Mixtape

An initiative of the Commission on the Arts

Mixtape is a multimedia gallery developed by the Academy’s Commission on the Arts. Members of the Commission and the Academy contributed poems, stories, songs, videos, and visual art to meet people wherever and whenever they want to encounter art. We hope visitors will enjoy, share, and return to Mixtape for art and inspiration.

Terence Blanchard

From a Musical Childhood to The Met

Chanel Miller at the Asian Art Museum

I was, I am, I will be

J. Paul Getty Museum

Last-Minute Michelangelo

Natasha Trethewey

Quotidian

John Lithgow

Out of His Element

Valerie June at the Kennedy Center

Smile

Eileen Myles

Rambling

Sonia Manzano

Coming Up Cuban

Mwalim

A Bronx Boheme

A woman playing pool aims at the cue ball.

Knight Foundation

Knight New Work

Francis S. Collins

Somewhere Past the Pandemic

Vicky Holt Takamine

Koali

Rahele Megosha via the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies

Fairy Tale with Laryngitis and Resignation Letter

Wesley Fawcett Creigh with Springboard for the Arts

Model Home

Martha Gonzalez at Arizona State University

Vendedores en Accion and Fandango Fronterizo

Paula J. Giddings

Rage and Courage

Renée Fleming

Hahn: L’Heure exquise

Kevin Young

Three Poems from Stones

Edgar Heap of Birds

Surviving Active Shooter Custer

The Juilliard Orchestra

“Nimrod” from Elgar’s Enigma Variations

Olivia Gude

Cannas & Corn

Diane Ackerman

School Prayer

Bill T. Jones

The Analogy Trilogy

Gish Jen

Lulu in Exile

Sigrid Nunez

The Friend

Michael O’Bryan

Your Eyes

Yoko Ono, "Grapefruit." Introductory drawings by John Lennon

Nora Halpern of Americans for the Arts

Yoko Ono: Art and Action

Tania León

Thoughts of Fifty Years

Yancey Strickler

Sunset

Yo-Yo Ma

Bach Cello Suite No. 3 “Sarabande”

Muralist Yatika Starr Fields painting a wall

Yatika Starr Fields at Crystal Bridges

Astonishment of Perception

Claudia Rankine

From Citizen: Situation 7

Joy Harjo

Perhaps the World Ends Here

Jeffrey Brown

The Influence of Anxiety

John Legend

Conversations in the Dark

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Excerpts from Corpse Whale and Blood Snow

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Commission on the Arts

The Commission - drawing on the expertise of its members who are artists, scholars, activists, and leaders, as well as the input of people across the country who participated in listening sessions - dedicated itself to recognizing and supporting the essential role of the arts and artists in American life.

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