National Endowment for the Arts
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
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.
Pieces
Bassist Christian McBride talks about jazz.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 27:49
Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 23:45
The man behind the I Heart NY logo talks art and design!
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 29:22
Novelist Jennifer Egan talks about her National Book Critics Circle Award-Winning book, A Visit from the Goon Squad.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 29:24
Linda Murray talks about her organization Solas Nua, the only organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to contemporary Irish arts.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 29:01
Biographer Valerie Boyd talks about the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 28:17
45 Academy Award nominations, 5 Academy awards, 4 Golden Globe awards, 20 Grammy awards?! Does John Williams sleep? Hmmm.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 27:51
NEA National Heritage fellow Mary Jackson talks about the art and tradition of sweetgrass basketmaking.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 22:53
NEA Jazz Master Ron Carter, bassist/cellist/educator extraordinaire, talks about his career playing jazz and classical music.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:22
Playwright, actor, and activist Anna Deveare Smith talks about her extraordinary career and her current one-woman show, Let Me Down Easy.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 31:01
Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:33
Author of two memoirs about her life in Iran, Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About, Azar Nafisi talks about her books, her li...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:05
Bert Crenca talks about founding the community arts center AS220, its interaction with the city Providence, and its arts education offshoot AS220 Y...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 26:04
2010 NEA Opera Honoree and legendary soprano Martina Arroyo talks about her career in opera, including working with such luminaries as Leonard Bern...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 27:18
Writer Julia Alvarez discusses how her life as a reader led to her life as a writer and the rich source material she finds in her family's immigran...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 22:05
Author Luis Alberto Urrea talks about the inspiration for and writing of his novel Into the Beautiful North, which takes place from Sinaloa, Mexico...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:54
Dan Morgenstern, recipient of the 2007 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy, discusses the 2011 class of NEA Jazz Masters.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 27:27
Irish flutist Mike Rafferty talks about learning flute playing from his father, as well as coming to America and returning to Irish music in his 50...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 26:37
2010 MacArthur Fellow Sebastian Ruth talks about the community-based arts organization he founded, Community MusicWorks, which won a 2010 National ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 27:12
Artistic Director Molly Smith talks about American theater, including the often-overlooked musical, her commitment to new play development, and her...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 27:17
People who work with National Endowment for the Arts
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Adam Kampe (Admin)
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Ted Libbey
Arts Administrator |
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