Art Works Podcast

Richard Currey 09.08.2012 28:31 ↓

A writer and Vietnam Veteran discusses Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried.

Michele Lowe 02.08.2012 32:07 ↓

Michele Lowe discusses the process that moved her award-winning play Inana from page to stage. [32:07]

Ron Capps 26.07.2012 27:26 ↓

Ron Capps helps returning service members write their way home.

Luke Stewart and Gio Russonello 19.07.2012 32:22 ↓

Capital Bop expanding the DC’s jazz audience in unexpected places. [32:22]

Yeohlee Teng 12.07.2012 28:50 ↓

Yeohlee Teng talks about her design philosophy and her work with Making Midtown, an initiative to reinvigorate creative production in NYC’s garment district.

Sarah Cash 05.07.2012 30:32 ↓

Sarah Cash discusses the making of a great collection of American art.

Andy Statman 28.06.2012 37:49 ↓

In part 2 of our conversation with Andy Statman, we follow his musical path as he blends  klezmer, jazz, blues, and bluegrass into a distinctive musical voice. 

Andy Statman 21.06.2012 31:04 ↓

In the first of two-part interview, musical wonder Andy Statman talks about his early musical career, including the importance of bluegrass for a boy born in Brooklyn. [31:04]

Dean Bakopoulos 14.06.2012 30:40 ↓

Dean Bakopoulos discusses his first novel about fathers and sons in middle America's working class. 

William Wegman 07.06.2012 28:56 ↓

You may know him as the guy who takes surreal pictures of his Weimaraners; but that's just one strand of William Wegman's long and varied career. 

Na'alehu Anthony 31.05.2012 29:47 ↓

Na'alehu Anthony discusses his documentary about traditional Polynesian open sea canoeing and its significance to the revitalization of Hawaiian culture. [29:47]

Melissa Walker 24.05.2012 25:45 ↓

Melissa Walker discusses healing wounded service members through art at Walter Reed.

Natalie Merchant 17.05.2012 24:37 ↓

Natalie Merchant discusses her love of poetry.

Maxine Hong Kingston 10.05.2012 22:55 ↓

Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her path-breaking books. 

Jonah Lehrer 03.05.2012 34:06 ↓

Jonah Lehrer, author of Imagine: How Creativity Works , discusses the new science of creativity.

Delfeayo Marsalis 26.04.2012 34:33 ↓

Delfeayo Marsalis: it's all in the family. [34:32]

Claudia Rankine 20.04.2012 25:59 ↓

Claudia Rankine discusses her play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue . 

Benny Golson 12.04.2012 40:38 ↓

Benny Golson ‘s life is a who's who in jazz! [40:38]

Ahmad Jamal 05.04.2012 30:51 ↓

Ahmad Jamal discusses his long and celebrated career.

Sheila Jordan 29.03.2012 34:48 ↓

Sheila Jordan talks about her life in jazz. 

Sarah Greenough 22.03.2012 29:32 ↓

The editor of My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Vol 1 discusses the relationship of the two artists.

Liz Carroll 15.03.2012 38:10 ↓

Liz Carroll talks about and demonstrates the multiplicity of Irish music.

Laura Lippman 08.03.2012 30:11 ↓

Laura Lippman talks about crime fiction, journalism and the social novel. 

Aditi Brennan Kapil 01.03.2012 29:32 ↓

Aditi Brennan Kapil discusses the ways her mixed cultural background informed her play, Agnes Under the Big Top: A Tall Story . [29:32]

André Watts 23.02.2012 39:41 ↓

André Watts remembers the early years of his career.