ARTSPEAK RADIO with Booth, Mendez, Reece, and Johnson

Wednesday March 11, 2020, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org

Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes artist Jane Booth, artist/Director Mattie Rhodes Gallery, Jenny Mendez, The Volland Store owner Patty Reece, and artist Tori Johnson.

PATTY REECE, The Volland Store-24098 Volland Road, Alma, KS 785-499-3616 Hours of Operation | Saturdays and Sundays 12-5 pm Always open by appointment | call 785-499-3616 and leave a message.
The Volland Store opened in 1913 in the little railroad community of Volland and quickly became the social and cultural center of the ranching community that surrounded it. Today the former general store has been re-purposed as an art gallery and event center and serves once more as a gathering place for the community, both near and far. Located in a scenic valley in the Flint Hills, the Store is an award-winning space with good art and friendly conversation. Join the artists, writers, scientists, and poets who enrich and enliven our community.

Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills by Rex Buchanan, Burke Griggs, and Josh Svaty- Sunday, March 22, 2020, 2pm
The authors will speak about their recently published book. Refreshments, book signing,
Long before the coming of Euro-Americans, native inhabitants of what is now Kansas left their mark on the land: carvings in the soft orange and red sandstone of the state’s Smoky Hills. In a series of photographs, Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills offers viewers a chance to read the story that these carvings tell of the region’s first people- and to appreciate an important feature of Kansas history and its landscape that is increasingly threatened by erosion and vandalism.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Rex C. Buchanan, a native of central Kansas, is the director emeritus of the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas.
Burke W. Griggs, associate professor of law at Washburn University School of Law, is a fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and an affiliated scholar at the Bill Lane Center for the American West, both at Stanford University.
Joshua L. Svaty is the fifth generation of his family to farm in Ellsworth County and has worked on natural resource issues with nonprofits and state and federal government. He was the 14th Kansas Secretary of Agriculture.

Kelley Hunt with her Touring Band- March 28, 2020, Doors at 6:15pm, concert at 7pm Roots R&B/Americana singer/songwriter/piano player/guitarist Kelley Hunt was born in Kansas City and inspired by early blues, R&B, jazz and Gospel influences.
“A lady who plays piano in the two-fisted style of the boogie masters, who writes songs that are fresh, valid and realistic in their appraisal of life, and who is capable of singing with a combination of power, tenderness, intensity, and pathos that can one minute have you on your feet dancing, and the next be cutting to the depth of your soul.”
Kelley Hunt’s storied career has spanned decades and continents, including thousands of live performances, six appearances on “A Prairie Home Companion,” and induction into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame. Tickets available for purchase now! Eventbrite.com

JANE BOOTH-Instinct
January 25 – May 31, 2020
The artist Jane Booth will exhibit a selection of recent, encompassing paintings in her inaugural showing at the Daum Museum. In her studio, surrounded on all sides by the gently rolling landscape of eastern Kansas, Booth filters cyclical impressions of the outside world through an interior process that intuitively translates the concrete and material into colorfully vibrant compositions whose poetry reimagines nature’s inspiration. Citing the Persian poet Rumi as a sympathetic forebear, Booth also incorporates aspects of the ecstatic and numinous in her heroically scaled paintings. These evocations of emotions, landscapes, and mythologies are based in a painterly language of layered color fields, expressive calligraphy, and a feeling-filled application of paint. Booth’s paintings call loudly to us even as they embody an ineffable introspection, a combination that attracts and holds us in a rewarding pas de deux.
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art 3201 West 16th Street Sedalia, MO 65301 (660) 530-5888 daummuseum.org

TORI JOHNSON- What Were You Wearing? This art installation asks participants to understand that sexual assault is never about the clothes a survivor was wearing. Instead, this exhibition requires all of us to evaluate what enabled us as individuals and as a society to ask, “what were you wearing?” Tori Johnson, “While I was doing research for this exhibit and my senior paper I talked to someone who used to work closely with sexual assault survivors. I asked them what the best ways to react to a disclosure would be, this was their answer:
-Follow the person’s language and use it. If the person names their attacker, say the name too. -Remember that the conversation is rooted in self determination -the person gets to proceed however they want and feel is right. Be real when someone discloses. -Don’t try to sugar coat the situation or use overused “slogans” -Don’t make it about you. -You aren’t an expert in their case. -Ask them level headed questions (have you been to hospital? Do you want too? Where are your clothes? Have you washed them?). -Keep the (mental) door open to always help them or take a step back if they want you too. -One of the most important things to remember is to believe them!

There will be MOCSA counselors present for support.
All Souls Universalist Church 4501 Walnut St.Kansas City, MO 64111
Saturday 6pm – 9pm

JENNY MENDEZ, Director Mattie Rhodes Art Center and Gallery- MUJER, celebrates the vast differences in the life, story, and art of those who identify as MUJER. The broad landscape of diverse narratives, backgrounds, upbringings. This exhibit aims to recognize our stories and bring together each and every MUJER through creating. Currently open, this exhibit runs through the last week of March. Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery 919 W. 17th KCMO, 64108

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