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
Carla Perlo
How Dance Place’s open door policy helped transform an underserved neighborhood into a vital arts district.
00:28:29 |
Thu 25 Sep 2014
The Singing and Praying Bands of Maryland and Delaware
Rev. Jerry Colbert shares one of the oldest African-American music traditions.
00:28:29 |
Fri 19 Sep 2014
Curator Leslie Umberger on artist Ralph Fasanella
Blue-collar worker and union organizer Ralph Fasanella would have been 100 this week. His paintings of urban working class people struggling and thriving continue to live on.
00:28:29 |
Thu 04 Sep 2014
Jonathan Tucker
The DC Youth Slam Team is an award-winning internationally acclaimed poetry group. Listen to their poems and find out how it all comes together.
00:28:29 |
Thu 21 Aug 2014
Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken gives us her take on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets.
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Thu 14 Aug 2014
Dorothy Lawson and Ralph Farris, of the new music quartet ETHEL
Believing that music is a unifying force, ETHEL has joined forces with musicians across genres and regions and built a family of artists along the way.
00:28:30 |
Thu 07 Aug 2014
Francisco Nunez
2011 MacArthur Fellow Francisco Nunez brings together New York youth of all backgrounds and together they create beautiful music and an inclusive community.
00:28:29 |
Thu 31 Jul 2014
Bora Yoon
Bora Yoon talks about building the sonic design of her album Sunken Cathedral.
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Thu 17 Jul 2014
Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsuka’s first novel When the Emperor Was Divine explores her family’s history in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.
00:28:29 |
Thu 10 Jul 2014
Séamus Connolly
It's a tuneful podcast as we go to the heart of Irish music with Seamus Connolly.
00:28:28 |
Thu 26 Jun 2014
Jennifer Pickering
For Jennifer Pickering, all art is both local and global and LEAF is that philosophy in action.
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Thu 05 Jun 2014
Dinaw Mengestu
The author discusses the NEA Big Read selection, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washington, DC neighborhood.
00:28:29 |
Thu 29 May 2014
Remembering War through Art
This Memorial Day Weekend, conversations about Blue Star Museums and the healing power of art, Jacob Lawrences's War Series, and a poem by veteran Lynn Hill.
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Thu 22 May 2014
Adam Sherlock
Behind the scenes of “Sending Messages,” the award-winning monthly podcast produced by incarcerated youth.
00:28:30 |
Thu 15 May 2014
David Mura
David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it means to be Japanese-American.
00:27:29 |
Thu 17 Apr 2014
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