Art Works Podcast

With a trunk full of her mother’s saris, Kenyan author and performer Shaija Patel reclaims a lost history. 

Sherrie Maricle has played with jazz legends, leads an all-woman big band, and forges new roads for women in jazz.

In Translation: Verónica Castillo expands a traditional Mexican art form, the Tree of Life, to express the need for social justice in the 21st century.

Louisiana Swamp blues singer, composer and pianist Carol Fran looks back at her 60-year career.

Meet some of the greatest back-up singers! It may be only Twenty Feet from Stardom but director Morgan Neville shows us just how long that walk can be.

"Art Makes You Smart" and Brian Kisida co-published a study that proves it! [27:05]

It's a music-filled podcast with New Orleans composer, producer, and pianist Allen Toussaint who combines elegance with funk. [29:29]

Pratibha Parmar discusses making the recent documentary about an iconic American writer, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, which can be seen on the American Masters’ website.

Daniel Beaty's play and bravura performance in The Tallest Tree in the Forest shines a light on the artistry and activism of Paul Robeson.

Tope Folarin becomes the first writer born outside of Africa to win the Caine Prize with his short story set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian church.