ARTSPEAK RADIO live with Sonié Ruffin, Arzie Umali, Michael Baxley, Paolo Porelli, & Jacob Canyon

Sonié Ruffin and Arzie Umali from the UMKC Women’s Center discuss CommonThreads: Anatomy of the Wound. Michael Baxley Gallery Manger Belger Craneyard Gallery and ceramicist Paolo Porelli join us live from the KKFI studio. COMMMON THREADS: ANATOMY OF THE WOUND This community art project features artwork created by artists and members of the community who have used art to transform the emotional wounds caused by recent violence in the world. Co-sponsored by the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center and UMKC Division of Diversity & Inclusion. Art can heal the wound. Opening First Friday Sept. 2 Leedy-Voulkos Art Center 2012 Baltimore Ave. KCMO www.leedy-voulkos.com Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin is a renowned fabric artist, fabric designer, author, and lecturer. She has conducted workshops, lectures and exhibitions on African American quilting at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, New England Quilt Museum, Holter Museum of Art, Bethesda Medical Center Rotunda, Harvard, Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, Bates College, Lincoln University, Mulvane Museum, UMKC African American Culture House, Truman Medical Center Healing Arts Gallery and a host of quilt guilds, galleries, and museums in the United States, Europe and Africa… Her artwork is held in private, corporate, museum…