Art Throb Podcast

03/09/2024

NEW EPISODE OF Arts Connect Art Throb Podcast. A unique conversaton with artist William Duffy - a recent recipient of Louisville Visual Arts's Legacy Award - about his solo show currently at the Speed Art Museum as the second installment of the Louisville Black Avant-Garde series, highlighting local, historically significant Black visual artists active from 1950–1980. Formally trained as a painter, it is as a self-taught carver/sculptor that he is better known. Talking about his earlier works as well as his wonderful charm and storytelling ability make this an engaging episode.
Have a little listen and then go see his show in Louisville. Catch Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Room at the same time! Double treats!
https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html
Also available on APPLE, SPOTIFY etc.,

21/08/2024

NEW Art Throb Podcast! I enjoyed an engaging conversation with Cacey Nardolillo, Executive Director of The Chamber Music Festival of Lexington. Several concerts taking place this week that you'll not want to miss.
Have a little listen and learn more about this organization and the schedule of offerings.
https://www.artsconnectlex.org/no-36-cacey-nardolillo---chamber-music-festival-of-lexington.html

06/08/2024

NEW EPISODE OF ARTS CONNECT Art Throb Podcast.
Wonderful conversation with rising star 14-year old Phoebe White. She's singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and can yodel to beat the band!! Amazing talent! Her second album is soon to be released - Cowgirl's Delight.
I'm not used to interviewing one so young, but Phoebe's natural exuberance and confidence made it a fun 30-minutes. Give a wee listen here https://www.artsconnectlex.org/no-35-phoebe-whiite---cowgirls-delight.html
Also available on Apple, Spotify etc.,
For a short and sweet version check out our NPR/WEKU interview https://www.weku.org/people/kate-savage

24/07/2024

NEW EPISODE OF Art Throb Podcast!!
Great conversation with Becky Atkinson Alley and Samantha Simpson about their new collaboration MUSE COLLECTIVE and BLINK their first program launch creating art spaces and exhibitions in unlikely places. On this occasion the back of a repurposed moving truck!!Breaking traditions and staring down the arts gate-keepers, they are staying innovative and flexible with their programming.
Have a little listen ~
https://www.artsconnectlex.org/no-34-becky-alley-and-samantha-simpson---muse-collective.html

23/07/2024

Thank you for listening!!
And thank you to all the wonderful people who agreed to be guests on my podcast. Always fun spreading the word about the arts.
Connecting Arts Through the Sparks!
https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html

11/07/2024

NEW EPISODE OF Art Throb Podcast!
Did you know that there will soon be a sculptural monument commemorating the African American enslaved couple Lewis and Harriet Hayden who escaped from Lexington and subsequently were active in the Underground Railway helping people from here and across the South to escape to freedom?
In this episode I have a great conversation with Larry Kezele who, from the conceptual onset ten years ago, was and still is leading the project, and Ms Yvonne Giles who is also involved and has an awesome wealth of historical knowledge. Both are fascinating to talk with.
Have a little listen here https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html
or download on Apple, Spotify or wherever you go for your podcasts.
More on the project website too https://www.lexfreedomtrain.org/project

11/06/2024

NEW EPISODE OF Art Throb Podcast! Fun conversation with Constance Grayson about her current work currently at New Editions Gallery that was inspired by the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition written by Mussorgsky.
Mussorgsky wrote this work after having been to an exhibition of work (400 pieces!) by his recently deceased friend Viktor Hartmann. Constance created her work (15 pieces!) after listening to Mussorgsky's composition a million times! She talks about how she sees music in shapes and colors.
So, full circle - art to music and then music back to art!
Have a little listen https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html
Also available on Apple, Spotify, iHeart etc., wherever you go for podcasts.
Our shorter conversation on NPR/WEKU can be heard https://www.weku.org/people/kate-savage

28/05/2024

Exciting NEW EPISODE OF Arts Connect Art Throb Podcast!!
A conversation with Shawn E. Okpebholo, this year's Lexington Philharmonic's Composer-in-Residence.
His work, 'Two Black Churches', originally written for baritone and piano, he rearranged for a full orchestra and it world premiered recently at the Singletary Center for the Arts.
Shawn, a Lexington native and Tates Creek HS Graduate, earned his Doctoral Degree in composition from Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music and is now the Jonathan Blanchard Distinguished Professor of Composition at Wheaton College-Conservatory of Music.
He talks about growing up in the Projects, in Government subsidised housing and how thanks to his public school arts education, the Salvation Army and various mentors along the way, as well as an early experience at a Lexington Philharmonic concert, provided direction and the pathway for his successful career as a composer.
His compositions have been featured on twelve commercially released albums, three of which are GRAMMY nominated.
The Washington Post has described his works as 'fresh and new and fearless,' as well as 'devastatingly beautiful'. Certainly his recent concert here in Lexington was sublime.
Two Black Churches serves as a musical reflection of two significant and tragic events perpetrated at the hands of white supremacists in two Black churches, decades apart. The text of both movements are poems one written by Dudley Randall titled "The Ballad of Birmingham" and the other a specifically commissioned piece by Marcus Amaker, called "Rain".
You can have a little listen to our conversation here https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html
Or the Art Throb Podcast available on Apple, Spotify etc.,

14/05/2024

NEW EPISODE!! Arts Connect's Art Throb Podcast. I talk with Rob Southard, photodocumentarian and artist, about his work, and in particular his ongoing series titled Kentucky Labor. Photographs he started taking during the pandemic that have taken him all over the state capturing regular folk doing their jobs and it's fascinating what people do for a livelihood! The range is broad as you can imagine, and the series continues with hopefully a book or exhibition on the horizon.
You can have a little listen here https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html
Or via Apple, Spotify etc., wherever you go for podcasts.
And, for a more condensed conversation check out the NRP/WEKU segment here https://www.weku.org/people/kate-savage

02/05/2024

NEW EPISODE!!
Arts Connect Art Throb Podcast with Wylie B. Caudill!
Wylie is the official artist for the 150th Derby for both the Churchill Downs poster and the Woodford Reserve Commemorative Bottle of bourbon.
He is also responsible for several murals downtown and has a solo show of his small-sized works on canvas coming up this summer.
We have a lovely conversation about this and that. You can have a little listen on my podcast link.

https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html
Or pick it up on Apple, Spotify or wherever you go for your podcasts.

16/04/2024

NEW EPISODE OF Arts Connect Art Throb Podcast with Kevin Nance!
Great conversation with Kevin about his upcoming book of photographs - Geneva's Garden: Four Seasons of Beauty in Gratz Park.
Those of you familiar with Kevin's Kevin Nance Photography and his wonderful Kevin Nance Portraiture will find much to enjoy in his shots and close ups of flowers and garden features. We also talk about his poetry - the nascency of all his thinking and seeing.
Have a little listen here https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html
Also available on Apple, Spotify and wherever you go for podcasts.
A shorter conversation can be enjoyed on NPR/WEKU here https://www.weku.org/people/kate-savage

02/04/2024

NEW EPISODE OF Arts Connect's Art Throb Podcast!!
Arturo Alonzo Sandoval talks about his new work that will be shown in an exhibition opening mid-month at Headley-Whitney Museum of Art.
The show, titled RADIANCE, (when you see Arturo's work and that of his co-exhibitors, you'll understand the origins of this naming choice), will also include amazing work by internationally acclaimed glass artists Stephen Rolfe Powell and Guy Kemper, work from Lexington blown glass sensation and speakeasy proprietor Travis Adams, as well as wonderful landscape inspired jewelry from LA based jeweler Daria de Koning.
Have a little listen to our conversation. https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html
For a shorter version check out my NPR/WEKU with Arturo https://www.weku.org/people/kate-savage

19/03/2024

NEW EPISODE OF Arts Connect Art Throb Podcast!!
Next Monday Mary Ann Taylor-Hall will be inducted into the Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning's Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame at The Kentucky Theatre. We talk about her books, her life and the things that inspire her.
Have a little listen here: https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html
Mary Ann is one of the three living writers who will be honored. The other two are Fenton Johnson and George C Wolfe.
The induction ceremony is free and starts at 7 o'clock with doors opening at 6pm.
An archived interview that aired on NPR/WEKU can be heard here: https://www.weku.org/people/kate-savage

05/03/2024

NEW EPISODE OF Arts Connect Art Throb Podcast!!
Who knew you could make a banjo out of a copper tea kettle?? Apparently Daniel Graham did, and did... and also made other instruments out of unique and astonishing materials. All hand made and hand carved. He loves to experiment and test the limits. He asks himself: why make something conventional or
standard-typical? And he doesn't...
Beautiful craftsmanship, attention to detail, and made with love. Have a little listen to our conversation and hear him play for you. Right here in our midst.
https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html
Also available on Apple, Spotify etc wherever you go for your podcasts.

20/02/2024

NEW EPISODE OF Arts Connect's Art Throb Podcast!!
Loved having a conversation with my friend Jayne Moore Waldrop about her upcoming book "She Remembered It All: The Art of Memory Painter Helen LaFrance" which will be published next month by Lexington's Shadelandhouse Modern Press, LLC.
This is a children's book beautifully illustrated by Michael J McBride and an inspiration for young aspiring artists.
Helen LaFrance, who was born and lived her whole life in Mayfield, KY., died in 2020 having lived to 101! She managed to capture in her artwork both the scene and spirit of a time and place now long gone.
Have a little listen to the podcast and enjoy!
https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html

12/02/2024

NEW EPISODE OF ART THROB PODCAST!
Talking to Kevin Lane Dearinger about his new collection of poetry - "Cold as a Silver Spoon".
Kevin Lane Dearinger, is a retired actor, teacher, and author. He has written four volumes of theatre history two memoirs, assorted plays and monologues and five volumes of poetry.
He tries to listen to a multitude of voices while striving to be true to his own voice. Which has always been a Kentucky voice.
His most recent book: COLD AS A SILVER SPOON is about growing old in Kentucky. Always entertaining, have a little listen to Kevin who also reads a couple of his poems.
Available on Apple, Spotify, iHeart and wherever you go for your podcasts. Also on the Arts Connect website https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html

09/01/2024

NEW ART THROB PODCAST!!
EPISODE 21.
Did you know that Keeneland has its own Library with a robust world-renowned collection? That it also hosts museum-standard exhibitions and offers a seasonal lecture series? It's been a golden research center for writers such as Geraldine Brooks who spent hours there doing research for her best-selling novel HORSE.
I enjoyed talking with Roda Ferraro the Director of Keeneland Library and learned so much more about their services.
You might too. Have a little listen!
https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html

17/12/2023

Whoot!! A milestone.
Thanks for listening... https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html

12/12/2023

NEW ART THROB EPISODE!!
A conversation with Katharine Erickson, Museum Manager at 21c Museum Hotel Lexington as of August this year. Great discussion about contemporary art and the new exhibition LABOR AND MATERIALS just opened a couple of weeks ago.
Have a little listen https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html
Also available on Apple, Spotify, iHeart etc wherever you go for your podcasts.

28/11/2023

NEW EPISODE OF Art Throb Podcast!!
With the gallery exhibition of PRHBTN still ongoing at Lexington Art League until this Friday, 1st Dec it was fun to talk to founder Jessica Winters, one half of the husband/wife team that formed the nonprofit street art festival in 2011. We look back and then look forward. Always a treat to talk to Lexington's arts livewires!
Have a wee listen here - https://www.artsconnectlex.org/no-18-jessica-winters...
Or find on Apple, Spotify, iHeart etc wherever you go for podcasts.

14/11/2023

NEW EPISODE OF Arts Connect Art Throb Podcast!!
Wonderful conversation with the recent Kentucky AML Hall of Fame Inductee - Buffy Lawson!!
We talk about her songwriting, her life performing in the girl duo band Bomshel and being on the road for 256 days a year. What the Nashville scene gives, and what it takes... Singing with Neil Diamond on the Jay Leno show and loads of other topics. My favorite song of hers (I'm Leaving You for Me) is on the Arts Connect website as well as a video of her epic singing with Neil Diamond! Podcast link, pix and videos all at this link https://www.artsconnectlex.org/no-17-buffy-lawson.html
Art Throb also available on Apple, Spotify, iHeart or wherever you go for your podcasts.

31/10/2023

NEW EPISODE OF ART THROB PODCAST! My conversation is with John Stephen Hockensmith. We talk about his friendship with artists Henry Faulkner, Faulkner's work and the current Centennial Jubilee Exhibition of over 180 pieces at Headley-Whitney Museum of Art until 12th November. Less than two weeks left to see this spectacular show!
Available also on Apple, Spotify, iHeart and wherever you go for your podcasts.
Have a little listen to what John has to say...
https://www.artsconnectlex.org/no-16-john-hockensmith.html

17/10/2023

NEW EPISODE OF ART THROB PODCAST!!
In conversation with Chris McGinley whose new book ONCE THESE HILLS, noted "as a dauntless tale of tough characters made tougher in the hardscrabble landscape of the Kentucky mountains", talks about his genre of noir mystery, shares with me some of the storyline and explains his love of history and his preoccupation with the forest, the woods and the hills.
Have a little listen ~ https://www.artsconnectlex.org/no-15-chris-mcginley---once-these-hills1.html
Also available on Apple/Spotify/iHeart or wherever you go for your podcasts.

03/10/2023

NEW Arts Connect ART THROB PODCAST!
You may have heard my 7-minute interview with Guy Mendes a couple of weeks ago on NPR, this podcast is a more expanded conversation where Guy talks about how the original Lexington Camera Club got started, how it was recently reinvigorated, and their current show of over 150 images at the Lexington Art League/Loudoun House which is titled CONJURE and part of the Louisville Photo Biennial. You can see the images there until 13th October.
As always there are some wonderful stories and memories shared.
Have a little listen https://www.artsconnectlex.org/no14-guy-mendes...
Also available for download on Apple, Spotify, iHeart and wherever you go for your podcasts.

19/09/2023

NEW ART THROB PODCAST!
In this episode, I have a great conversation with John Paul Miller who, retiring after 50 years in the car dealership business and concurrently running a commercial real estate business has just published his first novel that has been five years in the making.
Titled FALSE RICHES, this thrilling story delves into the compelling tension between the love for animals and the allure of money that lies at the heart of the horse racing industry.
Have a little listen https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html
or download from Apple, Spotify, iHeart or wherever you go for your podcasts.

06/09/2023

NEW EPISODE OF ART THROB PODCAST!
Conversation with Dr. fari nzinga, CURATOR OF AFRICAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN COLLECTIONS AT THE SPEED MUSEUM, about the amazing exhibit in the Chelgren Gallery at The Speed Museum, titled LOUISVILLE'S BLACK AVANT-GARDE: Robert L Douglas.
Douglas, along with several contemporaries formed a group of like minded artists called the Louisville Art Workshop that became a creative hub in the city with a variety of educational workshops, artistic critiques for artists to hone their craft, and group shows for emerging talents to display their work. Through their community-centered approach, the group fostered a dynamic and forward-thinking atmosphere that challenged artistic and cultural norms, and was notably one of the only integrated artistic groups at the time. Despite his talents and experience as an artist, Douglas was denied work in the arts early in his career due to discriminatory hiring practices, and he turned to serving the community through social work and political organizing. Douglas brought this perspective to his work with the Louisville Art Workshop, helping to establish a social mission for the organization whose ultimate goal was to support and uplift the community instead of measuring success based on commercial interests.
It's a terrific show and I had a wonderfully lively conversation with fari nzinga who was the curator.
Available on Apple, Spotify, iHeart and all the other places you might go for your podcasts. Also Arts Connect website link.
https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html

22/08/2023

NEW ART THROB EPISODE!
I talk to Stephen Wiggins about the selection of his work for the installation (scheduled for later this week) of five new panels at the VIA Creative Public Art Bus Shelter on Elm Tree Lane and 3rd Street. Each panel is a portrait of a Lexington African American who has achieved greatness in their lifetime, and is a tribute to their accomplishments.
Have a little listen.
https://www.artsconnectlex.org/no-11-stephen-wiggins.html
Also available on Apple, Spotify, iHeart and wherever you go for your podcasts.

09/08/2023

NEW EPISODE OF Art Throb Podcast!
Episode No.10 of the Art Throb Podcast features Steve Hester who talks about his book Malchus and Me, a novel that retells the story of the Passion of Christ, but through the eyes of the motley crew from the wild side of Jerusalem who manage to get caught up in those final days. It is a story of salvation, told from the margins - a place that Steve readily admits he's been, but come back from. A 21st-century adaptation of a two-thousand-year-old story and immensely human and at times humorous.
Have a wee listen.
https://www.artsconnectlex.org/no-10-steve-hester---malchus-and-me.html
Available on Apple, Spotify, iHeart and wherever you go to get your podcasts.

25/07/2023

NEW EPISODE OF ART THROB PODCAST
Pamela Dae Perlman discusses her most recent book 'After the Race' about which Jacinda Townsend, author of Saint Monkey writes:
"After the Race is ripe with heartache, regret, and the struggle to find one's place in the world. Perlman writes with rich detail and created flawed characters that will keep you in suspense." All riveting stuff! Give a listen!
https://www.artsconnectlex.org/no-9-pamela-perlman---after-the-race.html
Available on Apple, Spotify, iHeart and wherever you go for your podcasts.

14/07/2023

NEW EPISODE OF Art Throb Podcast.
I have a wonderful conversation with Julien Robson - curator of the Mary and Al Shands collection - about the exhibition of some of their work currently at the Speed Art Museum as well as the Great Meadows Foundation and how artists can apply to receive funding for experiences and travel that will broaden their thinking and expand their practice.
Since Al Shand's passing in 2021, Julien is now Director of the Mary and Al Shands Art Preserve.
Podcast available on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, and other places where you go for these.
also on the website

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