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Since 2012, ARTSPEAK RADIO continues to bring the creative community to your ears. Here’s your opportunity to express gratitude by supporting ARTSPEAK RADIO and KKFI with your pledge on-line www.kkfi.org or call 888.931.0901. Where else can you listen live as …

Since 2012, ARTSPEAK RADIO continues to bring the creative community to your ears. Here's your opportunity to express gratitude by supporting ARTSPEAK RADIO and KKFI with your pledge on-line www.kkfi.org or call 888.931.0901. Where else can you listen live as artists, poets, & performers talk about their craft, read poetry, discuss upcoming exhibitions & book signings? Where else can you learn about opportunities through arts organizations and arts programs that benefit the community and helps cultivate a new generation of artists, writers, performers? You can make a difference with your support. Guests this week include Poet Laureate of Missouri, William Trowbridge, artists Donna Bachman & Sharon Hunter-Putsch, Jeanette Powers, & members of the Hear Now Festival. William Trowbridge holds a B.A. in Philosophy and an M. A. in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University. In April, 2012, he was appointed to a two-year term as Poet Laureate of Missouri. His poetry publications include six full collections: Put This On, Please (Red Hen Press, 2014), Ship of Fool (Red Hen Press, 2011), The Complete Book of Kong (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2003), Flickers, O Paradise, and Enter Dark Stranger (University of Arkansas…

Maria talks with Suza Ford Hernandez and Jenny Meyer –McCall about their exhibition, Exploring Boundaries: A Layered Conversation Contemporary paintings by Jenny Meyer-McCall, and Suze Ford Hernandez that opens Friday June 3 from 6pm to 9pm at the Leedy-Volkos Art …

Maria talks with Suza Ford Hernandez and Jenny Meyer –McCall about their exhibition, Exploring Boundaries: A Layered Conversation

Contemporary paintings by Jenny Meyer-McCall, and Suze Ford Hernandez that opens Friday June 3 from 6pm to 9pm at the Leedy-Volkos Art Center 2012 Baltimore Ave. KCMO.

Two artists exploring new ways to express themselves through their art empowered by their inner dialogues and self discovery. Growing their messages in layers and depth. They have pushed past the boundaries of their previous identities; freeing them, their voices, and their art.

Leedy-Volkos Art Center 2012 Baltimore Ave. KCMO

www.leedyvolkosartcenter.com

www.jennymeyermccall.com

www.suzeford.com

Heather Collinsworth talks with Maria about the Paper Birch Landing Gallery perched in the heart of the Valentine district at 3740 Broadway, KCMO. We are an artist-owned and operated boutique gallery. We feature fine art from talented local & emerging artists. Visit our open studios, take a class, or rent our event space. We host four juried shows a year, highlight regional artists’ work, and provide creative space for local writers and authors. We are stronger together. #ArtLocal.

Our Gallery hours: 11 to 4 Wednesday through Saturday, or by special appointment. Please check our calendar for shows, classes, and events.

www.paperbirchlanding.com

Writer Gustavo Ayabar joins us in the second half of the program. Gustavo Adolfo Aybar is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he received his MA in Romance Languages & Literature. He is a Cave Canem and Artist Inc. fellow. He has served on the board of the Latino Writers Collective and his work can be found in their anthology, Primera Pagina: Poetry from the Latino Heartland. Other publications include: Harvest of New Millennium, Black Magnolias Literary Journal, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture, and Oranges & Sardines.

Currently, Aybar’s second collection, We Seek Asylum, has been awarded the Poetry Grand Prize for the Willow Books Literature Award by Aquarius Press. Aybar is working on his third poetry manuscript and on translating the works of Mexican author/playwright Glafira Rocha from Spanish to English. Some translations of Rocha’s stories can be found in the online journals EZRA, Asymptote and the Brooklyn Rail’s InTranslation journal where Rocha’s short story “Interspersed Signs” was selected as a Pushcart nominee for Fiction in 2014. “Between Line Breaks” is the latest in the Pop Poetry series.

Maria talks with Suza Ford Hernandez and Jenny Meyer –McCall about their exhibition, Exploring Boundaries: A Layered Conversation Contemporary paintings by Jenny Meyer-McCall, and Suze Ford Hernandez that opens Friday June 3 from 6pm to 9pm at the Leedy-Volkos Art Center 2012 Baltimore Ave. KCMO. Two artists exploring new ways to express themselves through their art empowered by their inner dialogues and self discovery. Growing their messages in layers and depth. They have pushed past the boundaries of their previous identities; freeing them, their voices, and their art. Leedy-Volkos Art Center 2012 Baltimore Ave. KCMO www.leedyvolkosartcenter.com www.jennymeyermccall.com www.suzeford.com Heather Collinsworth talks with Maria about the Paper Birch Landing Gallery perched in the heart of the Valentine district at 3740 Broadway, KCMO. We are an artist-owned and operated boutique gallery. We feature fine art from talented local & emerging artists. Visit our open studios, take a class, or rent our event space. We host four juried shows a year, highlight regional artists’ work, and provide creative space for local writers and authors. We are stronger together. #ArtLocal. Our Gallery hours: 11 to 4 Wednesday through Saturday, or by special appointment. Please check our calendar for shows, classes, and events. www.paperbirchlanding.com Writer…

Maria welcomes Megan Crigger, Director of Creative Services KCMO and Vladimir Krstic, Director of KC Design Center,for a discussion about the Our Town Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Office of Culture and Creative Services, in partnership …

Maria welcomes Megan Crigger, Director of Creative Services KCMO and Vladimir Krstic, Director of KC Design Center,for a discussion about the Our Town Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Office of Culture and Creative Services, in partnership with Kansas City Design Center is one of the recipients for an award of $100,000 for the "West Bottoms Reborn: Activating Public Space through the Arts" project, a "place-keeping" strategy that integrates local artist and design professionals in the visioning and planning process of public space to extoll and nurture the unique qualities of the West Bottoms. www.kcmo.gov Sherry Bushue, founder of The Little Fig and illustrator Cassie Allen talk about their multi-lingual children's books. Based in the Kansas City metro area, The Little Fig self publishes multi-lingual and special situation children's books for pre-school and early elementary school aged children. The books are intended to be both entertaining and education, teaching concepts, facts and a second language. Selected titles are available in E-book and print on demand formats in English, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog, Telugu, Urdu, and Vietnamese. www.thelittlefig.com Artists Cristina Muniz and Andrew William Erdrich joins us live in the studio to talk…

Maria talks with artists/writers Anthony “AO” Oropeza, Mario Mora, Jason Sierra and Andie Paloutzian. Oropeza and Mora will attend and display their work at Planet Comicon -Kansas City’s largest comic con and pop culture expo. Planet Comicon will be held …

ArtsKC Development Manager Godfrey Riddle returns to discuss upcoming events, artist opportunities, & advocacy for the arts. ArtsKC 106 Southwest Blvd., KCMO 64108 816.221.1777 www.artskc.org Board member of The Writers Place Phyllis Westover talks about 2016 Celebration of The Muse- …