Art Works Podcast
National Endowment for the Arts
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.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Dec 11, 2014 • 28min
Ping Chong
Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist and six-time NEA grantee, connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre- and Post-Racial America.
Dec 4, 2014 • 28min
A Lesson from ELI (Education Leadership Institute): work together to bring the arts to all students
Diana Green and Cathy Gassenheimer have a mission:
Arts Education for Every Alabama pre-k thru 12 Student!
Nov 20, 2014 • 29min
Nathaniel Philbrick
In a slim, lucid and compulsively readable book, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville’s classic Moby-Dick.
Nov 13, 2014 • 28min
Cleveland: At the intersection of the arts and healing
Find out from Maria Jukic, executive director of Cleveland’s Clinic’s Arts and Medicine Institute and Tom Schorgl, director of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture.
Nov 6, 2014 • 28min
Fred Foote
The neurologist/holistic practioneer knows first-hand the healing power of the arts for veterans.
Oct 30, 2014 • 28min
Max Brooks
Max Brooks, author of World War Z, really isn’t kidding when it comes to zombies.
Oct 23, 2014 • 28min
Jesmyn Ward
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.
Oct 16, 2014 • 27min
Nicole Gomez Fisher
Nicole Gomez Fisher brings it all back home in her film, Sleeping with the Fishes. And goes on to win the award for Best New Director at the Brooklyn Film Festival.
Oct 9, 2014 • 29min
Yvonne Walker Keshick
Quill worker and 2014 National Heritage Fellow brings a Native-American tradition into the 21st century.
Oct 2, 2014 • 28min
Ramón “Chunky” Sánchez
For 40 years, Chunky Sanchez has playing and singing the stories of the Chicano people.
