ARTSpEAK RADIO with Héctor Casanova, Renée Cinderhouse, Patrick Alexander, Cory Imig, Melaney Mitchell

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, noon -1PM CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Héctor Casanova, Renée Cinderhouse, Pat Alexander, Melaney Mitchell, and Cory Imig. RENÉE CINDERHOUSE & HÉCTOR CASANOVA-The Green Door Gallery began in 2000 as a collective of KCAI alumni: Héctor Casanova and Renée Cinderhouse (née Laferriere; still a student at the time), along with John Baker, Kellie Bloxsom-Rys, and Rachel Stuart-Haas. All five artists shared studio space in the second floor of the old Post Office building in Kansas City’s West Bottoms. It comprised 6,000 ft2 of industrial space sectioned into thirds: a 1 bedroom apartment, a central space with two large rooms, and two more large rooms in the back which were used as art studios. The space was largely raw and unfinished, with no heating or cooling, only one bathroom, and was prone to severe roof leaks... when it rained outside, it rained just as hard in some areas of the building, necessitating tarps and rows of buckets to mitigate the floods. None of the artist-run spaces in the West Bottoms in the 1990s and early 2000s were zoned for residential use; all those who stood ground and…