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KyArtsCast

Kentucky Arts Council

This podcast is produced by the Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency of the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet. On the podcast we"ll talk about arts council programs, speak with the artists from across the state and explore topics important to the arts community in Kentucky.

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Episode 50- Supporting the Arts in Kentucky

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2025/02/04

On this month's episode, host Leeann Potter visits with the Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet Secretary Lindy Casebier, Kentuckians for the Arts Board Chair Lori Meadows, and Re-Imagined by Luna artist Melissa Oesch, as everyone prepares for spring arts events.

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Episode 49 - Introducing organizations of the...

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2024/12/30

On our episode this month, we will visit with folks from organizations that received the Governor Awards in the Arts this year. Coordinated by the Kentucky Arts Council, the presentation of these awards recognizes individuals and organizations making extraordinary and significant contributions to the arts in Kentucky. Awards go to artists, arts organizations, art critics, volunteers, schools, educators, local governments, elected officials and corporate citizens. The Kentucky Arts Council solicits

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51:29

Episode 48 – Meet the individual winners of the...

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2024/12/03

On Our episode this month, we will visit with each of the individual Governor Awards in the Arts Winners. Coordinated by the Kentucky Arts Council, the presentation of these awards recognizes individuals and organizations making extraordinary and significant contributions to the arts in Kentucky. Awards go to artists, arts organizations, art critics, volunteers, schools, educators, local governments, elected officials and corporate citizens. The Kentucky Arts Council solicits nominations for these

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52:13

Episode 47- Celebrating Native Reflections

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2024/10/31

The Kentucky Arts Council is celebrating our newest (and soon to be traveling) exhibit, Native Reflections. On this episode we will learn how an exhibit is created and how the process works from the artist and panelist prospectives.

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54:31

October is Arts & Humanities month- Episode 46

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2024/10/04

The Kentucky Arts Council welcomes a new host, and celebrates Arts & Humanities Month in the Commonwealth

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03:47

Tom's farewell - Episode 45

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2024/05/22

It's been my pleasure for the past five years to produce this podcast. It started out as a wild idea, and has evolved into an amazing mode of communication that allows us to more thoroughly tell the Kentucky Arts Council's stories. Today, my time as producer and host comes to an end. I've had a wonderful time on this podcast journey, and now it's time to turn it over to other voices as it continues. There are some people I'd like to thank publicly for their support of this endeavor. When I went to

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01:03:35

Kentucky's first Youth Poet Laureate - Episode 44

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2024/04/19

Amy Roblero-Perez is ending her one-year term as the first Kentucky Youth Poet Laureate. We chat with her about her reaction to beign named to the position, what she's been doing the past year, and hear readings of her work. We'll also talk with Jordan Campbell, executive director of Gateway Regional Arts Center in Mt. Sterling, which sponsors the Kentucky Youth Poet Laureate program. He'll discuss how it got started and what young Kentucky poets can do to apply for the program in the future.

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59:20

Women's History Month and Music in Our Schools Month:...

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2024/03/22

For a long time, the world of school band directors was largely dominated by men. This demographic has shifted over the years to include more women and increased diversity. Dr. Sue Creasap, professor emeritus and former associate director of bands at Morehead State University, leads a robust conversation that includes retired Jefferson County Schools band director Nan Moore, University of Louisville music professor and associate band director Dr. Amy Acklin, retired Fayette County Schools band

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41:10

Are you coming to The Kentucky Crafted Market? -...

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2024/02/27

We are getting closer to The Kentucky Crafted Market, March 9-10 at the Kentucky Horse Park's Alltech Arena. It is. perhaps. the Kentucky Arts Council's most visible event each year. In this episode we chat with four artists in the Kentucky Crafted program who are exhibiting and selling work at The Market: Dodie Wrocklage-Harp, Rob Bridges, Addison Williams and Michelle Hayden. Learn about their work and what they like about exhibiting at The Market. Episode footnotes: Learn more about the 2024

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22:56

Arts standards and our schools, a conversation with...

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2024/01/25

What should Kentucky's public school students know about the arts by the time they have graduated? Jessica Greene, a performing and visual arts consultant to the Kentucky Department of Education, discusses that topic and talks about how Kentuckians can weigh in on those standards. Cynthia Warner, the Kentucky Arts Council's arts education director, interviews Jessica for this important conversation about the arts in our schools. Episode footnotes: Kentucky Department of Education Academic

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01:04:00

$500,000 Accelerator Award recipient HHN2L - Episode 40

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2023/12/15

Kentucky Arts Council spring intern Ashanti Grace Castleberry and arts council communications director Tom Musgrave learn more about Hip Hop Into Learning (HHN2L), a Louisville-based nonprofit arts education organization that received a $500,000 Accelerator Award from The Lewis Prize for Music. Ashanti chats with The Lewis Prize CEO Dalouge Smith and Tom continues the conversation with HHN2L cofounder Nyree Clayton-Taylor. Episode footnotes: HHN2L homepage The Lewis Prize for Music 2023

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25:37

Make Kentucky-made Art and Craft Part of Your Holiday...

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2023/11/16

The Kentucky Arts Council's Chris Cathers and Tom Musgrave travel to the Kentucky Artisan Center's Todd Finley and Aly Norton about holiday gift giving, what the Artisan Center has planned for the season, and how you can give the gift of Kentucky-made art. Episode footnotes: Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea Kentucky Crafted Directory List of Kentucky Crafted Retailers

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01:04:47

Things that Go Bump on the Pod - Episode 38

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2023/10/27

In this seasonal episode, we explore the intersection of the arts and the macabre with a trio of segments featuring storyteller Octavia Sexton, folklorist and podcaster Camille Maria Acosta and theatre professional Bo List. Episode footnotes: Octavia Sexton's links Performing Artists Directory Teaching Artists Directory Floaties for Krakens Podcast site Leeds Center for the Arts Haunted Theatres

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48:06

Youth Arts Council and new arts education director -...

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2023/09/14

In this episode of KyArtsCast we introduce the new Kentucky Arts Council arts education director Cynthia Warner, and talk to teaching artist Jane Dewey and high school student Cooper Bartlett, a member of Kentuckians for the Arts' Youth Arts Council. Episode footnotes: Kentucky Youth Arts Council Instagram Kentuckians for the Arts website Contact Jane Dewey: jane.dewey@danville.kyschools.us

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35:43

NEA Literary Fellowships - Episode 36

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2023/06/14

In early 2023, the National Endowment for the Arts announced its first round of funding for the year, which included $350,000 awarded in Kentucky. Among those awards were two for Kentucky literary artists. Poet makalani bandele received a $25,000 Literature Fellowship for creative writing, and Kristen Renee Miller received $10,000 for a Literature Fellowship for translation projects. Listen as Kentucky Arts Council spring intern Sophie DeCorte chats with makalani and Kristen about those fellowships

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Giving the gift of Kentucky art - Episode 35

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2022/11/22

The holidays are upon us and our hearts and minds turn toward gift giving. We join Todd Finley and Aly Norton on location at the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea to talk about giving the gift of Kentucky-made art and craft, recordings of your favorite Kentucky musicians and storytellers, season tickets to Kentucky theatre organizations or musical groups, memberships to Kentucky museums and galleries, and other creative ways to give the gift of Kentucky creativity this holiday season. Episode

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43:44

Southern Cultural Treasure: Asia Institute Crane...

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2022/07/07

Asia Institute Crane House in Louisville was one of 17 organizations to be designated a Southern Cultural Treasure by South Arts. In this episode we talk with AICH Executive Director Joel Buno and South Arts Vice President of Programs Dr. Joy Young. We'll learn about what it means to be a Southern Cultural Treasure and how Asia Institute Crane House fits into that tapestry. BONUS AUDIO: Dr. Joy Young discusses other South Arts programs Episode footnotes: Asia Institute Crane House website South

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After the Disaster: A Community Responds - Episode 33

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2022/06/10

In this episode, which is taken from the Kentucky Arts Council's Arts Day(s) in Kentucky presentations in March, Community Scholars and curators Maxine Ray and Wathetta Buford join Kentucky Museum Director Brent Bjorkman to discuss joining forces to rescue treasured art, artifacts and documents of Bowling Green's African American Museum in the aftermath of the December 2021 tornado. Episode footnotes: African-American Museum website Team Western Kentucky Tornado Relief Fund resources

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56:28

A Region in Recovery: The Ice House Gallery and...

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2022/06/10

We return to presentations from Arts Day(s) in Kentucky for this episode, which focuses on the impact of the devastating tornado that tore through western Kentucky in December 2021. In this presentation we’ll hear from Ice House director Nanc Gunn about efforts to re-establish space for the gallery while continuing to serve the artists, arts community and the region in the wake of the disaster. We'll also hear from Lexie Millikan, director of the Yeiser Art Center in Paducah.about the effects on the

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33:31

Southern Prize Kentucky State Fellow Crystal Gregory...

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2022/05/31

We’re excited to be recording in-person again, and in this episode we go on the road to the University of Kentucky campus to talk with Crystal Gregory, an associate professor in the university’s school of art and visual studies. Crystal was recently named the Kentucky State Fellow in the 2022 South Arts Southern Prize Competition. That distinction carries a $5,000 cash award and puts Crystal in the running for the $25,000 or $10,000 Southern Prize. We chat with Crystal about her work, her journey to

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