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Artspeak Radio with Lori Buntin and Jamil Lee
Monday, 10 November, 2025
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes artists Lori Buntin and Jamil Lee. LORI BUNTIN (she/her/hers) is a multi-media artist, drawing from urban spaces and rural landscapes, social issues, and philosophy to guide her artistic output. Observing color, light, and form is what informs the subjects and compositions of her paintings. Pondering social and environmental issues, along with her frequent walkabouts in the urban core, collecting found objects, inform her mixed media work. These treks also reveal many of the subjects and compositions that end up in her paintings. Lori has worked in various realms of the fine and commercial art world. A custom picture framer since college days, practicing professionally to the present. She has produced many commissioned paintings, mixed media awards, worked as a muralists's assistant, managed a production crew in the hospitality industry, and created and fabricated multiple two- and three- dimensional works for interior public and private spaces. She has taught introductory drawing and painting at the college level, as well as in her private studio over the years. Her paintings and other artworks are in homes and collections across the country. Currently, Lori is focusing solely on her studio work in her space at the Livestock Exchange Building in Kansas City's West Bottoms. Instagram : @loribuntinstudio Regarding Open Studios - Friday, November 14 - 5pm-9pm Saturday November 15 - 11am-3pm Livestock Exchange Building 1600 Genessee Street - in the West Bottoms There will be over 60 artists participating in this event, representing several different disciplines. Live music will be featured on the 1st floor Friday evening. El Cafe Cubano coffee and food truck will be there on Saturday only with coffee and goodies. Parking is available on the west side of the Livestock Exchange Building. Enter through the middle double doors and a greeter will provide you with a roster. Also - The front door on Genessee street will be unlocked which someone using a wheelchair or walker could access without steps. The event is free to the public. Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/stockyardsstudios Instagram : @stockyards_studios JAMIL LEE- My name is Jamil Lee and I am the founder of the International African American Art Museum of Kansas City. The museum was founded in late 2023. Since our start we have strived to be a great museum that has intimate settings allowing our guest and patrons to meet the artist though engaging shows and artist talks. With the intent of bringing African American art to the forefront. All while raising the next generation of African American artists to do significant things in the Kansas City area. We have already started some amazing indeavors here in the Kansas City area with our partners such as the ImPulse Gallery that is owned by the Black Economic Union and Nikki Gibson State Farm in developing pop-up miniature exhibits that last for three 30 days. We have helped over 30 plus artists gain exposure to corporate entities and the general public they would not have other wise known about. We have also been able to independently teach youth through our Spark program. Supporting Positive Artistic Resilient Kids. Through our program we have been able to help young artists in foundational art study and at the end of the program we give the kids their first art show. This allows the children to gain confidence and allows the process of learning how to conduct yourself properly and professionally as an artist. Although we thoroughly enjoy doing pop-ups we will never stop doing what brought us to the table. We do however see the need to be more unique and creative in our endeavors. We don’t want to be just regulated to doing shows on the weekend and we do want people to visit us while still maintaining a pop-up presence. We are currently looking for fiscal partners in the realm of donations and sponsorships to help us gain access to a space that we can call home. We are also looking for those same partnerships to help us in our mobilized art museum. We will be converting a 17 foot box truck into our mobile art museum so we can better serve our community by popping up anywhere in Kansas City and the surrounding areas. We also want a additional smaller box truck to be our mobile STEM lab for kids called the SPARK LAB These three new endeavors will also allow us to grow deeper connections in the arts and business communities respectfully. We are currently looking for donations and funding we are looking for a total of fifty thousand dollars to begin our process of strategic planning financial planning and renting our own space this will allow us to grow deeper within our community teach and raise young artists and cultivate emerging and mid-career African American and Hispanic artists to greater new heights. I have been an artist and designer for over 20 years. Doing shows not only in the Kansas City area but around the country Washington DC summer of 2023 was the last show that I did outside of the Kansas City area. Now that you know a little bit about me and what we do I as the founder of IAAAMKC would hope to have your continued support. We can’t do any of this without your support.
