Episodes

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring poet and culture maker, Porfirio Figueroa. Born and raised in New York City, Porfirio Figueroa is a former triple threat who was fortunate to have danced for the legendary Jerome Robbins, and the great Michael Bennett in shows such as “West Side Story” (having played both Chino and Bernardo) and “A Chorus Line” (having played both Mark Anthony and Paul). He has also worked in TV, film and theater in various capac...

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring actor and filmmaker, Hannah Eakin. Hannah Eakin is an Arkansas-born, New York City-based actress, singer, writer, and filmmaker. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, holds her BM in Music Theatre from Oklahoma City University, works regularly with the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, and has performed roles like Mary Poppins and Irene Molloy in Hello, Dolly! in regional houses and venues throughout...

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring culturemaker, Jana La Sorte. Jana La Sorte has lived in Washington Heights since 2007 and in NYC since 1999. Her background is in arts & culture, community engagement, politics and park management. She joined NYC Parks in 2020 as the Administrator of Historic Harlem Parks before becoming the Administrator of northern Manhattan parks in 2023.

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring filmmaker, Yuby Hernandez. Yuby Hernandez is a New York City Native from Washington Heights and has over a decade of experience in non-profit management experience. Besides her non-profit work, she has a passion for documentary film having co-directed Venticinco: El Domino and Un Trabao Honesto, and directed Un Bizcocho Para Mi. She has worked for the Gotham Film and Media institute, Tribecca Film Festival, SFFIL...

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring costume designer, Barbara Erin Delo. Barbara Erin Delo is a Costume Designer and Artisan working in dance, theatre and opera. A New York native, she has previously designed costumes for Williamstown Theatre Company, Bay Street, Berkshire Theatre Group, Theatre at St Clements, Judson Church, The Flea, Hideaway Circus, York Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Castillo Theatre, Martha Graham Dance Company, Paul Tayl...

This is a special On Air Culture Cast Edition of Inwood Art Works On Air. Three of our favorite local artists were invited to share their thoughts and reflect on the state of the arts in Inwood and Northern Manhattan. Our guests are plein air painter, Elissa Gore, filmmaker, actor and comedian, Adam Elliott, and muralist and painter, Daniel Bonilla. Each of these artists are longtime residents of Inwood, and in their own way, have put a spotlight on arts and culture in our Uptown Community.

This is a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring the String Orchestra of New York City (SONYC) performing NORTHERN LIGHTS – a chamber concert program of string music focusing on composers from Northern Europe whose music brings vibrant, unique colors to the stark landscapes. It was recorded live on March 30, 2025 at the Church of the Good Shepherd to a full house. Program: G. Bacewicz – Quartet #3 J. Sibelius – Suite Champetre R. Gliere – String Sextet Musicians: Violin: Anna ...

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring playwright and TV writer, Monet Hurst-Mendoza. Monet Hurst-Mendoza is from Los Angeles and lives in Inwood, NYC. Her plays have been developed with The Alley Theater, Rising Circle Theater Collective, Astoria Performing Arts Center, WP Theater, The Public Theater, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Westport Country Playhouse, and Long Wharf Theatre. Monet was a writer/producer for seasons 21-24 of "Law and Or...

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring visual artist, Francisco Alvarado. Francisco Alvarado is an internationally recognized New York artist born in Honduras, has had over 50 individual and 90 group exhibitions. His artwork is represented in various permanent museum collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art and Museo Pablo Serrano in Zaragoza, Spain.www.franciscoalvarado.com

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring visual artist, Howard Better. Howard attended Pratt Institute and California Institute of the Arts in the late Seventies and his art-making career has mostly involved moving images, First using 16mm film, then video and digital images. His movies have been made to be projected on unusual surfaces, such as the side of a cliff or into the corner of a room. Howard spent two decades doing freelance animation, mostly ...

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring filmmaker, Jay Marks. Jay Marks is a New York based animator and filmmaker who collaborates with musicians, comedians, and artists of all kinds. His work includes AMC's Emmy award winning Better Call Saul Employee Training web series, Paul Schaffer and Bill Murray's Happy Street music video, and his most recent short film A Walk in the Park has played at genre festivals worldwide and is about to finish it's festi...

Welcome to a special concert edition of Inwood Art Works On Air Live N’ Local featuring a performance of the “One World Suite” - an orchestral work composed by Rich Shemaria and performed along with the group Combo Nuvo with a string orchestra. The suite includes a collection of instrumental vignettes offering a positive message for our planet along with empowering spoken word interludes and a multi-media presentation conveying the beauty of our planet. The performance includes the reading of ...

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring the Lou Bruno Jazz Quartet performing live as our pre-show entertainment as part of our Film Works Alfresco program on June 2, 2025.

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring the La Flor De Lis performing live as our pre-show entertainment as part of our Film Works Alfresco program on June 9, 2025.

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring the Samuel Torres Trio featuring Felipe Fournier and Ahmed Alom performing live as our pre-show entertainment as part of our Film Works Alfresco program on June 23, 2025.

Welcome to a special concert edition of Inwood Art Works On Air Live N’ Local featuring the Inwood Chamber Players performing a chamber concert of selections from European Masters: Claudio Monteverdi, Claude Debussy, Giuseppe Verdi, and many more arranged and conducted by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean. It was recorded live on June 22, 2025 at Good Shepherd Auditorium. Program: Claudio Monteverdi - Cantata Domino Claude Debussy - Marche Ecossaire Giuseppe Verdi - Three Excerpts from Aida ·...

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local presented by Art in the Basin and MC'd by Tim Brown. Featuring Westchester Poet Laureate, Phylisha Villanueva; Bronx Poet, Nicco Diaz; and music by Towncryer performing live as our pre-show entertainment as part of our Film Works Alfresco program on June 30, 2025.

Welcome to a special Inwood Film Festival Artist Spotlight episode featuring the post screening conversation which followed the award-winning feature documentary The Good Mind with filmmaker Gwendolen Cates, and Tom Porter, a spiritual leader of the Mohawk Community. The Indigenous sovereign Onondaga Nation – the Central Fire of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy – follows the Great Law of Peace, never accepted U.S. citizenship, has its own passport, and still maintains a traditional gove...

Welcome to a special Inwood Film Festival artist spotlight episode featuring the post screening conversation of the award-winning documentary Minted with filmmaker Nicholas Bruckman. When the artist known as Beeple shatters records by selling a digital artwork for $69 million, it ignites a global NFT phenomenon that transforms the lives of artists around the world, but they must reckon with the controversies that threaten to collapse this wild and controversial new frontier. For those who are ...

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local by Rolando Briceno and his Afro-Venezuelan Septet performing live as our pre-show entertainment as part of our Film Works Alfresco program on July 7, 2025.

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local by Hot P'stromi performing live as our pre-show entertainment as part of our Film Works Alfresco program on July 21, 2025. Co-presented with YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood.

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local by Xianix Barrera Flamenco performing live as our pre-show entertainment as part of our Film Works Alfresco program on July 28, 2025.

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local by Double Entendre Music Ensemble performing live as our pre-show entertainment before "Damn Yankees" as part of our Film Works Alfresco program on August 4, 2025.

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local by Curtis Turney and his Caribbean Septet performing live as our pre-show entertainment before "Veneno" as part of our Film Works Alfresco program on August 11, 2025.