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NEA Creative Writing Fellow Toni Jensen spoke with us about her newest book, Carry: ­­­A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land, which explores the intersection of gun violence, violence against women, and America’s history of violence against indigenous ...

For Native American Heritage Month, we're revisiting our National Endowment for the Arts podcast conversation with theater artist and Native arts and culture advocate Anna Needham (Red Lake Anishinaabe).

Four dancers with AXIS Dance Company talk about what it's like to dance with a physically integrated dance company and how it's changed their perspective on disability.

From the National Endowment for the Arts podcast archives, revisit our conversation with actor Mickey Rowe.

From the National Endowment for the Arts podcast archives, we're featuring our conversation with visual artist and disability rights activist Gordon Sasaki.

As a child, Sandra Cisneros read voraciously, taking in “the language of books and writing and magic and mystery.” It was only much later, while attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, that Cisneros realized that her own language of working-class Mexic...

Chairman Mary Anne Carter talks about the ways the National Endowment for the Arts is celebrating the centennial of the women's suffrage movement.

"The arts have the power to lift up lessons from our history books and put them in three dimensions, and inject them into the brains and memories of the next generation." — Diana Grisanti