Podcasts

This week, we turn our attention to the newly published Disability Design Report commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts in conversation with the report's researcher Joshua Halstead and Grace Jun, designer and CEO of Open Style Lab.

Snehal Desai talks about producing new Asian-American, socially-conscious theater.

Marisel Vera talks about unpacking the history of late 19th century Puerto Rico for her novel “The Taste of Sugar.”

A conversation with the YA and children’s author about reading and writing.

Elena Martínez talks about the Latin music in the streets of the Bronx.

Opening the Metropolitan Opera’s season in Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut up in My Bones.”

Tap Dancer and 2021 National Heritage Fellow Reginald “Reggio the Hoofer” McLaughlin has been motivated by one thing his entire life: his love of tap-dancing.

Ford’s Theatre commemorates the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with Come From Away: In Concert at the Lincoln Memorial.

Karen Ann Hoffman reimagines traditional art for contemporary life.

It’s the end of August, and we’re revisiting a couple of our favorite conversations: this week, the spotlight is on drummer, producer, educator and 2021 NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington.

As students begin another Covid-impacted school year, the important role of arts education is discussed with NEA Arts Education Director Ayanna Hudson and Agnes Chavez, founder of STEMarts Lab in Taos, New Mexico.

Two perspectives about investing in the creative economy; at the macro level and the local level in Atlanta, Georgia.

Director David Henry Gerson talks about The Story Won’t Die—his documentary about Syrian artists in exile.