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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.
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Maria Vasquez Boyd is a writer, painter, illustrator, radio producer and a founding member of the Latino Writers Collective.
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ARTSPEAK RADIO is a live radio program on KKFI that airs every Wednesday at noon. Host Maria Vasquez Boyd serves up information about the visual and literary arts community including live interviews with artists, writers, and performers.
Past guests on ARTSPEAK Radio include the following individuals and organizations. Scribe, Bernie Koehrson, The Writers Place, Jose Faus, Carol Kariotis, Lisa Cordes, Shawn Pavey, Main Street Rag, Tara Varney, Glenn North, Matt Jacobs, David Rhoades, Damon Lee Patterson, Jill Downen, Greg Patterson, Seth Johnson, William Peck, Jared Flaming, 2013 Verses and Voices, Mary Ann Haenni, Judith Towse, Molly Kaderka, Norma Cantu, The Artists for Life Project, Darryl Chamberlain, Bluest Aye, Jennifer Leigh Coates, Missi Rasmussen, Alex R. Carpernter, Skye Livingston, Michele Johnson, Justin Beachler, Carla Malone Steck, Janet and Stan Banks, Mark Allen, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Angela Cervantes, Geo Sipp, Daniel Shea, Meghan Henry, Kansas City Public Library, Dr. Phong Nguyen, Tracy Abeln, Julia Cole, The Riverfront Reading, Phyllis Becker, Carl Bettis, Eve Ott, Patricia Lawson, and Silvia Kofler, Thomas Cobian, Sean Starowitz, Carrie Riehl, Emily Kenyon, Summer Osborn, Jen Harris, Woodneath Library, Andie Paloutzian, Jorge Garcia Almodovar, Diego Chi, Ahram Park, Lindsey Martin-Bowen, Sara Miss Conception Glass, Tommy Frank, Rhiannon Ross, Michele Pond, David Arnold Hughes, Sharon Eiker, Madeline Gallucci, Patrick Alexander, Eric Dobbins, Luis Garcia, Cory Imig, Jeanette Powers, Lauren Sobchak, Ari Fish, Miguel M. Morales, Sofiana Olivera, m.o.i. (aka the minister of information, aka Don Wilikson) Sarah Starr, Maril Crabtree, Stephen Roth, and Dave Dalton, Melaney Mitchell, Bobby Howsare, Sandra Moran, Front/Space, Don Simon, Chance Wolf, Suzanne Gladney, MaryFrances Wagner, Greg Field, Jane Booth, Suze Ford Fernandez, David Wayne Reed, Lorenzo Collado, Jessy Terrero, Petra & Kester Horn-Marsh, Eve Brackenbury, Brandon Forrest Frederick, MyArts, Adam Goldberg, Deana Bellamaganya, Ryan Teney, Mihn Du Pha, Eric Lindquist, Jenny Mendez, Teresa Magel, Sarah Hyde-Schmiedeler, Deborah Shouse, Ron Zoglin, Nicole Emanuel, Adam Finkelston, Jay Meara, Danny Orendorf, Laura Isaac, Whispering Prairie Press, Jessica Conoley, Pat Daneman, Marianne Getchell, and Annie Raab.
Recent Episodes
June 9, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
ArtspeakRadio Pledge Drive with Celeste Lupercio and Aztec Theater
Wednesday, June 9, 12noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd asks for your support during the 2021 Fall Pledge Drive by calling 888-931-0901 or pledge online www.kkfi.org
KKFI Kansas City Community Radio is volunteer operated and is the voice of the community that brings you new and innovative broadcasting/music around the clock.
ARTSPEAK RADIO is entering its' 9th year on air, 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 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' 9TH YEAR!!! Call 888-931-0901 and make your pledge.
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Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Celeste Lupercio Senior Director Sales & Marketing at the College Basketball Experience, Executive Producer The West 18th Street Fashion Show and Bruce Young co-owner Aztec Theater.
ListenJune 2, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
ARTSPEAK RADIO with Consuelo Cruz, Jonathan Christensen Caballero, and Byron Constance
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, June 2, 2021, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org.
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Consuelo Cruz Marketing & Community Engagement Manager Belger Arts, multidisciplinary artist Jonathan Christensen Caballero and sculptor Byron Constance.
ListenMay 26, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
ArtspeakRadio with poet/writer Annette Billings
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, May 26, 2021, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes poet/writer Annette Billings.
ListenMay 19, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
ArtspeakRadio with Robert Gann, Nehemiah Cisneros, & James Bryant
ArtspeakRadio, Wednesday, May 19, 2021, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Robert Gann, Nehemiah Cisneros, and James Bryant to the program.
ListenMay 12, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
ArtspeakRadio with Hugo Ximello-Salido and Yetunde Felix-Ukwu
ArtspeakRadio, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1FM KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with multi-discipline artist Hugo Ximello-Salido and Yetunde Felix-Ukwu, Artistic Associate KCRep.
ListenMay 5, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
ArtspeakRadio with Cruz, Highland, and Metcalf
ArtspeakRadio, Wednesday May 5, 2021, noon – 1pm CST, www.kkfi.org streaming live audio.
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Consuelo Cruz, Christel Highland, and Clint Metcalf to the program.
ListenApril 28, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
ArtspeakRadio National Poetry Month
ArtspeakRadio, Wednesday April 28, 2021, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd celebrates April as National Poetry Month with a stanza of poets. Featured poets include; José Faus, Waco Porter, Erin Adair Hodges, Octavio Quintanilla, Annette Billings, Andrew McIlvaine, Miguel Morales, Sarah Chavez, Perry Shephard, and Maryfrances Wagner.
MARYFRANCES WAGNER has taught creative and academic writing for over twenty years, taught workshops at all levels, served as President of The Writers Place and Secretary for KC Creates. She is currently on the board of directors for The Writers Place and chairs TWP Programming Committee. She is co-editor of I-70 Review and co-edited Whirlybird Anthology of Greater Kansas City Writers among others. She has published eight collections to include Salvatore's Daughter, Red Silk (Thorpe Menn Book Award winner for literary excellence), Light Subtracts Itself (A KC Star Notable book of the year), Dioramas, The Silence of Red Glass, and The Immigrants' New Camera. She has edited or co-edited several anthologies and also served as co-editor of New Letters Review of Books.
Wagner won the Thorpe Menn Book Award for Literary Excellence for Red Silk; Stanley Hanks contest for poetry and was the recipient of the Missouri Individual Artist of 2020.
PERRY L. SHEPARD is a Vietnam veteran who has written two novels: The Hero versus Me and Monkey Jo, and Hard Love. He co-wrote two plays in the anthology titled Annabelle. He won a second place award in the Eber and Wein’s Best American Poetry of 2013, an honorable mention in Writer’s Digest’ 84th annual Poetry Competition. He has been published in newspapers, college poetry collections and fanzines; He was a board member of (SMAG) South Mass Art Guild in Lawrence Kansas, and is the Vice President of the Kansas Author’s Club District No. 2.
Perry Shepard's poetry compilation, A Rhythmic Electric Circus of Sound Part 66 (A.R. E.C.O.S Part 66), dives into the many aspects of his insights into human thought and experiences. Presented in a diverse colorful language, the reader is drawn in and compelled to see themselves in new and old ways.
www.perryshephard.com
HOLLY HAYDEN, Consulting artist, The New Single Terminal & Parking at KCI and JAMES MARTIN KCMO Public Art Administrator, General Services Department, Facilities & Architecture Division,
Holly Hayden is the Consulting Artist for the New Single Terminal and Parking at KCI project and Executive Director of Sike Style Industries.
Holly is an alumna of The Kansas City Art Institute and has been a part of the arts and design scene in Kansas City for over 20 years. After starting a design company with fellow graduates, Holly continued her freelance design career paired with event coordination and arts consulting, working with clients ranging from local artisans to fashion designers, television personalities, sports teams, touring bands, galleries, real estate developers, national brands and civic projects. She currently serves as the Vice President of Finance for AIGA KC and longtime member of the Ethnic Enrichment Commission of Kansas City.
James Martin develops public policy for the City Coordinates the Municipal Art Commission’s role in City public art and building projects. Martin holds a Master’s degree in arts administration, art, art history, architecture, landscape architecture, construction community and capital construction project coordination.
The City of Kansas City Missouri, One Percent for Art at KCI: Concourses A & B, wall-based artwork Call For Artists RFP is now open, as of Monday April 19th, 2021.
Visit https://www.buildkci.com/call-for-artists/ to view the Call for Artists link.
April 21, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
ArtspeakRadio Celebrates National Poetry Month
rtspeakRadio, Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd celebrates April as National Poetry Month with a stanza of poets. Featured poets include; José Faus, Waco Porter, Erin Adair Hodges, Octavio Quintanilla, Annette Billings, Andrew McIlvaine, Miguel Morales, Sarah Chavez, Perry Shephard, and Maryfrances Wagner.
ListenApril 14, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
ArtspeakRadio Celebrates National Poetry Month
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd celebrates April as National Poetry Month with a stanza of poets. Featured poets include; José Faus, Waco Porter, Erin Adair Hodges, Octavio Quintanilla, Andrew McIlvaine, Miguel Morales, Sarah Chavez, Perry Shephard, and Maryfrances Wagner.
ListenApril 7, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
ARTSPEAK RADIO Celebrates National Poetry Month
ARTSPEAK RADIO, Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd celebrates April as National Poetry Month with a stanza of poets. Featured poets include; José Faus, Waco Porter, Erin Adair Hodges, Octavio Quintanilla, Andrew McIlvaine, Miguel Morales, Sarah Chavez, Perry Shephard, and MaryFrances Wagner.
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