KCBP Community Radio: Arts of the San Joaquin Valley

Sarah Jamila Stevenson, an artist, instructor, and the award-winning author of young adult novels The Latte Rebellion, Underneath, The Truth Against the World, and the graphic novel Alexis vs. Summer Vacation, talks with host Linda Scheller about writing and community. 

Richard Rios, author of Songs From The Barrio, is an artist, poet, playwright, musician, and retired professor of Chicano Studies and English.

Violist Anne Martin, director of Orchestra and Strings at Modesto Junior College, talks about music education, conducting, and the importance of music in our community.

Spoken word poet Angela Drew performs two of her pieces and discusses creativity, expression, and her artistic goals.

Artist, musician, and composer Kaila D'Sa talks with program host Linda Scheller about his art and the art space he founded, Modesto Conservatory of Music, Art & and Theater.

Meter Maids is a Modesto writing group celebrating 30 years of poetry and friendship. Founding members Karen Hansis Baker and Tina Arnopole Driskill talk about Meter Maids' three decades of history, creativity, and camaraderie.

Poet, playwright, and essayist Salvatore Salerno and his wife, the painter Barbara Gill, talk with us about their art and its connection to the natural world.

Joel Aguilar is an artist whose murals reflect the history and cultural diversity of Livingston, California, his hometown.

Heike Hambley, founder and artistic director of Merced Shakespearefest, talks about the non-profit theater organization's history, goals, venues, and their 2020 bilingual production of Richard II/Ricardo Segundo.

Indigo Moor, award-winning poet, playwright, teacher, and Sacramento Poet Laureate Emeritus, talks about his upcoming book Everybody's Jonesin' for Something, his play Live! At the Excelsior, and his previously published books In the Room of Thirsts and Hungers, Through the Stonecutter's Window, and Taproot.