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
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz talks about slam poetry and community.
00:22:05 |
Thu 28 Apr 2011
Kevin Young
Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels. [23:45]
00:23:37 |
Thu 14 Apr 2011
Milton Glaser
A talk about art and design with National Medal of Arts recipient, Milton Glaser.
00:29:21 |
Thu 31 Mar 2011
Jennifer Egan
Novelist Jennifer Egan talks about her National Book Critics Circle Award-Winning book, A Visit from the Goon Squad. [29:24]
00:29:24 |
Thu 24 Mar 2011
Linda Murray
Linda Murray talks about her organization Solas Nua, the only organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to contemporary Irish arts.
00:29:01 |
Wed 16 Mar 2011
Valerie Boyd
Biographer Valerie Boyd talks about the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston.
00:28:16 |
Thu 10 Mar 2011
John Williams
2009 National Medal of Arts recipient, composer John Williams discusses the art of scoring films.
00:27:51 |
Thu 03 Mar 2011
Mary Jackson
NEA National Heritage fellow Mary Jackson talks about the art and tradition of sweetgrass basketmaking.
00:22:52 |
Thu 24 Feb 2011
Ron Carter
NEA Jazz Master Ron Carter, bassist/cellist/educator extraordinaire, talks about his career playing jazz and classical music.
00:25:21 |
Thu 17 Feb 2011
Anna Deveare Smith
Playwright, actor, and activist Anna Deveare Smith talks about her extraordinary career and her current one-woman show, Let Me Down Easy.
00:31:00 |
Thu 10 Feb 2011
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern culture to the North, creating a new, vibrant cultur…
00:25:33 |
Thu 03 Feb 2011
Azar Nafisi
Author of two memoirs about her life in Iran, Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About, Azar Nafisi talks about her books, her life in Iran, her parents, the Iranian Revolution, and…
00:25:05 |
Thu 27 Jan 2011
Bert Crenca
Bert Crenca talks about founding the community arts center AS220, its interaction with the city Providence, and its arts education offshoot AS220 Youth.
00:26:06 |
Thu 20 Jan 2011
Luis Alberto Urrea
Author Luis Alberto Urrea talks about the inspiration for and writing of his novel Into the Beautiful North, which takes place from Sinaloa, Mexico, all the way up north to Kankakee, Illinois.
00:25:57 |
Thu 13 Jan 2011
Dan Morgenstern
Dan Morgenstern, recipient of the 2007 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy, discusses the 2011 class of NEA Jazz Masters. [27:27]
00:27:26 |
Thu 06 Jan 2011
Molly Smith
Molly Smith talks about American theater, including the often-overlooked musical, her commitment to new play development, and her vision for the newly-renovated Arena Stage at the Mead Center.
00:27:16 |
Thu 23 Dec 2010
Shirley Sneve
Shirley Sneve talks about the mission of the Native American Public Telecommunications organization, which shares stories of Native American people through the creation, promotion, and distribution o…
00:27:32 |
Thu 16 Dec 2010
Sebastian Ruth
2010 MacArthur Fellow Sebastian Ruth talks about the community-based arts organization he founded, Community MusicWorks, which won a 2010 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award for its teac…
00:27:11 |
Thu 09 Dec 2010
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