ARTSPEAK RADIO chats with James Martin, TJ Templeton, and Kathryne Grimm

Wednesday, June 3, 2020, noon - 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with James Martin KC Public Art Administrator, TJ Templeton The Bunker curator, and artist/photographer/queer trans disibility activist Kathyrne Grimm. JAMES MARTIN, Public Art Administrator, General Services Department, Facilities & Architecture Division, City of Kansas City, Missouri, develops public policy for the City Coordinates the Municipal Art Commission’s role in City public art and building projects. Martin holds a Master’s degree in arts administration, art, art history, architecture, landscape architecture, construction community and capital construction project coordination. Martin will discuss how the art selection process works and talk about projects that are currently ongoing and upcoming public art opportunities at KCI. By City Charter, the Art Commission’s responsibilities include the approval of works of art on, or extending over, any City property; the design of buildings, bridges, fences and other structures built by the City; and any privately-owned signs, skywalks or other structures that extend over public property. City ordinances also provide that no existing work of art owned by the City can be moved or altered without commission approval except under emergency conditions. The mission of the Municipal…