ARTSPEAK RADIO with Stasi, Campbell Jones, Huxtable, Gotch, Penniman, Huxtable, & Hooser

Wednesday May 30, noon -1PM CST

Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with writer/artist/songwriter Rick Stasi, performer/writer April Campbell Jones, choreographer/dancer Jane Gotch, musician/composer Victor Penniman, artist Jill Huxtable, and actor/playwright and The Tenth Voice host on KKFI, Philip Blue Owl Hooser.

APRIL CAMPBELL JONES has been a singer, a model, an actress, a photographer, an editor, a comic book and model and writer (posing for the character of Somerset Holmes in the graphic novel of the same name), as well as making a living as a screenwriter for most of her adult life. She is partners with writer/artist BRUCE ELLIOT JONES and together they have turned out scores of comic books, screenplays and novels. They also collaborated on three brilliant, talented children, as well as a continuing series, the VAMPIRE POODLE MYSTERIES, using the pen name CAMPBELL JONES. This series includes three volumes so far: MITZI MAGEE: VAMPIRE POODLE, MITZI MAGEE: BLOOD SCENT, and MITZI MAGEE: NIP IN TIME.

The couple is also collaborating on a paranormal investigator series, the BRACKEN AND BLEDSOE PARANORMAL MYSTERIES. FEVER DREAMS, NIGHT CHILLS, and recently DARK VISIONS are books in the series. The Joneses spend their time divided between the Midwest and Los Angeles, California. www.aprilcampbelljones.com

Rick Stasi is an artist/writer/intellectual properties producer with credits at DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Charlton Comics, NOW Comics (Twilight Zone), Eclipse, Disney, Warner Bros. (Looney Tunes & Tiny Toons for Steven Spielberg) and LucasFilms/STAR WARS. Rick also contributes to Wonder Woman Day, an annual charity event that supports shelters for abused women and children. Rick has taught comics, sequential art and storyboarding courses for more that twenty years, as an instructor with the Shawnee Mission School District, The Westport School of Art and The Kansas City Art Institute. He currently gives individual instruction and career counseling. Rick is regional talent representative for Kathy Garver, (actress “Cissy”, Family Affair – CBS classic 60’s – ‘70’s sit-com) and voice talent (Firestar) for the animated series, Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. Rick Stasi’s first non-comics related publishing venture, a book of original poetry and musings titled Funny You Should Ask! is in its second printing. Rick has also produced a 2-CD audio collection of original poetry, musings and music –Talking To Myself (To You!) and performs An Evening With Rick Stasi, one-man shows in live venues. Currently he is working on an animated version of this collection. A new multi-media effort titled Ninth Street Theatre Presents– Long Story Short is in the works.
www.rickstasi.com

Victor Penniman is a composer, educator, and multi-instrumentalist specializing in stringed instruments, both bowed and plucked. Penniman’s performances include both traditional viola da gamba repertoire and original works for electric bowed guitar (viola da gamba) and other electronic instruments, realized in the musical installations of g.nome and the soulless minions of orthodoxy. He holds a Doctor of Music from the Indiana University School of Music, a Master of Music in Historical Musicology from Florida State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from Marylhurst University near Portland, Oregon. As well as having a well-developed teaching career, he has directed and performed internationally with many ensembles including Ensemble Iberica, The Oregon Renaissance Band, the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, The New York State Baroque Orchestra, The Kansas City Baroque Consortium, and and countless other individual projects and performances. He currently resides in Kansas City, MO, where he owns and operates Ormesby Productions, a recording, composition, and music education studio.

www.facebook.com/pg/pennimangnome/
http://www.ormesbyproductions.com/

Jill Huxtable grew up in Lawrence, KS and has been making art since early childhood. She took advantage of the excellent art department in the school system there, and has won many awards over the years. After putting her artwork on the back burner while raising her children and working as a hairstylist, she has picked her art back up full time upon retirement. Since that time, she has shown in numerous galleries and art shows around the Kansas City area. She takes advantage the many art classes available, and attends art workshops as her schedule permits. “Always a work in progress, as is my life”. Being creative is not just a part of her core being, but also a form of escape. Jill is truly a mixed media artist. Instead of focusing on one main medium, she chooses the combination of media which will best accomplish her vision of the finished piece. The process may vary from piece to piece, yet her style is fluid throughout each series. In addition to working with many types of paint and drawing media, she likes to work on a variety of surfaces, often creating texture, incorporating found objects, and working in layers to create a sense of depth and interest that draws the viewer in for closer examination. Her artwork finds inspiration in nature and the beauty of the human form.

“My art is something that emerges from within me, an inner desire to create and express myself.”
“I paint what I lack the words to express.”

JHDesignbyJill.com
www.facebook.com/jhdesignbyjill/
www.instagram.com/jhdesignbyjill/

Jane Gotch is originally from Omaha, NE, and graduated from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia with honors in 2000. Her choreography has been awarded a Rocket Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation in collaboration with The Charlotte Street Foundation and The Spencer Museum, three Inspiration Grants from The Metropolitan Arts Council of Kansas City, The Innovation in the Arts Award from UMKC’s Small Business and Development Center, and The 2014 Charlotte Street Foundation’s Generative Performing Artist Award. She has danced with Myra Bazell, Netta Yerushalmy, and as an apprentice with Tere O’Connor. She has collaborated with artists Johanna Brooks, Brad Cox, Leo Gayden, Helen Gillet, Shawn Hansen, Peregrine Honig, Miles Neidenger, Paul Rudy, Mark Southerland and many others.
Her choreography has been self-produced and presented by The Fifth Stop Open Studios in Brooklyn, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, A Modern Night at the Folly, The Charlotte Street Foundation, The Belger Crane Yard Gallery, The Lawrence Arts Center, The Spencer Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Iron Factory, Movement Research at Judson Church, and Roulette in Brooklyn.
She is a Certified GYROTONICÒ and GYROKINESISÒ Trainer and Pre-trainer, and has taught this system of mind-body conditioning in Israel, India, New York, and Kansas City since 2001. She is currently studying Somatic Experiencing, a trauma healing work based on the research and practice of Dr. Peter Levine. She is in the second of a three year professional program to become a trauma informed therapist and artist. Visit: www.janegotch.com and www.gyrotonickccenter.com for more information on Jane.

Philip blue owl Hooser, actor/writer talks about the award winning play, Torch Song Trilogy, written by Harvey Fierstein, and presented by The Barn Players, at The Arts Asylum, 1000 East 9th Street, KCMO, May 31 through June 10. More info at www.thebarnplayers.org

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