KyArtsCast
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.
- Update frequency
- every 26 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 61
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Episode 57: Music, Murals and Photography
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 w…
America250KY: Photography, Theatre, and Quilts
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 wit…
Episode 55: America 250 KY
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.
New Generations of Storytellers
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 t…
Episode 53: Kentucky’s 2025-26 Poet Laureate, Kathleen Driskell
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-win…
Episode 52: Silas House, Kentucky's 2023-25 Poet Laureate
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.
51: The Market arrives, and Kentuckians recover after flooding
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 Em…
Episode 50- Supporting the Arts in Kentucky
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 ar…
Episode 49 - Introducing organizations of the Governor’s Awards in the Arts
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 aw…
Episode 48 – Meet the individual winners of the Governor’s Awards in the Arts
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 indivi…
Episode 47- Celebrating Native Reflections
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…
October is Arts & Humanities month- Episode 46
The Kentucky Arts Council welcomes a new host, and celebrates Arts & Humanities Month in the Commonwealth
Tom's farewell - Episode 45
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's first Youth Poet Laureate - Episode 44
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 h…
Women's History Month and Music in Our Schools Month - Episode 43
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, professo…
Are you coming to The Kentucky Crafted Market? - Episode 42
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 …
Arts standards and our schools, a conversation with the Kentucky Department of Education's Jessica Greene - Episode 41
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, dis…
$500,000 Accelerator Award recipient HHN2L - Episode 40
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 e…
Make Kentucky-made Art and Craft Part of Your Holiday Gift Giving - Episode 39
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 se…
Things that Go Bump on the Pod - Episode 38
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 theat…