Wednesday September 6, 2016 Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd is in Sedona this week, KKFI’s Wednesday MidDay Morning host/producer Mark Manning steps up to engineer while guest host Blair Schulman chats with some of the incoming Charlotte Street Foundation 2017-2018 Studio …

Wednesday August 30, 2017 Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with Deb Cooper founder & Director Arts & AGEing KC, photograper Nicolas Dhervillers, and Executive Director Janet Simpson & Assistant Director Marissa Starke of the Kansas City Artists Coalition. Nicolas Dhervillers …

Wednesday August 30, 2017 Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with Deb Cooper founder & Director Arts & AGEing KC, photograper Nicolas Dhervillers, and Executive Director Janet Simpson & Assistant Director Marissa Starke of the Kansas City Artists Coalition. Nicolas Dhervillers - Rétrospective Works” – Renowned French photographer exhibits for the first time in Kansas City Nicolas Dhervillers’ (b. 1981) photographic works span from small still lives to monumental landscapes. In many of his images, theatre, cinema, painting and photography coalesce. Dhervillers’ scenes often pay homage to the great artists of the past, including Nicolas Poussin and Gustave Courbet. Other works use photographic processing to take the viewer into a fictional space outside of time. His landscape photography is subjected to a digital process adapted from the cinematic “day for night” technique, lending an eerie look to pictures taken in broad daylight. Archival figures are then placed within the landscapes and washed with unnatural digital light. Dhervillers has participated in Paris Photo and festival Mono, a documenta 13 event. His works can be found in private collections and museums around the world. This retrospective marks Dhervillers’ first exhibition in the United States. Locations: Sherry Leedy Gallery, 2004 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City,…

Wednesday August 23, 2017 Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with singer/songwriter Summer Osborne, painter/sculptor/photographer Kathryn Husk, and poet/writer Samantha Slupski. Since 2005, singer-songwriter Summer Osborne has been touring the United States and Canada wowing audiences with her original songs and …

Wednesday August 23, 2017 Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with singer/songwriter Summer Osborne, painter/sculptor/photographer Kathryn Husk, and poet/writer Samantha Slupski. Since 2005, singer-songwriter Summer Osborne has been touring the United States and Canada wowing audiences with her original songs and powerful and charismatic voice. Summer’s eighth album, As I Am, was released in 2013 and her ninth album, Spiritual Revolution, was released in late 2016. Summer Osborne has played at National Women’s Music Festival, SXSW, and Pridefests in St. Louis, Phoenix, Fairbanks, Tacoma, Vancouver, Halifax, Lexington Kentucky, Springfield, Columbia and Memphis. Osborne has shared the stage with Holly Near, The Indigo Girls, Suzanne Westenhoefer, Alix Olson, Andrea Gibson, Patrice Pike, Jen Foster, The Cliks, Crystal Waters, Martha Wash, and Jennifer Holliday. Summer Osborne plays InterUrban ArtHouse, 8001 Newton Street, Overland Park, KS. on Thursday, August 24, at 6:30 PM with Lizz Ceperley. Summer started singing at the age of 4 when her mom, a teacher, encouraged her onto the stage. She lists her mother, Carol Osborne as her biggest influence. Summer plays guitar, piano, and keyboards among other instruments. Evolution of the soul... One song at a time. www.SummerOsborne.com www.interurbanarthouse.org Kathryne Husk is an award winning and nationally exhibited artist.…

Wednesday August 16, 2017 ARTSPEAK RADIO host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with singer/songwriter Elain McMilian, KC Conjure Shop owner Julie Valdivia, and multi-discipline artist Mark Allen. Elaine McMilian is a vocalist and writer from Independence, Missouri. She sang her first …

Wednesday August 16, 2017 ARTSPEAK RADIO host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with singer/songwriter Elain McMilian, KC Conjure Shop owner Julie Valdivia, and multi-discipline artist Mark Allen. Elaine McMilian is a vocalist and writer from Independence, Missouri. She sang her first …

Wednesday August 16, 2017 ARTSPEAK RADIO host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with singer/songwriter Elain McMilian, KC Conjure Shop owner Julie Valdivia, and multi-discipline artist Mark Allen. Elaine McMilian is a vocalist and writer from Independence, Missouri. She sang her first solo at age 5 and continues to perform a variety of musical genres as a solo artist and in various groups. She self-produced two albums of original songs, “Insomnia,” and “The Messenger.” McMilian received a BA in English-Creative Writing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She writes essays and poems, which can be found on her blog, Along the Way, and is working on a memoir. Julia Valdivia Owner of K.C. Conjure Shop- Purveyors of providence, good luck, readings, custom spiritual work, classes, conjure supplies, candles, oils, waters, and more. Located at 1620 Locust St. Suite 400 Kansas City MO, 816.756.5551 www.kcconjure.com Mark Allen -SOLANOIR is a collection of events hosted in the Crossroads Arts District of Kansas City in preparation for the Great American Solar Eclipse cutting across on August 21st. Mural artists will be traveling from around the country and the world to transform the Crossroads into the Next Great American Art Hub. Other art exhibitions, performances, musical…

Wednesday August 9, 2017 Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Jessica Conoley, Kristine Barrett, Debbie Barrett-Jones, Regina del Carmen, Rochelle Wisoff Fields, and Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography members to the program. Jessica Conoley was raised on 80’s action films, …

Wednesday August 9, 2017 Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Jessica Conoley, Kristine Barrett, Debbie Barrett-Jones, Regina del Carmen, Rochelle Wisoff Fields, and Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography members to the program. Jessica Conoley was raised on 80’s action films, Jem and the Holograms, X-Men, and older-brother mandated Star-Wars. Decades later she started writing fantasy novels, flash fiction, and award winning essays. In 2012, she became the Managing Editor of Kansas City Voices arts and literary magazine. Get a free sneak peek of her work at http://jessicaconoley.com/ Saturday night, August 12 2017 from 5-7 p.m. at the Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway, KCMO. Kansas City based author, Jessica Conoley, takes to the stage for a reading from her debut fantasy novel, The Color Eater, followed by a Q&A with the author. Event is free to the public, with all attendees receiving a free download of Conoley’s essay collection, My Great Escape. Raffle tickets available for purchase at the door for prizes from Kansas City based vendors. (All proceeds from the raffle go directly to the artist to support travel costs for an upcoming writer’s retreat.) For more details go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1865980780334304/ or http://jessicaconoley.com/events/ Contact info: [email protected] or via her website…