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Wednesday, April 29, 2020, noon-1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org
Co-producer/host Mark Manning talks with award winning poet/writer Julia Alvarez, Mason Andrew Kilpatrick; Marketing + Communications Manager Charlotte Street Foundation, Adina Duke; Associate Director of Public Engagement Department Head at Spencer Museum of Art University of Kansas, and Wolfe Brack; Operations Manager/Curator InterUrban ArtHouse.
JULIA ALVAREZ- Born in New York City in 1950, Julia Alvarez’s parents returned to their native country, Dominican Republic, shortly after her birth. Ten years later, the family was forced to flee to the United States because of her father’s involvement in a plot to overthrow the dictator, Trujillo.
Alvarez has written novels (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, ¡Yo!, In the Name of Salomé, Saving the World, Afterlife), collections of poems (Homecoming, The Other Side/ El Otro Lado, The Woman I Kept to Myself), nonfiction (Something to Declare, Once Upon A Quinceañera, and A Wedding in Haiti), and numerous books for young readers (including the Tía Lola Stories series, Before We Were Free, finding miracles, Return to Sender and Where Do They Go?).
Alvarez’s awards include the Pura Belpré and Américas Awards for her books for young readers, the Hispanic Heritage Award, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award. In 2013, she received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama.
www.juliaalvarez.com
MASON ANDREW KILPATRICK & ADINA DUKE- The Rocket Relief Fund is now available for artists who have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The Spencer Museum of Art, Charlotte Street Foundation and ArtsKC Regional Arts Council, with underwriting from the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and Theater League of Kansas City, are partnering to provide $120,000 in emergency aid for local artists.
The Rocket Relief fund provides support to individual artists within 80 miles of Kansas City. This grant is intended to help artists whose incomes have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic and who need assistance with basic expenses such as food, rent, medical costs and child care. Rocket Relief utilizes a lottery method that is weighted to prioritize applications based on emergency needs. Funds are for individual artists specifically, and nonprofit entities are not eligible for funding.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis beginning immediately. Ten eligible artists will be randomly selected and notified each week beginning May 1, and grants will continue until all funds are distributed. To be entered for the first drawing May 1, artists should plan to complete the application by 11:59 p.m. Friday, April 24. Artists can still apply after April 24 to be eligible for future drawings. Once an artist has entered an application, they will remain in the pool until all Rocket Relief funds are distributed.
The emergency aid grant is established by $60,000 in funds provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, $40,000 from Theater League of Kansas City and $20,000 from ArtsKC Regional Arts Council.
Rocket Relief has been made possible by the generosity of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts through its regional re-granting program. The Warhol Foundation has authorized the Spencer Museum of Art, based at the University of Kansas, and Charlotte Street Foundation to distribute the $60,000 annually allocated toward Rocket Grants as emergency grants to visual and multidisciplinary artists in the Rocket Grants region. The Rocket Grant program will resume its intended project-based funding framework in 2021. Additional support from ArtsKC and Theater League has enabled this opportunity to be extended to all disciplines. At launch, $120,000 in total is available in grants to artists of all disciplines in the Rocket Grants region.
“Artists are critical to our cultural vibrancy and sense of connection to one another. Our ongoing partnership with Charlotte Street and the Warhol Foundation allows us the great honor of providing direct support to artists in this challenging time,” Spencer Museum Director Saralyn Reece Hardy said.
www.rocketgrants.org
Spencer Museum of Art Online Presence: Facebook, Twitter Instagram, spencerart.ku.edu
Charlotte Street Online Presence: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. charlottestreet.org
WOLFE BRACK-Operations/Curator InterUrban ArtHouse-InterUrban ArtHouse’s upcoming virtual events, include a live virtual concert with Hadiza May 2nd, and what we and others have been doing to support artists during the pandemic.
In May, we’ll transition from poetry to dance, and are working with local dance companies and individuals to produce educational and performance programming. To kick this off, we’ll premier a video from the Tristian Griffin Dance Company, followed by Swing and Latin dance demos and instruction by dancers from Redux Society
We also have a call out for our annual LGBTQ show Exhibition: The Queer Experience in June/July. It will be either virtual, or both physical and virtual, depending on the state of things.
April 30th, 5pm – Live poetry reading by Jose Faus for National Poetry Month https://www.facebook.com/events/653542608759031/
May 2nd, 7pm – Listening Room Concert: Hadiza https://www.facebook.com/events/2883030641781529/
May 7th, 5pm – Premier of Tristian Griffin Dance Company video at https://www.facebook.com/InterUrbanArtHouse/
InterUrban ArtHouse
interurbanarthouse.org
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