Podcasts

For the founder and director of LEAF Community Arts all art is both local and global. LEAF is that philosophy in action.

The author discusses the NEA Big Read selection, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washington, DC neighborhood.

Conversations about Blue Star Museums and the healing power of art, Jacob Lawrences's War Series, and a poem by veteran Lynn Hill.

Behind the scenes of “Sending Messages,” the award-winning monthly podcast produced by incarcerated youth.

Disability through the lens of poetry.

David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it means to be Japanese-American.

With a trunk full of her mother’s saris, Kenyan author and performer Shaija Patel reclaims a lost history.

Sherrie Maricle has played with jazz legends, leads an all-woman big band, and forges new roads for women in jazz.

Expanding a traditional Mexican art form, the Tree of Life, to express the need for social justice in the 21st century.

The Louisiana Swamp blues singer, composer, pianist, and National Heritage Fellow looks back at her 60-year career.

Meet some of the greatest back-up singers! It may be only "Twenty Feet from Stardom " but the Academy-Award director shows us just how long that walk can be.

"Art Makes You Smart" and Brian Kisida co-published a study that proves it!

It's a music-filled podcast with New Orleans composer, producer, and pianist Allen Toussaint who combines elegance with funk.