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
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Sep 25, 2014 • 28min
Carla Perlo
How Dance Place’s open door policy helped transform an underserved neighborhood into a vital arts district.
Sep 19, 2014 • 28min
The Singing and Praying Bands of Maryland and Delaware
Rev. Jerry Colbert shares one of the oldest African-American music traditions.
Sep 9, 2014 • 28min
Kevin Doyle
Kevin Doyle talks about his life-long passion for dance.
Sep 4, 2014 • 28min
Curator Leslie Umberger on artist Ralph Fasanella
Blue-collar worker and union organizer Ralph Fasanella would have been 100 this week. His paintings of urban working class people struggling and thriving continue to live on.
Aug 21, 2014 • 28min
Jonathan Tucker
The DC Youth Slam Team is an award-winning internationally acclaimed poetry group. Listen to their poems and find out how it all comes together.
Aug 14, 2014 • 28min
Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken gives us her take on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets.
Aug 7, 2014 • 29min
Dorothy Lawson and Ralph Farris, of the new music quartet ETHEL
Believing that music is a unifying force, ETHEL has joined forces with musicians across genres and regions and built a family of artists along the way.
Jul 31, 2014 • 28min
Francisco Nunez
2011 MacArthur Fellow Francisco Nunez brings together New York youth of all backgrounds and together they create beautiful music and an inclusive community.
Jul 24, 2014 • 28min
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly: the gloriousness of color and form.
Jul 17, 2014 • 28min
Bora Yoon
Bora Yoon talks about building the sonic design of her album Sunken Cathedral.
