Podcasts

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...

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.

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...

Teacher and advocate Rebekah Taussig recently published her first book Sitting Pretty The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body.

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.

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"

In this podcast, we’re marking Halloween by revisiting interviews with authors who have created work that focus on monsters.

The new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art speaks to our moment.

Poet, novelist, essayist, 2017 National Book Award Finalist and 2019 NEA Literature Fellow Erika L. Sánchez explores borders and boundaries in all their permutations.

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.

Loira Limbal explores 24-hour day care in her documentary Through the Night

Meet the founder and executive director of Radio Bilingüe and 2020 National Heritage Fellow Hugo Morales

A 90th birthday celebration of tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins

Curator Amanda Burdan talks about the Brandywine Museum of Art's exhibit "Votes for Women: A Visual History," funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Meet Dorthaan Kirk, the recipient of the 2020 NEA Jazz Master award for jazz advocacy.

Meet 2020 National Heritage Fellow William Bell, noted singer, songwriting, and producer.

Meet 2020 National Heritage Fellow and Haudenosaunee Raised Beadworker Karen Ann Hoffman (Oneida)

Visual Artist and Disability Rights Advocate Gordon Sasaki on the art of visibility.

A conversation with the co-creators of The Homebound Project: Jenna Worsham and Catya McMullen

Randall Kline of SFJAZZ takes us behind the scenes of Fridays at Five.

In this podcast, Clifford Murphy, National Endowment for the Arts Director of Folk and Traditional Arts, introduces the recently announced 2020 NEA National Heritage Fellows.

Author Adrian Matejka talks about his book and NEA Big Read title The Big Smoke—a poetic exploration of boxer Jack Johnson

Musical theater writer Michael R. Jackson on the long path of A Strange Loop

With her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward shows there’s no separating the past from the present

Director of the St. Louis Art Museum Brent Benjamin guides us through a museum in transition