Artspeak Radio with Sean Ramirez and Wolfe Brack

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org

Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes designer/artist Sean Ramirez and InterUrban Arthouse Artistic Director Wolfe Brack.

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes designer/artist Sean Ramirez and Artistic Director interurban Arthouse Wolfe Brack.

SEAN RAMIREZ joined Build-A-Bear Workshop in 2017 as a Product Designer. Prior to BAB, he animated for Walt Disney Feature Animation on many of the most popular animated films of all time: Mulan, Tarzan, The Emperor’s New Groove, Lilo and Stitch, John Henry, Beauty and the Beast: Special Edition, and Brother Bear.
A graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, Sean’s illustration clients include Nike, Starbucks Coffee Company, Andrews McNeel Publishing and The Bradford Exchange. Sean is proud to be part of the Build-A-Bear team that dreams and designs thoughtful, expressive toys that spark imagination and encourage emotion-rich play. He brings his appreciation for global cultures and individual expression to every furry friend.

WOLFE BRACK, Artistic Director InterUrban Arthouse
Opening Reception “It’s the Little Things” Friday, August 16th 5-8 pm

About: 3 artists & 109 works of art, you don’t want to miss this one!
About this exhibition:
Pay attention to the small, mundane, fleeting, and overlooked details in life, as they are the building blocks of our conscious and subconscious existence. It could mean a flash of joy and/or pain, fragments of memories, encounters, lessons learned, moments of inspiration, or sudden understanding. In a more literal sense, it could mean all the tiny physical things that make up our universe; infinitesimal quarks and atoms that make up the largest objects, the cells that compose all life on our planet, the bricks in a building, or the dust motes that cause our biggest sneezes.
You’ll, of course, see tiny paintings and sculptures, but also huge renderings of small things or ideas, short poems and performances, and conceptual pieces that do not focus on physical size. Just as we’d hoped we’d find, It’s the Little Things means a lot to a large number of people.
This show is in partnership with the Toy and Miniature Museum of Kansas City.
From scratch | open mic: https://www.interurbanarthouse.org/calendar/2024/8/25/from-scratch-arthouse-open-mic
Join ArtHouse residency artists Justin Canja and Nettie Zan for this awesome open mic event where anything goes and all are welcome. Bring your poetry, comedy, essay, storytelling, spoken word, juggling, miming, dancing, music, song, chant, cookies or party tricks and join into some creative community.
6 pm sign-ups, 6:30 – 9 pm open mic
cost: free
tickets: claim your spot to perform or simply attend below!
Creative Conversations 2.0
We’re creating a series of small groups designed to improve human connection, personal creativity, and our overall well-being.
We are forming 2 new groups in our series “Creative Conversations”.  One will take place on Weekdays and the other on Weekends.   No questions asked scholarships available (full and partial) to anyone who needs one.
We hope that these meetups will improve human connection, personal creativity, and our general well being.
• Are you interested in meeting some new people?
• Are you interested in having more courageous conversations?
• Are you willing to share and inspire others with some of your creative talents?

Project Funding: https://www.interurbanarthouse.org/opportunities-for-artists
Identity Performance Funding
InterUrban ArtHouse presents an open call for our newly funded “Identities Performance Series”.
Who:
This project will serve to activate KC metro performing artists from across different performance types (e.g. music, dance, theater, spoken word, fashion, circus, etc.) as well ask diverse cultural backgrounds.
What:
Proposals must include the creation of a new performative work, and at least one educational/outreach activity in the form of an artist community talk, hands-on art skills workshop, or other public engagement format.  Five $3000 awards will be awarded, 1 for each exhibition listed in this call.
This open call is for performative works inspired by our upcoming exhibitions, interpreted by YOU the artist.
Why:
The project will prioritize artists and art forms from underrepresented communities, with the goal of inspiring broad-reaching community discourse around concepts of identity – what it means individually and collectively, how it is formed, and what happens when it is compromised.
Centerpiece Visual Art Project Funding
InterUrban ArtHouse presents an open call for our newly funded “Centerpiece Visual Art Awards”.  These visual art awards will serve to activate KC metro emerging and mid career artists, resulting in new visual artworks, demonstrations, classes & community discussions grounded in diversity, equity & inclusion for all. Representation, acknowledgement, and celebration are at the center of all activities related to this call.
8 x $2000 project awards will be selected (2 for each exhibition).
The goal of these project awards for new artworks is to inspire broad-reaching community representation, acknowledgement, and celebration through each exhibition.
OPEN CALLS
Next open call for artist is our annual 12×12 Member Artist Showcase that takes place in October and November!  All work must measure 12″ x 12″ including the frame.  Member artists can exhibit up to 5 works.
Member scholarships are always available
Save the Date!
Arts on Fire Community Celebration is October 18th.  This event is 5-9 pm and is no cost, all are welcome!

InterUrban ArtHouse was founded and developed by local community artist, Nicole Emanuel. We began in 2011 as a series of conversations with artists, arts organizations and civic and business leaders. It was clear there was a void in arts resources and studio facilities for Northeast Kansas. 

The release of several reports including The Status of Artists in Kansas City, the Suburban Arts Business Plan, Arts & Economic Prosperity Study IV and Local Arts Index reports provided the hard evidence that points to a need for a cultural and creative hub at the Southwestern end of the Metro Arts Corridor, a region that stretches across the state line from Downtown KC.
Kansas City Metro’s creative renaissance is a unique arts ecology that is anchored in a diaspora of locations across a span across the state-line between Kansas and Missouri. InterUrban ArtHouse is just one of the hubs that act as an anchor along this metro-wide cultural corridor.
www.interurbanhouse.org

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