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State of the ArtsSaturday 11:30am
State of the Arts is a weekly 30-minute program focusing on the arts community of El Paso. Hosted by dedicated art enthusiast Mónica Gómez, State of the Arts provides listeners with a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how creativity is shaping our community. Gómez interviews local visual artists, writers, dancers, singers, actors and directors, as well as regional talent exhibiting or performing in El Paso. The show gets to the heart of what inspires and drives artists to do what they love best.
Host Mónica Gómez
Mónica Gómez began hosting State of the Arts in April 2007. She brings to the program her experience as a long-time performer, songwriter, poet, teaching artist, and former TV news reporter specializing in arts, culture and good news. She says art is always good news.
Audio Archive
February 6, 2010 Maceo and Sondra Dailey - Co-owners of independent publishing company, Sweet Earth Flying Press, Maceo and Sondra Dailey, editor and publisher respectively, talk about their debut publication, Boy of the Border – a previously unpublished story co-authored by celebrated black poet, Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps.
Information: (915) 845-7356 or visit www.sweetearthflyingpress.com
February 6, 2010 Hansel & Gretel - Media Relations and Public Information Officer for Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe, Estela Reyes Lopez, and Kimberley Wolfenbarger-Nakamoto, Artistic Director of the Youth Opera of El Paso, along with 14-year-old vocalist, Kendra Melendez, talk about the upcoming presentations of Hansel and Gretel at La Fe Culture and Technology Center.
Information: (915) 545-7190‎
February 6, 2010 Film Salon - Chuck Horak, host of KTEP’s On Film, talks about an upcoming series of four films featuring Carole Lombard, and offers a glimpse of the next Plaza Classic Film Festival.
Information: (915) 533-2674 or visit filmsalon.org
January 30, 2010 El Paso Museum of Art - Executive Director of the El Paso Museum of Art, Michael Tomor, talks about the current exhibition in honor of the Museum's fiftieth anniversary - Into the Desert Light: Early El Paso Art - an exhibition of over 50 artists who worked in this region from 1850-1960.
Information: El Paso Museum of Art Into the Desert Light: Early El Paso Art (1850-1960)
Showing through March 14
(915) 532-1707 or visit www.elpasoartmuseum.org
January 30, 2010 El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestra - Music Director of the El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestras, Andy Moran, along with Mark Schuppener, Violin Soloist, and Juan Flores, Rotating Concertmaster, talk about the upcoming Winter Concert.
Information: El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestra Winter Concert
Saturday, February 6, 7:30 PM Abraham Chavez Theater
(915) 525-8978 or visit www.epsyos.org
January 30, 2010 The Barbed Wire Open Mic Series - Amit Ghosh, Publisher of the bilingual literary magazine, BorderSenses, and Roberto Santos, Organizer and Host of The Barbed Wire Open Mic Series at the Percolator Café talk about the Series and the 16th issue of BorderSenses.
Information: BorderSenses Submission deadline February 28
(915) 533-2295 or visit www.BorderSenses.com
Barbed Wire Open Mic Series, the last Saturday of each month, 5:30 workshop, 7pm open mic
The Percolator Café, 217 N. Stanton, 806-470-1583
January 23, 2010 My Story Please Listen - Curtis Butler III, an Iraq Veteran who has written the book titled My Story Please Listen, and Pete Flores, a Korean War Veteran with Veterans Business Association, talk about the issue of post traumatic stress disorder.
January 23, 2010 Steve Smith and Chris Sanders - Musicians, vocalists and recording artists, Steve Smith and Chris Sanders talk about their latest all-original CD with their group, Hard Road titled Signs Along the Road.
Information: www.desertnight.com
January 23, 2010 Red Mesa - Ilana Lapid, writer and director of the film Red Mesa, and Eric Pearson, Executive Vice President of the El Paso Community Foundation, talk about the film produced by and starring local talent, and its potential as a 2011 nominee for a Live Action Short Film Oscar.
Information: El Paso Community Foundation.
January 16, 2010 Children's Book Author Martin Bencomo - El Paso native and newly-published author, Martin Bencomo, talks about his literary debut with a bilingual children’s book titled Paloma Padilla.
Information: www.martinbencomo.com
January 16, 2010 Artist Anne Stein - Award-winning action artist, Anne Stein, also known as A. Stein, talks about her striking abstract work currently showing in the Community Exhibit Space in City Hall.
Information: www.asteinarts.com
January 16, 2010 Gem's Gems - Charlotte Whitfield, Vice President of Gem’s Gems, and Bill Whitfield, volunteer, talk about this unique local educational resource – its history and the changes taking place to keep Gem’s Gems strong for the future.
Information: (915) 845-5437 or visit www.gemsgems.org
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