Art Works Podcast
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Terence Blanchard: The Music That Speaks
38 mins; February 25, 2025
Terence Blanchard: A Life in Music, Part 1
39 mins; February 11, 2025
Strings of Transformation: June Kuramoto and the Journey of the Koto
32 mins; February 10, 2025
January 14, 2025 Hana S. Sharif: Curating Conversations at Arena Stage
34 mins; January 14, 2025
December 17, 2024 Andy Statman: Master of Many Musical Traditions
41 mins; December 17, 2024
Opera for All: Breaking Barriers with Opera Praktikos (OPrak)
38 mins; December 10, 2024
Revisiting Author of Interior Chinatown Charles Yu
28 mins; December 03, 2024
Exploring American Routes: A Conversation with Nick Spitzer
39 mins; November 26, 2024
November 19, 2024 Celebrating Jazz Giants: Roy Haynes and Lou Donaldson
29 mins; November 19, 2024
November 12, 2024 Theater of War: Bridging Greek Tragedy and Veteran Stories
28 mins; November 11, 2024
November 5, 2024 Native American Artist Rose B. Simpson: Forging Pathways through Heritage and Innovation
35 mins; November 05, 2024
October 29, 2024 "Embracing the Darkness: A Conversation with Author Christina Henry"
31 mins; October 29, 2024
October 22, 2024 Meet Todd Goings, the 2024 National Heritage Fellow who keeps carousels spinning!
28 mins; October 22, 2024
Juan Felipe Herrera: Breaking Boundaries with Poetry and Language
29 mins; October 15, 2024
Family, Identity, and Survival: Showrunner Soo Hugh on the series Pachinko
31 mins; October 08, 2024
Inside Jaja’s African Hair Braiding: A Conversation with Playwright Jocelyn Bioh
32 mins; October 01, 2024
Celebrating the Power of Stories with Meg Medina, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
36 mins; September 24, 2024
Art and Redemption: A Conversation with Chicano Muralist Fabian Debora
31 mins; September 17, 2024
James Rees: Advocating for Arts Education and Creative Expression
29 mins; September 10, 2024
Professor Thalia Goldstein unpacks the impact of theater education on student development.
35 mins; September 03, 2024
August 20, 2024 Rhythms of Resilience: Bril Barrett on Tap, Tradition, and Resistance
30 mins; August 20, 2024
Healing Through Storytelling: Dr. David Fakunle on Arts, Culture, and Public Health
34 mins; August 13, 2024
Vijay Iyer: Jazz Virtuoso and Classical Composer
37 mins; August 06, 2024
Celebrating Disability Pride Month with Dr. Joel Snyder: A Pioneer in Audio Description
32 mins; July 30, 2024
"The Waters": A Conversation with Bonnie Jo Campbell
32 mins; July 23, 2024
Creating Conversations Through Art: The Vision of Charleston's Gaillard Center
31 mins; July 16, 2024
Joanie Madden: The Whistleblower of Irish Music
36 mins; July 09, 2024
Revisiting Lin-Manuel Miranda and "Hamilton"
29 mins; July 02, 2024
Embracing Queerness in Ballet: A Conversation with Adriana Pierce
30 mins; June 25, 2024
Celebrating African American History and Heritage with Pat Johnson
31 mins; June 18, 2024
Community and the Speed Art Museum
36 mins; June 11, 2024
Remembering the late blues musician Phil Wiggins
32 mins; June 04, 2024
Transforming Lives Through Music: Shanna Lin and the Paterson Music Project
32 mins; May 28, 2024
Lillian Faderman: The Emotional Truth of "My Mother's Wars"
29 mins; May 21, 2024
Theater Unmasked: Challenges and Possibilities
40 mins; May 14, 2024
Staging Stories: Psalmayene 24 on Directing Across Time
32 mins; May 07, 2024
Bridging Cultures: A Conversation with Diana Abu-Jaber
39 mins; April 30, 2024
Leslie Sainz: A New Voice in Contemporary Poetry
39 mins; April 23, 2024
Suzan-Lori Parks Shows Up!
38 mins; April 16, 2024
Bassist and 2017 NEA Jazz Master Dave Holland talks about his life in jazz
28 mins; April 09, 2024
Harmonies of Heritage: The Willard Jenkins Odyssey in Jazz Advocacy
52 mins; April 02, 2024
A Special Edition of Art Works: Talking across disciplines with the Chair of the NEA and the Director of the Census Bureau
32 mins; March 26, 2024
The Harmonic Convergence of Amina Claudine Myers
37 mins; March 19, 2024
Building Bridges Through Children's Literature
31 mins; March 12, 2024
It's complicated: a conversation with author and 2020 NEA Literature Fellow Danielle Evans
30 mins; March 05, 2024
Meet Tap Dancer and National Heritage Fellow Reginald "Reggio the Hoofer" McLaughlin
36 mins; February 27, 2024
Meet Saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Gary Bartz
59 mins; February 20, 2024
Celebrate Black History Month: Isabel Wilkerson discusses the Great Migration and American Culure
30 mins; February 13, 2024
Director/writer Cord Jefferson talks about "American Fiction"
31 mins; February 06, 2024
“From Heritage to Health:” Bringing the diverse cultures of everyday life to medical care.
27 mins; January 30, 2024
Meet American Routes creator and host Nick Spitzer
38 mins; January 23, 2024
Celebrating 1984 NEA Jazz Master Max Roach’s Centenary
35 mins; January 16, 2024
Paula Abreu discusses her comprehensive approach to cultural curation at the McCarter Theatre Center
31 mins; January 09, 2024
Exploring the New Horizons of the Folger Shakespeare Theatre with Karen Ann Daniels
30 mins; December 19, 2023
Brandon Victor Dixon--talks about performing in Alicia Keys's "Hells Kitchen"
29 mins; December 12, 2023
Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky--Deafness in Three Movements
32 mins; December 05, 2023
Revisiting Director and Playwright Randy Reinholz(Choctaw)--
29 mins; November 28, 2023
“Where there’s flavor, there’s history:” A Look at New Orleans food Culture with Zella Palmer
31 mins; November 21, 2023
Author Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee) champions Native Voices
40 mins; November 14, 2023
Marking Veterans Day: Revisiting Sebastian Junger
31 mins; November 07, 2023
Novelist Isabel Cañas delivers gothic horror with a twist
39 mins; October 31, 2023
James LeBrecht and Day Al-Mohamed work to create a space in media for stories by, for and about people with disabilities.
37 mins; October 24, 2023
Behind the Scenes with Actors Sylvia Kwan and Jacob Yeh
37 mins; October 17, 2023
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Luthier Manuel Delgado
29 mins; October 10, 2023
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Flamenco Artist and Teacher Eva Enciñias
43 mins; October 03, 2023
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Tejano Musician "Little Joe" Hernandez and La Familia
37 mins; September 26, 2023
Conversations with Wood: The Art of Luis Tapia
41 mins; September 19, 2023
Meet Two People Who Make Performing Art Happen
42 mins; September 12, 2023
Is Storytelling a key to better public Health?
34 mins; September 05, 2023
The Kinetic Sculpture Race: Art in Motion
27 mins; August 29, 2023
In the Beginning: the Late Stan Lee Gave Us the Marvel Superheroes
30 mins; August 22, 2023
Back to School: Teaching artist Emmett Phillips creates dynamic arts education programming through hip-hop.
36 mins; August 15, 2023
It's Back to School--Let's talk about Arts Education
31 mins; August 08, 2023
Meet Artist Elizabeth James-Perry (Wampanoag, Aquinnah)
42 mins; August 01, 2023
Phil Wiggins--a Life Playing the Blues
32 mins; July 25, 2023
Author and Disability Advocate Rebekah Taussig Discusses Her Memoir "Sitting Pretty."
34 mins; July 18, 2023
Meet a force in Contemporary Music: Gil Rose
39 mins; July 11, 2023
A Conversation about the Singing Sergeants
21 mins; July 04, 2023
A Conversation with 2023 NEA Jazz Master Saxophonist Kenny Garrett
34 mins; June 27, 2023
Historian and National Book Award-winner Tiya Miles Meets the Moment
35 mins; June 20, 2023
Poet Jericho Brown Discusses his 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner "The Tradition"
42 mins; June 13, 2023
Nicole Chung writes of family and loss with a focus on broader societal failures.
33 mins; June 06, 2023
Meet Asian American Choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess
28 mins; May 30, 2023
Veterans and the Arts
30 mins; May 23, 2023
Filmmaker Jason Rhee creates a documentary about EJ Lee "the Korean Magic Johnson of NCAA women's basketball."
31 mins; May 16, 2023
A Conversation with Amy Tan
28 mins; May 09, 2023
Meg Medina is the first Latina to serve as the Library of Congress’s National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
36 mins; May 02, 2023
Remembering Jazz Great Ahmad Jamal
29 mins; April 25, 2023
Behind the Scenes at Washington DC's Arena Stage
40 mins; April 11, 2023
Jazz Violinist's Regina Carter's Musical Journey
35 mins; April 04, 2023
Regina Carter: Portrait of the Jazz Artist as a Young Woman
31 mins; March 28, 2023
Meet the New Executive Director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH)
33 mins; March 21, 2023
Bushra Rehman's novel celebrates the Pakistani American community in 1980s Corona, Queens
35 mins; March 14, 2023
Presenting Art for the City of Pittsburgh
35 mins; March 07, 2023
Meet 2023 NEA Jazz Master--Drummer Louis Hayes!
40 mins; February 28, 2023
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson reflects on her first year as Chair of National Endowment for the Arts
28 mins; February 14, 2023
Choreographer Kyle Abraham Creates Dance for the 21st Century
39 mins; February 07, 2023
Science and Art: Dr. Alan Lightman has thoughts!
34 mins; January 31, 2023
Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi talks about the beauty and power of African American quilts
29 mins; January 24, 2023
Novelist Kevin Wilson Gives a Voice to the Weird
43 mins; January 17, 2023