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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.
Wednesday May 10, 2017
Host/producer for ARTSPEAK RADIO, Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with performer/storyteller Becky Ray, musician/poet Surewood, filmaker Monica Espinoza, and artists Anson The Ornery and Cydney Ross.
Ghosts a Go-Go with Becky Ray is an evening of live paranormal storytelling, performances, and games. Sometimes scary, sometimes funny, sometimes unbelievable, storytellers from all walks of life share their experiences in this show’s informal setting.
Becky Ray-On the second Thursday of the month at the Outburst in Kansas City catch Ghosts a Go-Go with Becky Ray! It’s an evening of live paranormal storytelling, performances, and games. Sometimes scary, sometimes funny, sometimes unbelievable, storytellers from all walks of life share their experiences in this show’s informal setting. Sponsored by American Hauntings Tours. http://bumpinthenight.net/ Age 21+
Thursday May 11, 8pm – 9:30pm
The Outburst KC
1715 Wyandotte KCMO
The show starts at 8 pm and tickets are just $10, buy in advance at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2790204 or at the door!
Monica Espinoza-Kansas City Women in Film & TV KCWIFT is dedicated to empowering, promoting and mentoring women in the entertainment, communications and media industries. Join Kansas City Women in Film & TV as we dig into the Special Effects side of things with Jim McCullough and Tabatha Terry-Treml at our monthly event!
Wednesday, May 10th
7:30pm
The Buffalo Room at Westport Flea Market Bar & Grill 817 Westport Rd. KCMO
Shawn Neustadt/Surewood-Surewood has been a musician in Kansas City for a decade. Most of that time spent fronting his band Sri Yantra on guitar and vocal. Previous acts include, Tenedepe (pronounced Tuh Nay Duh Pay) Antumbra and Drew & Phriends.
Surewood has been published a few times, most notably in a recent release from Kansas Cities own 39 West Press titled– Prompts! A Spontaneous Anthology. He has been a featured act at Poetry & Absinthe, a local showcase hosted by the Wormwood Collective for artists on the fringes of their niche and continues to contribute to their presentation every first fridayof the month, currently being held at Prohibition Hall.
Cydney Ross-Progressional Currents
Featured artists: Emily Connell, London Dupere, Kim Lavonne, Cydney Ross, Melanie Sherman and Joseph Wullner.
Kansas City Artist Coalition
Opening reception: May 12th, 2017 6:00 – 8:30pm
Progressional Currents is an exhibition highlighting ceramic artists that have traveled to Hungary in order to expand and challenge their studio practice at the International Ceramics Studio (ICS) in Kecskemét. These artists lived and worked together during the summer of 2015 and 2016. At the ICS they worked alongside and learned from sculptors, plaster-masters and ceramic innovators from around the world. The works displayed reveal how each artist worked before visiting ICS, their approach to a new environment and material and how that has affected their work since returning to the United States. Concepts explore religion, architecture, the environment, anatomy and the occult. Artists include Emily Connell, London Dupere, Kim Lavonne, Cydney Ross, Melanie Sherman and Joseph Wullner.
For more information please contact Cydney Ross at [email protected]
Anson the Ornery-ATTENTION: The world’s artwork is being hidden away from view! Stored in dark climate controlled rooms. Art collections are increasingly becoming investment funding. This changes art from an object of inspiration and beauty to something resembling a gold ingot.
Anson the Ornery’s interactive installation Shades, opening May 17th at Kansas City Artist Coalition, parodies art-as-bullion by not displaying any of the art in Anson’s solo exhibition. As the muffled sound of a cattle auctioneer can be heard a large pile of lamps shades illuminate the gallery walls and the white slightly raised lettering “Shades.” The low light obscures the space casting shadows the selected artworks. The light will not help much to see because each artwork are covered by a packing blanket. The artwork may not be seen but it can be felt. Literally, the gallery goers are encouraged to feel the art through the blankets. Is it a thrift store velvet painting of Elvis or a Monet? Could is be a common flower pot or Ming vase? The artworks identity has been hidden just like countless masterpieces.
Artworks’ value comes from its ability to invoke thought and emotion. This intrinsic value is being replaced by monetary value, meaning the greatest works of art are only on view for large shows to increase the artwork’s fame and pricetag. As the art world becomes more interested in name brand artists it is important for collectors to buy lesser known artist, and organizations to exhibiting art that subverts its own sale, as well as create free public spaces for viewing art.
Kansas City Artists Coalition
201 Wyandotte St. KCMO
www.kansascityartistscoalition.org
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