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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May 3, 2013 • 28min
Elda Rotor and John Morgan
The team behind the new app Poems by Heart discuss how they combine great gaming with classic poetry.
Apr 25, 2013 • 29min
Adam Johnson
2010 NEA Literature Fellow Adam Johnson talks the challenges of setting a novel in North Korea.
Apr 19, 2013 • 34min
Antonio Sanchez
Antonio Sanchez talks about the melody of jazz drumming and his new CD, New Life.
Apr 11, 2013 • 27min
Lynn Hill
Lynn Hill discusses her participation in "Holding It Down" -- Vijay Iyer's and Mike Ladd's performance piece based on the dreams of veterans of color. [26:44]
Apr 5, 2013 • 30min
George Wein
A conversation with George Wein, the man who launched the first outdoor jazz festival in the US--the legendary Newport Jazz Festival.
Mar 29, 2013 • 28min
Lillian Faderman
Lillian Faderman's writes a "reconstructed memoir" about her mother's life as an immigrant factory worker and single mother during the Great Depression.
Mar 22, 2013 • 27min
Rachael Holmes
At the intersection of theater and social activism: Citizen Artist Rachael Holmes.
Mar 14, 2013 • 22min
M. Evelina Galang
M. Evelina Galang's work spans generations with her writing of young Filipina-Americans and the surviving World War II "comfort women."
Mar 7, 2013 • 31min
Mary Zimmerman
Mary Zimmerman discusses her approach to creating a play.
Feb 28, 2013 • 26min
Jennie C. Jones
The winner of the 2012 Joyce Wein Artist Prize discusses the relationship in her work between visual art and sonic art.
