ARTSPEAK RADIO September Edition

Wednesday September 6, 2016

Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd is in Sedona this week, KKFI’s Wednesday MidDay Morning host/producer Mark Manning steps up to engineer while guest host Blair Schulman chats with some of the incoming Charlotte Street Foundation 2017-2018 Studio Residents as CSF celebrates it’s 20th year! Also Dianna Griffin Ennis, host/producer of KKFI’s Tasty Brew Music Radio joins us to talk about the Crossroads Music Fest, a fundraiser for 90.1FM KKFI Kansas City Community Radio. www.cmfkc.com

Blair is a co-founder of ARTSPEAK RADIO.. He’s an art writer,
critic, sometime curator and occasional artist. Blair is also Senior Editor of www.informalityblog.com, an online arts and culture platform.

Joining us are:
Patrick Alexander,
Programming and Studio Residency Manager for CSF. He has been with CSF since 2010. Pat also is a multidisciplinary artist, DJ (Solid-FI Sound/ Soul Preservers) promoter, and longtime arts administrator.

Jessica Ayala
-is a Kansas City poet, director, activist, and writer-in-residence at Charlotte Street Foundation. Ayala published her first series of poems at the age of eight for The Young Authors Conference. Her recent poetry has been published in two local anthologies.

Boi Boy
is entering their 2nd year of the CSF Studio Residency. They were recently awarded a Rocket Grant to support Alter, a collaborative, multidisciplinary, artist-run space in connecting creative disciplines through interactive environments and unexpected programming.

Glyneisha Johnson
recreates familiar domestic Black spaces of color through the language of collage and drawing, She explores the notion of collage as a metaphor to describe
the dislocated, collaged nature of Black history due to colonialism.

Matthew Johnson
is an Audio Producer and Visual Artist working in a variety of mediums, exploring epistemology and its many analogs. He creates large, detail oriented installations that delve into circular logic, city sprawl, intersectionality, and positive feedback loops.

For more information about Charlotte Street Foundation and
a full listing of the CSF Artists in Residence, visit www.charlottestreet.org

Crossroads Art District in downtown KC. Designed to showcase the best in KC’s music, arts and dance scene, CMFKC provides opportunities for community members of all ages to support its local artists and celebrate Kansas City’s cultural diversity. 2017 CMFKC lineup includes, The Phantastics, Enrique Chi (of Making Movies), Jessica Paige, Count Tutu, Various Blonde, The MGDS, Brody Buster Band, Barclay Martin, Crystal Rose, The Project H, Pageant Boys, Organ Jazz Trio, Kelly Hunt, The Safes, Hobo Can feat.Javier Mendoza, Sara Morgan, Duncan Burnett X Riot, Instant Karma, American Slim, Kyle Reid, Mundo Nouvo, New Transition Quartet, Eems, Carswell & Hope, Hot Club KC, Roger Wilder & Lisa Henry, AJ Young, The Black Mariah Theater, Mad Libby, Rural Grit, Ivy, Tyler Giles, Savanna Chestnut, Tom Hall with Joe Clyne, Dan Bliss, Tyler Gregory, Brad Cunningham, and more to be added soon!!!

www.cmfkc.com

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