KyArtsCast – Details, episodes & analysis

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.

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 Kentucky Crafted Market
• View a digital version of the Market program to find out which artists will be there

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 Standards Review Process
• Visual and Performing Arts Standards Resources
• Kentucky's Visual and Performing Arts Curriculum
• Email Jessica Greene - [email protected]

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 Accelerator Awards cohort

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

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

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: [email protected]

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 and their plans for the funding.

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 footnotes:

• Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea
  
  
• Kentucky Crafted Directory
  
  
• Kentucky Crafted Retailers
  
  
• Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet holiday page