Podcasts

Arts Advocate (and National Heritage Fellow) Al Head discusses the profound impact of traditional arts on communities, especially in Alabama where he headed the state arts agency.

Backstage with the director of "Gatz," a play that takes as its text F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic about the Jazz Age.

Christopher Paul Curtis talks about making history real for young readers.

Bryan Doerries discusses how bringing Greek tragedies to service members opens up new conversations.

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

Discussing the process that moved her award-winning play "Inana" from page to stage.

Helping returning service members write their way home.

Capital Bop is expanding the DC’s jazz audience in unexpected places.

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

On the making of a great collection of American art at the Corcoran Gallery.

In Part Two of our conversation, we follow his musical path as he blends klezmer, jazz, blues, and bluegrass into a distinctive musical voice.

In the first part of of this two-episode interview, National Heritage Fellow Andy Statman talks about his early musical career, including the importance of bluegrass for a boy born in Brooklyn.

Literature Fellow Dean Bakopoulos discusses his first novel, "Please Don't Come Back from the Moon," set in a suburban working-class Detroit suburb in the mid-1990s where a strange phenomenon occurs. One by one the men disappear, leaving behind their...