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Here's 2021 NEA Jazz Master Phil Schaap!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Phil Schaap, Credit: Jazz at Lincoln Center
For jazz radio host, educator, producer and archivist Phil Schaap, the music has been a life-long passion and joy.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:03
Artistic director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival Nataki Garrett talks about OSF and 2020
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Nataki Garrett
Artistic director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival Nataki Garrett speaks about theater’s year of reckoning.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Randall Kline
A conversation with Randall Kline--founder and artistic director of SFJAZZ

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 1
A Talk with Playwright Lauren Gunderson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Lauren Gunderson, Credit: Kirsten Lara Getchell
Playwright Lauren Gunderson puts women’s stories at the center of the stage.

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of Native American Theater
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: They Don’t Talk Back by Frank Henry Kaash , Credit: Photo by Craig Schwartz Photography © 2016
Randy Reinholz (Choctaw) founder and artistic director of Native Voices gives Native playwrights support and a platform.

Bought by KZUM, New England Public Media, Harford Community Radio, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 30:59
  • Purchases: 4
Actor Jeffrey Wright and his work with veterans.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: We Are Not Done Yet, Credit: HBO
A talk with Jeffrey Wright about his documentary that looks at veterans writing and performing collective poems.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 30:10
  • Purchases: 1
Celebrating 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellow and African American Quilter Marion Coleman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Marion Coleman, Credit: Tom Pich
2018 National Heritage Fellow Marion Coleman tells stories through her quilts.

Bought by Bandon Community Radio and WJAB


  • Added: Oct 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:33
  • Purchases: 2
Native-American Basketmaker Kelly Church--keeps tradition alive and vibrant
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kelly Church, Credit: Richard Church, Pottawatomi and Ottawa
2018 National Heritage Fellow Kelly Church is an Anishanabe basketmaker who combines a traditional craft with a contemporary eye.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:56
Meet 2018 National Heritage Fellows musicians Don and Cindy Roy
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Don and Cindy Roy, Credit: Molly Haley
French-American music is thriving in Maine and Don and Cindy Roy have a lot to do with that!

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
Look for the clues in the art work!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: A design for a puzzle room at MIA
A talk with the folks who are turning the Minneapolis Institute for Art into a Puzzle Room

  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 27:09
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Lotus 2015, tUnE-yArDs, , Credit: Steve Cox
The Lotus World Music and Arts Festival may be global but it has deep roots in Bloomington, Indiana.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates 2018 NEA Jazz Master Todd Barkan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Todd Barkan, Credit: Shannon Finney
It's a jazzy show as impressario Todd Barkan remembers his life with the music and musicians.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 34:01
The National Endowment for the Arts talks to the Army's Artist in Residence, Sgt. Juan Munoz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: "A Quick Call Home", Credit: SFC Juan C. Munoz, 2018
The Army's Artist in Residence, SFC Juan Munoz explains his process of documenting the lives of soldiers through art.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates storytelling with Kiran Singh Sirah
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kiran Singh Sirah
A conversation with Kiran Singh Sirah--head of the International Storytelling Center which builds community one story at a time.

Bought by KZUM and KVNF


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Meet Dria Brown: Bedlam's St. Joan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dria Brown in the title role of G.B. Shaw's St. Joan, Credit: Teresa Wood
Young actor Dria Brown talks with the National Endowment for the Arts about playing Joan of Arc at DC's Folger Theatre.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 25:10
How Burning Man came to Washington DC
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: HYBYCOZO, Credit: Photographer: Ron Blunt
Curator Nora Atkinson takes us behind the scenes of the wildly successful exhibit "No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man" in Washington DC.'s Renwi...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:58
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates novelist Jennifer Haigh
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Piece image
Jennifer Haigh's novel Heat and Light takes a hard look at fracking in an Appalchian town

  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:18
The National Endowment for the Arts in conversation with author Emily St. John Mandel
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Piece image
Emily St John Mandel's post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven looks at what endures when civilization ends.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:28
The National Endowment for the Arts talks with rapper Dessa about the intersection of music and science
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dessa, Credit: Bill Phelps
Rapper Dessa explores her broken heart at the intersection of science and music

Bought by WMPG, WMPG, WNJR, and WUTC


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 4
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates Indie Grits!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: “Future Perfect” project at Indie Grits Festival, art work by Sleeper, Credit: Sean Rayford
Indie grits: it evolved from a tiny film festival to a cultural touchstone

  • Added: Jan 26, 2018
  • Length: 26:52
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates a muralist who paints bees around the country.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Matthew Willey and Bees, Credit: The Good of the Hive
Matthew Willey's multi-year initiative The Good of the Hive is more than an art project.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WLRH, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
The National Endowment for the Arts explores the world of comic books
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Piece image
Steve Ellis and David Gallaher combined werewolves and westerns and created the cult classic, High Moon.

Bought by WCPN, KWMR, and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 31:05
  • Purchases: 3
The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with painter Kimberly Brooks
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kimberly Brooks
Kimberly Brooks talks about the language of painting

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 27:11
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates Spiderwoman Theater and Muriel Miguel
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: The Miguel Sisters
Forty years ago, Muriel Miguel co-founded Spiderwoman Theater the first Native-American women’s theater. It's still going strong!

  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 27:59
The National Endowment for the Arts in conversation with Junot Diaz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Junot Diaz, Credit: Nina Subin
The National Book Award winner talks about author Julia Alvarez, Oscar Wao, and the wonder of reading.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 24:59