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.
December 6, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio December Edition
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 Kansas City Art Institute students; Chaneryna Thach, Catherine Rybak, Hannah Grable, Brent Schondelmeyer and Dan White, Miller Bogart director of Gallery Bogart and artist Abel Massot.
ListenNovember 29, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio End o’ November
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, November 29, 2023, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes artist Joseph Broghammer and Cerbera gallery director Philip Eirich, artist Corey with Studio Givix, writer Michael Mackie, and author Craig Pospisil and actress Elise Poehling.
ListenNovember 22, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio with Booth, Herrero, & AKA AS KNOWN AS
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 Jane Booth, Annie Herrero, and Artists Adrian Halpern, Xavier “Omni San” Fleming, Rich “JKR70” Lester, and Densil James Allan Malabre (DJ), present AKA: As Known As.
ListenNovember 15, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio with Belger Art Center, Isaac Tapia & Rodrigo Alvarez
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, November 15, 2023, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with artists Isaac Tapia & Rodrigo Alvarez, and Consuelo Cruz and Paul Maloney with Belger Crane Yard.
ListenNovember 8, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio with Teresa Dirks, Sue Moreno, & Laura Nugent
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 Teresa Dirks, Sue Moreno, and Laura Nugent.
ListenNovember 1, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio November 1 Edition
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, November 1. 2023, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Cynthia Levin and Sidonie Garrett from the Unicorn Theater, writers Jenny Molberg & Alexander Weinstein, Janann Eldridge KC Rep, artists Megan Ganey & Barrett Emke, Deborah Baxter, Linda Jurkewicz, & Silvia Arellano Fernandez 84/61 Women’s Work.
ListenOctober 25, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio with Elizabeth Kirsch and Kim Lindaberry
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, October 25, 2023, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes interdisciplinary artist Kim Lindaberry and writer/art historian/curator Elizabeth Kirsch.
ListenOctober 18, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio + Michelle Rice-Gauvreau, Art Fare, Chad Brothers, & Sean Whalen
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, October 18, 2023, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
A great big THANK YOU to all who contributed to KKFI Pledge Drive!! We're so very grateful to the following individuals for their continued support:
Shawn Stewart, Beth Byrd Lonski, Toni Vasquez Rouen, Sue Moreno, Paul Eade, Bill Pryor, Rudy Waldner, and Terri Steenson
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes writer Michelle Rice-Gauvreau, artist Sean Whalen, Marten & Katrin Hauser, Wolfe Brack, & Robb Gann, and musician/KKFI chief engineer Chad Brothers.
ListenOctober 11, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio + Nelson-Museum of Art and Mattie Rhodes Art and Cultural Center
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 Dr. Stephanie Knapp Fox; Sanders Sosland Senior Curator, Global Modern and Contemporary Art and Head American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Sarah Hyde Schmeideler Senior Manager Community Programs, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and Jenny Mendez Director of Mattie Rhodes Art and Cultural Center.
ListenOctober 4, 2023 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Artspeak Radio + 5529 Troost Gallery, Carlos Chamon, & The Mammy Project
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 Mitch Weber & Michelle Matlock with the KC Fringe Festival, Karen Williams & Pete Ruhl, and comedian Carlos Chamon.
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