Art Works Podcast

Series produced by National Endowment for the Arts

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The Art Works Podcast is produced weekly 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 Thursdays. Find out more at arts.gov

The Art Works Podcast, the program that goes behind the scenes with some of the nation's great artists to explore how art works. Guests have included choreographer and MacArthur genius Liz Lerman, National Medal of the Arts winner and the man behind Marvel comics, Stan Lee, filmmaker Debra Granik (Winter's Bone), Jazz Master Randy Westin, and Pulitzer-prize winning author Jennifer Egan. You can find the current and archived programs at http://www.arts.gov/podweb/podCMS/podlist.php or in iTunes U.

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119 Pieces

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Sean Wilentz discusses his biography, Bob Dylan in America.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 28:33
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Charles Randolph-Wright talks about directing Lynn Nottage's play Ruined at Arena Stage.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:38
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Artistic Director Howard Shalwitz talks about the Wooly Mammoth Theater company’s production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 22:47
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The great jazz writer Gary Giddins talks about the great jazz legend, Duke Ellington.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 34:39
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Poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz talks about slam poetry and community.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 22:05
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Bassist Christian McBride talks about jazz.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 27:49
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Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 23:45
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The man behind the I Heart NY logo talks art and design!

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:22
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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
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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
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Biographer Valerie Boyd talks about the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 28:17
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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
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NEA National Heritage fellow Mary Jackson talks about the art and tradition of sweetgrass basketmaking.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 22:53
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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