Artspeak Radio

Maria welcomes Michael Baxley, Consuelo Cruz, and Brice Dyer with the Belger Arts Center to the radio station. Michael Baxley is the Gallery Manager at Belger Crane Yard Gallery and Store Manager at Crane Yard Clay, both located at the …

Maria talks with artists, Hector Casanova and Renee Cinderhouse live from the studio at KKFI 90.1 FM. Renée Cinderhouse is best known for her large-scale immersive installations, mixed-media sculptures and her narrative works in clay. Based from her Kansas City …

Maria talks with Rocket Grants program coordinator, Julia Cole and Director of Charlotte Street Foundation, Julie Gordon Dalgleisch about the writing programs that the Rocket Grants program is funding. The writing programs that the Rocket Grants program is funding over the next year aim to address these issues head on through four new approaches: 1) feature stories on the existing RocketBlog; 2) an ongoing arts podcast and 3) a professional podcasting workshop; and 4) an editorial workshop led by a national leader in the print field. Tune the radio app on your phone to 90.1FM or listen on line at www.kkfi.org Pod casts of ARTSPEAK RADIO are available on the KKFI website and iTunes.

Maria welcomes John Hastings and Jim Adams to the program to discuss The Bunker Center for the Arts. The Bunker Center for the Arts is located at 19th and Troost, At the Bunker, Art reigns. Gallery space. Studio Space. Dreamspace. The Bunker is a place to see, to make, to talk, to dream, to dialogue about Art. We are fluid and open to possibility. It is all about the conversation.

Maria talks with members of The Writers Place. Located at 3607 Pennsylvannia KCMO, The Writers Place is Kansas City's literary center that advances and celebrates the craft of writing, it's a literary community center, library, and gathering place for writers, readers, and the general public.

As the nation's official Great War museum, the National World War I Museum is the center for centennial commemoration activities in the U.S. In addition to the host of public programs, exhibitions, lectures and events in conjunction with the centennial at the Museum, several organizations in the greater Kansas City area have been offering World War I-related programming as the world marks the anniversary of the Great War. Lora Vogt, museum curator of education, will discuss this collaboration and programming at the museum. Jan Schall, Sanders Sosland curator, modern art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, will talk about the exhibition World War I and the Rise of Modernism, which is open through July 19. Deborah Sandler, general director and CEO of Lyric Opera of Kansas City, will focus on the upcoming production of Silent Night, which opens Feb. 21.

Local writers Gustavo Adolfo Aybar, Elizabeth Andersen, Patrick Dobson, Sandra Moran, Jeanette Powers, Miguel M Morales, Michelle T. Johnson, and Philip Hooser share their stories about love; looking for love, love gone wrong, love to love you baby, lost love, love stinks, love the one you're with... you get the idea. Tune in to KKFI 90.1 FM for a lovely evening of love or listen on line www.kkfi.org

Stanley  E.  Banks is an  Assistant Professor  and  Artist-In-Residence  at  Avila  University since  1997.  Banks  had  his 5th  book  of  poetry,  BLUE  ISSUES,  published  in  2013  by  Naomi  Bards Press  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri.  His  other  4  books  are  BLUE  …