ARTSPEAK RADIO End of February Show

Wednesday February 28, 2018
Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with Mason Kirkpatrick with Charlotte Street Foundation, artist Haley Sellmeyer, and artists/activist James McNamara..
Haley Sellmeyer is an Upcoming Local Kansas City Artist who is 10 years old and has been painting since she was just a year old. Haley started selling her art when she was 5 and has been selling her art professionally since she was 6 years old. At the age of 7, Haley created her own artwork business “Artwork by Haley” and has taught children, the elderly and beginners how to paint.

Haley Sellmeyer lives and creates in Kansas where she attends middle school. Haley has shown at a multitude of art festivals, galleries, businesses and charity events in both Kansas and Missouri over the last 5 years. In the next month Haley and her artwork will be attending the “Resilience: The 4 Seasons” Gallery show at the Buttonwood ArtSpace in KCMO 1st Friday, March 2nd and at the “Sci-Fi” Gallery Show at the Carnegie Culture Center in Ottawa, KS Friday, April 6th.
Haley loves to create art for herself, other people, shows and charity events because it makes her happy and is her way to give back to the community. Haley is currently an Artist in Residence at the Paper Birch Landing Gallery in KCMO and is working every year to grow as an artist. She hopes to one day travel the world showing her art. Haley is thankful to the support of her parents, art venues and her patrons who champion her as an artist and encourage her.

Website: https://haleysellmeyer.com/
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/haley.sellmeyer/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artworkbyhaley/

James McNamara-Kansas City in Solidarity with J20-January 20th, 2017 marked the Inauguration of our current president along with a mass arrest of over 230 protesters at “Disrupt J20” in Washington DC, charging 194 of them with multiple felony and misdemeanor charges. Nearly a year later, December 21st, 2017 marked the first trial where 6 defendants were acquitted by a jury. Following this acquittal, charges against 129 more defendants were dismissed on January 18th, 2018.

The prosecution of the remaining 59 defendants is set for sometime this year. In response protesters and activists across the world are organizing rapidly and staying united in hopes to have all charges dropped for the last defendants. However, with continued fanatic measures taken by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff, the prosecution is set on attaching as many criminal charges to as many people as possible. Some defendants included in the remaining 59 are professional journalists, citizen journalists, medics, and an organizer who never attended the march.

In Kansas City we are concerned that if the prosecution is successful in criminalizing dissent and calling the resistance to white supremacy and neo fascism a conspiracy, that other prosecutors and police will bring unjust cases against social movements, organizers of political action, and concerned citizens in an effort to silence and hurt those participating in direct action or those who are simply standing by. Regardless of these mounting pressures and despite our government’s effort to divide us, organizing for the remaining defendants and spotlighting the ongoing J20 trial will continue.

On December 15, 2017 local activists and artists from Kansas City raised funds for the defendants and the DC Legal Posse at the Defend J20 Art Auction Benefit hosted by James McNamara, Lauren Sobchak, and Neil Goss at the Uptown Arts Bar. Continued fundraising efforts will be underway in Kansas City again soon and will continue here and globally for the defendants until they are acquitted. For more information on how you can get involved in Kansas City contact [email protected]. For more information about J20 visit DefendJ20Resistance.org, or make a direct donation to DefendJ20Resistance.org/donate.

Neil Goss works in the historic West Bottoms in Kansas City, MO where he focuses his art on Earth processes while responding to human impacts upon those processes. In 2012 he received two BFA’s in Design (Textiles and Ceramics) from the University of Kansas SOTA. He has been dedicated to researching sustainable arts processes such as natural dyeing, weaving, utilizing hand-dug clay, and foraging art materials. Goss has taught workshops, installed public art and done artist talks from coast to coast in the United States. He currently is a practicing professional artist, educator and artist-in-residence at Cumulus Project Space. April 2 – May 13 Goss will be hosted by the Textile Arts Center as an artist-in-residence at the Bard Graduate Center in New York, NY.

James P. McNamara is a poet, collage artist, and activist living in Midtown Kansas City. He is an alumnus of Artist Inc, and was awarded a 2016 studio residency with Charlotte Street Foundation. His collection of poetry, Poems From The Turn Around, was published by Spartan Books in 2016. You can keep up him on his website Outhereincarcoutry.com.

Lauren Sobchak is an artist and activist living and working in Kansas City.

Mason Kilpatrick-The Charlotte Street Foundation is proud to announce the three recipients of the 2018 Visual Artist Awards, as well as the two recipients of the 2018 Generative Performing Artist Awards. Winners of the 2018 Visual Artist Awards are Marie McInerney, Jarrett Mellenbruch and Jillian Youngbird. Winners of the 2018 Generative Performing Artist Awards are Shawn Hansen and Marcus Lewis.

Each Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Fellow receives an unrestricted cash grant of $10,000, recognition by Charlotte Street at the time of Award announcement and throughout 2018—including announcements to media, web-based marketing and promotional efforts, special events, and inclusion in the 2018 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards Exhibition at H&R Block Artspace later in 2018. The exhibition will be curated by Jennifer Baker, who is Assistant Curator of H&R Block Artspace.

The 2018 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards recognize two exceptional artists in the fields of dance, theatre, music, opera, sound art, performance art, multimedia performance, spoken word, puppetry or hybrid performance-based forms. Both of the artists will also receive an unrestricted cash award of $10,000 and their public performances will be promoted by Charlotte Street throughout the rest of 2018.

All of the 2018 Charlotte Street Award Fellows were selected through competitive processes beginning with open calls for applications from artists based in the five-county Kansas City Metro Area. Artists selections were made by a panel of jurors consisting of renowned and qualified arts professionals. Jurors participated in in-person interviews, presentations, and studio visits, resulting in the selection of 9 finalists for the Generative Performing Artists Awards and 10 finalists for the Visual Artist Awards.

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