ARTSPEAK RADIO chats with Megan Crigger, Vladimir Krstic, Sherry Bushue, Cassie Allen, Cristina Muniz, & Andrew William Erdrich

Maria welcomes Megan Crigger, Director of Creative Services KCMO and Vladimir Krstic, Director of KC Design Center,for a discussion about the Our Town Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Office of Culture and Creative Services, in partnership with Kansas City Design Center is one of the recipients for an award of $100,000 for the "West Bottoms Reborn: Activating Public Space through the Arts" project, a "place-keeping" strategy that integrates local artist and design professionals in the visioning and planning process of public space to extoll and nurture the unique qualities of the West Bottoms. www.kcmo.gov Sherry Bushue, founder of The Little Fig and illustrator Cassie Allen talk about their multi-lingual children's books. Based in the Kansas City metro area, The Little Fig self publishes multi-lingual and special situation children's books for pre-school and early elementary school aged children. The books are intended to be both entertaining and education, teaching concepts, facts and a second language. Selected titles are available in E-book and print on demand formats in English, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog, Telugu, Urdu, and Vietnamese. www.thelittlefig.com Artists Cristina Muniz and Andrew William Erdrich joins us live in the studio to talk…