A wood sculptor, a spoken-word poet, a painter, and a guitarist: Checking in with the Missouri Arts Council's April featured artists

Each month the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres, and on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in with the April artists: Wood sculptor Michael Bauermeister in Augusta, who has two sculptures in the Smithsonian museum and whose gouge-carving technique creates surfaces which seem to ripple and flow of their own accord; Spoken word poet Sheri Purpose Hall who is described as both a kind and gentle spirit and a gale force wind who wrecks microphones; abstract painter Kelley Carman who says her artwork is an attempt to decipher the babble in her brain; and guitarist BT Sullivan who plays orchestral arrangements of The Great American Songbook on his solo guitar. You can see, and hear, the works of this week's guests on their websites: http://michaelbauermeister.com/; https://www.spokenpurpose.com/; https://www.kelleycarman.com/; https://btinamerica.com/. Thanks, as always, to guitarist Yasmin Williams (http://www.yasminwilliamsmusic.com/) for the show's opening and closing music entitled, 'Restless Heart'.

What is Speaking of the Arts?

Speaking of the Arts is mid-Missouri's only weekly arts show. The show is hosted by Diana Moxon, who chats with actors, directors, authors, musicians, festival directors, event organizers, arts curators, and artists about the events they are involved in and also about their own works and their influences. Whilst the show focuses mainly on the mid-Missouri arts scene, Diana's guests have included international composers, conductors, authors as well as artists, musicians, and performers from around Missouri.