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Artspeak Radio
ARTSPEAK RADIO is a live radio program on KKFI that airs every Wednesday from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Host Maria Vasquez Boyd serves up information about the visual and literary arts community including live interviews with artists, writers, and performers.
Elizabeth Gault & Amy Kligman with the Charlotte Street Foundation, discuss Missouri Bank Art Boards.
For 18 years, Charlotte Street has challenged, nurtured, and empowered thousands of artists, distributed over $1.1 million in awards and grants to artists and their innovative projects, and connected individual artists to each other and to the greater Kansas City community. Charlotte Street – with its community of artists – strives to be a primary catalyst in making Kansas City a vibrant, creative metropolis, alive with collaboration, passion, ideas, and surprise. For more in-formation about Charlotte Street, its awards, programs, and initiatives, visit www.char-lottestreet.org or visit our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/CharlotteStreet.
The Missouri Bank “Artboards” launched fall 2008, when the building’s existing double-sided billboards were renovated and converted into a highly visible site for work by area artists as part of the Bank’s purchase and renovation of the building to house its Crossroads Branch. Missouri Bank’s purpose for donating the Artboards to local artists isn’t about sales or promotion, but is solely intended to make the creative Crossroads community in Downtown Kansas City more interesting.
The Charlotte Street Foundation, alongside Missouri Bank and with support from Out-front Media, are happy to announce the artist selections for the 2016 “Artboards” series. The 2016 “Artboards” artists are Sarah Hearn, Rodolfo Marron III, Patricia Bordallo Dibildox, Thayer Bray, Jennifer Field, Luke Rocha, Philip Bakala, and Lindsay Jones. For more information about Missouri Bank’s “Artboards” series, please visit https://mobank.com/crossroads-artboards or visit www.charlottestreet.org
LIGHTON INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS EXCHANGE PROGRAM (LIAEP)
Amy Zoe Schonhoff, Program Administrator and founder, Linda Lighton discuss the Lighton International Artists Exchange Program.
The Lighton International Artists Exchange Program (LIAEP) is pleased to announce the opening of their 2016 grant cycle, January 1, 2016. Founded in 2000, LIAEP has made awards to over 120 artists for travel to 5 continents, 43 countries and the Arctic Circle.
The Lighton International Artists Exchange Program works to make the world a smaller place by giving artists of different cultures the opportunity to work together, in the hope that lasting friendships and understanding will develop.
The program provides support for visual artists and arts professionals to travel to international residencies and artist communities, and for foreign visual artists to travel to and work in the United States. LIAEP award requests are limited to a maximum of $6,000 US currency per applicant.
LIAEP seeks applications from dedicated artists who create work of exceptional quality, and whose work and career are at a level to benefit from international exchange with peers. The program is especially interested in funding artists who have not yet worked in a foreign country, and in funding travel to countries that are less Westernized. Artists from Kansas City and the Central Plains/Midwest area receive first priority for funding. If you have any questions or would like to discuss your project with LIAEP prior to submitting an application, please contact: Amy Zoe Schonhoff, Program Administrator ([email protected]) Information and grant application: at http://www.liaep.org/howtoapply
Vincente Perez, (SubVersive)joins us live in the studio to talk about his work, poetry, and his E-book, “B(lack)NESS & LATINI(dad).”
I am Vincente Perez and I am SubVersive.
As a Poet, activist, musician and more, I focus on the lived experiences of race in America through several mediums. My work centers on Black and Latin@ experiences with a special emphasis on Hip-Hop, Spoken word, Narratives, and Identity Politics. Through a unique style of mixing political commentary, personal experience, and poetry, I do my best to challenge the idea that we live distinct political, social, and economic lives. Drawing on my experience growing up in Kansas City and attending the University of Chicago, I adapt to all audiences in relatable, entertaining, and informative ways. My background in mentoring and teaching has granted me considerable experience with youth crowds.
In a world that only sees things in Black and White, where do light skinned multiracial people fit into the picture?B(lack)NESS & LATINI(dad) explores the liminal status of being Black, Latino, a father, low income, and more. This poetry collection is accompanied by illustrations curated by independent artists, with a special emphasis on artists of color and artists in the LGBTQIA community (or both). Through the use of spoken word poetry, Hip-Hop, oral histories and auto-ethnography, this project illustrates the power of the narrative and how it embodies a radical challenge to the popular narratives that are spread about race, marginalized people, and resistance.
www.iamsubversive.com
Jerry Rapp and Luis Garcia join Maria in the studio to talk about CinemaKC, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to showcasing and documenting the works of filmmakers with a connection to the KC area. Season 5 of its weekly television show, begins Friday, January 1, at 10:30p.m. on KCPT-TV. (Channel 19 broadcast; check listings for cable channels.) Subsequent shows will also air in this time slot.
“CinemaKC remains committed to the goal of creating an actual and a virtual space for members of our growing film community and facilitating communication and collaboration on all levels,” said Jerry Rapp, co-creator and an executive producer of the program.
This season takes the show in a different direction, with fewer interviews with filmmakers and behind-the-scenes and more opportunities for a wider variety of artists to be seen.
“This new format is foremost about content and diversity. Works will now get to play out in their entirety as full films, including credits. This aspect will help recognize the multitude of skilled crew who contribute their efforts to the respective productions,” said Rapp.
www.cinemakc.com
