Veronica Murphy, Larry Kline, and Debby Kline

Veronica Murphy is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Write Out Loud (since 2007). With a passion for promoting literature, she has produced six NEA BIG READ initiatives, 11 literary festivals celebrating 19thcentury literature, history and culture, and conceived and executed a Roald Dahl Centenary Celebration. For the past six years she has coordinated the San Diego Regional Poetry Out Loud competition for this national program. She has an extensive professional resume as a performer, costume designer and development director. Veronica is the 2013 recipient of The Deborah Salzer Excellence in Arts Education Award, a 2015 10News Leadership Award and a California English Teachers Association Award of Merit. She has a BA in Theatre Arts from California State University, San Bernardino. Her most important achievement is raising three amazing sons as a single mother.Larry and Debby Kline are collaborative artists, featured in solo exhibitions at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (SF,) California Center for the Arts Museum, La Casa del Tunel Art Center (TJ,) Southwestern College, UCSD Cross Cultural Center, Mesa College and La Jolla Athenaeum. Group exhibitions include Indiana State Museum, Torrance Art Museum and Museum on the Seam (Israel.) We have been featured in periodicals such as Utne and Orion, and books including “The Artists Guide,” and “Design and Ethics: Reflections on Practice.” Awards include three grants from The Gunk Foundation (NY) and grants from Potrero Nuevo Fund (SF,) Center for Cultural Innovation (LA,) UCIRA (SD) and San Diego Art Prize. We were featured in an Emmy Award winning episode of ArtPulse TV and were artists-in-residence at San Diego Natural History Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Building Bridges Art Exchange and currently UCSD School of Medicine. “Bruce’s Story” is our third illustration project for Write Out Loud San Diego.Chapters is a multi-part series concerning the history and the lessons of civil rights violations or civil liberties injustices carried out against communities or populations—including civil rights violations or civil liberties injustices that are perpetrated on the basis of an individual’s race, national origin, immigration status, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.This project was made possible with support from Chapman University and The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.Guests: Veronica Murphy and Larry and Debby KlineHosts: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Jonelle StricklandProduced by: Public Podcasting