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
Elda Rotor and John Morgan
The team behind the new app Poems by Heart discuss how they combine great gaming with classic poetry.
00:28:20 |
Fri 03 May 2013
Adam Johnson
2010 NEA Literature Fellow Adam Johnson talks the challenges of setting a novel in North Korea.
00:29:00 |
Thu 25 Apr 2013
Antonio Sanchez
Antonio Sanchez talks about the melody of jazz drumming and his new CD, New Life.
00:34:21 |
Fri 19 Apr 2013
Lynn Hill
Lynn Hill discusses her participation in "Holding It Down" -- Vijay Iyer's and Mike Ladd's performance piece based on the dreams of veterans of color. [26:44]
00:26:44 |
Thu 11 Apr 2013
George Wein
A conversation with George Wein, the man who launched the first outdoor jazz festival in the US--the legendary Newport Jazz Festival.
00:29:54 |
Fri 05 Apr 2013
Lillian Faderman
Lillian Faderman's writes a "reconstructed memoir" about her mother's life as an immigrant factory worker and single mother during the Great Depression.
00:27:52 |
Fri 29 Mar 2013
Rachael Holmes
At the intersection of theater and social activism: Citizen Artist Rachael Holmes.
00:26:52 |
Fri 22 Mar 2013
M. Evelina Galang
M. Evelina Galang's work spans generations with her writing of young Filipina-Americans and the surviving World War II "comfort women."
00:22:16 |
Thu 14 Mar 2013
Jennie C. Jones
The winner of the 2012 Joyce Wein Artist Prize discusses the relationship in her work between visual art and sonic art.
00:26:26 |
Thu 28 Feb 2013
Frank Price, part 2
In the 2nd part of our interview, Frank Price talks about the business of film making as well as some of the iconic films he’s made, including Tootsie, Gandhi, and Boyz in the Hood.
00:28:59 |
Thu 21 Feb 2013
Frank Price, part 1
In the first of a two-part interview, Frank Price talks about his early days as a television writer and producer of shows like The Virginian and Columbo.
00:28:40 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
Nick Cave
Nick Cave, chosen to participate in the U.S. State Department's Arts-in-Embassies program, talks about his Sound Suits, a unique blend of sculpture, fashion, and dance.
00:26:13 |
Fri 08 Feb 2013
Michael Tilson Thomas
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas discusses his dual career as conductor and educator. [30:49]
00:30:49 |
Sat 02 Feb 2013
Caron Atlas
Bread and Roses in a Brooklyn shelter: Caron Atlas demonstrates how the arts can be a critical component of disaster relief.
00:31:45 |
Fri 25 Jan 2013
Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch discusses his trilogy of the Civil Rights Movement America in the King Years.
00:24:25 |
Fri 18 Jan 2013
Eddie Palmieri
Pianist, bandleader, composer and 2013 NEA Jazz Master talks about his innovative music blending Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz.
00:32:21 |
Fri 04 Jan 2013
Lorraine Gordon
The owner of the legendary club, The Village Vanguard, talks about her life in jazz.
00:33:52 |
Fri 04 Jan 2013
Lou Donaldson
Sweet Poppa Lou talks about the musical roots of his swinging bop saxophone sound. [38:23]
00:38:23 |
Sat 22 Dec 2012
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger returns to talk about his music and its roots. [31:50]
00:31:50 |
Sat 15 Dec 2012
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