Artspeak Radio

Wednesday, February 12, 2020, noon - 1m CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org ARTSPEAK RADIO is entering its' 8th year!!! If you tune in weekly, download podcasts, listen online, if you learn of new opportunities and information happening in the creative community, enjoy listening to one of the many guests featured weekly on ARTSPEAK RADIO then call 888-931-0901 to pledge your support. Online pledges are simple, just go to www.kkfi.org and show us your support for YOUR community radio station. It's time for YOU to support this on air arts program that serves local/national artists, poets, writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, arts educators, museums, arts organizations, and so many more the opportunity to discuss their art, chapbooks, events, openings, performances, innovations, receptions, submissions, and perform live from the KKFI studio. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR 90.1FM KKFI KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY RADIO !!! Call 888-931-0901 or pledge online www.kkfi.org This week's guests include the talented Jason Vivone, songstress Molly Hammer, musicologist KC, the incorrigible Susanna Lee, and the fantabulous David Wayne Reed! #artspeakradio #kkficommunityradio

Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes comedian/performance artist Susanna Lee, Operations Manager InterUrban ArtHouse Wolfe Brack, artists Jeanette Powers and Hugh Merrill, and artists Chico Sierra and Luis Garcia. WOLFE BRACK-True Colors: Life Through The Lens of Color Feb 7- Mar 6, 2020, Hours: First Fridays 5-8 TUE–FRI / 1 – 5P, SAT /12– 3P Carter Art Center Gallery at MCC-Penn Valley (south end of campus) 3201 Southwest Trafficway, Kansas City, MO 64111 True Colors: Life Through The Lens of Color Color is a language and a vital part of the artist’s vocabulary. We use them to represent emotional and psychological states, our experience of the spiritual and the mundane, or to bring a favored mythos to life. With the use of color we can, without words, convey meaning, world views, and the nature of our innermost thoughts. Featured Artists: Harold Smith, Kwanza Humphrey, Jana Duca, Clarissa Knighten, Bernadette E. Torres, Heinrich Toh, Wolfe Brack, Emily Alvarez Guest Curator: Wolfe Brack FIRST FRIDAY FEB 07 / 5–8P 6pm artist talks FIRST FRIDAY MARCH 06 / 5–8P 6pm artist talks Sponsored by the Friends of the Carter Art Center…

Wednesday January 29, 2020, noon - 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Mol Mir KCAI 2019, Stephanie Nowotarski PhD, William Plummer KCAI 2018, and Jason Pollen KCAI Professor Emeritus. Four intergenerational and interdisciplinary artists have plunged into the muck of local Kansas City waterways and emerged with an even greater understanding for the complexity gound, where at first glance, there appears to be little to see. This immersive installation at the UMKC Gallery of Art features both researchers and artists from the Stowers Institute of Medical Research and the Kansas City Art Institute. Celebrating the joy of discovery, visitors are invited to engage with and observe planarian flatworms on micro, macro, and life-size scales. Explore our interpretations and examine your own in this body of work featuring video projection, live planarians, and individual responses from each artist. What can these flatworms teach us about being human? Opening January 30, 2020 5:00pm - 8:00pm On view until Saturday, March 7th. UMKC Gallery of Art, Fine Arts Building 203 5015 Holmes St. KCMO 64110 816.235.1502 www.info.umkc.edu/gallery [email protected] #artspeakradio #kkficommunityradio

ARTSPEAK RADIO Wednesday, January 22, 2020, noon- 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with President One Kansas City Radio Gunard Polite, artist Kwanzaa Humphrey, Smalter Gallery owner Emily Smalter, and artist Ari Fish. GUNARD POLITE, President One Kansas City Radio-One Kansas City Radio unites the multicultural voices in the Kansas City Urban Core through programming and community services that entertain, educate, inform and inspire. One KC Radio will bring together the African American, Latino, and other underrepresented ethnic and cultural voices in Kansas City with music, culture, and information. We will provide information and a forum to deliver community services, job opportunities, health education and other messages that will serve our community and listeners. Through our programming and broadcast we will give a new and positive voice to the young adults in ethnic and cultural groups. Our station will also be an intentional outlet for local musicians and community members from all walks of life, not currently represented in radio in the growing Kansas City market. ONE KANSAS CITY RADIO | KONN 100.1 FM | 3921 Bell Street, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI 64111 816.535.0152 | onekcradio.org | [email protected] EMILY SMALTER, KWANZAA…

Wednesday, January 15, 2020, noon - 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with Kansas City Artists Coalition founder Maura Conry, Executive Director Marissa Starke, plus Impractical Spaces project members Cory Imig and Melaney Mitchell. The Kansas City Artists Coalition was created to change the lives of artists living in Kansas City, Missouri. On March 5, 1975 a large group of artists gathered in the studio of local artists Philomene Bennett and Lou Marak to address “How the Artist Can Benefit from Centralization.” Overwhelmingly the group felt a self-initiated organization was the only alternative to isolation, elitism, apathy, and ignorance. The ultimate result of that meeting was the incorporation of the Kansas City Artist Coalition in August 1976.The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC or Artists Coalition) is an artist-centered, artist-run alternative space that presents a variety of exhibitions of contemporary artists' work in its Mallin Gallery, Jacqueline B. Charno Gallery, the Underground Gallery and the Snap Space Gallery. Kansas City Artists Coalition is located at 3200 Gillham Rd. KCMO 64109 www. kansascityartistscoalition.org MAURA CONRY-Steamy New Orleans paid no attention to my birth in 1940, though I was yelling my lungs out.…

Wednesday, January 8, 2020, noon - 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes ArtsKC Brandon Haralson, Poet TL Sanders, and Charlotte Street Foundaton Mason Andrew Kilpatrick live from the KKFI studio. BRANDON HARALSON, Communications Manager, Engagement & Public Policy ArtsKC- ArtsKC has developed programs and services designed to “unleash the power of the arts.” This includes programs for the arts community, the business community, and services to the civic community. Each specific program or service we provide to artists, arts organizations or the community at large was developed to address a need within our local arts ecology. ArtsKC continually assesses and adjusts our services to respond to the needs of our growing arts community. OUR MISSION To unleash the power of the arts. OUR VISION We will build a city of great dreams and vigorous life, where everyone participates in and benefits from the arts. OUR MESSAGE We Promote, Support and Advocate for the arts. We are a nonprofit organization serving the five-county region- Clay, Platte and Jackson in Missouri; Johnson and Wyandotte in Kansas. Promote the individual, community, social, and economic benefits of the arts by advancing inclusive engagement throughout…

Wednesday January 1, 2020- noon to 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes the new year with a bevy of talented writers/poets; Catherine Anderson, Huascar Medina, Robert Stewart, William Trowbridge, and Maryfrances Wagner. CATHERINE ANDERSON- Released in 2019 of Fourth Full-length Collection of Poetry: Everyone I Love Immortal Catherine Anderson’s most recent collection of poetry is Everyone I Love Immortal (Woodley Memorial Press, Washburn University). Other collections are Woman with a Gambling Mania (Mayapple Press), The Work of Hands (Perugia) and In the Mother Tongue (Alice James Books). She has received awards from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, The Crab Orchard Review and the I-70 Review. In 2019, she was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Auburn Witness Poetry Prize from the Southern Humanities Review. Of Anderson’s recent collection, biographer Linda Leavell has written: “Arising out of losses both personal and cosmic, these poems reach across distances—of language and time and of death and suffering—to achieve moments of ‘startling intimacy.’” Poet Denise Low writes of Everyone I Love Immortal: “Throughout this masterful collection are magic potions for journeys, love, and transforming loss. This master poet wields her powers beautifully.” Poems have…

Wednesday December 25, 2019, noon - 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio streaming live www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd presents a special holiday performance from the insanely creative mind of Rick Stasi and friends Theresa Zirkel, and Julia Jackson. RICK STASI is an artist/writer/intellectual properties producer with credits at DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Charlton Comics, NOW Comics (Twilight Zone), Eclipse, Disney, Warner Bros. (Looney Tunes & Tiny Toons for Steven Spielberg) and LucasFilms/STAR WARS. Rick also contributes to Wonder Woman Day, an annual charity event that supports shelters for abused women and children. Rick has taught comics, sequential art and storyboarding courses for more that twenty years, as an instructor with the Shawnee Mission School District, The Westport School of Art and The Kansas City Art Institute. He currently gives individual instruction and career counseling. Rick Stasi’s first non-comics related publishing venture, a book of original poetry and musings titled Funny You Should Ask! is in its second printing. Rick also produced a 2-CD audio collection of original poetry, musings and music Talking To Myself (To You!) and performs An Evening With Rick Stasi, one-man shows in live venues, for local charities. Currently, he is working on an…

Wednesday December 18, 2019, noon - 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio streaming live www.kkfi.org ARTSPEAK RADIO presents: “THE STAGE IS YOUR CYMBAL” Have you ever wondered what happens on or off stage in the lives of performers? Musicians, singers, and songwriters share their amazing stories from night clubs, house concerts, backstage, performance space, or on the road that offers a slice of their lives seldom seen. Join us for stories where we’ll uncover the humorous, dramatic, life changing, touching, and mind blowing experiences from their view. Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes singer Molly Hammer, musician/songwriter/DJ Jason Vivone, and jazz enthusiast/DJ/roadie, KC to share their stories live from the KKFI studio. JASON VIVONE-The leader of Kansas City’s award winning band the Billy Bats, Jason Vivone hosts The Boogie Bridge on KKFI 90.1 FM Thursdays 4pm to 6 pm. Originally from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Vivone had family in Kansas City that indulged his fever for blues and blues based music. “They would take me to record stores or whatever club they could sneak me into when I would visit. I’m proud to feature some of those same old records on the new program,” Vivone said.As a musician, Vivone has…

Wednesday December 4, 2019, noon - 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with singer/songwriter Heath Church and Chanae Williams and Cheyenne Squire with Pendleton Arts Block. HEATH CHURCH, Kansas City Folk Singer/Songwriter-Heath Church’s New Single “Extra Pain” Tackles the Topic of Depression and Loss.With finger-picked melodies and ghostly vocals, “Extra Pain” tells the story of losing a loved one to cancer and sinking into a deep, dark depression. Double-tracked vocals and guitar surround the listener in a melancholy sadness that is relatable and, in a way, comforting. Though the song explores the excruciating pain of loss, it offers a bit of comfort by reminding us that there is, in fact, no deeper meaning to pain and that pain is simply another part of the human experience. “Extra Pain” will be released on December 6th, 2019. Heath Church is an American singer-songwriter from Kansas City, Missouri who primarily plays indie-folk music. His style is inspired by artists such as Elliott Smith, John Prine, Rivers Cuomo, and The Smiths. Featuring melodies that are often melancholy but yet catchy, many of his songs include intimate vocals, poetic lyrics, and warm acoustic guitar tracks.…