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
Rita Dove
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove talks about her writing with a focus on her most recent book of poems, Sonata Mullatica.
00:30:44 |
Thu 16 Feb 2012
Stanley Nelson
Stanley Nelson discusses his award-winning documentary Freedom Riders. [29:39]
00:29:35 |
Thu 09 Feb 2012
Robert Battle
Robert Battle discusses his first season as artistic head of the Alvin Ailey company.
00:33:04 |
Thu 02 Feb 2012
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk reflects on her 45-year career as a performance artist.
00:41:35 |
Thu 26 Jan 2012
Meejin Yoon
Meejin Yoon talks about creating work at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape, and technology.
00:27:28 |
Thu 19 Jan 2012
Jack DeJohnette
Part 2: The 2012 Jazz Master discusses his approach to music.
00:26:18 |
Thu 12 Jan 2012
Jack DeJohnette
Part 1: Legendary drummer Jack DeJohnette talks about his early career.
00:31:53 |
Thu 05 Jan 2012
Aaron Diehl
The gifted 26-year-old pianist talks about making a career in jazz.
00:29:11 |
Wed 21 Dec 2011
Stephen Manes
Stephen Manes discusses his book Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear, his inside look at a full season of Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet. [24:58]
00:25:35 |
Thu 15 Dec 2011
Jimmy Owens
Trumpeter and flugelhorn player, composer, arranger, educator, and advocate Jimmy Owens talks about his life in jazz.
00:34:24 |
Thu 08 Dec 2011
Brenda Wineapple
Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. [28:47]
00:28:47 |
Thu 01 Dec 2011
Keri Putnam
Keri Putnam discusses Film Forward, an initiative of the Sundance Institute and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Now in its second year, the program aims to enhance cross-cul…
00:25:49 |
Thu 17 Nov 2011
Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien, who served in Vietnam, talks about his novel (and Big Read selection) The Things They Carried and how fiction can often tell a deeper truth about war. [29:34]
00:29:34 |
Wed 09 Nov 2011
Jimmy Heath
Saxophonist, composer and arranger Jimmy Heath talks about his storied career and some of the jazz greats he’s played with.
00:33:05 |
Thu 03 Nov 2011
Marc Scorca
Marc Scorca celebrates opera in America and the 2011 NEA Opera Honorees.
00:31:02 |
Thu 27 Oct 2011
Kerry Henderson
Kerry Henderson talks about co-creating a festival from scratch in a small mountain town with little money and a lot of help from friends and neighbors.
00:25:10 |
Thu 20 Oct 2011
John Conklin
Stage Designer John Conklin discusses opera as a collaborative event.
00:29:48 |
Thu 13 Oct 2011
Billy Luther
Billy Luther explores different facets of his heritage in his documentaries. His latest looks at a little known celebration of the Laguna Pueblo, Grab Day.
00:26:38 |
Thu 06 Oct 2011
Morris Robinson
Meet Morris Robinson, who was an All-American at The Citadel, started studying voice at the age of 30, and sings at the great opera houses throughout the country.
00:27:04 |
Thu 29 Sep 2011
Simon Shaheen
The 1994 NEA National Heritage Fellow, violinist, and oud player discusses his merging of Arab and western musical traditions.
00:27:23 |
Thu 22 Sep 2011
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