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: Louis Hayes, Credit: Janette Beckman
Drummer and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Louis Hayes talks about his long and distinguished career as a musician.

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Timothy Johnson
Director Timothy Johnson talks about bringing the brilliant work of Harlem Renaissance playwright Eulalie Spence to the stage.

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson
Chair Maria Rosario Jackson looks back at her first year leading the Arts Endowment and shares her ideas, plans, and initiatives for the year ahead.

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Dr. Alan Lightman, Credit: Courtesy of “Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science”
Author and MIT physicist Alan Lightman explores the similarities between artistic and scientific impulses.

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
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Caption: Carolyn Mazloomi, Credit: GAle Zucker
Quilter, Curator, and 2014 Bess Lomax 2014 Bess Lomax Hawes National Heritage Fellow for Advocacy in the Folk and Traditional Arts, Dr. Carolyn Maz...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Kevin Wilson, Credit: Leigh Anne Crouch
Author of the NEA Big Read title Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson discusses the serious issues at the heart of this outrageous (and outrageously fu...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:40
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Caption: Allison Orr, Credit: Jonica Moore
Founder and Artistic Director of Forklift Danceworks Allison Orr talks about the community-based dance company and its many collaborations.

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Cedric Burnside, Credit: Stephen Payne
Hill Country Blues Musician, Songwriter and 2021 National Heritage Fellow Cedric Burnside talks about bringing his musical roots to the 21st century.

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
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Caption: Leonard Bernstein at the Opening of West Side Story, Washington DC, Aug. 1957, Credit: Library of Congress Archives
Composer, conductor, and commentator Rob Kapilow takes us on a musical journey through Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway career.

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
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Caption: Kelli Jo Ford, Credit: Val Ford Hancock
Kelli Jo Ford (Cherokee) discusses her novel Crooked Hallelujah which gives us the stories of four generations of Cherokee women and the love, supp...

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:58
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Caption: Theresa Secord, Credit: Steve Wewerka
We are celebrating Native American Heritage Month and National Heritage Award by revisiting Penobscot Nation Ash/Sweetgrass Basketmaker and 2016 Na...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:29
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Caption: C. Brian Williams, Credit: Jim Saah
Step Artist and Producer and 2022 National Heritage Fellow C. Brian Williams discusses the rich cultural history of stepping and his work bringing ...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
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Caption: Kevin Locke, Credit: Courtesy of Kevin Locke
The late Kevin Locke talks about learning, performing, and teaching Lakota culture and traditions around the world.

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:58
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Caption: Dr. Tee Ford-Ahmed, Credit: Naima Wolfe
Director of Communications for the Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society in Athens Ohio Dr. Tee Ford-Ahmed talks about repurposing a vacan...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
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Caption: Joel Snyder
Dr. Joel Snyder talks about putting visual images into words for blind people.

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:51
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Caption: Marisel Vera  , Credit:  Wes Carrasquillo
In this 2021 interview, Marisel Vera talks about unpacking the history of late 19th century Puerto Rico for her novel “The Taste of Sugar.”

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Amalia Ortiz , Credit:  Ned Meneses
Performance poet and theater arts director Amalia Ortiz discusses her work at SAY Sí, her own award-wining art, and the intersection between the two.

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
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Caption: Loira Limbal, Credit: Erin Patrice O’Brien
Filmmaker Loira Limbal talks about her 2020 documentary Through the Night which examines a home-based 24-hour day-care center and the personal cost...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:02
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Caption: Eva Enciñias, Credit: Courtesy of NIF
Flamenco Artist and 2022 National Heritage Fellow Eva Enciñias has spent her life to elevating flamenco while weaving it into the fabric of communi...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: David Serkin Ludwig
David Serkin Ludwig talks about his life in music both as a composer and as an educator dedicated to new music and expanding the music community

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 3