KyArtsCast

NOTE: Since the recording of this episode, the Native Reflections exhibit tour has been put on hold. You can see work in the exhibit by visiting the Kentucky Arts Council website and viewing a slideshow. The Kentucky Arts Council, in partnership with the Kentucky Heritage Council and the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission, is presenting Native Reflections: Visual Art by American Indians...

It's Poetry Month across the country and it's also the month we celebrate Kentucky Writers' Day, April 24. On this episode, Kentucky Arts Council staff member Tamara Coffey talks literature, self-isolation and inspiration with current Kentucky Poet Laureate Jeff Worley and former poets laureate George Ella Lyon and Richard Taylor.  To learn more about Kentucky Writers' Day, visit the Kentucky Writ...

It's been a year since we debuted KyArtsCast, so we wanted to take a few minutes to acknowledge the occasion and shine a spotlight on the folks here at the Kentucky Arts Council who collaborate every day to bring outstanding arts programs and grants to every corner of the Commonwealth. We also want to hear from YOU! As we enter the second season of the podcast, we'd like to know what you'd like to...

Chris Cathers, executive director of the Kentucky Arts Council, and Todd Finley, executive director of the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea, chat about the importance of shopping local and how and where to find wonderful examples of art and craft by Kentucky artists. It's your guide to shopping local this holiday season!

Rick Hill, the resident artist at the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources who has painted original covers for the department's publication Kentucky Afield, talks about how he started as a nature artist and his creative process.  The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and the Kentucky Arts Council recently partnered to present an exhibit of Rick's work at the Capitol...

Listen and learn how to win FREE tickets to the Kentucky Creative Industry Summit, Dec. 6 at the Clay Community Center in Mt. Sterling! For this episode, Emily Moses, Kentucky Arts Council executive staff advisor, talks with Mitzi Sinnott, Heather Pontonio, Kurt Gohde and Kremena Todorova, all of whom will be among the presenters at the 2019 Kentucky Creative Industry Summit.  This year's summit t...

Emily Moses, Kentucky Arts Council executive staff advisor, continues her chat with Beth Flowers, executive director of the AIR Institute of Berea College. In part two of this episode, that was recorded in July, Beth and Emily discuss the AIR Institute's 2 1/2-day workshop called AIR Shift. The workshop brings artists and members of the business community together to develop a worthwhile and achie...

National Arts in Education Week (Sept. 8-14) is coming up and we thought it was a good time to highlight a valuable educational program that the Kentucky Arts Council offered its support to this summer. This unique educational opportunity available to Fayette County Youth, the Summer Enrichment Program at Consolidated Baptist Church, is a four-week program that connects the arts to STEM skills and...

In May, Louisville's iconic Galt House Hotel introduced the public to its inaugural artist in residence, geometric abstract artist Gibbs Rounsavall. This residency is believed to be the first of its kind for a Kentucky hotel. In this episode of KyArtsCast we talk to Gibbs as well as Scott Shoenberger, president and CEO of the Al J. Schneider Company, which owns the Galt House. Listen in and learn...

  Back in March we visited the 2019 Lexington Comic & Toy Convention at Lexington Convention Center. Our mission was twofold. We wanted to talk to the artists in our Kentucky Crafted program who also exhibit at the convention and find out why it makes sense from an artistic and business perspective to have a presence at Comic Con. We also chatted with a handful of costume players, or cosplayers as...

We've packed up the podcast studio and hit the road for this episode. Join us as we learn more about an important art-based component of substance abuse addiction recovery called The Culture of Recovery, and initiative of the Appalachian Artisan Center. We're talking with two participants in the recovery program, Kim Patton and Nathan Smith, along with program coordinator Savannah Napier Hall and...

The third annual Artists Thrive Summit is July 30-Aug. 2 in Berea, and for this episode Emily Moses, Kentucky Arts Council executive staff advisor, is chatting with Beth Flowers, executive director of the AIR Insitute of Berea College and a member of the summit leadership team. Emily and Beth talk about what goes on at the summit, who should be there (spoiler alert...YOU) and how to get a 75 perce...

Listen in as we chat with three Kentucky Crafted artists, Deb Chenault, Justine Riley and Bill Berryman, about their work, what makes it unique and how they've benefited from being juried into Kentucky Crafted. The application process for Kentucky Crafted is open through Aug. 15, and this episode also features the Kentucky Arts Council's arts marketing director, Dave Blevins. Dave talks about the...

Remarks from newly installed Kentucky Poet Laureate Jeff Worley of Lexington and outgoing poet laureate Frederick Smock of Louisville made April 24, Kentucky Writers' Day, at the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.

Meet Lori Larusso, Lexington visual artist and the South Arts Kentucky State Fellow in the third annual Southern Prize competition. Lori represented Kentucky among the nine other State Fellow, each from one of the South Arts member states, last month at the Southern Prize awards ceremony in Columbia, S.C. On this episode we're chatting with Lori about her life in art, the work that earned her the...

Kentucky Writers' Day is just around the corner, 10 a.m. April 24 at the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, and to get stoked for it we brough two Kentucky Poets Laureate into Studio B for a chat about Kentucky poetry, literature and the poet laureate position. Tamara Coffey, Kentucky Arts Council organization support and individual artists director, takes the interview microphone for...

If you missed out on the chance to visit The Kentucky Crafted Market last month, you also missed an opportunity to hear fantastic live music from the Kentucky Stage. Not to worry. We've curated highlights from groups that performed on the stage and collected them in this special episode. Each group or individual that performed on the Kentucky Stage is a member of the Kentucky Arts Council's adjudi...

  This month's podcast is all about love for the arts, and the upcoming Kentucky Crafted Market , March 16-17 at the Kentucky Horse Park's Alltech Arena. Our guests are musician Marcus Wilkerson and visual artists Alisha Martin, Dave Shadwick and Lakshmi Sriraman. They each talk about what made them fall in love with creating art, and their excitement for the upcoming Kentucky Crafted Market. More...

Tom Musgrave chats with Doris Thurber, a cofounder of Franklin County's Hands Healing HeArts initiative, and Angie Boone, one of the Hands Healing HeArts participants, about this unique addiction recovery support program centered around the visual arts. Hands Healing HeArts works in cooperation with Franklin County Drug Court, using a variety of hands-on, multi-disciplinary artistic approaches wit...

Tom Musgrave, Kentucky Arts Council communications director, and Chris Cathers, interim executive director chat about how the podcast came about, behind the scenes stuff at the Kentucky Arts Council and some initiatives involving art as therapy for Kentucky's military veterans. We also discuss work in the arts council's Kentucky Veteran Project exhibit, which can be seen in a slideshow here . You...

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