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Artspeak Radio
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.
Rodolfo Marron III joins us live from the studio.
Rodolfo’s illustrations glimpse into something very personal and reflecting on his relationships with nature, family, religion, and various cultures in an effort to decipher some sort of spirituality for himself. Inspired by individual life stories such as those of Martha P. Johnson, the drag queen who threw the shot glass heard around the world during the Stonewall Riots, Amada Cardenas, a “peyotero” from southern Texas, and Ella, an orphaned deer who resided in the Elmwood Cemetery in Kansas City, MO. Ella’s story allowed Rodolfo to expand on this native creatures most tragic story of death through his own means of further exploring his tales of an afterlife. Works on old torn paper give this sense of something old, frail, and perhaps forgotten. Also, utilizing a number of natural materials that can be found here in the Midwest—poke berries, mulberries, walnuts and elderberries—to derive pigment offers a personal venture to understand and connect with nature by learning some of its medicinal uses, its folklore and overall importance of ease and beauty around us.
www.rodolfomarron.com
Elizabeth W. Fischer, Executive Director of The Writers Place talks with Maria about upcoming events. The Writers Place is a literary center that advances and celebrates the craft of writing. As a literary community center and gathering place for writers, readers, and the general public, we provide support, resources, and inspiration for those in our region who care about the word as art.
The Writers Place is located at 3607 Pennsylvania KCMO 816.753.1090
www.writersplace.org
Otis Lee, self-taught harmonica player performs live in the KKFI studio. Otis plays throughout the Kansas City area, solo and with numerous groups.
Jason Vivone joins us live in the studio. The leader of Kansas City’s award winning band the Billy Bats, Jason Vivone hosts The Boogie Bridge on KKFI 90.1 FM Thursdays 4pm to 6 pm.
As a musician, Vivone has toured primarily in the Midwest and the South. As a recording artist, his music has been downloaded and played all over the world.
Poet/activist Sheri Hall (Purpose Tha Poet) talks about her recent appearance at the Topeka State Capital, The Gospel of Poets on KPRT 1590am, and hosting the Local Showcase on KKFI, March 24 from 8pm – 10pm.
