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Aida the musical, a visiting conductor, and an Arts Exit interview

It is a history-making week at KOPN as we start broadcasting from our new home on Bernadette Drive. And history has a role in each of this week's Speaking of the Arts ...

For the Love of Locals art show, and theatre: 'She Kills Monsters', 'Brilliant Traces', and the Lyceum's Summer Season

As KOPN prepares to move to its new home this week, show host, Diana Moxon, revisits some recent chats: the art exhibit 'For the Love of Locals' featuring portraiture ...

A quartet of theatre

This week's show is theatre, theatre, theatre and then more theatre. Show host, Diana Moxon, chats with director, Chris Bowling, and actor, Ada Chapman about monsters...

Art in the Park at Stephens Lake Park

After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the Columbia Art League's annual Art in the Park festival returns to Stephens Lake Park this weekend. Diana Moxon checks in with its ...

August Wilson's 'Jitney', an artist jeweler, and an exit interview

This week's show is a little bit of a mash up of new and old. New is a chat with actor, director and music producer, Richard Harris, about the August Wilson play 'Jitn...

A singer songwriter, a fashion artist, a portrait painter, and a fiber artist: Checking in with the Missouri Arts Council's featured May 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 May art...

Eurovision 2022!

This week Diana Moxon takes a deep dive into the annual Eurovision Song Contest - its history, culture, music and the strange rise and fall of the United Kingdom over ...

The history of Missouri fashion, the North Village Art Walk, and an Arts Exit Interview

On this week's eclectic arts tour, show host Diana Moxon dives into a new exhibit at the State Historical Society's Center for Missouri Studies called 'MOda 200: Misso...

Conductors, Charlie Brown, Portraits, and a Pop-Up Postcard show

This week's Speaking of the Arts smorgasbord includes the Missouri Symphony Orchestra's hiring of a new Conductor, three local artists whose portrait works make up a n...

The Unbound Book Festival, and two plays: 'Fun Home' and 'The Revolutionists'

The 6th annual Unbound Book Festival returns to downtown Columbia this weekend and Diana Moxon caught up with the festival's Executive Director, Alex George, to talk a...

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 a...

'August, Osage County at Columbia Entertainment Company & singer songwriter Meredith Shaw

On this week's show host, Diana Moxon, revisits two recent chats: Director Angela Howard and actor DeeDee Farris talk about Columbia Entertainment Company's production...

A painter, a photographer, a story-sharer, and a textiles & performance artist: Checking in with the Missouri Arts Council's March 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 March a...

The case of the missing artwork, a bronze rendition of the age of technology, and a pitch-black tragicomedy about a dysfunctional family

On this week's show Diana Moxon chats with Boone History and Culture Center curator, Audrey Florey, about an art retrospective of the work of Tracy Montminy and the fa...

Music at 50: half a century of the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, and singer songwriter Meredith Shaw plays Nashville

This week it's a musical tour of the arts. Host Diana Moxon chats with singer songwriter, Meredith Shaw, about her journey into the Nashville music scene and the liber...

The True False Film Fest, and chats with the directors of 'Let the Little Light Shine', and 'Sirens'

The True False film fest returns to downtown Columbia this weekend with 33 documentary movies and 20 shorts packed into the weekend. Diana Moxon chats with the Fest's ...

Two painters and a documentary film maker: Checking in with the Missouri Arts Council's February 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 three of th...

From pop music to art music, and from the art of the non-portrait to the art of the CoMo Sea

With Columbia's annual True False Film Fest returning the first weekend in March, this week Diana Moxon chats with three of the visual and musical artists who will be ...

Local theatre reawakens & a new illustrated children's book

After their annual winter hiatus, local theatres are turning out their ghost light and turning the footlights back on, so on this week's show, host Diana Moxon dives b...

August Wilson's 'Fences', the True False film fest, and MOSY on the Rocks

The arts are starting to emerge from their January hiatus and this week Diana Moxon chats with three people who are making arts things happen. Actor and Director, Rich...

The photography of David Lancaster and Priya Kambli

This week host Diana Moxon explores the works of two photographers. Dr David Lancaster (https://www.davidlancasterphotography.com/) is a photographer and physician at ...

Music, surface design collage, fabric-scapes, and landscapes: Checking in with the Missouri Arts Council January 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 January...

A 2021 visual artist retrospective

With January a bit of a doldrum for the arts, this week Diana Moxon looks back on some of her visual artist chats from last year. Kirksville based artist Lindsey Dunna...

2021 Retrospective: Chats with Missouri Arts Council featured music makers

In 2021 Diana Moxon dedicated one show each month to chatting with the Missouri Arts Council's featured artists. On this week's show she revisits four of the chats she...

The year in books and the year in film

As we head into the new year, Diana Moxon invites Unbound Book Festival Executive Director and Skylark Bookshop owner, Alex George to share his Skylarky commendations ...

The snuggly year-in-local-theatreland review show with Monica and David

This week Diana Moxon invites avid theatre goers and actors, Monica Palmer and David McSpadden, into the tinsel-strewn Speaking of the Arts studio to snuggle up by the...

The Master's Exhibit, paper-cutting that illuminates physics, and haunting paintings of teddy bears

Each December the Sager Reeves Gallery in Columbia brings in work by 20th century masters. This year the exhibit focuses on two artists who were central to the abstrac...

Two painters, a conceptual artist, and singer songwriter: Checking in with the Missouri Arts Council's November 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 Novembe...

The Festive Arts: Musicals, Music, and of course, A Christmas Carol

The holiday season is upon us and so are a slew of Christmassy/Holiday Season-themed performances. On this week's show Diana Moxon chats with writer/actor Stacia Ferna...

A thankful retrospective of some of the 2021 chats

It is Thanksgiving week here in America, so what better time to be thankful for all the arts chats of the year, and to look back on just a handful of them. There was t...

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