Artspeak Radio with Luke "Skippy" Harbur and Tj Templeton

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, January 7, 2026, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes producer/performer/educator Luke “Skippy” Harbur and artist/curator Tj Templeton. Luke “Skippy” Harbur is a performer, producer, and educator whose business, musicbyskippy, creates live arts experiences for multigenerational audiences. Through beatboxing and other artistic skills, his work celebrates authenticity and combats social isolation. Over 75 published songs, nearly 1,600 tickets sold to original shows, and two life-saving surgeries continue his mission to promote the kind, goofy, and critical thinking artist living inside all of us. Contact information for social media/website: @musicbyskippy on all social media platforms/ Upcoming event: "The Toxic Avenger: The Musical" at The Arts Asylum from Jan 30 to Feb 8, 2026. Tickets are available at theartsasylum.org. Tj Templeton is an interdisciplinary artist and Kansas City native. His work has been collected for over 30 years nationwide and been featured in such outlets as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, ArtMove Magazine, KC Studio Magazine, the Martin Scorsese screening room at the Tribeca Film festival, 21C Museum, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He is currently the artist-in-residence at the Bunker Center for the Arts, where he maintains his studio and curates the gallery’s inventory of over 400 works by local, regional, and international artists. Currently, Templeton’s work is on exhibit at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Personal Best, a free exhibition celebrating six local artist-athletes whose dual pursuits put them at the top of their game. Through a variety of styles and media, their work reveals that true achievement is built on relentless commitment, turning everyday effort into continual growth.

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Artspeak Radio with Luke "Skippy" Harbur and Tj Templeton is an episode from Artspeak Radio by KKFI 90.1 FM Kansas City Community Radio.

This episode is 01:00:03 long.

This episode was published on Jan 6, 2026.

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