ARTSPEAK RADIO 2020 Pledge Drive + Marissa Starke and Philip Eirich

Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 12noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org

Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd enters the 2nd week of the 2020 Fall Pledge Drive by asking for your support for the station at 888-931-0901 or pledge online www.kkfi.org

Maria welcomes Marissa Starke Executive Director Kansas City Artists Coalition and Philip Eirich Gallery owner/Director Cerbera Gallery to the program.

ARTSPEAK RADIO is entering its’ 8th year-if you tune in weekly, download podcasts, listen online, if you learn about new and exciting opportunities 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 gives local artists, spoken word poets, painters, sculptors, musicians, arts educators, museums, arts organizations, and so many more the opportunity to discuss their art, chapbooks, events, openings, performances, innovations, and submissions for artistic opportunities.
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS RADIO STATION AND ARTSPEAK RADIO NOW IN ITS’ 8TH YEAR!!! Call 888-931-0901 and make your pledge.

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MARISSA STARKE, Executive director Kansas City Artists Coalition-Marissa Starke joined the KCAC staff in 2010 previously she worked as Art Director at Artichokes, Leawood, Kansas.

During her time here at KCAC she has played an integral role in the development of many new programs and artist opportunities. Including the curation the Underground Gallery exhibition space, developing and managing the KCAC Artist Takeover program on the KCAC Instagram account, creating Coffee Talk, a monthly networking event free and open to the public for artists to connect with one another to discuss timely artful issues and managing and coordinating the 40th Block Party celebration to celebrate the impact that KCAC has and continues to have on the community.

In the fall of 2017, Ms. Starke launched and continues to curate the experimental gallery, Snap Space, for artists 18 – 35 years of age. This gives emerging artists an opportunity to continue artistic growth outside of their studio walls and connects them with the KC community.

She studied art history at Cornell College, Iowa and the University of Kansas.

COALESCE: To Come Together To Form a Whole

On Saturday, November 7, 2020 from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., Kansas City and beyond is invited to virtually join with The Kansas City Artists Coalition for a glorious evening in celebrating the fusion of art and fashion.

Styled by WIaa Style, Coalesce is an immersive art experience where fashion and fine art come together in a breath taking collaboration celebrating fine art on the runway. Guests will safely experience how eight local Kansas City artists transform gowns into walking canvasses of fine art with a virtual experience unlike any other.
This year, Coalesce will be held virtually and with a twist. In the weeks leading up to Coalesce, guests will be invited to guest talks, artful experiences and more. Stay tuned for more details on how to join in and get involved. Special thanks to our partners and sponsors The Gown Gallery, WIaa Style, the KC Streetcar, and Lead Bank.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
COCKTAIL HOUR – 7 to 7:30 pm
Join us for a lively opportunity to mix and mingle with all of the stylish guests virtually while enjoying the musical styling of local gem Eboni Fondren. Grab a beverage, enjoy live music and chat with your friends before the fashion begins.
COALESCE 2020 – 7:45 to 8:15 pm
The moment you have been waiting for is here! Sit back and buckle up for a visually stimulating and artful happening unlike anything you have experienced before. See how eight local artists take a gown and turn it into moving art.
MEET THE ARTISTS – 8:30 to 9 pm
Did you see that stunning dress?!? Well here’s your chance to meet the artist behind your favorite design. Jump into a virtual room and visit with the artists. Learn about their technique, how they made the choices for their dress and see what challenges they came up against along the way. Visit with as many different artists as you like as you hop from one virtual room to another.

Participating artists:
UZZ BUZZ-mixed media
Wolfe Bracke – mixed media
ADA KOCH – painter
JESSICA ROGERS- fiber
MEGAN GAINEY – mixed media
NAZANIN AMIRI MEERA- fiber
ROBERT CASTILLO-fiber
TWO TONE PRESS- printmaking

ART FOR ALL – A KCAC Members Exhibition of Small Works

Art For All, all submitted works from members are accepted into the show and art should be affordable for everyone, all works priced under $500. One artwork per artist. No art bigger than 18″ (including frame).

The Kansas City Artists Coalition’s Members Exhibition is an opportunity for KCAC Member artists to showcase their newest works and invite all of your friends to see!

Kansas City Artists Coalition
3200 Gillham Road Kansas City, MO 64109
816-421-5222
Kansascityartistscoalition.org

PHILIP EIRICH, Gallery owner/Dircctor Cerbera Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located at the heart of Kansas City Crossroads Art District. It features an impressive array of works by both renown and emerging artists in the fields of functional and sculptural ceramics, painting, photography, mixed media, high quality limited edition prints and lithographs and jewelry. Being connected to countless artists across the US and abroad enables Cerbera Gallery to offer a wide variety of thought provoking artwork both online and at its location in the lively Crossroads District. Eirich also serves as Co-Vice President of the Board of Directors at the Kansas City Artists Coalition.

Currently showing at Cerbera Gallery, Stephanie Lanter, “Slippery.” Since 2000, Kansas artist and educator Stephanie Lanter has been working in clay, fiber, and mixed media. Cerbera Gallery’s latest exhibition, “Slippery”, by Lanter engages with the cryptic paradoxes that can be found in her work. Using delicate lines to connect abstract sculptural elements, Lanter magnifies the relationship between negative space and form.
Lanter’s distinctive clay and fiber sculptures reveal the unrelenting modes of communication that link people’s bodies and minds through negative space. Using a technique called “analog 3-d printing” or manual slip trailing, Lanter builds ambiguous forms with liquid porcelain. Through this method, Lanter has developed her own language as hidden phrases and nonsensical words are strung together in clay throughout her sculptures.
Lanter, received an MFA from Ohio University in 2002 and a BA from Xavier University in 1998. Lanter is Currently the Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Emporia State University in Kansas. She has also taught at Washburn and Wichita State Universities.
Cerbera Gallery 2010 Baltimore Ave., KCMO

www.cerberagallery.com

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