Audio Dec 22, 2020 Joy Harjo (Muscogee/Creek) To honor the Winter Solstice, (more specifically, that the days are getting longer from here on in), as well as Jupiter and Saturn having their closest visible alignment in 800 years and to celebrate her recent appointment to a third term in the posi...
Audio Dec 10, 2020 Lora Bottinelli Executive Director of the National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) Lora Bottinelli joins me to talk about the central place of traditional art and traditional artists in the American experience.
Audio Dec 04, 2020 Rick Dildine Theaters (and all live performance) are struggling to get through the pandemic. Most have been closed since March, and artistic directors are kept up at night with a host of questions: when people will be willing to gather indoors to watch a play tog...
Audio Nov 19, 2020 Rebekah Taussig Teacher and advocate Rebekah Taussig recently published her first book Sitting Pretty The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body.
Audio Nov 13, 2020 Meet 2020 National Heritage Fellow Wayne Valliere (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe) Culture-bearer and 2020 National Heritage Fellow Wayne Valliere (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe) is one of a handful of birch bark canoe builders left in the United States.
Audio Nov 06, 2020 Scott Yoo Scott Yoo is a wonderful guide to the music and the influences of some of the great composers of western classical music on the series "Now Hear This"
Audio Oct 30, 2020 Halloween 2020 In this podcast, we’re marking Halloween by revisiting interviews with authors who have created work that focus on monsters.
Audio Oct 16, 2020 Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle The new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art speaks to our moment.
Audio Oct 08, 2020 Erika L. Sánchez Poet, novelist, essayist, 2017 National Book Award Finalist and 2019 NEA Literature Fellow Erika L. Sánchez explores borders and boundaries in all their permutations.
Audio Oct 01, 2020 Maria Manuela Goyanes Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Maria Manuela Goyanes discusses the challenges and opportunities this moment offers theater in general and Woolly in particular.
Audio Sep 24, 2020 Loira Limbal Loira Limbal explores 24-hour day care in her documentary Through the Night
Audio Sep 18, 2020 Hugo Morales Meet the founder and executive director of Radio Bilingüe and 2020 National Heritage Fellow Hugo Morales