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.
September 20, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio with May Pang & Christopher Leitch
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes writer/art historian/curator, photographer May Pang and artist/activist Christopher Leitch.
ListenSeptember 13, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio with Belger Arts, KC Hospice, & PeaceWorks
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with Consuelo Cruz, Kansas City Hospice & PeaceWorks.
ListenSeptember 6, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio + Diego Chi, Dr. Fanny Po, and Teresa Dirks
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Diego Chi with Making Movies, pianist Po Sim Head (aka Dr. Fanny) and artist Teresa Dirks.
ListenAugust 30, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio with Shelly Pinto & Katrina Revenaugh
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes artists Shelly Pinto and Katrina Revenaugh.
ListenAugust 23, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio August 2023
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with artist Sarah Zapata, author/poet Andrew Michael Johnson, Sean Whalen, & Andrew McIlvane for the Flatfiles & Digitalfiles.
ListenAugust 16, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio with Elizabeth Kirsch & Christopher Leitch
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes the return of art historian/writer/curator Elizabeth Kirsch and artist/activist Christopher Leitch.
ListenAugust 9, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio + Dawn Downey, John Sandbach, & Whim Productions
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes author/artist John Sandbach, writer Dawn Downey, and director Bradley Meyer.
ListenAugust 2, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio + Plug Gallery, Tyler Kimball, & Midwest Feminist Art Collective
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Plug Gallery, Tyler Kimball, and Midwest Feminist Art Collective.
ListenJuly 26, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio + Artful Poetry, Shawn Stewart, Elizabeth Kirsch, & Christopher Leitch
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Artful Poetry contest winners Emily Wilder, Abigail DuMont, & Ari Shanahan, musician Shawn Stewart, art historian/curator/writer Elizabeth Kirsch, and artist Christopher Leitch.
ListenJuly 19, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio + Harmony Project KC, Colibrósa, Bland, Fountain City Con
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, July 19, 2023, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes writer/producer Marísa Grady, comedian/poet Abby Bland, Casi Riegle and Kyara Flores Torres with Harmony Project KC, Rick Staci and Jud Kite with Fountain City Con.
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