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: Dr. David Fakunle, Credit: Schaun Champion
Dr. David Fakunle believes storytelling is a crucial, and underutilized, component in public health.

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Stan Lee, Credit: Courtesy of POW! Entertainment
Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Doctor Strange: the late Stan Lee was there at the creation.

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:49
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Dr. Lisa Donovan
Dr Lisa Donovan discusses the work being done with support from the National Endowment for the Arts to increase access to arts education equitably ...

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:38
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Caption: Rebekah Taussig, Credit: Micah Jones
Marking Disability Pride month by revisiting my 2020 interview with Rebekah Taussig who discusses her memoir in essays "Sitting Pretty The View fr...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
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Caption: Gil Rose, Credit: Kevin Condon
A conversation with Gil Rose who founded and heads three organizations-- the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), Odyssey Opera and BMOP/Sound—t...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Ann Meier Baker, Credit: Courtesy of Chorus America
Meet former Singing Sergeant and current Director of Music and Opera at the National Endowment for the Arts Ann Meier Baker—the woman who went to b...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 22:00
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Caption: Kenny Garrett, Credit: Jimmy Katz
Saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Kenny Garrett talks about his life in music.

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
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Caption: Tiya Miles, Credit: Stephanie Mitchell
2011 MacArthur Fellow, 2021 National Book Award winner, historian, and novelist Tiya Miles discusses how fiction and history meet in her novel.

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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Caption: Jericho Brown, Credit: Brian Cornelius
Jericho Brown reads and discusses his work, his creative process, and Black queer poetry’s capacity to expand concepts of love

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
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Caption: Nicole Chung, Credit: Carletta Girma
Nicole Chung writes of family and loss with a focus on broader societal failures.

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
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A look at the Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant Program: we have an overview of the program and a conversation with one of the grantees.

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  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:55
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Caption: Jason Rhee, Credit: Mike Jue
In his documentary in process, EJ Lee: All-American filmmaker Jason Rhee tells the story of EJ Lee a Korean immigrant in Louisiana who was a pheno...

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  • Added: May 16, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
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Caption: Amy Tan, Credit: Julian Johnson
In time for Mother's Day: Author and 2021 National Humanities Medalist Amy Tan discusses “The Joy Luck Club,” her writing with its themes of family...

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  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:26
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Caption: Meg Medina, Credit: Scott Elmquist
Author and Library of Congress’s 2023-24 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Meg Medina wants to spark joy in young readers as they f...

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  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Ahmad Jamal, Credit: Dl Media
In this 2012 interview, the recently-deceased NEA Jazz Master pianist Ahmad Jamal talks about his celebrated career.

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Camille T Dungy, Credit:  Beowulf Sheehan
Ecopoet and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T Dungy discusses how history and race complicates nature writing

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
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Caption: Regina Carter, Credit: Jeff Dunn
In part two of our interview, Violinist and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Regina Carter discusses some of the highlights of her spectacular career.

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:10
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Caption: Tsione Wolde-Michael
The new executive director of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities(PCAH) Tsione Wolde-Michael talks about the work of committee...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:39
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Caption: Bushra Rehman, Credit:  Andrea Dobrich
Novelist and poet Bushra Rehman celebrates the Pakistani-American community of 1980’s Corona, Queens and the coming of age of a queer Muslim girl a...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:58
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Caption: Janis Burley Wilson, Credit: Joey Kennedy
Artistic Director Janis Burley Wilson discusses the culturally-specific multidisciplinary programming of the August Wilson African American Cultura...

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:58
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