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On this month's episode of the Kentucky Arts Cast, we'll meet with two winners of this year's Governor's Awards in the Arts.  Visit with Teddy Abrams, winner of the 2025 National Award, and the Artist Award winner Sam McKinney.    

On this month's episode of the Kentucky Arts Cast, we'll meet with two winners of this year's Governor's Awards in the Arts.  Visit with Lakshmi Sriraman, winner of the Folk Heritage Awards, and Jim Barr and Selma Weisenberg, reprenting the Community Arts Award winner, the Owensboro Arts Guild.   

On this month's episode of KYArtsCast, host Leeann Potter meets the artist who was commissioned to make this year's Governor's Awards in the Arts, Aleta Stone. Stone is a contemporary wood collage artist living in London, KY.

Kentucky Arts Council host Leeann Potter visits with leaders from three different organizations to talk about and celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month. 

On our episode this month, we visit with three more recipients of the first round of America250KY grant. The folks at the Kentucky Arts Council are excited to facilitate this grant in collaboration with the Kentucky Historical Society.   

On our episode this month, we are going to visit with three more recipients of the America250KY grant. The folks at the Kentucky Arts Council are excited to facilitate this grant in collaboration with the Kentucky Historical Society. The grants create opportunities for artists and organizations to commemorate 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence through the creation and presentation of art. "BE THE PEOPLE: PORTRAITS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICA" features the work of Kentucky photographer Jon Cherry. Cherry and Centre College's Norton Center for the Arts executive director Steve Hoffman have joined me to discuss the exhibit.  Matt Wallace, the producing artistic director for Kentucky Shakespeare in Louisville. This organization's America250ky grant will help expand its original living history educational outreach play, "Kentucky History: Chronicles of the Commonwealth."   The National Quilt Museum Executive Director Bonnie Schrock and Quilt Appraiser Vickie Coleman discuss September's Quilt Documentation Event.

On this month's Episode of the Kentucky Arts Cast, Host Leeann Potter explores some of the America 250 KY programs that are taking place this Summer. 

Join Kentucky Arts Council Folk and Traditional Arts Director, Mark Brown, and Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program participants to explore  New Generations of Storytellers. You can see the video and those of all of our Creative Industry Summit Series on our YouTube channel @KYArtsCouncil.  Contacts and links mentioned in the show include: Affrilachian Arts - https://www.affrilachianarts.org/ Hasan Davis, Big Medicine: York Outdoors teaser -    • Big Medicine: York Outdoors teaser   Big Medicine: The York Project, National Park Service - https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/big-... Mitch Barrett, Performing Artist - https://artistdirectory.ky.gov/Pages/..., and Teaching Artist - https://artistdirectory.ky.gov/Pages/... South Arts, In These Mountains - https://www.southarts.org/programs/th...    

On this month's episode of the Kentucky Arts Cast, Kentucky's Newest Poet Laureate, Kathleen Driskell, sits down with host Leeann Potter to discuss writing, teaching, and the art of living. Award-winning poet, essayist, and teacher Kathleen Driskell has authored of six poetry collections, most recently Goat-Footed Gods.  She is professor of creative writing and Chair of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville.  

On this month's episode, we explore the work of Silas House, what it means to be a writer, and how his work as Kentucky's 2023-25 poet laureate has impacted the state. 

In this month's episode we will visit with Dave Shadwick, an artist preparing for this week's Kentucky Crafted Market AND Leah Hamilton and Melissa Bond, co-administrators of the Kentucky Heritage Emergency Response Network.

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. 

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 nominations for these awards and coordinates the panel selection process, and the awards are presented by the Governor of Kentucky.

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 awards and coordinates the panel selection process, and the awards are presented by the Governor of Kentucky.

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.