Art Works

Series produced by National Endowment for the Arts

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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

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. Guests have included the co-founder of Los Lobos Louie Pérez, National Medal of the Arts winner and the man behind Marvel comics, Stan Lee, Mohegan theater artist Madeline Sayet, National Book Award Winner Charles Yu, and NEA Jazz Master Grammy Award winning drummer Terri Lyne Carrington. You can find the current and archived programs at https://www.arts.gov/stories/podcast or by subscribing to Apple podcasts

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Caption: Tracy K. Smith, Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Former poet laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith in wide-ranging conversation about poetry, history, and memory.

Bought by WMPG and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Rebekah Taussig, Credit: Micah Jones
Teacher and advocate Rebekah Taussig recently published her first book-- Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Wayne Valliere, Credit: Tim Frandy
Culture-bearer and 2020 National Heritage Fellow Wayne Valliere (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe) is one of a handful of birch bark canoe builders left in t...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 22:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Scott Yoo, Credit: Arcos Film + Music
Scott Yoo is a wonderful guide to the music and the influences of some of the great composers of western classical music on the series "Now Hear This"

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Danielle Evans , Credit:  Beowulf Sheehan
Author Danielle Evans discusses her recent short-story collection "The Office of Historical Corrections."

Bought by KZUM and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Henry Threadgill, Credit: Nhumi Threadgill
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and 2021 NEA Jazz Master Henry Threadgill continues his work on music’s cutting edge.

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nataki Garrett
Artistic director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival Nataki Garrett speaks about theater’s year of reckoning.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Tana French, Credit: Jessica Ryan
Acclaimed Irish crime writer Tana French keeps pushing the genre in her latest book The Searcher.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:47
Caption: Sally Wen Mao, Credit: Sookoon Ang
Sally Wen Mao’s poetry excavates the burden of spectacle for Asian-Americans.

Bought by KMUN, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZUM, and KMUN


  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Phil Schaap, Credit: Jazz at Lincoln Center
For jazz radio host, educator, producer and archivist Phil Schaap, the music has been a life-long passion and joy.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:03
Caption: Albert "Tootie" Heath, Credit: Ghylian Bell and Mychal Watts
Percussionist Tootie Heath shares the rhythms of a Jazz Master.

Bought by KMUW and KZUM


  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Camille Dungy, Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Award-winning writer and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T. Dungy discusses her work as an ecopoet.

Bought by WSLR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Terri Lyne Carrington, Credit: Delphine Diallo
Virtuoso drummer and 2021 NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington talks about career and her advocacy for “jazz without patriarchy.”

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, New England Public Media, and KZUM


  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Credit: Emma Pratte
Poet and playwright Darrel Alejandro Holnes explores immigration and belonging through poetry and theater.

Bought by WORT, WMPG, and KZUM


  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Mequitta Ahuja, Portrait of Her Mother, oil on canvas, Credit: Courtesy of the artist
Visual artist Mequitta Ahuja joins us on the podcast to talk about how she approaches portraiture, art-making as a form of grieving, and being insp...

Bought by KWMR, WMPG, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Charles Yu, Credit: Tina Chiou
In this rebroadcast, Charles Yu talks about his award-winning novel Interior Chinatown and the implications of Asian-American representation in pop...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, WMPG, and KZUM


  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Ethan Heard, Credit: Stanley Bohorek
Ethan Heard and Heartbeat Opera re-visions opera for the 21st Century.

Bought by KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Jenny Koons
Jenny Koons talks about making diverse site-specific immersive theater.

Bought by WDCB, WMPG, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: May 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Michael R. Jackson, Credit: Zack DeZon
Michael R. Jackson takes us through the making of A Strange Loop his prize-winning musical about a Black queer musical theater writer.

Bought by KALW, KZUM, WMPG, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Jericho Brown, Credit: Brian Cornelius
Jericho Brown talks about writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection The Tradition

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:38
  • Purchases: 1