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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Arts in the Schools!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Multifacted, Credit: Nati Soti of Zero One Projects.
Diana Green and Cathy Gassenheimer have a mission: Arts Education for Every Alabama pre-k thru 12 Student!

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: :54
  • Purchases: 1
Shirley Sneve on getting the voices of Native-Americans on the airwaves.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Shirley Sneve talks about Native American Public Telecommunications which shares stories of Native American people on television and radio.

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 2
Nathaniel Philbrick winner of the 2000 National Book Award for his history In the Heart of the Sea talks about the glories of Moby-Dick
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Charles W. Morgan at Sea
In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Arts and Healing in Cleveland
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jennifer Steinkamp's video installation"Kelly 1" at Cleveland Clinic, Credit: Courtesy of Cleveland Clinic
What happens when innovative medical practitioners join with a lively arts community? Find out from Maria Jukic, executive director of Cleveland’s ...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Retired Navy doctor and poet Fred Foote on the healing power of the arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Fred Foote
In Medic Against Bomb, Fred Foote’s first collection of poetry, the neurologist demonstartes first-hand the healing power of the arts for veterans.

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Author Max Brooks has put zombies on the global map!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The World War Z author Max Brooks isn't kidding when it comes to zombies.

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
2011 National Book Award Winner Jesmyn Ward finds the past is often present in rural Mississippi.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jesmyn Ward, Credit: Tony Cook
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
A conversation with award-winning Indie filmmaker Nicole Gomez Fisher
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Gina Rodriguez and Ana Ortiz in "Sleeping with the Fishes", Credit: Breaking Glass Pictures
Nicole Gomez Fisher brings it all back home in her film, Sleeping with the Fishes... and goes on to win the award for Best New Director at the Broo...

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Art of the Porcupine
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Yvonne Walker Keshick, Credit: Michael G. Stewart
2014 National Heritage Fellow and member of the Odawa Nation, Yvonne Walker Keshick describes the long history of making decorative art from quills.

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 5
Song and conversation with "Chunky" Sanchez
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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For forty years, Chunky Sanchez has playing and singing the stories of the Chicano people.

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Carla Perlo, founder and artistic director of Dance Place
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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How Dance Place’s open door policy helped transform an underserved neighborhood into a vital arts district. -

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
An African-American musical tradition older than the blues
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: The Singing and Praying Bands
Rev Jerry Colbert shares one of the oldest African-American music traditions. He's the leader of The Singing and Praying Bands of Maryland and Dela...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KPIP-LP, and WABE


  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
A Conversation with Irish Step Dancer Kevin Doyle
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kevin Doyle dancing at the 2013 National Heritage Fellowship Concert
2014 NEA National Heritage Fellow Kevin Doyle talks about his passion for Irish Step Dancing.

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Labor Painter, Ralph Fasanella, a retrospective by curator Leslie Umberger
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ralph Fasanella, (1914-1997), , Credit: Charmian Reading, about 1970, black and white print, American Folk Art Museum, New York, Gift of the Estate of Ralph Fasanella. © 1970, Estate of Ralph Fasanella
Ralph Fasanella: Labor's Painter

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
A conversation with Rutabaga Queen and ACE Pilot Kati Texas
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kati Texas, Credit: Terrance McNally
Kati Texas takes us behind the scenes of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, Grand Championship where art and science go to play.

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
Let's Slam!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: DC Youth Slam Team
The DC Youth Slam Team is an award-winning internationally acclaimed poetry group. Listen to their poems and find out how it all comes together wit...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
A Conversation with author Elizabeth McCracken
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Elizabeth McCracken, Credit: Edward Carey
Elizabeth McCracken gives us her take on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets.

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with ETHEL founding members Dorothy Lawson and Ralph Farris
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: ETHEL, Credit: James Ewing
Believing that music is a unifying force, the string quartet ETHEL has joined forces with musicians across genres and regions. The result is musica...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with 2011 MacArthur Fellow, Francisco Nunez
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Francisco Nunez conducting the YPC, Credit: Stephanie Berger
Francisco Nunez began the Youth Chorus of New York to together youth of all backgrounds. Together they create beautiful music and an inclusive comm...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Ellsworth Kelly
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ellsworth Kelly, Credit: Jack Shear
The great American artist talks about his lifelong fascination with color and form.

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1

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