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
Poet Jericho Brown Discusses his 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner "The Tradition"
Today, we’re celebrating Pride month by revisiting my 2021 conversation with poet, 2011 NEA Literature Fellow, and 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown. In this poetry-filled podcast, Brown walks…
00:42:04 |
Tue 13 Jun 2023
Nicole Chung writes of family and loss with a focus on broader societal failures.
Nicole Chung has written two memoirs in five years—both about loss and family. The first is the highly acclaimed All You Can Ever Know which was a finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award. It…
00:33:29 |
Tue 06 Jun 2023
Meet Asian American Choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess
Today we’re closing our celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by re-visiting our 2017 conversation with the acclaimed Washington DC-based dancer and chor…
00:28:32 |
Tue 30 May 2023
Veterans and the Arts
This is a two-part podcast: we begin with Christine Bial, the Director of Arts and Humanities Grants at Mid-America Arts Alliance which is a partner with National Endowment for the Arts in the Creati…
00:30:47 |
Tue 23 May 2023
Filmmaker Jason Rhee creates a documentary about EJ Lee "the Korean Magic Johnson of NCAA women's basketball."
Jason Rhee is an emerging documentary filmmaker who is editing his first film: EJ Lee: All-American . Eun Jung Lee, known as EJ, was a college basketball star in the 1980s, nicknamed "the Korean Magi…
00:31:42 |
Tue 16 May 2023
A Conversation with Amy Tan
In light of Amy Tan’s recent National Humanities Medal, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and Mother’s Day fast approaching, it seems like a fitting time to re-air…
00:28:22 |
Tue 09 May 2023
Meg Medina is the first Latina to serve as the Library of Congress’s National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
In this episode, we speak with Meg Medina, a Newbery award-winning author and the current Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.
Meg has written numerous books for …
00:36:16 |
Tue 02 May 2023
Remembering Jazz Great Ahmad Jamal
We’re celebrating the life and music of pianist, composer and 1994 NEA Jazz Master Ahmad Jamal who passed away on April 16, 2023. In this 2012 interview, he discusses his legendary career as a piani…
00:29:41 |
Tue 25 Apr 2023
Behind the Scenes at Washington DC's Arena Stage
Today’s podcast goes behind the scenes with two members of Arena Stage’s creative team: dramaturg and literary manager Otis Cortez Ramsey-Zöe and casting director Joseph Pinzon. Both share their insi…
00:40:25 |
Tue 11 Apr 2023
Jazz Violinist's Regina Carter's Musical Journey
This is the second of a two-part podcast with jazz artist Regina Carter. In part one, we traced Regina’s musical evolution, her upbringing in Detroit and the influence of that city on her musical dev…
00:35:00 |
Tue 04 Apr 2023
Regina Carter: Portrait of the Jazz Artist as a Young Woman
In the first part of this two-part podcast with Regina Carter, she discusses her upbringing and musical education in Detroit. Trained in European classical music, she was exposed to wide variety of m…
00:31:01 |
Tue 28 Mar 2023
Meet the New Executive Director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH)
In this podcast, we meet Tsione Wolde-Michael, the new executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH.) Wolde-Michael talks about her background growing up in t…
00:33:27 |
Tue 21 Mar 2023
Bushra Rehman's novel celebrates the Pakistani American community in 1980s Corona, Queens
Author Bushra Rehman discusses her novel, Roses in the Mouth of a Lion which is loosely based on her own girlhood growing up in a tightly-knit Pakistani American community in Corona, Queens and slowl…
00:35:57 |
Tue 14 Mar 2023
Presenting Art for the City of Pittsburgh
We’re kicking off Women’s History Month by looking at some of the artistic and cultural programming President/CEO and Artistic Director Janis Burley Wilson has brought to the August Wilson African Am…
00:35:37 |
Tue 07 Mar 2023
Meet 2023 NEA Jazz Master--Drummer Louis Hayes!
In this podcast, Louis Hayes talks about his long and illustrious career as one of the great hard bop drummers. We talk about his growing up in Detroit—home to many great musicians—in a household fil…
00:40:47 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson reflects on her first year as Chair of National Endowment for the Arts
Chair Maria Rosario Jackson looks back at her first year leading the Arts Endowment and shares her ideas, plans, and initiatives for the year ahead. She discusses the philosophy that guides her visio…
00:28:58 |
Tue 14 Feb 2023
Choreographer Kyle Abraham Creates Dance for the 21st Century
Kyle Abraham is an acclaimed choreographer and company director who is the recipient of many awards including a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. In this podcast, he tal…
00:39:49 |
Tue 07 Feb 2023
Science and Art: Dr. Alan Lightman has thoughts!
Author and MIT physicist Dr Alan Lightman is the co-writer and host of the new PBS series “Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science.” In this podcast, Dr. Lightman discusses the exper…
00:34:49 |
Tue 31 Jan 2023
Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi talks about the beauty and power of African American quilts
In this 2015 podcast, quilter, curator, and National Heritage Fellow Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi takes us through her own history with quilts and quilting. She discusses her first career as an aerospace en…
00:29:02 |
Tue 24 Jan 2023
Novelist Kevin Wilson Gives a Voice to the Weird
Kevin Wilson, the author of the NEA Big Read title Nothing to See Here, explains his long-time obsession with spontaneous human combustion—a condition that figures prominently in the novel. In a nu…
00:43:19 |
Tue 17 Jan 2023
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