Art Works Podcast

Max Brooks 30.10.2014 28:29 ↓

Max Brooks, author of World War Z , really isn’t kidding when it comes to zombies.

Jesmyn Ward 23.10.2014 28:29 ↓

In her memoir Men We Reaped , Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.

Nicole Gomez Fisher 16.10.2014 27:26 ↓

Nicole Gomez Fisher brings it all back home in her film, Sleeping with the Fishes . And goes on to win the award for Best New Director at the Brooklyn Film Festival.

Yvonne Walker Keshick 09.10.2014 28:30 ↓

Quill worker and 2014 National Heritage Fellow brings a Native-American tradition into the 21st century.

Ramón “Chunky” Sánchez 02.10.2014 28:29 ↓

For 40 years, Chunky Sanchez has playing and singing the stories of the Chicano people.

Carla Perlo 25.09.2014 28:29 ↓

How Dance Place’s open door policy helped transform an underserved neighborhood into a vital arts district.

The Singing and Praying Bands of Maryland and Delaware 19.09.2014 28:29 ↓

Rev. Jerry Colbert shares one of the oldest African-American music traditions.

Kevin Doyle 09.09.2014 28:29 ↓

Kevin Doyle talks about his life-long passion for dance.

Curator Leslie Umberger on artist Ralph Fasanella 04.09.2014 28:29 ↓

Blue-collar worker and union organizer Ralph Fasanella would have been 100 this week.  His paintings of urban working class people struggling and thriving continue to live on.

Jonathan Tucker 21.08.2014 28:29 ↓

The DC Youth Slam Team is an award-winning internationally acclaimed poetry group. Listen to their poems and find out how it all comes together.

Elizabeth McCracken 14.08.2014 28:29 ↓

Elizabeth McCracken gives us her take on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets.

Dorothy Lawson and Ralph Farris, of the new music quartet ETHEL 07.08.2014 28:30 ↓

Believing that music is a unifying force, ETHEL has joined forces with musicians across genres and regions and built a family of artists along the way.

Francisco Nunez 31.07.2014 28:29 ↓

2011 MacArthur Fellow Francisco Nunez brings together New York youth of all backgrounds and together they create beautiful music and an inclusive community.

Ellsworth Kelly 24.07.2014 28:28 ↓

Ellsworth Kelly: the gloriousness of color and form.

Bora Yoon 17.07.2014 28:29 ↓

Bora Yoon talks about building the sonic design of her album Sunken Cathedral .

Julie Otsuka 10.07.2014 28:29 ↓

Julie Otsuka’s first novel When the Emperor Was Divine explores her family’s history in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.

Roy Haynes and Gerald Wilson 03.07.2014 29:29 ↓

Two legends look at their careers in jazz.

Séamus Connolly 26.06.2014 28:28 ↓

It's a tuneful podcast as we go to the heart of Irish music with Seamus Connolly.

Janet Kagan 12.06.2014 28:29 ↓

Art-Force: Artists revitalizing rural manufacturing.

Jennifer Pickering 05.06.2014 28:29 ↓

For Jennifer Pickering, all art is both local and global and LEAF is that philosophy in action.

Dinaw Mengestu 29.05.2014 28:29 ↓

The author discusses the NEA Big Read selection, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears , his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washington, DC neighborhood.

Remembering War through Art 22.05.2014 28:29 ↓

This Memorial Day Weekend, conversations about Blue Star Museums and the healing power of art, Jacob Lawrences's War Series, and a poem by veteran Lynn Hill.

Adam Sherlock 15.05.2014 28:30 ↓

Behind the scenes of “Sending Messages,” the award-winning monthly podcast produced by incarcerated youth.

Sheila Black 24.04.2014 27:59 ↓

Disability through the lens of poetry. 

David Mura 17.04.2014 27:29 ↓

David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it means to be Japanese-American.