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
BobFulcher: Connecting Traditional Culture and the Natural Environment
For more than 40 years, folklorist, state park manager, and 2019 National Heritage Fellow Bobby Fulcher has been seeking out and recording traditional artists, creating programming around these artis…
00:32:47 |
Tue 10 Jan 2023
Cedric Burnside's Hill Country Blues Sings Out 2022
In this 2021 podcast, we get a lesson in Hill Country Blues from Grammy Award Winner Cedric Burnside. Cedric has the blues in his bones: his father, uncles, and cousins all played. His grandfather wa…
00:34:17 |
Tue 27 Dec 2022
Leonard Bernstein on Broadway!
Leonard Bernstein only composed a handful of shows on Broadway, but he was a game-changer. From On the Town to West Side Story, Bernstein mixed genres and styles of music—incorporating jazz, blues, r…
00:31:59 |
Tue 20 Dec 2022
Signature Theatre's Matthew Gardiner: Making Musical Theatre Magic in Northern Virginia
In this podcast, Matthew Gardiner talks about directing Stephen Sondheim’s "Into the Woods," the emotional draw of musical theater, and Stephen Sondheim’s mastery of it. We discuss Signature's commit…
00:33:40 |
Tue 13 Dec 2022
What Goes Into Writing for Young Adults? Ask Renée Watson
In this 2019 interview, author and educator Renée Watson talks about her prize-winning YA title, Piecing Me Together and Watch Us Rise (co-written with poet Ellen Hagan). Both look at the lived exper…
00:28:57 |
Tue 06 Dec 2022
Navajo/Diné Weaving: Art That's a Way of Life
In this podcast, Navajo/Diné Textile Artist and Weaver and 2022 National Heritage Fellow TahNibaa Naataanii talks about Navajo/Diné weaving, which is more than an art--it's a way of life. Naatanii ra…
00:32:35 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
The Ties That Bind: A Conversation with Author Kelli Jo Ford (Cherokee)
We’re marking Thanksgiving week by posting an interview I did earlier this year for the issue of American Artscape that focused exclusively on Native-Americans artists. I spoke with author and NEA L…
00:29:43 |
Tue 22 Nov 2022
Celebrating Native American Heritage Month by Revisiting Award-Winning Penobscot Basketmaker Theresa Secord
We are celebrating Native American Heritage Month and the NEA National Heritage Award by revisiting Theresa Secord—a 2106 awardee and Penobscot basketmaker. Although Secord’s great-grandmother was …
00:28:25 |
Tue 15 Nov 2022
The founder of Step Afrika! C. Brian Williams explains the art of stepping.
C. Brian Williams talks about the art of stepping—defining and historicizing the art form and discussing its deep connection to African-American fraternities and sororities. (He learned to step when …
00:35:42 |
Tue 08 Nov 2022
Remembering Lakota Culture-Bearer Kevin Locke
Kevin Locke passed away on September 30, 2022. He was a Lakota flute player, hoop dancer, teacher, and 1990 National Heritage Fellow. And we’re paying tribute to him by reposting this 2015. In the po…
00:30:28 |
Tue 01 Nov 2022
Art at the Intersection: A Community Claims Its Legacy
Early last year the NEA’s magazine *American Artscape *published an article by Paulette Beete entitled, “Let Black Voices Ring Again” about the Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society’s partic…
00:32:30 |
Tue 25 Oct 2022
Meeting Bluegrass Fiddle Virtuoso Michael Cleveland
Bluegrass Fiddler and 2022 NEA National Heritage Fellow Michael Cleveland talks about his life immersed in music
Virtuoso fiddler and 2022 National Heritage Fellow Michael Cleveland talks about…
00:46:43 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: A Conversation with Novelist Marisel Vera
With her second novel “The Taste of Sugar,” Marisel Vera has created an epic tale with an intimate heart. It tells the story of small coffee farmers in late 19th century Puerto Rico whose lives had…
00:29:50 |
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Amalia Ortiz: Making and Teaching Art in San Antonio
A discussion with performance poet, performer, and playwright [Amalia Ortiz](Amaliaortiz.net) who directs the theater arts program at [SAY Sí.](Saysi.org) SAY Sí is a year-round, long-term, tuition-…
00:34:12 |
Tue 04 Oct 2022
Revisiting Afro-Dominican Filmmaker Loira Limbal
Afro-Dominican filmmaker Loira Limbal’s documentary Through the Night is an intimate look at one home-based 24-hour day-care center in New Rochelle, the couple who runs the center and the mothers and…
00:38:02 |
Tue 27 Sep 2022
Eva Enciñias: Flamenco as Life
Flamenco Artist and 2022 National Heritage Fellow Eva Enciñias has transformed and broadened the performance and study of flamenco in the United States generally and in her hometown of Albuquerque, N…
00:43:38 |
Tue 20 Sep 2022
David Serkin Ludwig: Expanding the Language of Music
Composer and Dean and Director of the Music Division at The Juilliard School, David Serkin Ludwig talks about the opportunities and challenges at The Juilliard School, with its 850 plus students in m…
00:39:29 |
Tue 13 Sep 2022
Sipp Culture: Combining Story and Food Sustainability
The new monthly series “Art at the Intersection” will explore the ways the arts are helping to shape and inspire work being done in many areas of society, for example, in healthcare, city planning, i…
00:36:36 |
Tue 06 Sep 2022
Revisiting: Novelist Vanessa Hua--Shining a Light on Chinese-American Voices
Author and 2020 NEA Literature Fellow Vanessa Hua is getting a lot of well-deserved praise for her recently released novel, Forbidden City which tells the story of the Chinese Cultural revolution as …
00:30:37 |
Tue 30 Aug 2022
Revisiting: Filmmaker CJ Hunt discusses his Emmy-nominated film The Neutral Ground
The 2015 vote of the New Orleans City Council to remove four Confederate monuments from public grounds was met with death threats, protests, lawsuits, and rallies. Writer and comedian CJ Hunt, curi…
00:31:28 |
Tue 23 Aug 2022
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