Podcasts

Joy Jones talks about returning to the stage after the shut-down in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars.

Andrew Krivak talks about The Bear, a meditative novel about the last of humanity, which is also a recent NEA Big Read title.

We revisit a conversation with 2019 NEA Jazz Master composer, conductor, and arranger Maria Schneider who creates highly original and evocative compositions for her jazz orchestra.

David Rodriguez discusses the centrality of community in all of NJPAC’s programming.

Sustaining and expanding an artistic tradition

Through multimedia, Arlo Iron Cloud works for an accurate representation of Lakota people, culture, and traditions.

Hill Country Blues Musician, Songwriter, and 2021 National Heritage Fellow Cedric Burnside talks about bringing his musical roots to the 21st century.

Niyati Dhokai talks about creating an intergenerational community of veterans, service members, and their families through the arts with support from Creative Forces.

Louie Pérez of the band Los Lobos, 2021 National Heritage Fellows, talks about keeping musical and cultural traditions alive and evolving.

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.

Anita Fields tells the stories of the Osage Nation through her art.

CJ Hunt discusses his documentary "The Neutral Ground," which explores the struggle to remove four Confederate monuments in New Orleans and the broader mythology around the Confederacy.

In her new biography Enrique Alférez: Sculptor, Katie Bowler Young explores the life of the great public artist.