Art Works Podcast

Ric Burns 14.05.2015 28:29 ↓

Ric Burns' documentary American Ballet Theatre: A History celebrates dance and ABT’s 75th Anniversary.

Vera Nakonechny 08.05.2015 28:29 ↓

Ukrainian embroiderer, weaver and bead worker Vera Nakonechny keeps a traditional culture alive.

Dan Vera 01.05.2015 28:29 ↓

Speaking Wiri Wiri and translating the immigrant experience.

Brando Skyhorse 24.04.2015 29:29 ↓

He had a childhood no one could make up—with his memoir, he creates order from the chaos.

Carla Bley 17.04.2015 29:29 ↓

Writing for big bands, choirs, and small ensembles, Carla Bley remains a graceful and innovative voice for progressive jazz.

Taylor Mali 10.04.2015 28:29 ↓

Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali connects stage and page.

Charles Lloyd 02.04.2015 29:28 ↓

The saxophonist/flutist/composer talks about expanding the tradition and language of jazz.

Sam White 26.03.2015 28:29 ↓

Sam White loves Shakespeare and loves her hometown Detroit. So she emptied her bank account and started a site-specific professional theater company, Shakespeare in Detroit . It’s amazing.

Tonya Beckman 19.03.2015 28:29 ↓

Actor Tonya Beckman: a core member of the Taffety Punk Theater Company and a Riot Grrrl in good standing. Classical theater with a difference.

Deborah Bond 12.03.2015 28:29 ↓

Dual Lives: Deborah Bond sings like a dream, has three cds and tours internationally. But she still needs a day job to pay the bills.

Tayari Jones 06.03.2015 28:29 ↓

Tayari Jones: an author who loves the process of writing.

Raymond Arsenault 27.02.2015 28:29 ↓

Raymond Arsenault's book The Sound of Freedom examines the 30-minute concert by Marian Anderson that helped move a nation forward.

Sam Pollard 18.02.2015 28:29 ↓

Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new documentary August Wilson: The Ground on which I Stand.

Thomas W. Jones II 12.02.2015 28:29 ↓

Makes sense of the world through theater.

Carolyn Mazloomi 05.02.2015 28:29 ↓

Carolyn Mazloomi shines a powerful light on the African-American community through narrative quilts.

Harold Kyle 29.01.2015 28:29 ↓

Auto Mechanic Harold Kyle plays with movement, balance, and shadows in his sculpture.

Maria Rosario Jackson 22.01.2015 28:29 ↓

Maria Rosario Jackson talks about urban planning with art at its heart.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates 200 years of African American Art! 15.01.2015 28:29 ↓

Organizing curator John Vick and consulting curator/editor Dr. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw tell us about its rich history.

Dinaw Mengestu 09.01.2015 28:29 ↓

In All Our Names , Dinaw Mengestu explores unlikely love in the midst of conflict.

Barry Bergey 18.12.2014 28:29 ↓

Barry Bergey shares some memories about a lifetime immersed in folk and traditional arts.

Ping Chong 11.12.2014 28:29 ↓

Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist and six-time NEA grantee, connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre- and Post-Racial America .

A Lesson from ELI (Education Leadership Institute): work together to bring the arts to all students 04.12.2014 28:29 ↓

Diana Green and Cathy Gassenheimer have a mission: Arts Education for Every Alabama pre-k thru 12 Student!

Nathaniel Philbrick 20.11.2014 28:30 ↓

In a slim, lucid and compulsively readable book, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville’s classic Moby-Dick .

Cleveland: At the intersection of the arts and healing 13.11.2014 28:29 ↓

Find out from Maria Jukic, executive director of Cleveland’s Clinic’s Arts and Medicine Institute and Tom Schorgl, director of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture.

Fred Foote 06.11.2014 28:29 ↓

The neurologist/holistic practioneer knows first-hand the healing power of the arts for veterans.