Artspeak Radio

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, July 8, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Audrey Crabtree Executive Director KC Fringe Festival and June McDaniel EarlystART CEO. AUDREY CRABTREE, Executive Director KC Fringe The KC Fringe is the largest celebration of arts and culture in the Kansas City metropolitan...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, July 1, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Kansas Poet Laureate Traci Brimhall and artist/writer Jim Ramirez. TRACI BRIMHALL is a university distinguished professor of creative writing at Kansas State University, as well as the 2025 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim....

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes poet/activist Miguel M. Morales and Marissa Pappas Great Plains Senior Major Gifts Officer. MIGUEL M. MORALES grew up in Texas working as a migrant/seasonal farmworker and child laborer. He was a finalist for the 2023 Kansas P...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, June 17, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Tom Mardikes, Jon Robertson, and Scott Preston. Sound Mandala is a one-of-a-kind immersive audio experience where 100 independent loudspeakers surround you—sound moving around you, above you, and through you. This isn't surrou...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org ARTSPEAK RADIO is entering its' 14th year-if you tune in weekly, download podcasts, listen online, if you learn about new opportunities happening in the creative community, enjoy listening to one of the many guests featured weekly on ARTSPEAK RADIO then call 888-931-0901 to pledge y...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, June 3, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes artist GK Callahan, John Todd the Radio God. BEN WENDT, musician, & GK CALLAHAN artist.-10th Annual Arts in the Park Festival is a free two-day celebration of creativity, culture, and community at Macken Park in North Kansa...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Madison McKinley Marketing & Communications Manager with Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art and designer Laura Treas. MADISON McKINLEY, Marketing & Communications Manager, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art Join us for a full day...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes poet/writer Olive Sullivan and Vince Medellin freelance Character Designer/ Comic Artist. OLIVE SULLIVAN- Poet, playwright, and bookbinder--the common denominator is books. Olive L. Sullivan invites you to come celebrate the wo...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Knotty Orchid and Coti Meier. KNOTTY ORCHID-Feel the Kansas City Heat with Risqué Revelry! Come celebrate Kansas City culture, Parisian themes, and Jazz with a vaudevillian flair! We have a range of risqué entertainment from so...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes artist/brand strategist Ellie Kort, Ricky Catto creative technologist, Caryn Hohnholt with KC Hospice, and artist Annieo Klaas. ANNIEO KLAAS Cerbera Gallery cordially invites you to: "When The Sun Saw The Sky" New Works by Annie...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, April 29, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Kansas City Art Institute students with Professor Kat Dison Nechlebová writer writer Blair Schulman. BLAIR SCHULMAN- On May 1, Midwest Agenda celebrates its fifth anniversary, marking five consecutive years of daily coverage dedica...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes artists GK Callahan & Laura White, Consuelo Cruz Belger Arts, & Cody Joliff Powell Gardens CEO, Director Teisha M. Bankston & Artistic Director Unicorn Theater Ernie Nolan. GK CALLAHAN & LAURA WHITE- Englewood...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Rick Truman President/CEO with the Folly Theater & Brian Williams Development Director, and Michelle Dreher with Two Tone Press. RICK TRUMAN, President/CEO Folly Theater & BRIAN WILLIAMS, Development Director - The Fo...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes poet Maryfrances Wagner, Dr. Regina Nouhan, and J.J. McDonald with Gordon Parks Elementary School. MARYFRANCES WAGNER – The Writers Place events for 2026 A Master Class in Screenwriting, April 11, 10:30am – 12:30pm, The Writer...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes poets Waco Porter and Silvia Kofler. WACO PORTER is a dedicated family man, married for over 20 years and a proud father to three girls, two of whom are twins. He graduated from the University of MO – Columbia in 2002 with a d...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd artist/gallery owner Hugo Ximello Salido and Dr. Madeline Rislow, Curator/Sr. Manager of Learning and Engagement DR. MADELINE RISLOW, Curator/Sr. Manager of Learning and Engagement, The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures- The Nati...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with writer Linzi Garcia and Robert Honan, Chief CIL Services Officer, The Whole Person. ROBERT HONAN, Chief CIL Services Officer The Whole Person (TWP) is a non-profit, consumer-controlled Center for Independent Living (CIL), l...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 9am - 10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Guest DJ Toni and music specially curated for this special program. Join us as we celebrate the hour with fun, conversation, and joy with one of KKFI's longtime supporter, DJ Toni.

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with artists Linda Lighton and Jeff Conners. LINDA LIGHTON is an artist and activist living and working in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a passionate advocate for the arts both regionally, nationally and internationally, and...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes poets Al Ortolani, Robert Stewart, & William Trowbridge. Four prize-winning Kansas City area poets—Al Ortolani, Robert Stewart & William Trowbridge—will read poems and discuss the art of poetry on Artspeak Radio, K...

Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with guests Elisabeth Kirsch, Kim Lindaberry, Vivian Torrance, Kat Dison Nechleba, and Susi Lulaki about their group exhibition, The Supreme Point, Thresholds of Emergence. Opening reception Friday, February 6 through March 27, 2026, at Leedy Voulkos Gallery, 2012 Baltimore, KCMO.

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Fringe Festival Director Audrey Crabtree with Bradley J. Thomas, and Charlotte St. Foundation Kimi Kitada, Tyler Galloway. AUDREY CRABTREE & BRADLEY J. THOMAS CHARLOTTE ST. FOUNDATION-The recently-opened exhibit, "stand...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes poet, editor, essayist Huascar Medina. Huascar Medina was born in Killeen, Texas and has lived artfully in Kansas for over two decades. As a second-generation immigrant living in the Heartland, Huascar considers himself a N...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes poet, actress, author Annette Hope Billings. Annette Hope Billings is an author/actress from Topeka, Kansas where she is flourishing despite attempts by the "Midwest Bible Belt" to constrain her sassy inner muses. A registe...

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, January 7, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes producer/performer/educator Luke “Skippy” Harbur and artist/curator Tj Templeton. Luke “Skippy” Harbur is a performer, producer, and educator whose business, musicbyskippy, creates live arts experiences for multigenerational...