National Endowment for the Arts

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The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Arts Endowment is the largest national funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases.

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564 Pieces

Art Works is the weekly program produced by the National Endowment for the Arts. It goes behind the scenes with some of the nation's great artists to explore how art works. New shows are posted on Tuesdays. Find out more at arts.gov

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130 Pieces

NEA Jazz Masters Moments highlight the jazz greats honored through the NEA Jazz Masters, a comprehensive program of jazz support.

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16 Pieces

NEA Literary Moments showcase writers and the literature they create through Big Read Moments, Poetry Out Loud Moments, and Shakespearean Moments.

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13 Pieces

This series includes miscellaneous audio from our quarterly magazine, NEA Arts, shorter pieces we've featured on the NEA blog, Art Works, and sound from our series, Short Cuts.

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19 Pieces

Quick Study--a podcast about research in the arts from the National Endowment for the Arts

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27 Pieces

The Big Read initiative was created to inspire people to read more great literature. As part of this program, the NEA produced several half-hour audio documentaries to accompany print materials.


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Two conversations with NEA Jazz Masters. First up, drummer Roy Haynes. He's followed by musician, composer, and bandleader Gerald Wilson.

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Seamus Connolly, Credit: Lee Pellegrini, Boston College
It's a tuneful podcast as we go to the heart of Irish music with 2013 National Heritage Fellow Seamus Connolly.

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jane Chu, Credit: Courtesy of the Kauffman Center for the Arts
Jane Chu shares her ideas for the agency and the place of art in her own life.

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Art Force: Cross Currents Civic Exhibition, Credit: Courtesy of Art Force
Art-Force: Artists revitalizing rural manufacturing.

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Boukman Eksperyans, Credit: Courtesy of LEAF
For Jennifer Pickering, all art is both local and global and LEAF is that philosophy in action.

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Remembering War through Art

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Dinaw Mengestu, Credit: Michael Lionstar
The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...

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  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
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Behind the scenes of “Sending Messages,” the award-winning monthly podcast produced by incarcerated youth.

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  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: David Mura, Credit: Courtesy of American Program Bureau, Inc.
Poet, Writer and Spoken-Word Performer David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it me...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 27:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Shailja Patel, Credit: D. Ross Cameron
With a trunk full of her mother’s saris, Kenyan author and performer Shaija Patel reclaims a lost history.

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1