ARTSPEAK RADIO with Powers, Coleman, & Chamberlain

Wednesday July 12, 2017
Host/producer of ARTSPEAK RADIO, Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with writer/performer Jeanette Powers, columnist Dan Coleman, and Rocket Grant recipient, artist/educator Darryl Chamberlain.

Jeanette Powers curates the generative performance art venue, Uptown Arts Bar, and is the Acquisitions Editor for KC based, indie press EMP Books. She also co-directs the arts non-profit Chameleon Arts with legendary print-maker Hugh Merrill and is Treasurer/grant-writer for KC’s annual small press fest. She is the author of six books of poetry, including her newest release “Don’t Lose Your Head” through EMP in 2017. She is an alumni resident of Osage Arts Community and The Lemon Tree House and can most often be found riverside with her hound dog, Olly Mas.

“Don’t Lose Your Head” is an experimental book of poetry and drawings which revolves around the concept of childhood trauma and its effects on adult life. The genesis of the book was 40-year-old Jeanette’s discovery of the truth of how her father died when she was four years old and follows the trajectory of family secrets, dysfunction and alienation. This work of art is raw, vulnerable and reaches deeply into the often untold shards of what is swept under rugs and kept folded in the back closets of family shame.

“Don’t Lose Your Head’ book release
Wed. July 12 at 7pm-10:30pm
Uptown Arts Bar 3611 Broadway KCMO

Dan Coleman has been a librarian in public libraries for 20 years. For the past 10, he has been the selector of children’s materials for the Lawrence Public Library; prior to that he worked in the Missouri Valley Room of the Kansas City Public Library, and at the Olathe Public Library. When his kids were born, Dan had the opportunity to shift to working part-time, so that he could start a side gig as a stay-at-home dad. He currently writes book reviews and interviews children’s authors and illustrators for the Lawrence Public Library’s In the Spotlight book blog, and for several years he wrote a regular parenting column in the Lawrence Journal World, where he focused on the joys and sorrows of life with young children. He also assists the Lawrence Public Library Children’s Room and Teen Zone creating sculptures to coincide with library programs. For the past four years, he has served on the board of Dads of Douglas County, a local non-profit dedicated to supporting fatherhood in his community.
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Darryl Chamberlain is a member of The Light in the Other Room and the Mid America Pastel Society of which he also serves as secretary. Chamberlain is the director of The Artists for Life Project, 2014 Rocket Grant Recipient, and is a self-taught artist. He studied technical illustration and drafting at Grayson College in Sherman, Texas and incorporates these skills into his beautifully detailed artwork. As a two-dimensional artist and a sculptor, he creates images of key figures from African-American history. These near-life-sized busts are displayed in institutions, businesses and schools across the Midwest. The art is presented in a unique presentation titled The Gloryworks Experience, which he uses to teach the importance of African-American history and to promote interpersonal respect. Chamberlain’s artwork has been shown in places such as the Internal Revenue Service Center in Merriam Kansas, the Department of Immigration and Naturalization in Dallas Texas, the Federal Deposit and Insurance Corporation in Richardson Texas, the Job Corps of McKinney Texas, and in public schools and universities across the Midwest.

Darryl Chamberlain has a long-standing history of involvement in community-based projects that span the fields of art, music, and robotics. Currently he works with youth in the community with The A-Flat Orchestra, just 2 years old. Chamberlain welcomes students who already play and students who have never picked up an instrument. The one thing he demands, though, is that every one of them must learn to read music. “Music builds character,” Chamberlain said. “And, if you learn the power of character when you go out into the community you are going to be a builder not a destroyer.”

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