KC Black Arts Project: Interview w/ Michael Artis

The KC Black Arts Project sits down with Michael Artis, a local Black portraiture artist.

By Ryan S. ● Arts & Culture ● August 13, 2021 May 12, 2022

In our inaugural long-form artist interview, we sat down with renown Kansas City visual creator, Michael Artis. In this fascinating episode Michael talks us through his creative process and inspirations, as well as how being a Black man influences the art he chooses to make.

Michael has sold numerous of his creations and is well known in the Kansas City art community. Check out his Instagram here.

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Ryan S.

Ryan has a diverse background including working at one of the nation’s most esteemed Black think tanks, one of Chicago’s top B2B Tech PR agencies, a top 3 global PR firm, and founding Kansas City’s largest Black-led direct action group during the 2020 uprisings. During Ryan’s professional career he’s consulted brands such as Facebook, Samsung, Amazon and Google.

He is a recipient of the Civil and Human Rights Award recognized by the Urban League of Kansas City, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and NAACP. He has also engaged in a number of public talks as a prison industrial complex Abolitionist thinker including on; NPR, PBS, a Kansas City Art Institute Lecture, a lecture at University of the Arts London, the Annual International Symposium (Digital Ethics for a Sustainable Society), as well as the T-Mobile Speaker Series.

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Ryan S.

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