she spent ten years trying to persuade …
00:35:36 |
Tue 14 May 2019
Edward Gero
From Hotspur to Antonin Scalia, actor Edward Gero can (and does) play all manner of parts. An actor’s actor, he is a shining light in Washington DC’s theater community. He began his career as a class…
00:30:35 |
Tue 07 May 2019
Mary Rand Hess
In this week's podcast, poet, writer and multi-media artist Mary Rand Hess takes us into the heart of her collaborations with Newbery medalist Kwame Alexander. Together MAry and Kwame have written tw…
00:30:12 |
Tue 30 Apr 2019
David Horn
Great Performances has been on the air for more than 40 years and Executive Producer David Horn has been there for 39 of them. In many ways, Great Performances, which is the longest running performin…
00:31:43 |
Thu 25 Apr 2019
Abdullah Ibrahim
Pianist and 2019 NEA Jazz Master Abdullah Ibrahim combines the musical influences of his childhood in Cape Town, South Africa, which include traditional South African songs, gospels and spirituals, a…
00:25:42 |
Thu 18 Apr 2019
Christian McBride
Jazz bassist Christian McBride takes us through his own musical journey--from his early days in Philadelphia to playing with some of the great jazz legends like NEA Jazz Masters Sonny Rollins and Chi…
00:31:07 |
Wed 10 Apr 2019
Maria Schneider
2019 NEA Jazz Master composer, conductor, and arranger Maria Schneider creates highly original and evocative compositions for her jazz orchestra, which she formed in 1992. Much of her music is autobi…
00:35:58 |
Wed 03 Apr 2019
Grace Cavalieri
Meet Maryland’s new poet laureate Grace Cavalieri. Grace is a language maven: she’s a poet (24 published books and chapbooks), a playwright (26 produced plays), and a broadcaster (creator and host of…
00:31:24 |
Wed 27 Mar 2019
Julia Wolfe
Composer Julia Wolfe recently premiered her third oratorio that is centered on American labor history—this latest piece is based on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that occurred in New York City…
00:32:40 |
Wed 20 Mar 2019
Aislinn Clarke
Aislinn Clarke is the first Northern Irish woman to direct a feature-length horror film The Devil’s Doorway, and she brought a particularly female point-of-view by setting it in a Magdalene Laundry i…
00:29:40 |
Wed 13 Mar 2019
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