ARTSPEAK RADIO chats with Cristina Muñiz and Stephen Wallace Pruitt

Wednesday, May 27, 2020, noon - 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes award winning painter/artist Cristina Muñiz and filmaker/director Stephen Wallace Pruitt. CRISTINA MUÑIZ, native to San Antonio, went to Kansas City, Missouri in 2012 to finish her BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute. She was a recipient of the Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Residency program for 2014-2015, after which, became a resident artist with The Drugstore studios until returning to Texas last year. Her work has recently been acquired by the Nerman MOCA, for their permanent collection. Muñiz lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. "My work draws from narratives, whether personal recollections, or stories I’ve heard growing up from my parents, or from people I’ve never met. I am interested in all sorts of family history as a way to fill in the gaps in my own. I am interested in familial ownership of any kind, whether it’s land, home, objects, stories, and how these are handed down over generations. The act of exchange and the things we exchange intrigues me. The dynamic of “keeping it within the family” intrigues me. My family didn't have that. We…