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
Renée Watson
Author Renée Watson talks about her prize-winning YA title, Piecing Me Together and her most recent book, Watch Us Rise (co-written with Ellen Hagan). Both look at the lived experiences of black girl…
00:29:10 |
Mon 04 Mar 2019
Gordon Quinn and Tracye A. Matthews
Documentarians Gordon Quinn and Tracye A. Matthews discuss their film ’63 Boycott—a documentary about one of the largest (and possibly most-under-reported) civil rights actions in the 1960s. On Octob…
00:31:07 |
Tue 26 Feb 2019
Rachel L. Swarns and Darcy Eveleigh
Rachel L. Swarns and Darcy Eveleigh are two of the four editors of Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives. In Unseen, the editors took on the monumental task of goin…
00:27:33 |
Tue 19 Feb 2019
Raymond O. Caldwell
Raymond O. Caldwell recently stepped into the role of Producing Artistic Director at Theater Alliance-the resident company of the Anacostia Playhouse. Theater Alliance is a small company that produce…
00:32:04 |
Tue 12 Feb 2019
Wil Haygood
2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance, the intellectual, social and artistic burst of African-American culture that erupted in the Harlem neighborhood in New York City. The Colum…
00:29:28 |
Tue 18 Dec 2018
Eddie Bond (Part 2)
In Part 1 of my conversation with 2018 National Heritage Fellow and old-time fiddler Eddie Bond, we learned about his deep musical roots and the family and friends that nurtured them. Eddie said that…
00:25:11 |
Tue 04 Dec 2018
Eddie Bond (Part 1)
Old-time fiddler Eddie Bond was born and bred in Grayson County, Virginia, which many consider the musical heart of Appalachian old-time music. Eddie himself comes from a rich musical heritage: he le…
00:26:22 |
Wed 28 Nov 2018
Randy Reinholz (Choctaw)
For almost 25 years, Native Voices at the Autry has been providing opportunities and support to Native American playwrights…and by extension Native actors, designers, musicians and other theater arti…
00:30:58 |
Tue 13 Nov 2018
Jeffrey Wright
Actor Jeffrey Wright discusses the documentary he produced for HBO, We Are Not Done Yet, which profiles a group of veterans and service members as they come together to collaborate on a series of poe…
00:30:10 |
Tue 06 Nov 2018
Kiersten White
In her novel, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, young adult author Kiersten White retells Mary Shelley’s classic. In White’s book, we get the story from Elizabeth Lavenza—the childhood comp…
00:31:02 |
Tue 30 Oct 2018
David Tomas Martinez
Poet David Tomas Martinez’s book (and new Big Read title) Hustle explodes with verbal dexterity about street life. Born in San Diego to a working class Chicano family, David Tomas Martinez found powe…
00:42:33 |
Tue 23 Oct 2018
Marion Coleman
2018 National Heritage Fellow African American Quilter Marion Coleman is a story teller with fabric. Her narrative quilts depict personal stories, history, and portraits…from small nightclubs in Oakl…
00:27:32 |
Tue 16 Oct 2018
Kelly Church
2018 National Heritage Fellow Kelly Church is a black ash basket maker. An Anishinaabe belonging to the Gun Lake Potawami Band, Kelly combines the centuries-old tradition of tree harvesting and proce…
00:30:19 |
Tue 09 Oct 2018
Herman Cornejo
Herman Cornejo is about to celebrate 20 years with American Ballet Theatre—spending 15 of those years as a principal dancer. You could say the Argentina-born Cornejo practically grew up at ABT. He ca…
00:31:16 |
Tue 02 Oct 2018
Ofelia Esparza
Chicana altarista and 2018 National Heritage Fellow Ofelia Esparza carries on and extends her family’s tradition of celebrating The Day of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos by creating altars to honor d…
00:28:59 |
Tue 25 Sep 2018
Don and Cindy Roy
2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Don and Cindy Roy are the embodiment of Franco-American musical tradition. He is an outstanding fiddler and she backs him up with her wonderfully rhythmic piano pl…
00:35:33 |
Tue 18 Sep 2018
Juliane Dressner, Karoline Jimenez, Christine Rodriguez, and Enoch Jemmott
Director of the documentary Personal Statement Juliane Dressner and the cast students Karoline Jimenez, Christine Rodriguez, and Enoch Jemmott join me to talk about the film which documents the chall…
00:32:27 |
Tue 11 Sep 2018
Dana Nachman and Don Hardy
Documentary filmmakers Dana Nachman and Don Hardy have co-directed the award-winning film Pick of the Litter. The litter in question are five Labrador Retrievers bred by Guide dogs for the Blind (or …
00:24:54 |
Thu 16 Aug 2018
Rob Kapilow
Let’s celebrate Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday with a trip to Broadway! Bernstein only composed a handful of shows on Broadway, but he was a game-changer. From On the Town to West Side Story, Ber…
00:43:28 |
Fri 10 Aug 2018
Douglas Hegley, Samantha Porter and Colin McFadden
More and more museums are moving away from focusing entirely on the content of their collections to focusing on the experience of visiting a museum. Douglas Hegley at MIA had the idea reach out to th…
00:27:09 |
Thu 02 Aug 2018
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