ARTSPEAK RADIO with Eirich,

Wednesday, July 29, 2020; 12noon - 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with Cerbera Gallery owner Philipp Eirich, artists Susan Kiefer and Stephanie Lanter, also Katie Mabry van Dieren owner of the Strawberry Swing KC. SUSAN KIEFER-Making things makes me happy—from paper dolls and dolls clothes in childhood to costumes and scenery for my dance group as a young adult to artwork as the activity that sustains me. Drawing has been the starting point of every project, which led to a BFA and MFA in Printmaking from the California College of Arts in San Francisco, and a woodcut artist book in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Introduced to painting in a graduate seminar with John Zurier, I was seduced by the immediacy and directness of painting. I abandoned my training as a printmaker, and the relief prints and artist books that held my attention for the first several years of my art career. With painting now my primary medium, I prefer working in oil for the slow drying and richness of color. Themes and subject matter of my artwork has varied over the years…