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
Jul 10, 2014 • 28min
Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsuka’s first novel When the Emperor Was Divine explores her family’s history in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.
Jul 3, 2014 • 29min
Roy Haynes and Gerald Wilson
Two legends look at their careers in jazz.
Jun 26, 2014 • 28min
Séamus Connolly
It's a tuneful podcast as we go to the heart of Irish music with Seamus Connolly.
Jun 12, 2014 • 28min
Janet Kagan
Art-Force: Artists revitalizing rural manufacturing.
Jun 5, 2014 • 28min
Jennifer Pickering
For Jennifer Pickering, all art is both local and global and LEAF is that philosophy in action.
May 29, 2014 • 28min
Dinaw Mengestu
The author discusses the NEA Big Read selection, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washington, DC neighborhood.
May 22, 2014 • 28min
Remembering War through Art
This Memorial Day Weekend, conversations about Blue Star Museums and the healing power of art, Jacob Lawrences's War Series, and a poem by veteran Lynn Hill.
May 15, 2014 • 29min
Adam Sherlock
Behind the scenes of “Sending Messages,” the award-winning monthly podcast produced by incarcerated youth.
Apr 24, 2014 • 28min
Sheila Black
Disability through the lens of poetry.
Apr 17, 2014 • 27min
David Mura
David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it means to be Japanese-American.
