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
Sunni Fass and LuAnne Holladay
The Lotus World Music and Arts Festival is turning 25 this year. So it seemed like a good time to talk with its executive director Sunni Fass and long-time staff member LuAnne Holladay about this one…
00:29:30 |
Thu 26 Jul 2018
Malcolm J. Merriweather
Although he’s only in his early 30s, singer, educator, conductor and music director of The Dessoff Choirs Malcolm J. Merriweather has already made his mark on the world of choral music. It is his pas…
00:32:17 |
Thu 19 Jul 2018
Todd Barkan
2018 NEA Jazz Master Todd Barkan is a man of many talents: impresario, club owner, producer, artistic programmer. But he would count chief among them his deep and abiding love for jazz and the musici…
00:34:01 |
Fri 13 Jul 2018
Sergeant 1st Class Juan Munoz
The US Army Artist in Residence SFC Juan Munoz might be the Army's best-kept secret. His job is to document through art the experiences of soldiers as they fulfill their duties both home and abroad. …
00:28:00 |
Fri 29 Jun 2018
Artemio Posadas
2016 Bess Lomax Hawes NEA National Heritage Fellow Artemio Posadas has spent his life keeping the musical tradition of son huasteco vibrant. Son huasteco is a rich and complicated musical tradition. …
00:21:58 |
Thu 21 Jun 2018
Ilya Tovbis
The Washington Jewish Film Festival’s director Ilya Tovbis wants to open doors to Jewish life around the world. And for ten days, the Washington DC area is home to some 70 international films both do…
00:26:59 |
Fri 15 Jun 2018
Kiran Singh Sirah
Folklorist, poet and president of the International Storytelling Center, Kiran Singh Sirah is passionate about the power of stories. He heads the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tenn…
00:29:00 |
Fri 08 Jun 2018
Dria Brown
Actor Dria Brown talks about playing Joan in Bedlam’s almost postmodern production of George Bernard Shaw’s St. Joan in DC’s Folger Theatre. It’s stripped down in every way: minimal sets and costumes…
00:25:10 |
Thu 31 May 2018
Creative Forces and Finding A Tribe
The first part of this week’s podcast looks at Creative Forces : NEA Military Healing Initiative. NEA Chairman Jane Chu and others reflect on the power of art to heal physical and psychological traum…
00:29:18 |
Thu 24 May 2018
Nora Atkinson
Curator Nora Atkinson has brought a sense of that annual hotbed of artistic ingenuity in Nevada’s Black Rock desert with the daring and successful “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man.” It’s the ho…
00:31:25 |
Fri 18 May 2018
Liz Reed
Cartoonist and multimedia artist Liz Reed is co-creator with her husband Jimmy of Cuddles and Rage—it’s a world inhabited by food with quirky personalities. Liz calls it “disturbingly cute,” which se…
00:29:55 |
Fri 11 May 2018
Michael Fields
A conversation with Michael Fields, director of California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA). For 32 years, CSSSA has been training the next generation of artists. Each summer, CSSSA gives app…
00:21:23 |
Fri 04 May 2018
Jennifer Haigh
In Jennifer Haigh’s fifth novel Heat and Light, she returns to the fictional town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania: its prosperity withered with the closing of the coalmines. So when it’s learned that the a…
00:28:17 |
Thu 26 Apr 2018
Seema Reza
Poet and essayist Seema Reza investigates loss and love with ruthless honesty and lyrical power in her book, When the World Breaks Open. In this week’s podcast, Reza discusses writing her life and he…
00:30:26 |
Fri 20 Apr 2018
Pat Metheny
Guitarist and 2018 NEA Jazz Master Pat Metheny creates music that challenges easy description: he can play free jazz (as he did with Ornette Coleman in Song X) as well as acoustic guitar and pretty m…
00:37:35 |
Fri 13 Apr 2018
Melissa Range
Her poetry collection Scriptorium illuminate her Appalachian Roots.
00:29:28 |
Thu 05 Apr 2018
Robert Wood And Susan Derry
Contemporary opera for contemporary audiences.
00:29:56 |
Fri 23 Mar 2018
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