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
Cassandra Wilson
Meet Cassandra Wilson—singer, songwriter, musician, and 2022 NEA Jazz Master Fellow. In this tuneful podcast, the Grammy Award winner takes us through her career in music, her influences, her approac…
00:41:44 |
Mon 28 Mar 2022
Revisiting Lynsey Addario
Photojournalist Lynsey Addario has been making news herself lately: she recently took what many consider to be a war defining photograph--that of a church worker, a mother and her children killed by …
00:33:02 |
Mon 21 Mar 2022
Marjan Kamali
Novelist and 2022 NEA Literature Fellow Marjan Kamali talks about her recent novel The Stationery Shop a story that begins in 1953 in Iran and spans 60 years. It’s a book that is steeped in Persian c…
00:35:37 |
Mon 14 Mar 2022
Valerie Boyd on Zora Neale Hurston
We’re marking Women’s history month by replaying my in-depth interview with the late Valerie Boyd who wrote the acclaimed “Wrapped in Rainbows: the Biography of Zora Neale Hurston.” Zora Neale Hurs…
00:31:09 |
Mon 07 Mar 2022
Ashleigh Gordon
Violist Ashleigh Gordon and pianist Anthony R. Green were students at the New England Conservatory of Music and were frustrated by the lack of representation of Black voices in classical music. So, i…
00:32:12 |
Fri 25 Feb 2022
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, the 13th chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, is no stranger to the Arts Endowment having had a great deal of first-hand experience with the agency as she has serv…
00:32:15 |
Fri 18 Feb 2022
Celebrating the late Hank Jones
Photo Credit: Photo by Tom Pich/tompich.com¸
To celebrate Black History Month, we decided to mine the archives and revisit my interview with pianist, NEA Jazz Master and National Medal of Arts reci…
00:27:56 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
Donald Harrison, Jr.
Donald Harrison, Jr. may have been named a 2022 NEA Jazz Master for his advocacy work, but this hard-swinging improvisational saxophonist is also a brilliant player as evidenced by his performances a…
00:40:41 |
Mon 07 Feb 2022
Sade Lythcott
Sade Lythcott, CEO of National Black Theatre (NBT), is carrying on the legacy of her mother, Dr. Barbara Ann Teer, who founded NBT back in 1968. Based in Harlem and born out of the Black Arts Movemen…
00:30:05 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
Dr. Joel Snyder
Educator and advocate Joel Snyder is one of the pioneers of audio description which makes the visual verbal for people who are blind or have low vision. Just as captioning or signing gives people who…
00:32:24 |
Mon 24 Jan 2022
Dr. Nicole Fleetwood
Professor, art historian, and curator Dr. Nicole Fleetwood has spent years exploring the art of incarcerated people and how it is essential to our understanding of mass incarceration and the people i…
00:28:56 |
Mon 17 Jan 2022
Joy Jones
In March 2020, Joy Jones was rehearsing the part of Vera in the Arena Stage production of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars directed by Tazewell Thompson. It’s not a surprise that Arena Stage would be mo…
00:31:56 |
Mon 10 Jan 2022
Andrew Krivak
Andrew Krivak’s novel The Bear, which is a recent NEA Big Read title, is a story about the last of humanity. Yet the book somehow is remarkably hopeful. Set far into the future, it’s a fable that see…
00:29:48 |
Fri 17 Dec 2021
Revisiting Maria Schneider
Today, we revisit a conversation with 2019 NEA Jazz Master composer, conductor, and arranger Maria Schneider who creates highly original and evocative compositions for her jazz orchestra.
A New Yor…
00:33:56 |
Mon 13 Dec 2021
David Rodriguez
David Rodriguez is the Executive Vice President & Executive Producer of NJPAC (New Jersey Performing Arts Center)—it’s not only one of the largest performing arts centers in the country, it’s also on…
00:29:49 |
Sun 05 Dec 2021
Revisiting Kelly Church (Ottawa/ Pottawatomi)
Today, we revisit our interview with 2018 National Heritage Fellow and black ash basket maker Kelly Church. An Anishinaabe belonging to the Gun Lake Potawami Band, Church combines the centuries-old t…
00:28:56 |
Mon 29 Nov 2021
Arlo Iron Cloud (Oglala-Sioux)
Arlo Iron Cloud (Oglala-Sioux) embraces and celebrates Lakota culture through his radio broadcasting, photography, filmmaking, language reclamation, and work in food sovereignty. He passionately embr…
00:30:05 |
Mon 22 Nov 2021
Cedric Burnside
Today, Hill Country blues musician, songwriter, and 2021 National Heritage Fellow Cedric Burnside talks about bringing his musical roots to the 21st century. Cedric Burnside has the blues in his bone…
00:34:14 |
Mon 15 Nov 2021
Dr. Niyati Dhokai
Dr. Niyati Dhokai is Program Director of Veterans and the Arts Initiative at George Mason University’s Hylton Performing Arts Center. The program has been supported, in part, by Creative Forces®: NE…
00:30:10 |
Mon 08 Nov 2021
Louie Pérez
Co-founder, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter for the band Los Lobos, named 2021 National Heritage Fellows, Louie Pérez is one of the great storytellers. For more than 40 years, he’s written song…
00:36:01 |
Mon 01 Nov 2021
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