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
Youth Arts Council and new arts education director - Episode 37
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 memb…
NEA Literary Fellowships - Episode 36
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 ar…
Giving the gift of Kentucky art - Episode 35
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 Kent…
Southern Cultural Treasure: Asia Institute Crane House - Episode 34
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 So…
After the Disaster: A Community Responds - Episode 33
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 Di…
A Region in Recovery: The Ice House Gallery and Tornado Recovery in Western Kentucky - Episode 32
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 presentat…
Southern Prize Kentucky State Fellow Crystal Gregory – Episode 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 scho…
'Our Kentucky Home' traveling exhibit - Episode 30
This episode is a audio from a presentation during Arts Day(s) in Kentucky. It features three artists whose work is in the Kentucky Arts Council's traveling exhibit "Our Kentucky Home: Hispanic/Latin…
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants - Episode 29
Today, Oct. 21, has been designated by the National Endowment for the Arts to be a day to focus on health and wellness in the arts as we celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month. We thought it wo…
Southern Prize Kentucky State Fellow Joyce Garner - Episode 28
"Don't turn yourself down."
That's advice Joyce Garner gives to her fellow Kentucky artists about taking opportunities to advance and promote their work. Joyce was recently named the Kentucky Stat…
Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson - Episode 27
"Everyone asks me, especially when I'm traveling around the country...'What is it? feel like you all have something special there in Kentucky. Why is it that this idea of a Kentucky writer is such a …
Join us for Arts Week in Kentucky - Episode 26
Arts Week in Kentucky is coming, Feb. 22-26! On this episode of the podcast we get a taste of what to expect during Arts Week with Lori Meadows, chair of Kentuckians for the Arts, and Mark Brown, the…
KAC staff member Sandie Lawrence reflects on her time at the arts council - Episode 25
The Kentucky Arts Council's communications and technology branch manager Sandie Lawrence is retiring at the end of 2020, closing a chapter on her 25-year career at the Kentucky Arts Council. She rece…
Revisiting the Summer Enrichment Program at Consolidated Baptist Church - Episode 24
Last year, we spent time with the folks who lead Consolidated Baptist Church's Summer Enrichment Program, a unique education program, which includes the arts among other academic disciplines. This p…
Artrepreneur and the Kentucky Crafted program - Episode 23
This past spring, the Kentucky Arts Council, with our friends at the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, entered into a partnership with the for-profit group Artrepreneur. Founded in 2015, Artrepreneur i…
'Poetry Unites Kentucky' documentary project and how to nominate for Kentucky Poet Laureate
Kentucky's connection to poetry will be the subject of a an upcoming episode of the documentary series "Poetry Unites America." On this episode of KyArtsCast, we talk with Ewa Sandrzynska, the docume…
The Kentucky Crafted program application - Episode 21
The Kentucky Arts Council is currently accepting applications to the Kentucky Crafted program, the state's juried arts marketing program. The deadline to apply to this free program is Aug. 17. On thi…
Reopening and Reimagining - Episode 20
With Kentucky's Healthy at Work guidelines gradually reopening sectors of the state's economy, we talk with folks from three of our sister agencies in the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet …
Writer Maurice Manning - Episode 19
You may not have known that award-winning Kentucky writer Maurice Manning has been the Kentucky Arts Council's featured artist. The spot on the arts council homepage usually reserved for the featured…
Tribute to former Kentucky First Lady Phyllis George - Episode 18
We're paying tribute to former Kentucky First Lady Phyllis George, who died last month at the age of 70. Phyllis was integral to starting what is now known as the Kentucky Crafted arts marketing pro…