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But, he still got dragged through the mud, and felt heat from his superiors, for saying a bad word, and it’s completely absurd. In a situation where one person’s opinion is essentially visceral hysterics to basic COVID safety protocols that affects the actions of their constituents and by proxy the health of the state and beyond, and the other person said a cuss word, we shouldn’t be more upset with the cuss word. Because in the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter. We’ll move on. It won’t stick to us. You know what will stick to us: More children in the fucking hospital. Which will happen with more boardJournal,tomisinformation.InastatementtheCourierSchoolchair Diane Porter said she is “disappointed and deeply concerned” by Kolb’s language and that “I am mindful that our children and the community are watching.”alwaysFirstofall, if the worst thing the kids saw on Twitter on any given day is an adult using the word “fuck,” let’s just go ahead and chalk that up to being a success.Secondly, and much more importantly, yes, the kids are watching: They’re watching us adults butcher a response to a pandemic. They’ve watched us politicize a deadly virus. They’ve watched while people hung an effigy of the governor from a rope. They’ve watched while militias flooded government buildings. They’re watching elected officials say absurd things that fit their They’re most likely not learning a great deal of good behavior from the adults, but it’s not because we say “fuck” — which almost all of them have heard. But, they haven’t seen these levels of insanity. That, unfortunately, they’ll learn from.All that said, I think it’s important to be kind. It’s one of the greatest gifts we can give each other. But, being told you have to fake it and “be professional” when people don’t deserve it: no, fuck that. Really, situations like this are just a ploy to protect the status quo, to subtly express that representatives exist in the clouds of some hierarchical misdirection, when, in reality, they are public servants. They’re pretend authority figure fantasies. To make us think twice about talking too freely. That ramifications exist for some of us. While the people with more power can ramble about lies and even profit from it. The lesson is the same as always: We should be tougher on politicians, and not just the Republican ones. Because things like this happen so we won’t.

LAST WEEK, Chris Kolb, the then-vice chairman of Jefferson County’s school board told Republican state Sen. Whitney Westerfield “Fuck you” on Twitter, and it caused a little bit of a local Internet sparring match. And then it caught fire and ended with Kolb’s resignation as vice chair. Westerfield was essentially spreading vague misinformation, with a shallow and poisoning statement about the governor’s mask mandate in schools, tweeting: “Did anyone even speak at all to the psychological and educational harm to students wearing masks all day? I sure didn’t catch it if they did. So frustrating.” A second tweet by Westerfield in that thread started with “I have no study or data, but…” Kolb responded to the tweet with a simple “Fuck you.”

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4 LEOWEEKLY.COM // AUGUST 18, 2021 EDITOR’S NOTE CHRIS KOLB’S RESIGNATION, REPUBLICAN ANTICS AND THE FACADE OF PROFESSIONALISM AND KINDNESS

People got heated about it, arguments ensued, those posts and a few more replies went quasi-viral, Kolb resigned — then the cycle of people’s focus, anger and vitriol ﬂoated on. Kolb remains the elected school board representative for District 2, and he tweeted at LEO that it ended “ﬁne” and that he “Resigned of my own free will. Glad to not have that duty anymore.”

victims by text message or phone, most often from a number you don’t recognize, and telling you there’s a problem with your bank account, including that it’s closed, frozen or will be terminated unless you call a phone number or go to a website listed in the message and give your personal and/or account information.

Jeremy Haydon: Yes, here are a couple of surefire ones: • Scammers will often tell you there is a problem or a prize. They might say you are in trouble with the government, you owe money, someone in your family has an emergency, there is a problem with an account of yours, or that you won lottery money. Remember – if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

• After setting up the problem or prize, scammers will pressure you to act immediately. They want you to hand over your sensitive information before you have time to think. They might threaten you, stress a sense of urgency, or say time is running out. However, no legitimate business or government agency will pressure you in this way or ask for your personal information, like your Social Security number, bank account or credit card numbers over the phone or email.

LEO Weekly: How can consumers protect their money and their information? Jeremy Haydon: Here are few best practices: • Guard your online information. Download and update antivirus software for your computer, and don’t enter sensitive information into public computers or on unsecured networks. Also, be careful about giving out your financial username and passwords on the internet – this includes financial websites and apps that offer tools to help you manage your accounts, invest or prepare your taxes.

LEO Weekly: How does Chase protect customers from fraud?

Jeremy Haydon: We see it as a partnership; we help protect your accounts and information, and so do you. We monitor all of our accounts around the clock, including using security measures you can’t see. Also, if we find or you flag a transaction that you didn’t authorize, we offer Zero Liability Protection, meaning you won’t be held responsible for it. Stop by the Louisville Main branch on W. Jefferson St. to learn more about JPMorgan Chase’s commitment to customer security through our fraud prevention and protection tools. I look forward to working with you.

• Set up extra confirmation. The proper name is two-factor or multi-factor authentication. It just means you’ll need to take an extra step or two to access your information. For example, it could be requesting a text with a code be sent to the mobile phone number you gave the company before. At Chase, when you sign into your Chase account electronically for the first time or with a device we don’t recognize, we’ll ask you for your username, password and a temporary identification code. And we’ll send it to you by phone, email or text message.

LEO Weekly: Are there specific signs to look for?

• Create a separate password for each financial institution. This provides an additional level of protection in case there is an issue at one institution.

• Monitor your accounts. Log into your accounts frequently – even daily – through online banking or on your mobile banking app to monitor transactions and your account balance. Look for transactions you don’t recognize. Also, check out your monthly statements and if there’s an issue, contact your bank right away.

The pandemic has accelerated identity theft – and the impact on regular people is significant. In fact, Americans have lost more than $382 million to scams related to stimulus checks and unemployment benefits, fake treatments for COVID-19 and more, according to the Federal Trade Commission Even(FTC).worse, Black and Latinx consumers are more likely to be victims of fraud than their white counterparts. That’s why it’s crucial to recognize activity designed to steal your hard-earned money. JPMorgan Chase is available to help consumers learn to spot suspicious activity – from fake emails and texts to bogus claims about ways to stay healthy. We sat down with Jeremy Haydon, local community manager from the Chase branch at 416 W. Jefferson St., to discuss tips and best practices for securing a better financial future.

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• Change your passwords often. Change your passwords frequently and use a combination of letters, numbers and special characters. Don’t use your pet’s name, your child’s name, or anything else that could be easily figured out.

• Shred sensitive documents. Shred banking records, checks that you deposited through mobile banking and other documents that have your account information. Keep monthly checking and savings account statements in a secure location until you file your taxes and then shred these as well. Chase and other banks offer paperless statements, letting you see the information online without having to worry about paper.

Jeremy Haydon: Let’s start with emails and texts. Phishing is the fancy name for emails pretending to be from reputable companies – including banks. They’re really from criminals who are trying to get your personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers. The email could ask you to reply or click on a link that takes you to a website that looks like your bank’s site. Then they’ll ask you to give your username, password, account number, personal identification number (PIN), Social Security number or other personal information. Also, if you click on an attachment to that email, it could download software called malware that tracks or steals your So,information.beverycareful about clicking on a link in an email; instead go directly to the company’s website. And don’t click on attachments unless you’re sure it’s from someone you know and trust. Scammers are increasingly starting to contact

LEO Weekly: What should consumers be looking for when it comes to scammers?

• Make purchases only on secure websites. Look for the symbol of a lock in the address of an internet site. That will help protect your credit card number, expiration date and three-digit CVV.

• Check your credit report. At least once a year, read through your credit reports carefully. You can request a free annual credit report from each of the three national credit reporting agencies, even if you don’t suspect any unauthorized activity on your account. Visit www. annualcreditreport.com.

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Q: How can I keep my kid’s absent father/mother from getting my kid if I die? A: The short answer is: You can’t. You should of course have a last will and testament prepared if you care about what happens to your stuff when you pass. But people seem to think they can control where their kids end up, too. That decision is up to a judge, and won’t be made until after you’re in the ground. In many states, a statement in a last will and testament about where a parent wants their kids to go will inﬂuence the court’s decision, so you should still put it in there. If your child has no surviving parents, and the person you designate is willing to care for them, then your wishes will probably be honored. But there are only so many things you can do from beyond the grave, and keeping your ex from getting custody of their own child isn’t usually one of them. Put another way, a parent’s right to be a parent overrides your posthumous wish that they not be one. Still, if your ex is an abusive asshole, and/or has been chronically absent from your kid’s life, there’s a chance that your kid won’t end up with them. The second best course of action you can take is to designate a preferred guardian in your will, carefully document every instance of assholeism/ absenteeism you can think of, and make sure your preferred guardian has access to that documentation. That way, they can make the case to the court that the surviving parent sucks and shouldn’t be in charge of anyone. The ﬁrst best course of action is: Don’t die.

Q: If corporations are people, why do they have such stupid names? A: I’ll have you know that this question is considered offensive by people of America’s corporate culture, and we will name things according to our cultural traditions, thankyouverymuch. In fact, my ﬁrst daughter’s name is Just a Got-Damn Miracle, LLC. The second one we affectionately refer to as FudgeCorp. Kindly do not submit any further inquiries. •

Q: How do I find a good attorney to take a not-slamdunk medical malpractice case? A: Please forgive me for a little derisive laughter here. Ha! Ha ha! The question isn’t funny, but it exposes deep flaws in our civil justice system; the kind that I am helpless to do anything but laugh about. Not only will you not find a “good” attorney for something that you recognize as a “notslam-dunk” case, but you aren’t likely to find an attorney at all. Medical malpractice is probably the least understood area of law in America. The commonly held misconception is that there are hordes of lawyers out there ready to sue doctors for even the slightest mistake. This misconception has been peddled and perpetuated by the insurance industry as a justification for jacking up doctors’ malpractice premiums every year. In reality, there just aren’t that many lawyers who can help victims of medical negligence. Pete Palmer, an attorney who previously handled both sides of medical malpractice claims for decades before becoming a mediator, explains that for lawyers representing patients, “It’s the hardest and most challenging legal work there is on the plaintiff side. The people you’re suing are sophisticated and often very sympathetic. Their lawyers are all excellent. They’ve got great resources, top-notch expert witnesses and will battle you at every level.” The cases are procedurally difficult, too, because state legislatures have put up barrier after barrier for patients trying to sue their doctors. Assuming someone can clear all the necessary hurdles and get a case to trial, juries don’t like to hit doctors in the wallet. Palmer says that during mediation, he reminds injured people that in his experience, “defendants win every trial they should, and probably at least half the trials they shouldn’t.”Veteran trial lawyer Hans Poppe breaks down just how bleak the situation is in Kentucky: “Over the last 23 years, patients prevailed only 21.6% of the time in Kentucky medical negligence trials. In Jefferson County that win percentage drops to 16.4%. And when a patient does actually win, don’t expect a windfall —the average verdict is $505,292 and the median Kentucky medical negligence verdict is only $708,000. In fact, 43% of the verdicts are less than $500k — and because med mal cases generally cost anywhere between $100k-250k to get to trial, only the best Kentucky plaintiff attorneys can afford to take one to verdict.” Worse, in some states, the amount of damages is capped, so even if you have an injury that, over the rest of your life, will take $20 million of aroundthe-clock care, the best you can get is, say, a million bucks — no matter what a jury wants to give you. In sum, you almost certainly will not be able find a lawyer to take on a medical negligence claim unless: 1) you are severely injured or dead, and 2) there’s a glaringly obvious mistake you can point to; one that anyone with a third-grade education can understand and condemn. Without those two elements, most lawyers can’t justify the considerable time and expenses those cases require. As Palmer puts it: “This leaves a whole subset of people who will have trouble finding competent legal representation,” even if they’ve suffered serious consequences from a serious mistake. So while it’s always worth setting up an initial consultation with a lawyer, or two, or ten, don’t be too surprised if you can’t find anyone to take a “not-slamdunk” case. Even the slam dunks can be airballs.

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By Dan Canon | leo@leoweekly.com

WELCOME to the ﬁrst round of “Ask a Cranky Midwestern Lawyer.” These are real questions submitted to me by (supposedly) real people on the internet, for the express purpose of having them answered in my little column. All the usual disclaimers apply: This isn’t legal advice, or an advertisement for legal services, it’s just for fun. I’m not your attorney unless we have a signed agreement. You need to hire your own damn lawyer for your own damn problems, and that lawyer might tell you something totally different from the off-the-cuff advice you read in an alt-weekly after your third beer at Monnik. Here goes.

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A few days later, Abbey Road on the River music festival in Jeffersonville announced it would be instating a similar requirement. Since then, Louder Than Life music festival, Zanzabar, Headliners and the Flamingo Lounge in Louisville have all adopted their own.

ROSE: LAUGHING WHILE CRYING Kentucky’s Senate Democrats have found a large following on an unlikely platform: Tik Tok. Their videos perfectly, and hilariously, capture the frustration of politics in a red state, where minimum wage legislation and gun reform are DOA. Thanks to intern Piper Burke, the Senate Dems now have 28,000 followers and almost 1 million views on their rst post alone.

The superintendent of Science Hill Independent Schools in Kentucky, Jimmy Dyehouse, called Gov. Andy Beshear a “liberal lunatic” in a voicemail to parents over the governor’s mask mandate. Meawhile, Dyehouse is perfectly content to tell his students not to wear spaghetti straps or crop tops, according to the district’s dress code. So, policing modesty is OK, but not, you know, making sure your students, teachers and parents don’t die. Got it.

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ROSE: FREE RIDES AND A FREE LIFE

Stacey Yates, vice president of marketing and communications for Louisville

As the Kentucky State Fair opens this week, the prospect of unvaccinated people from across Kentucky mingling together freaks us out a bit. But, a bright spot is that there will be vaccines available at the fair — and perks for those who take advantage of it. The Kentucky Association of Health Plans is offering free, unlimited ride wristbands and $20 gift cards for anyone 12 and up who gets vaccinated at the Fair’s West Wing Health Pavilion. So, get your free thrills and then enjoy the freedom that the vaccine will bestow upon you — and us all.

By Danielle Grady | dgrady@leoweekly.com

THE line to get into drag brunch at CC’s Kitchen last Sunday stretched from the door to the street, according to owner Corey Milliman. At the hostess station, customers had to ﬂash a card to sit indoors: Not a driver’s license — CC’s isn’t a bar — but proof of vaccination. Those who couldn’t produce one, or evidence of a negative COVID test, were seated outside on the patio. CC’s Kitchen is thought to be the ﬁrst restaurant in Louisville to require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test to eat inside. But, the idea is catching wind in the city, particularly in the entertainment space: After two major, local festivals announced they’d be doing something similar to CC’s, several independent, Louisville venues have followed suit.

REQUIRING VACCINATIONS OR A NEGATIVE TEST, EVEN THOUGH IT’S NOT GOVERNMENT MANDATED

It’s the “vaccination passport” that some conservative politicians have hysterically likened to the yellow Star of David that Jews had to wear in Nazi-occupied Europe. But, the business owners implementing it say it’s a simple measure to keep customers safe. There’s little government guidance on vaccine mandates. Businesses seem to be following the lead of those who went before them. So far, it’s up to individual organizations in Louisville to decide whether they want to implement a vaccination requirement. But some cities, like New York, New Orleans and San Francisco are requiring businessesWhento. Milliman announced his vaccination and test requirement on Aug. 6, he said he didn’t know he was the ﬁrst restaurant to do so in Louisville. He just wanted to do it. “I was diagnosed with COVID in February. I’m still dealing with long hauler symptoms, and I don’t want anybody else to experience those,” he said. “I just kind of want to do my part to keep protecting my customers and protecting my staff.”

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Drag brunch at CC’s Kitchen, which is now requiring a vaccination or negative COVID test to sit inside. | PHOTO COURTESY OF CC’S KITCHEN

ROSE: WE ALSO THINK THE GOP SHOULD STFU School board member Chris Kolb and Louisville councilperson Jecorey Arthur got feisty last week with Republican state senators who challenged Gov. Andy Beshear’s school mask mandate. Kolb tweeted “Fuck you” to state Sen. Whitney Wester eld who told us we’re not thinking about the children when we ask them to wear masks... to protect them. Then, when state Sen. Max Wise decided to complain about the mandate eroding local decision making, Arthur tweeted “STFU” with a map of all Kentucky’s red counties. Some people in the thread argued that those two responses to the senators were unprofessional, but, at this point, so many Republican politicians in the country and state are adamant about dismantling any sort of COVID-reasonable measure while politicizing a deadly virus… so as o cial Twitter judges, LEO rules in the favor of Kolb and Arthur.

Lollapalooza may have been the ﬁrst major, U.S. music festival to announce a vaccination or negative COVID test requirement when it did so in late July.

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Evans said, “Honestly, I don’t give a shit if there’s negative feedback. I give no fucks what anyone has to say about it. If they’re offended by it, and the concept of safety, I don’t really care about whether they come to my concerts or not. It’s set up to where we’re not alienating anyone. We’re not saying you have to be vaccinated to come to our shows. We’re saying that, if you’re not, just make sure to get a test, make sure that you’re safe. I don’t see why anyone would be offended by that.”

Both Milliman and Evans said that they feel their requirements are reasonable, since they don’t exclude unvaccinated customers.

Gov. Andy Beshear has advocated for employers to require vaccines. But, he hasn’t committed to mandating vaccines in any capacity and has only returned to mandating masks in public schools. Dr. Anthony Fauci with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease has advocated for more local vaccine mandates.

When asked for Louisville Tourism’s thoughts on a vaccine mandate, Yates said, “I think I speak for the industry to say that whatever the guidelines are from the CDC, and whatever our state enacts, we will do whatever we need to do responsibly to keep business flowing.”ButMilliman said he wishes that Louisville would mandate vaccines to enter gyms, bars, movie theaters and restaurants. For now, he’s happy to see other businesses following his example. “COVID is getting worse every day, not better right now, so I hope more announce it,” he said. Mark Evans’ company Land Line Presents first announced Zanzabar’s vaccine or negative test“It’srequirement.something I actually wanted to do since vaccines rolled out, really,” Evans said. “It’s hard to be the first person. I think everyone was waiting on each other to do it. Some people have been concerned with the optics. A lot of business owners have been concerned about alienating people, and making it feel political, you know, and it shouldn’t, but that’s just the way it is. I think a lot of people have been scared to do it.” Milliman with CC’s initially received a lot of backlash for his vaccine policy. “You know, we got death threats, we got threats to burn the restaurant down, we got threats on my home, somebody got ahold of my personal number,” he said. “I mean, it was miserable. The first 72 hours after it went on TV was absolutely miserable.” But, a week and a half in, he said, detractors have quieted down, and he’s started to receive positive feedback from visitors. Customers are driving from over an hour away to eat at CC’s. People with visible medical conditions are visiting. His restaurant is booking reservations earlier now than it ever has. At drag brunch last Sunday, a few customers were upset about hearing they’d have to sit outside without proof of vaccination or a negative test. But, once they learned they could sit outside and still watch the show, Milliman said they were placated.

At CC’s, each customer is asked at the hostess station for their vaccination card, a negative test or a photo or a scanned version of either document. They can also add their vaccination info to VaxYes, an app that creates a digital “vaccine passport” for users. Children under the age of 12 are exempt from the requirement.

While there is no CDC recommendation for how long an unvaccinated person should test negative for COVID before attending an event, the federal agency requires that international travelers test negative 72 hours before entering the DespiteU.S. the initial backlash, Milliman doesn’t regret mandating a vaccine or a negative COVID test at his restaurant. “It felt really good to actually do that and be on the front end of this,” he said. “For the sake of the dollar, I didn’t want to put customers at risk. I didn’t want to do the minimum required. I felt it was important to go the opposite direction and do as much as we possibly could.”

10 LEOWEEKLY.COM // AUGUST 18, 2021 BCplumbingcompany 1215 South 7 St., Louisville, KY 502-634-972540203www.bcplumbing.net 1 2009 2010 2011 NEWS & ANALYSIS Tourism, speculated that the music industry is following Lolla’s lead. Other than a few local restaurants and music venues, she said she doesn’t know of any other leisure businesses in Louisville that have a vaccine or negative test requirement. But, the city’s Kentucky International Convention Center and the Kentucky Exposition Center are requiring masks indoors since they are state government-operated.

In response to an interview request, Louisville Metro Public Health & Wellness spokesperson Kathy Turner said that the city is currently relying on “individual workplaces to make their own decisions on vaccinations,” but the department stresses “that vaccines are the best way to prevent the spread of COVID-19.”

For people who are unvaccinated, CC’s and Headliners Music Hall require a negative COVID test within 48 hours for them to be seated inside. Other businesses and festivals, like Zanzabar, the Flamingo Lounge, Louder Than Life and Abbey Road on the River, allow unvaccinated customers to enter if their negative COVID test was taken within the last 72 hours.

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Yates said that some audiences and customer bases might be put off by a vaccine mandate, while others could be encouraged to attend an event with one. Louisville Tourism will keep tabs on how local festivals’ mandates affect how many people attend, she said.

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Public Art Administrator in Jeffersonville, Dippie jumped into big shoes. With the NoCo district coming together quickly under Spyker’s leadership, there were many projects ready for Dippie when she arrived. “In September, we’re going to be installing 10 small scale sculptures through downtown Jeffersonville,” said Dippie. “The sculptures are all of this ﬁsh, named Jeffrey, and he is making his way from the river to the water tank in the NoCo cultural district. At each sculpture, he’s on a different form of transportation.”“We’remarketing that project as a permanent free outdoor family activity for people.” The project will kick off with a scavenger hunt that will help people locate all of the Jeffrey”s Journey sculptures.

OVER the past few years, arts organizations in Louisville have gone through major leadership transitions, particularly at the very tops of these organizations. At one point, Wheelhouse Art gallery owner and former curator at the Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, Daniel Pfalzgraf tweeted his count. By December of 2020, Pfalzgraf had counted 14 leadership changes within the last three years, with 8 of those shifts happening in 2020. There have been many reasons given for the changes. New opportunities for some leaders and others wanted to step aside so that the organizations could thrive with new visions including becoming more inclusive spaces for marginalized people to thrive. For some of the organizations, the openings presented an opportunity to shift how they govern themselves. Some chose to adopt new models of leadership that break out of the mold of a vertical hierarchy with their leadership being shared and assigned according to the skills of the individuals guiding the orgs forward. As leadership and the outlook for the arts changes, the audiences are shifting alongside. These new audiences want organizations to represent the nature of their experiences more fully and to be more agile with inclusive stories that often go untold. This has presented new challenges, as many of these organizations are run by boards that remain attached to old hierarchical structures. Fortunately, in Louisville, there have been many initiatives to help these organizations shift and change deeply — including the look of their boards. Leadership isn’t always a sexy topic, but it is helpful to know who is running some of the spaces we inhabit and spend our money. It is good to know who is leading the organization and how they view the role of that org in relation to the public. We interviewed a few of the new arts leaders. From speaking to them, it is clear that Louisville’s art scene is heading for major changes and these leaders are building the teams to make that a reality.

By Erica Rucker | erucker@leoweekly.com

EMILY DIPPIE PUBLIC ART ADMINISTRATOR OF JEFFERSONVILLE

After several months of interviews, the dream became a reality and Dippie stepped into the role. Like her predecessor, Dippie’s background was in the arts and education. “I’m originally from Louisville. I grew up on the Southwest side,” said Dippie. “I graduated from PRP high school. Then I went to Murray State University for school.” “I did major in art with an emphasis in sculpture and I also pursued and received my teaching certiﬁcation while I was at Murray state.”

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When she left school, she moved back to Louisville and began a job search. She started looking for art teacher jobs thinking it would be easier to ﬁnd one in her hometown rather than looking near her university. After getting a job at a private school, Dippie began to get involved in the arts scene and particularly became involved with Maker 13, a communitybased maker workshop that enables individuals to create by offering access to equipment, training and knowledge.Asthenew

For Jeffersonville Public Art Administrator Emily Dippie, this new role is a chance to do something that she’s always dreamed of. “I had been watching this project develop as a community member from the outside and just had slowly fallen in love with the Jeffersonville area,” said Dippie. “And so when Dawn Spyker, my predecessor, decided to step down, I applied for the job, not really thinking that I would get it.”

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Jeffrey’s Journey was created by artist Amanda Hoback Emily Dippie.

In talking to members of the community, Anderson discovered that the public knowledge of LVA is limited and that is something he sees as an arrow to shoot for the future. “There wasn’t sort of a connective thread, I don’t think, that ran through a lot of what it is that LVA has done in a way that made it like a coherent elevator pitch, one or two sentence way to describe to you who we are,” said Anderson. “Then, after about the ﬁrst 6 or 7 months, you know, this, what I sort of understood... is I think that LVA really needs to be the organization that supports the life cycle of an artist.”

“I was just sort of in the right position, I think, to be a bit more ﬂexible about the type of organization and community that I want to be a part of,” said Anderson. “And, you know, LVA was more community focused than a lot of museums or other arts organizations. That they would be more artistfocused as opposed to object-focused was another one of those things that I realized that I really loved when I was sort of in this hiatus, for lack of a better term.”

DANNY SEIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF AHOY (ADVENTURE HOUSE OF YOU) Katy Delahanty has been having a singular experience in her roles in arts work. As an art alumni of the prestigious Cooper Union, for a time, this wasn’t always the case. Breaking into arts work wasn’t always easy and she spent many years working in social services. In her new role, she steps into the leadership role of a restructured and growth-focused organization at the PortKristian Anderson. Katy Delahanty. | PHOTO BY SHANNON DELAHANTY Danny Seim.

KATY DELAHANTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PORTLAND MUSEUM

For more information, visit louisvillevisualart.org.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF LOUISVILLE VISUAL ARTS

“I walked into the inability to sort of meet a lot of my staff face to face,” said Anderson. “We had one sort of very socially-distanced staff meeting where we were all sitting outside and, you know, other than Keith… Keith was my sole and constant companion for, you know, 9 or 10 months until the beginning of May. I don’t know which one of us was Don Quixote and which one of us was Sancho but anyway, some combination therein.” That he came to a city in the middle of a lockdown and had to build relationships with his staff amidst the situation presented an especially challenging hurdle. Despite this, LVA managed to hold in-person camps and to offer more programming this year.

To this vision, Anderson sees that the kids’ classes are integral, but recently the organization launched the Artist Resource Series that will give local artist resources and development opportunities.

LEOWEEKLY.COM // AUGUST 18, 2021 13 and will have a narrative story accompanying him on his journey written by high school student Ava Gleitz. Dippie is looking forward to the new initiatives and growing engagement with the community.

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Anderson joined Louisville Visual Arts last year in the middle of the pandemic. It was not his ideal situation, but has found ways to make the best of his new role in a new era of human existence.

Kristian Anderson moved to Louisville from Salt Lake City, Utah where he was working as the advisor for arts and culture to the mayor. When the mayor declined to run for reelection, his position would end with the mayor’s term. When his role ended, he was at a point where he needed to ﬁgure out what was next. “It’s an interesting thing about where the pandemic is now, but I wanted to take a couple of weeks to a month or so to ﬁgure out, um, to look back on my career and what made me happy and what kind of job I wanted to be doing,” said Anderson. “And one of the things that was really important to me was to sort of go back to working directly with artists.”Having grown up in Minnesota and with his family still there, Anderson was eager to return to a place nearer to his roots and his father. Louisville also presented to Anderson a city that was big enough — but not too big, where people in power and those in the community are so far apart. The power distance in Louisville is relatively low and this was attractive to Anderson.

“I think a lot of people have been really excited about the small scale sculptures and experiencing Jeffrey because it’s not just an art installation,” said Dippie. “It’s something you can come and do and experience. That’s what we’re really hoping to create, experiences for the community to interact with the arts and artists and give artists opportunities to have paying jobs and have the experiences.”

The director at the time had been working on the museum for about 40 years. Delahanty remembers being introduced to the museum by Seim who’d just moved from Portland, Oregon to the Portland neighborhood in Louisville. Seim brought Delahanty to meet a letterpress printmaker and the letterpress facilities. Delahanty remembers being impressed by the stuff at the museum but the museum was in need of some love and attention. “Basically the museum was under a time where they needed to be triaged. The director had left and it was in a situation where it didn’t know if it was going to still exist. So the person who was working there at the time, her name was Theresa Lee. She said after talking to me for a while, she’s like, ‘You really should join the board.’ And, I had never joined a board before in my life.”

14 LEOWEEKLY.COM // AUGUST 18, 2021 land Museum. Delahanty is in a unique position. Her role is one that is shared with Danny Seim, the mastermind behind one of the museum’s ﬂagship projects, Adventure House of You (known as AHOY). Delahanty assumes her new role as executive director of the Portland Museum to pursue the museum’s overall vision and needs and Seim is charged with laser focus on and development of the AHOYWhenproject.Delahanty ﬁrst interacted with the Portland Museum, it was a very different place.

Leidner, who is from Louisville, began her arts career at the University of Louisville with a BFA and got her MFA at Rhode Island Institute of Design. For a bit, she worked with Kentucky College of Art and Design as one of its educators when it was still called the Kentucky School of Arts.

In addition to all of those things, Leidner had a curatorial background as the Sheherazad gallery owner. As a part of the new structure of the museum, Leidner and team are looking for ways to make the museum better serve its audience.

Laura Wilkins and Julie Leidner.

“I started with the Portland museum — just even engaging with the Portland museum — I think it was 2018, maybe 2017. I can’t remember at the moment, but, um, I remember walking in the doors. It was ivy covered, kind of looked like The Secret Garden, strange, like out-of-nowhere kind of space. You just didn’t expect it.”

LAURA WILKINS LEADER OF MUSEUM OPERATIONS AT THE CARNEGIE CENTER

JULIE LEIDNER

“The reason why I was interested in this role here at this museum is because of how unique the Carnegie Center is,” said Leidner. “Because it is, ﬁrst of all, a museum of history, and art and that really interested me.”

The other piece of working with the Carnegie that she found fascinating was its connection to the public library in Floyd County, Indiana. The nature of it being free and both service and community-focused was also important to Leidner. As both an artist herself and an educator, the potential for these skills to both be utilized was tantalizing.

Delahanty is a master at getting things done. This is something she shares with Seim who is also very much a doer. “Our approaches are different, but similar, like he deﬁnitely listens and wants to hear what people want to see and stuff. But if he sees a need, he will DIY it. And that’s super different from, I think a lot of other leaders’ perspectives, like a lot of people wait and try to earn all this money or whatever. And he’s like, we don’t eat a ton of money to make this very simple thing happen. So he’s a doer.”

CREATIVE LEADER OF EXHIBITION DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION AT THE CARNEGIE CENTER

Delahanty knew of boards, but had no experience with how they worked or how someone became a member of one. For her, this step was one that sent her arts leadership career into hyperdrive. “I met with [Former Councilperson] Cheri Bryant Hamilton, because I was like, we need assistance,” said Delahanty. “And I just described the whole situation. But, she granted us a $25,000 grant, which saved our ass, gave us enough time to renegotiate our endowment, to get some money released so that we would have a cushion in order to build ourselves back up.”

Julie Leidner is in one of the arts and cultural spaces that is exploring a more blended model of leadership. So when she became the head of the Carnegie Center in New Albany, she took on that role with a new (and lengthy) title and shares the museum leadership with Laura Wilkins, who assumed the leader of museum operations role.

The Portland Museum is working diligently on keeping the doors open and expanding upon the collection and access to the community. Seim is making plans to increase the work on the AHOY house which is next door to the museum. This includes working with the architects who originally built the museum many years ago to join AHOY and the museum into one building.

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In addition to extended hours, Leidner says the museum intends to continue its recently launched and paid artist-inresidence program, and it will begin a guest curatorial program. Since former curator, Daniel Pfalzgraf left to open his own space, the museum has been without someone formally ﬁlling that role. Using guest curators will ensure that more voices are heard within the museum and in the community. “There are so many unique things about the Carnegie. I mean, we are small, so, you know, we’re a lot smaller than the Speed or even KMAC,” said Leidner. “But, we are unique in the fact that we are a public library. And so liter-

Guess, LEO dug a bit deeper regarding his new role at the Fund and his plans for our future as a growing and thriving arts community. Plus, we uncovered a few more fun facts!

ally our mission is to serve the public and to educate, um, and to provide, you know, cultural experiences and so on for free. So, if we can kind of double down on that by increasing that kind of access in these ﬁrst couple of ways, um, then I think that would be exciting.”

“As part of this kind of new structuring of staff at the Carnegie center, we’re also kind of trying to ﬁgure out how else we can focus more on the community access aspect of the Carnegie center,” said Leidner. “And, so, there’s three parts to that I can kind of announce now or tell you now, number one, we’ll be starting to have evening hours starting in September, we’ll be open until 8:00 p.m. on Thursdays.”

LEO: What are your favorite things to do in Louisville? Andre: I love to walk, especially around my neighborhood, Old Louisville. I really enjoy checking out all of the old Victorian mansions. We live on St. James Court; I must say that we have the best view of the fountain of any residence on the court. So I spend a lot of time on our veranda —because it’s too pretty to call a balcony. My favorite restaurants are Naive and Ramsi’s. I’m vegan and they have excellent vegan fare. Describe the moment you fell in love with the arts in a barber shop and knew it was your calling.

When my barber Leon played a Wynton Kelly record for me — he is the pianist that Wynton Marsalis is named after Andre Kimo Stone Guess.

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ANDRE KIMO STONE GUESS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT FUND FOR THE ARTS He fell in love with the arts in a Smoketown barber shop and named his four children (with his wife of 31 years) after famous jazz musicians. While we are already swooning over new Fund for the Arts President and CEO Andre Kimo Stone

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My plan is to get to know as much about the local arts ecosystem as possible by continuing to go out into the community to experience as much art as I can and also get to know as many artists and leaders of arts organizations as I can.

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Growing up in Atlanta, Wolf was immersed in the arts and largely inﬂuenced by her Amy Higgs.

PASSION, enthusiasm and a deep love of creative expression are a common thread driving local arts writers — especially when breathing life into a seemingly stagnant art scene brought on by the global COVID pandemic and subsequent shutdown. Below, LEO proﬁles a few of the writers and outlets that cover Kentucky’s thriving arts community, many who found creative ways to cover and promote the arts when galleries and theaters went dark.

THE TORCHBEARERS OF LOCAL ARTS WRITING

Amy Higgs Managing Editor, Audience Writer, editor and media consultant, owner, Write is Might Louisville LLC “I am very grateful that my hometown of Louisville has such a thriving arts community. I have been so humbled by the resilience it has shown over the past 18 months, and I am conﬁdent the best is yet to come.”

Higgs fell in love with theater as a little girl, when her mother took her to Whitney Hall to see the musical “Big River.”

Stephanie Wolf Arts Reporter, Louisville Public Media Editor, Arts, Culture, Et Cetera — a biweekly arts & culture newsletter. “In my ﬁrst year in Louisville, I saw drive-in-style theater, watched online programming with my family, toured an art exhibition via virtual reality, spoke with several muralists from six feet or more away, and met many artists out on the streets of Louisville, as they demanded racial and social justice. I’ve been struck by how much art and culture this city has to offer, and by the artists working to make the arts scene in the region better and more equitable.” —Stephanie Wolf Public radio Arts and Culture Reporter Stephanie Wolf moved to Louisville in March 2020 — about a week after nearly everything in the city shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It was a strange time to adjust to a new city and new job, and learning about the local arts scene predominantly via Zoom felt like a mountain of a task,” Wolf said. “But it was incredible to watch how quickly people involved in the arts here pivoted. Louisville artists didn’t seem to hesitate in ﬁguring out the best way to put their art online or move it to outdoor, socially distanced venues.”

— Amy Higgs Amy Higgs is a freelance writer and media consultant for companies and nonproﬁts in a variety of industries — with a heavy focus and passion for the arts. One of her largest contract roles is serving as managing editor for Audience, a publishing group that produces playbills for PNC Broadway in Louisville, Louisville Orchestra, Kentucky Performing Arts, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival and additional performance groups. When performing arts venues shut down due to the COVID pandemic, Audience Magazine (launched April 2020) — a free monthly digital magazine available to arts lovers in Louisville and beyond — was born. “When stages went dark, we wanted to give local arts groups a platform to share their stories, their struggles and their triumphs during this incredibly challenging time,” said Higgs. “Now that performances have resumed, we plan to continue to publish the magazine and serve as an advocate for the performing arts, and we’re excited to resume publication of our playbills as well.”

Stephanie Wolf.

“I remember being glued to my seat, completely enthralled by the music and the story,” said Higgs. “I passed that love on to my son, Ethan, 26, who is happy to be my date to the theater, movies, concerts and comedy shows. Some of our favorite Broadway shows are ‘Lion King,’ ‘Book of Mormon,’ ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ and, of course, ‘Hamilton.’”

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“As far back as I can remember, they encouraged me to be curious and engage in creative activities. That included taking dance classes, which grew from a once-a-week hobby to spending all of my teenage years in a dance studio and eventually to a 12-year professional performing career with ballet and opera companies,” said Wolf.

Regarding her passion for radio, “I love audio as a medium,” said Wolf.

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“After a lot of rehabilitation, it became clear that my dancing career was over,” said Wolf. “I decided to try to transition fully to journalism. I believe arts and culture deserves just as rigorous reporting as any other beat, which means investigating the issues impacting the sector and holding those in power accountable, as well as telling the stories of the artists who hold up a mirror to society.”

“First, there’s the power of the human voice,” Wolf said. “Audio allows people to have their literal voice in a story. You can hear their emotion and passion in a way that I don’t think I could do justice to in the written word. I also think it’s a medium that can transport people. By layering the different sounds I record while I’m reporting in the ﬁeld, I can recreate what I observed and hopefully people will feel as if they were there too. I think that can help build more empathy or understanding about a subject.”

In addition to radio journalism, Wolf is also editor of Arts, Culture, Etc., a biweekly newsletter from Louisville Public Media covering the latest cultural news and events throughout the region. To subscribe, visit louisvillepublicmedia.org/artsandculture.

Keith Waits Operations Manager, Louisville Visual Art Editor-In-Chief, Arts-Louisville.com

“I love the sense of discovery that comes with encountering each new work, and the way creative people can surprise us with the classics. Louisville and the surrounding area is a fertile location for artists, so there never seems to be a lack of subjects.” —Keith Waits Keith Waits, editor-in-chief of Arts-Louisville.com and Operations Manager for Louisville Visual Art, has worked as an arts writer for 14 years.

The seed was planted; Wolfe began freelancing about dance and art, interned for Manhattan Media and later worked brieﬂy as a copywriter for Lincoln Center.

In 2012, she moved to Denver to dance for Wonderbound, formerly Ballet Nouveau Colorado — but broke her leg about a month into the performance season.

Keith Waits.

mother, a visual artist and art teacher. Her parents also owned a miniatures store.

While living and dancing in New York City 11 years ago, Wolf completed her undergraduate degree and was encouraged by an English teacher to pursue a career in writing.

Kevin M. Warth. | PHOTO BY ABDUL SHARIF.

“I Louisvillethinkis such an interesting art community in that it’s such a welcoming environment and hospitable for younger artists to get a foothold. So often we’re able to see these exhibits and artists being uplifted by curators, gallerists and exhibits that are not being uplifted in a way.traditionalIt’spartof the draw in covering it through writing and Ruckus” — Kevin M. Warth. Formed in 2018, Ruckus is a nonproﬁt art journal covering the South and Midwest. It began in outexpandedLouisville,through-Kentucky,and grew in reach and scope during the four years the publication has been in circulation.

all manner of arts all my life, I kind of backed into reviewing theatre at the

“Having that background, I am by no means a journalist, but how I think about art and talk about art informed my approach to Ruckus,” said Warth. “We want to hear from every-

through

“After watching encouragement ﬁrst Theatre launching a new website, Arts-Louisville.com (originally with Scott Dowd, who pursued other things). All of the writing for Arts-Louisville is done on a volunteer basis, but we are a 502c3 nonproﬁt — and I hope to change that,” said Waits. “As part of my work at Louisville Visual Art, I have written extensively about local visual artists,” said Waits, who writes the organization’s art blog, Artebella. “I also interview artists for LVA’s Artebella on the Radio, which airs on WXOX 97.1 F M/Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10:00 am.”

Compared to what the team sees covered locally, the goal of Ruckus is to lean heavier into in-depth exploration of exhibits and artists in its content. It offers long-form interviews, critiques and opinion-based pieces. The goal of Ruckus is to create a more robust landscape to ﬁll the gaps in exhibition and major arts coverage.

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“There were smaller exhibits happening that just weren’t getting written about; my co-editors and I came together to discuss what was interesting or exciting,” said Warth, a practicing artist and New Albany, Indiana native with a degree in art history.

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ActorsMusicTheatre of Louisville louisville-sessions-full-jamactorstheatre.org/shows/2021-2022/ Louisville Sessions Full Jam — Aug. 28, 4 p.m. Live performances by Bridge 19, Chanson Calhoun, Coyia, JONJOHN, Sun Kings Quartet, Rob Lee, Tez of 2Deep, Tiny Tiny and Unusual Heat, with a virtual session by Sasha Renee.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s The Unforeseen Wilderness Aug. 6 - Feb. 13 This exhibition celebrates the recent acquisition of a remarkable portfolio of 56 photographs depicting Kentucky’s own Red River Gorge by one of the de ning photographers of the 20th century. The Unforeseen Wilderness is presented as part of the Louisville Photo Biennial. Free with admission

Exhibits & Visual Arts

“Family: Exploring The Orchestra from Louisville to OZ”, TBD, conductor, Kentucky Center — Sun. 3/27, 3 p.m.

“Pops: The Music of ABBA”, Bob Bernhardt, conductor, Kentucky Center — Sat. 3/19, 8 p.m.

“CoAPRILee: Sheherazade”, Jonathon Heyward, conductor, Kentucky Center — Fri.

“Music Without Borders: Concierto de aranjuez”, Kalena Bovell, conductor, Stephen Mattingly, guitar, The Je ersonian — Fri. 3/25, 7:30 p.m.

“Classics: Yuja Wang Premieres Abrams Concerto”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Kentucky Center — Sat. 1/8, 8 p.m.

“Music Without Borders: Backward Glances”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, The Je ersonian— Fri. 10/15, 7:30 p.m. “Music Without Borders: Backward Glances”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Ogle Center— Sat. 10/16, 7:30 p.m. “Pops: Music of Prohibition”, Bob Bernhardt, conductor, Kentucky Center — Sat. 10/23, 8 p.m.

“CoJANUARYee:Yuja Wang Premieres Abrams Concerto”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Kentucky Center — Fri. 1/7, 11 a.m.

Louisville Orchestra

“Holiday: Messiah”, Dr. Kent E. Hatteberg, conductor, TBD — Sun. 12/5, 3 p.m.

“Classics:OCTOBERA Concert for Unity”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Kentucky Center — Sat.10/ 2, 8 p.m. TBD, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Paristown Hall — Sat. 10/9, 8 p.m.

“Holiday:DECEMBERMessiah”

“CoMARCHee:Festival of Latin American Music 1”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, People of Earth, Kentucky Center — Fri. 3/4, 11 a.m.

“Classics: Festival of Latin American Music 1”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, People of Earth, Kentucky Center — Sat. 3/5, 8 p.m.

Nicholas Finch and Lillian Pettitt, cellos; Kathleen Karr and Jake Chabot, utes; Ogle Center — Sat. 11/13, 7:30 p.m.

“Classics: Festival of Latin American Music 2”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Kentucky Center — Sat. 3/12, 8 p.m.

“Holiday: Messiah”, Dr. Kent E. Hatteberg, conductor, St Michael Catholic Church — Sat. 12/4, 7:30 p.m.

Family: Jingle Bell Concert”, Bob Bernhardt, conductor, Tony DeSare, singer, Kentucky Center — Sat. 11/27, 11 a.m.

“MusicNOVEMBERWithout Borders: Baroque and Classical Jewels”, Gabriel Lefkowitz, conductor and violin; Nicholas Finch and Lillian Pettitt, cellos; Kathleen Karr and Jake Chabot, utes; The Je ersonian — Thur. 11/11, 7:30 p.m. “Music Without Borders: Baroque and Classical Jewels”, Gabriel Lefkowitz, conductor and violin; Nicholas Finch and Lillian Pettitt, cellos; Kathleen Karr and Jake Chabot, utes; St. Francis in the Fields — Fri. 11/12, 7:30 p.m. “Music Without Borders: Baroque and Classical Jewels”, Gabriel Lefkowitz, conductor and violin;

SEPTEMBER Free Season Preview, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Iroquois Amphitheatre — Fri. 9/24, 8 p.m.

“Family: Peter & The Wolf”, TBD, conductor, Brown Theatre — Sun. 1/23, 3 p.m. “Co ee: Pines of Rome”, Rei Hotoda, conductor, Kentucky Center — Fri. 1/28, 11 a.m. “Classics: Pines of Rome”, Rei Hotoda, conductor, Kentucky Center — Sat. 1/29, 8 p.m.

“Pops: Irresistible John Williams”, Bob Bernhardt, conductor, Kentucky Center — Sat 1/15, 8 p.m. “Music Without Borders: Celebrating Young Talent”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Michelle Cann, piano, Adath Jeshurun — Thur. 1/20, 7:30 p.m. “Music Without Borders: Celebrating Young Talent”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Michelle Cann, piano, TBD — Fri. 1/21, 7:30pm “Music Without Borders: Celebrating Young Talent”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Michelle Cann, piano, Ogle Center — Sat. 1/22, 7:30pm

TBDFEBUARY , Teddy Abrams, conductor, Old Forester’s Paristown Hall — Sat. 2/19, 8 p.m.

“Classics: Schumann and Brahms”, Edwin Outwater, conductor, Jorge Federico Osorio, piano; Kentucky Center — Sat. 11/20, 8 “p.m.

“Music Without Borders: Backward Glances”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Comstock — Thur. 10/14, 7:30 p.m.

“Music Without Borders: Concierto de aranjuez”, Kalena Bovell, conductor, Stephen Mattingly, guitar, Ogle Center — Sat.. 3/26, 7:30 p.m.

“Pops: Holiday Pops”, Bob Bernhardt, conductor, Tony DeSare, singer, Kentucky Center — Sat. 11/27, 8 p.m.

“Classics: Teddy Talks Schubert”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Kentucky Center, Sat. 10/30, 8 p.m.

“Music Without Borders: Concierto de aranjuez”, Kalena Bovell, conductor, Stephen Mattingly, guitar, The Temple — Thur. 3/24, 7:30 p.m.

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“Co ee: Festival of Latin American Music 2”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Kentucky Center — Fri. 3/11, 11 a.m.

, Dr. Kent E. Hatteberg, conductor, The Cathedral of the Assumption — Fri. 12/3, 7:30 p.m.

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“Shakespeare’s R & J” by Joe Calarco at the Henry Clay in collaboration/co-production with Kentucky Shakespeare Festival — Jan. 28 -Feb. 5 (National New Play Search) — TBD Oct./April Time Slip Theatre Aug. 19-29 Rocky Horror Show” — Oct. 22-31 intentions: The ‘90s Musical” — Jan. 2022 “Once” — June 2022

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“Classics: Fantastique”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Yves Dharamraj, cello, Kentucky Center — Sat. 5/14, 8 p.m. — Sept. 16-25 “Hell’s Awesome: The Second Coming” by Corey Music and Nick Potter — Oct. 14-23 “The Louisville Comedy Roast Series” — Oct. 29-30 “It’s (Still) A Wonderful Life” by Doug Schutte — Nov. 18-28 “The Louisville Comedy Roast Series” — Dec. 3-4 “The Kings of Christmas” by Doug Schutte — Dec. 9-23 Kentucky Center for Performing Arts Tour” — Oct. 15 “Nurse Blake: The PTO Tour” — Oct. 24 “That Golden Girls Show!: A Puppet Parody” — Oct. 30 “The Second City Remix” — March 4 The Liminal Playhouse “Punts”theliminalplayhouse.org

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“Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness” by Anthony Neilson — May 26-June 5 Productions by Marc Acito — Sept. 3-19 “Scrooge in Rouge” by Ricky Graham, music composed by Je erson Turner— Nov. 5-21 “The Cake” by Bekah Brunstetter — Jan. 7-23 Over Heels” by Je Whitty, adapted by James Magruder, music by the Go-Go’s — March 4-21 “A Very Sordid Wedding” by Del Shores — April 29-May 22

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“CoMAYee: Fantastique”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Yves Dharamraj, cello, Kentucky Center — Fri. 5/13, 11 a.m.

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“Intersections”

“Classics: Sheherazade”, Jonathon Heyward, conductor, Benjamin Beilman, violin, Kentucky Center — Sat. 4/2, 8 p.m.

Old Louisville Live oldlouisville.org/old-louisville-live Old Louisville Visitors Center, 1340 S. 4th St. Free to the public The Crashers — Sept. 10 Katie Toupin — Sept. 17 TheTheaterBard’sTown Bard Theatre 2021 at The Bard’s Town “Thethebardstown.comTen-TuckyFestival of Ten-Minute Plays”

“Pops: Michael Cavanaugh Plays Music of Elton John”, Bob Bernhardt, conductor Kentucky Center — Fri. 4/22, 8 p.m.

“Classics: Reclaimed Treasures”, Teddy Abrams, conductor, Julia Noone, violin, Louisville Chamber Choir, Kentucky Center — Sat. 4/30, 8 p.m.

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by Sarah Page — Aug. 19-29 “The Houseguests” by Harry Kondoleon — Oct. 14-24 “How to Transcend a Happy Marriage” by Sarah Ruhl — March 24-April 3

Iroquois Amphitheater | 1080 Amphitheater Road | iroquoisamphitheater.com |

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Baring the history of one’s soul onto pages — it requires so much of one’s soul. Willingness and even prose skills only go so far — no matter how the library sections and bestseller lists ll up with memoir. In her new book “Perfect Black,” Crystal Wilkinson has done more than revisit the moments and environment and relationships that made her. Once she refers to herself as “a black professional woman with a trained, homogenized tongue” — but if you know anything about Kentucky’s Poet Laureate, the truth stands tall, and that description skirts around the power of all that’s said by that tongue. There’s discipline and nesse that’s astounding in its steadiness as she describes incidents, perpetual struggles and impressions and tributes (especially to the “women that made me a woman”) in poems and short essays. The collection’s strengthened with visual accompaniment through illustrations by Ronald W. Davis. Register for Ms. Wilkinson’s virtual presentation introducing the book through Carmichael’s website.—T.E.

Old Crow Medicine Show

Tickets start at $25 | 7:30 p.m.

Lyons READ THURSDAY, AUG. 19

—Scott Recker MUSIC

Tickets start at $20 | 3 p.m.

Crystal Wilkinson Presents Perfect Black Virtual | carmichaelsbookstore.com | Free | 7 p.m.

Having cool new stadiums and a professional sports team generally leads to interesting events. Such is the case here, as Lynn Family Stadium and Racing Louisville FC will host The Women’s Cup, a four-team, four-game tournament with international participants. The four teams consist of National Women’s Soccer League members Racing Louisville FC and the Chicago Red Stars and the international teams FC Bayern Munich and Paris-Saint Germain. After the rst round of the tournament is settled on Wednesday, on Saturday the loser of each of the rst matches will meet in a third-place game at 3 p.m. and the nals will be held that day at 6 p.m. This could earn Louisville some major bargain rights.

FRIDAY, AUG. 20

—LEO CHEER

Sarah Collins Rudolph: The Fi�th Little Girl Roots 101 African American Museum | 124 N. First St. | roots-101.org | $25 | 7 p.m.

Sarah Collins Rudolph was getting ready in a church basement with her sister and three other girls from her congregation when the bomb set by white supremacists went o . The explosion killed everyone in the room of the 16th Street Baptist Church on Sept. 15, 1963. Everyone but Rudolph, “The Fifth Little Girl.” Rudolph, now in her 70s, will visit Louisville’s Roots 101 African American for a “candid conversation” moderated by Dawne Gee. At the event next week, Rudolph will be selling copies of her new book, “The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing.” —Danielle Grady SUPPORT BLACK VOICES

SATURDAY, AUG. 21

Sarah Collins Rudolph. Nealy Martin, Shelby Money and Jorian Baucom.

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The Women’s Cup Lynn Family Stadium. |. 350 Adams St. | racingloufc.com |

Mixing old-timey in uences and modern Americana styles, Old Crow Medicine Show, which has been active since 1998, has sought to bridge the past to the future in the world of folk and country. They’ve been inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, and, of course, recorded a mega hit, “Wagon Wheel” —a song which the band’s singer Ketch Secor built from a Bob Dylan bootleg chorus, which itself had deep roots in several traditional folk songs. Old Crow is a touring machine, and after everyone had to go on a hiatus, they’re back in Louisville.

THURSDAY, AUG. 19

The Frazier History Museum is where the world meets Kentucky. Exhibitions include Cool Kentucky, Lewis & Clark, The Spirit of Kentucky®, Border State, The Stewart Collection, and the newly opened West of Ninth. The museum offers guided tours, camps, programs, and daily showings of KentuckyShow!, as as concierge service in the Kentucky Bourbon Trail® Welcome Center. Ln

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For more information, visit fraziermuseum.org. 1 New Hours Tue–Fri 11–5 pm Sat 10–4 pm 502.895.3711 150 Chenoweth

White Reaper Kentucky State Fair, Kentucky Exposition Center | 937 Phillips Lane | Free with fair entry | 8 p.m. Louisville’s White Reaper has spent several years ascending through the national ranks with their mixture of modern fuzz-punk sensibilities and classic rock tropes, rolling them together in a extremely distinctive way, while managing constant and gradual evolution in the process — you know their songs when you hear them, but no two albums sound quite the same. While the band has played everywhere from this city’s smallest venues to the world’s biggest festivals, strangely, they actually seem to t right in at the Kentucky State Fair — White Reaper’s giant hooks and magnetic energy can go toe-to-toe with the hair metal radio royalty that usually plays these stages. —Scott Recker WITH THE BAND

FRIDAY, AUG. 27

BRUNCH

STAFF PICKS SUNDAY, AUG. 22 Brunch and Beats The Re nery | 500 Missouri Ave., Je ersonville, Indiana | Search Eventbrite | $20 | Noon - 5 p.m. Brunch has changed. No more is brunch simply mimosas and dry conversation. Brunch and Beats elevates the brunch experience with a beat and the chance to burn o some of the mimosas in a fun way. Season 3 of Brunch and Beats is coming your way and it is not to be missed. But lose your stu y attitude and get ready to get down. —Erica Rucker

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We like to think of Brew at the Zoo as opposite day: When the creatures at the zoo get to watch the humans act funny, as they consume 40-ounces worth of beer and wine. The Friends of the Louisville Zoo’s big fundraising event is back this year after a break in 2020, causing them to give it another name, “Back to Brew.” And to re-welcome the festivites, there are new perks: catered appetizers from local restaurants and specialty pours. With your ticket, you’ll have access to all event areas throughout the zoo. Live music will accompany you on your stroll, and upon exit, you’ll be plied with a Back to Brew swag bag. Isn’t it good to be black out... we mean back out? (But seriously, drink responsibly, ya animal.)—LEO & EXPLORE

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A night of music and drinks featuring some of Louisville’s and Kentucky’s best craft brewers, Old Lou Brew Craft Beer Festival is a night in the park you don’t want to miss. This is a fundraising event, so the $15 cover is active whether you’re purchasing beer or not, but it’s a small price to pay for a quality outdoor gathering.

Old Lou Brew Cra�t Beer Festival

SATURDAY, AUG. 28

Brew at the Zoo

Louisville Zoo | 1100 Trevillian Way | louisvillezoo.org | $125 | 5-9:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, AUG. 27

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Central Park | 1340 S 4th St. | Search Facebook | 6 p.m. | $15

—LEO FESTIVAL

A tradition that’s been going on for more than three decades, this yearly event celebrates the historic California neighborhood. At this year’s event, brought to you by The Sparrow House, there will be food, vendors, music and resources. Attire from the ‘90s is encouraged.

‘Witness And Testimony’

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32 LEOWEEKLY.COM // AUGUST 18, 2021 BROOKS RITTER | GENEVVA CHRISTONE “KINGFISH” INGRAM 8/25 MEMBER SUPPORTED PUBLIC MEDIA • WFPK.ORG OUTSIDE ALCOHOL IS PROHIBITED. NO COOLERS, GLASS OR PETS ALLOWED WATERFRONT PARK’S BIG FOUR LAWN • EVENT BEGINS AT 5PM • FREE ADMISSION COVID SAFETY AND OTHER FAQS AT WFPK.ORG STAFF PICKS SATURDAY, AUG. 28 California Day California Park | 1600 W. St. Catherine St. | Search Facebook | Free | Noon-6 p.m.

Cressman Center for Visual Art, UofL | 100 E. Main St. | louisville.edu/art | Free Elizabeth Catlett and Jacob Lawrence are two important historic Black artists who are featured in the exhibition “Witness and Testimony.” The show, curated by Cathy Shannon of E&S Gallery (one of the oldest African American ne art galleries in the world), features artists at di erent points of their careers. Her goal was “to push back against negative narratives of Black people.” Catlett and Lawrence came to prominence in the 1930s-‘40s. Others in the exhibition are Leroy Campbell and Woodrow Nash from the Civil Rights era, and contemporary artists Sherry Shine and Kevin A. Williams. —Jo Anne Triplett

HISTORY ‘We Are Still Royal’ by Sherry Shine. Quilt.

‘Voices And Votes’

Oldham County History Center | 106 N. Second Ave., La Grange | oldhamkyhistory. com | Prices vary Talk about timely. “When we signed up for the [“Voices and Votes”] exhibit over one and a half years ago, we had no idea that the voting rights issue would be a current hot topic,” said Nancy Theiss, Oldham County History Center executive director. The Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit features insights into how our government changes with each generation. On Thursday, Aug. 19 at 6 p.m., the Center is hosting a panel discussion featuring Oldham County Clerk Julie Barr, House Speaker David Osborne and Secretary of State Michael Adams. It will be moderated by Dr. Jasmine Farrier, political science professor at UofL. It’s open to the public, but reservations are required. —Jo Anne Triplett Kentucky political memorabilia.

THE GLEAMING CORRIDOR

Link: www.ceresblack.bandcamp.com/album/torpor-package

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There is a cynicism in the title Have Fun Idiot that is hard to That general malaise is on display in opener “Zoë,” a track that attends to authenticity as much as going with the ﬂow. With “Inﬁnite Scroll,” Rinehart leans into the anxiety of the times with a barnburner tune that builds on the tension between bass and drums to engender an uneasy sensation. Resolving into “Finite Jazz,” Rinehart shifts musical styles again, this time into a dark-Lynchian jazz, the sort that would score the background scene in “Twin Peaks.”

. The artist page features little written information, offering only glitchy, anime style art as the cover. Meaning lethargic, the word torpor suggests a kind of laid back notion that isn’t immediately apparent upon ﬁrst listen. Tracks like “The Pond” feature uptempo BPMs and crushing sub-bass, with an almost shoegaze like haze that permeates that atmosphere. As such, there is an ease to the listen, a comfort in the deeply layered textures, fast or not, that renders the album both familiar and fresh. Standouts include the contemporary minimalism (see: Steve Reich) inﬂuenced “Wavy 3030” or the Oneohtrix Point Never meets trap stylings of “Full Burst.” Know going in that this short, visercal and often beautiful.

There is something special about going into a project wholly blind, which was the case for me with Ceres Black’s Torpor Package

When you get to the airy Americana of the Dead’s “Friend of the Devil (feat. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy),” Rinehart’s inﬂuences only become that much more apparent. What could easily be a hodgepodge of styles comes off instead like a walk through the singer’s internal monologue, an unmoored score to a movie that you haven’t seen, but would very much like to.

The bass work recalls the great Tracy Pew, adding an air of punk rock class. It’s in these transitions that Rinehart thrives by blending his wide taste into one synchronized whole.

Artist Ben Sears has long worked behind a drum kit throughout the course of his musical career. With his solo project, The Gleaming Corridor, Sears uses sampling, synth work and percussion to craft groove-oriented electronics that recall equally Harmonia and Boards of Canada. Each of the three tracks on the all-too-brief Chimes tell their own story. The titular opener features driving synth bass and a steady drum machine beat set to the sound of warm synths and chirping birds. On “Hermit Crab,” Sears uses samples of waves to create an equally peaceful atmosphere. Closer “Gears” is built on the same rigorous beat, here with the kind of bass and guitar interplay that pays homage to bands like The Shipping News. The Chimes EP is as thoughtful as it is playful, a pleasant jaunt through Sears’ varied interests.

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LONDON MISSILE, a self-proclaimed electropop duo, is really nothing more than an “experiment” according to its members Joshua Spicer and Chris Gunter. Or, at least, that’s how it started. But with the release of “K2,” a song from their latest release, Bad Sines For The Future, one could easily say the experiment was a successful endeavor. And while the duo said the song was written before the pandemic, “K2’s” themes are just as relevant now, if not more so. “I feel as if the song and lyrics represent this feeling of complacency in life,” Gunter said. “The self-awareness of existing near other people and participating in relationships while also being completely isolated within yourself. If you watch the the video for ‘K2’ it compounds this theme against this apocalyptic imagery to demonstrate this idea that isolation is inherent to the human experience.”Spiceragreed with Gunter’s sentiment: “A few years earlier, I was diagnosed with pretty serious carpal tunnel and it became apparent that I wasn’t going to be able to play bass anymore. I had based, not only my music, but a lot of my relationships with “A few years earlier, I was diagnosed with pretty serious carpal tunnel and it became apparent that I wasn’t going to be able to play bass anymore. “

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“Bad Sines for the Future” by the London Missile|

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“K2” is smooth electro-pop at its finest, airy yet sonically focused. The song opens with a peaceful, atmospheric glitch that throughoutpersistsyetis often punctuated with other digital bells and whistles building into a much grander symphony of sounds. Meanwhile, Spicer’s ethereal vocals melt through the song — his soft, lullabye timbre building with the dream-like chorus behind him. “I really wanted to go big on the vocal work,” Spicer said. “sBACH and Gorillaz were major influences for me when writing this track. I really liked the idea of fat, backing harmonies layered with cool falsetto stuff, like Nnamdi Ogbonnaya or Do Make Say Think paired with soft, kind of shy-sounding lead parts like Neon Indian or David Pajo. These ideas seemed like a lot of fun to me and I didn’t really see anybody else doing anything like it which was appealing.”additionallyAndwhile“K2,” and the accompanying album, was a work in progress for over four years, a length of compoundedtimeby the pandemic, Gunter views these not as problems but defining experiences. “There were periods where we were dealing with our own personal issues and couldn’t necessarily put the time and effort into music that we once were able to,” Gunter said. “However, I do believe those experiences and expressions come out in this album compounding to create a sound that at least for me, I’m extremely proud of.”

And while “K2,” and the problemsfourinalbum,accompanyingwasaworkprogressforoveryears,alengthoftimecompoundedbythepandemic,Gunterviewsthesenotasbutdefıningexperiences.

Adding spinach to homemade tomato soup makes it Florentine ... and makes it delicious.

Healthy options might seem like an odd category to memorialize Janis Joplin, but the veggie sandwich crafted in her name is good enough to grab a piece of my heart.

By Robin Garr | LouisvilleHotBytes.com

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Speaking of the menu, that’s a little idiosyncratic, too. It’s hard to ﬁnd, and the woman who took my phone order warned me not to trust the menus I ﬁnd online, “Because there are a lot of them, and they change.” A larger menu on the restaurant wall appears to be current, but quite a few of its prices are blacked out. So take all this with a grain of artisanal sea salt, but the good news is that nothing here is going to whack your wallet painfully. Sandwiches, most of them oven-baked, make up the bulk of the menu, and they’re all priced at $8. Almost 20 are billed as oven-baked great masters, each named after a great artist of painting, classical music, jazz or pop. The Van Gogh, for instance, places turkey and muenster cheese on wheatberry bread, while the Beethoven assembles three cheeses and bacon. A grilled chicken breast and bacon make up the Michael Jackson, and hickory-smoked chicken salad and melted mozzarella on a bun honor the memory of Bob Marley.

FOOD & DRINK

PHOTOS BY ROBIN GARR.

NOT that I’m worried about the Delta variant or anything — well, not too much. But, it may have been a factor the other day in my decision to try takeout for the first time in a while. This is how I ended up at Starving Artist Café & Deli in Lyndon, which may be the best restaurant in town that I’ve hardly ever heard Starvingof.Artist is a tiny storefront packed with a half-dozen tables, a service window and bright decor — a psychedelic VW bus, peace symbols, flowers and exhortations to love — on its bright purple and green walls. It accepts only cash or checks, no credit cards, and it’s open only from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays — never on weekends. Starving Artist never advertises. Its only online presence appears to be a Facebook page. And, as far as I can tell, after extensive searching, no local food critic (not even me) has ever reviewed it in its 20 years of operation.Walkin to Starving Artist’s tiny space and you might think you’ve been wafted back to the ‘60s. You don’t have to be a hippie to love the food, though. Everything is made fresh from local produce. It’s made consistently well, and the menu pricing will take you back, if not to the ‘60s, at least to a simpler pre-inflationary time.

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All of those plus a half-dozen cold sandwiches are loaded with meat, but vegetarians will ﬁnd tasty options among the seven “Healthy Options,” like the Bob Ross (with lettuce, tomato, banana peppers, black olives, and cucumbers); and the two-cheese and avocado Michelangelo.

BLTs and grilled cheese are always available, and there’s a selection of four soups, a daily special sandwich ($7) and four desserts ($2-$4) that all change daily. We called in our lunch order (no, there’s no online ordering) and everything was hot and fresh when we picked it up right on time. A “Ruben” sandwich ($8) — not a misspelling but a play on the name of the 17th century painter Peter Paul Rubens — was excellent. In fact, it was so voluptuous that you could call it Rubensesque. It was hefty with sauerkraut and a plump pile of fresh corned beef, with just the right amount of thousand island dressing, the traditional reuben sauce. I’m not sure how the ovenbaked process works, but the bread (whole wheat rather than the traditional rye) was deliciously buttered and crisp, much like a classic grilled cheese. It came with a large dill pickle spear and an individual-sized bag of Lay’s potato chips. A tossed salad side ($3.50) was wellmade, too. A base of very fresh mixed salad greens fresh was topped with halved grape tomatoes, sliced cucumbers and a generous ration of yellow cheese shreds. In an appealing touch, the salad was topped with three different types of croutons, some dark, some light and some in-between — all crunchy and fresh. From the “Healthy Options” menu, a Janis Joplin sandwich ($8) demonstrated that healthy (and meatless) doesn’t have to be boring. Delicious wheatberry bread was stacked high with lettuce, tomato, pepperjack cheese, and banana peppers with a dollop of Dijon mustard, and given the crispy, buttery oven-baked treatment. That, and the contrasting mix of textures and pops of spicy flavor, made it a memorable treat. Tomato Florentine soup ($4, offered free as a lunch side) was clearly homemade, simple and nourishing. A thick tomato puree was filled with wilted baby spinach leaves that added dimension to the flavor. A big wedge of coconut cream pie ($4) was filled with strands of coconut, both embedded in the thick, buttery crumb-crust edge and in the cream pie filling as well. It was topped with whipped cream to make an indulgentRemember,treat.

Starving Artist accepts cash only, no credit cards. Our bulging lunch bag came to just $24.11, plus an $8 tip.

The Ruben (Starving Artist’s art-in uenced take on the classic Reuben) is a crisp and enticing baked corned-beef and sauerkraut treat.

OUR cover artist, Skylar Smith isn’t a newcomer on the local arts scene. She’s been around and has been a part of the growth and atbeganpened,pandemiction.andofdevelopmentlocalartsartseduca-Whenthehap-Smithtolookherartina different way. It was a way to reach deeper into herself and give herself some certainty in a world that had very little of that.

When the pandemic happened, Smith began to look at her art in a different way. It was a way to reach deeper into herself and give herself some certainty in a world that had very little of that.

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“I started working in my studio in my basement and I’ve made more art in the quarantine than I have in a long ItobecausetimeIhadsitstillandcouldn’tgo saidanywhere,”Smith. “ And I wasn’t distracting myself with other things, which in the past I’ve been a full-time teacher and I’m a mom. And, you know, I was always outside putting stuff in front of Skylar Smith.| Photo by Abdul Sharif

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In this time, Smith’s work took on a serene quality that has given her the space to understand her work and herself differently. “It has a lot of color, but I’ve been thinking about how art can really be this meditative-like healing process for me to engage in,” said Smith. “But then, if the audience can also feel a sense of like calmness or I don’t know, just this idea of geometric shapes ﬁtting together in a pleasing way.”

my art-making. There was always something more important that I had to do in my mind.”Smith realized quickly that painting wasn’t simply something she enjoyed doing, it was something that she needed. “During COVID, it was like, I have to do this or I’m going to lose my mind, because my kids are home and my husband is going to work every day. So we’re like locked down in the house and I just needed an outlet or I was going to go crazy.”

In transitioning to this very thoughtful style, she began to study and look at the way geometry worked. “I think a lot about mandalas and different geometric designs that are used in meditative practices, like in yoga and Buddhism,” said Smith. “I know that in the past I’ve done workshops that merge art and yoga together... and just thinking about how color can incite different emotions and feelings, like just color alone.”

Smith began to experiment with how she used the materials she had on hand. Mixing hard and soft materials like pen and pencil with watercolors or liquid pigments. “It’s very therapeutic, and working with water-based media, like watercolor, ink and paint; that media is very ﬂuid and you can’t, I mean, you can control it, but it’s like more working in it,” said Smith. “And whereas dry media, like pencil and pastel or oil pastel... those things are easier to control Artwork by Skylar Smith.

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because they’re not like running all over the paper.”Smith begins each painting with what she calls a “ground,” where she takes away the starkness of white paper and washes it with color. From there, she looks at the paper until the ideas begin to take form. “So I try to create this history of layers of color and marks, and then I’ll just kind of stare at it for a while,” said Smith. “And, then all of a sudden I’ll be like, ‘Ooh.’ I’ll just kind of get this vision of like shape or I usually just start to map out some kind of composition.” Smith used her travels and education to pull together the inspirations for the new works. An alumni of MICA in Baltimore and the Art institute of Chicago, Smith spent a couple of years working at the Baltimore museum of art, curating shows in Chicago and traveling the world including teaching for several months in Peru. In her journeys, she collected fabrics and art objects that she still looks to for creative juice. Now that she’s settled in Louisville while raising her two daughters with husband, T. M., Smith has found a rhythm. “For me, making art, I’m like getting out of my brain,” said Smith. “I’m not trying to think. I’m just like, it is as cheesy as it sounds, but it’s like just kind of trying to tap into some kind of like... something else is telling me the decisions I need to make. But also, I’m trusting the decisions I’ve made. There’s no right way to make a painting. So that’s why I love art.” See Smith’s piece, “Pivot,” on the cover. • Artwork by Skylar Smith.

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MOST arts organizations operate under structures that are indistinguishable from what you might expect to ﬁnd in any conventional corporate or bureaucratic setting, with an easily-understood organizational chart (even if it’s never actually charted) and a clear understanding, even in a culturally egalitarian environment, at the top of that chart is an individual with clear authority.decision-makingMost.Butnot all. From its beginning — 20 years ago — TheatreLookingLouisville’sforLilithCompany has always operated with multiple artistic orativeco-directors.Trulycollab-leadership is a rare thing to achieve and sustain. But over its two decades, the company has built a compelling body of work that stands as evidence that melding a genuinely collaborative leadership model with a deeply collaborative sense of mission is not only workable, but a powerful way to create art that matters. The three people who founded LFL in 2001 are Shannon Woolley Allison, Jennifer Thalman Kepler and Trina Fischer (years later they were joined by Kathi E.B. Ellis, who served as a artistic co-director until her death in 2019). Jennifer Thalman Kepler described the core of the mission as, “Lifting up women’s voices to interrogate historical events and different topics from women’s points of view. But over time that has evolved to become even more inclusive. We’ve always worked from an intersectional point of view, but as we’ve grown, we’ve grown and evolved — and now we walk through more intersections. So now, we think of our mission as lifting up underheard and underrepresented voices and being a space where there can be multiple voices that may or may not be women’s, but reﬂect class, gender, race, and all of those different facets.” As Allison tells the story, the impetus to found the company emerged during a frustrated late-night phone call with her life-long friend Trina Fischer. Fischer, at the time, was living in Chile on a Fulbright Fellowship, and Allison was living in Denver, working in theatre company that consisted of eight members — seven men and her. “I was miserable,” she recalled in an interview. “We were doing a lot of David Mamet, and I was playing nothing but prostitutes and ballbusters. I called Trina in Chile in the middle of the night and told her I wanted to leave that company and start something where we could create our own work. Trina was, like, ‘cool’… But we didn’t have any idea how to do that.” But they discovered that NYU offered a graduate program in applied theatre — they applied, and were admitted. In that program, Truly withaevidencethingleadershipcollaborativeisararetoachieveandsustain.Butoveritstwodecades,thecompanyhasbuiltacompellingbodyofworkthatstandsasthatmeldinggenuinelycollabora-tiveleadershipmodeladeeplycollabor-ativesenseofmissionisnotonlyworkable,butapowerfulwaytocreateartthatmatters.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT they found a like-minded partner, Jennifer Thalman Kepler, a native of Northern Virginia. And, in 2001, the trio founded Looking for Lilith and staged their ﬁrst production in NewFromYork.that ﬁrst production, “Crossing Mountains,” LFL has shown how its sense of mission models its working practices to create art of enduring value. It’s a play that recounts the history and impact of the Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, Kentucky. And to build their story, Fischer and Allison went into the community, conducted oral interviews, delved into letters and written records and found a way to tell the story in the voices of those who had lived the experience. “Crossing Mountains” has endured as a play, with a number of revivals over the years (I saw a superb performance in 2017, as part of LFL’s 15th anniversary festival).

From that fırst production, createofshownMountains,”“CrossingLFLhashowitssensemissionmodelsitsworkingpracticestoartofenduringvalue.

Five years after the New York premiere of “Crossing Mountains,” the company relocated to Louisville, and that technique — devising plays by going into communities and allowing people to reveal their stories in their own voices has become one of the company’s signature approaches, and furnished a powerful voice to people in this community. The stunning 2015 production “Prevailing Winds,” which explores the human impact of environmental degradation on the “chemical corridor” in Louisville’s West End, was an extraordinary creation –and the credits listed nearly twenty people as authors. It’s a technique that inspired works about the lives of Iraqi women, about cyberbullying and teen suicide, and a bi-lingual work rooted in the company’s long-lasting Faith Stories Project partnership with rural Guatemalan women (a project initiated by Jennifer Thalman Kepler). But a typical Looking for Lilith season might offer three types of productions, including devised plays, revisionist approaches to iconic works (like an all-female production of “Much Ado About Nothing,” and contemporary scripted works, mostly by regional playwrights like Diana Grisanti or Nancy Gall Clayton. And LFL’s history of collaborations is impossible to quantify, and includes local schools and a rich array of community organizations Last year — the centennial of women’s suffrage in the United States — should have been a capstone year for LFL. The company had planned to stage a full production around the centennial. But then theatres went dark. Still, Looking for Lilith persisted and pivoted. First, they adapted their Kentucky Suffrage Project into a series of eight streaming videos called “From Bardstown to Broadway: the Road to Votes for Women.” Those videos, ﬁlmed at historic locations in Louisville, tell the story of the ﬁght for suffrage as experienced and reported in accounts from Louisvillians who were part of the suffrage movement. (Looking for Lilith’s Youtube channel is a treasure trove of content).Then,more recently, the company started doing something new with that “Fromproject.Bardstown to Broadway: The Suffrage Driving & Walking Tour” offers an in-person piece of moving theatre where LFL narrators and actors lead audience members to still existing historical sites and share the stories of SuffragistsLouisvilleinthe places where they lived and worked.

The next round of tours runs Aug. 27-29. For information and to make reservations, go to the company’s website. It’s a “pay what you can” event, with a suggested ticket price of $15, and each tour is limited to 15 people (so make your reservations early).

Looking ahead, Shannon Woolley Allison says that the company has ambitious plans to celebrate its own 20th anniversary. On Sept. 18, there will be a party and performance at the Kentucky Center that will feature the 19 members of the ensemble performing selections from across the company’s history. In November, the company will offer a hybrid live/virtual Story Circle project that originated during the pandemic with funding from the Kentucky Foundation For Women. And, as you might expect, it’s an intensely collaborative project that brings together small, diverse groups to explore how the pandemic affected them in a mix of digital and live storytelling… including stop-motion animation. To keep up with Looking for Lilith’s next twenty years, connect via Facebook or lookingforlilith.org.

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GRANTS: Art Show International — Art Show International in Los Angeles, California awards $1,000 grants to visual artists four times a year. The fall deadline is Sept. 30, and the entry fee is $25 for up to ﬁve art submissions. The jury judges the works blind, so newcomers and amateurs are enthusiastically invited to apply. More than 178 artists have been given grants as of August 2021. For more information, visit artshowinternational.com/artist-grants

EXHIBITS: Watercolor Expressions National Juried Watercolor Exhibit — Awarded by Berkeley Arts Council, Martinsburg, West Virginia, the exhibit is open to all artists throughout the continental United States, over the age of 18, working in any watercolor medium or technique, in 2D or 3D. Mixed media where watercolor is the primary medium is also welcome. The theme is open, and the works must have been completed in the past three years. The awards are Best in Show, Merit Award and Honorable Mention. The projected prize fund for the exhibit is $1,000. Additional prizes may be determined by the number of entries. The exhibit will be displayed at the Berkeley Art Works, 116 North Queen Street in Martinsburg from Oct. 13 through Nov. 20. The deadline is Aug. 30, and the entry fee is $35 for up to two works. For more information, visit berkeleyartswv.org/ Excellence in Quilts — This call applies to contemporary Quilts in 2D or 3D of any material stitched in two or more layers. Jurors are Alice Beasley, award-winning fiber artist with work in the collections of the DeYoung Museum, the City of San Francisco, and the County of Alameda, CA; and Judith Content, president emerita, Studio Art Quilt Associates. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and has work in numerous private and museum collections Fees: $20 members / $40 nonmembers. Jurors Award: $300. Selected works will appear in Fiber Art Now magazine and be eligible for the full exhibition at the Virginia Quilt Museum (Feb. 15, 2022-April 16, 2022). Work must have been completed after January 1, 2018. For more information, visit fiberartnow.net/calls/ RESIDENCIES: The Ucross Residency Program—This residency in Wyoming is open to visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists and performance artists, as well as collaborative teams. Some residencies require a $40 application fee, some do not. Since its founding in 1981 and first residency period in 1983, Ucross has grown into a vital and relevant resource for artists of all backgrounds and disciplines, who come to Ucross from all over the United States and the world. Ucross provides each artist with living accommodations, meals, workspace and uninterrupted time so that the artists can focus on their creative process. Lunch and dinners are prepared Monday to Friday by a professional chef with ample provisions on hand for breakfasts and weekends. There is no charge for a residency. Ucross annually grants residencies to approximately 100 individuals. Residencies range from two weeks to six weeks in length. Deadline for the Spring 2022 residencies is Sept. 1. For more information, visit residency-program.htmlucrossfoundation.org/

INHOUSE—Right across the river, INHOUSE provides creative residencies of up to two weeks. Designed by John M. Johansen, the house at Floyds Knobs in New Albany was built in 1957 by a local family. After changing hands a number of times and falling into disrepair, in 2012 it was renovated by Louisville artist Ed Garber in a manner that closely reﬂects its original design. It is the core of the INHOUSE project that was founded by businessman and philanthropist Brook Smith in July 2015. It is a house that offers artists, musicians, writers, architects and other creative individuals and small groups an opportunity to retreat to a quiet, contemplative environment. Residency proposals should include a one-page document, in PDF form, brieﬂy describing the work and experience of the applicant and the purpose of the residency. Applications are rolling. For more information, visit inhousecreative.org/creative-residency/

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR TIME SLIP THEATRE

Tickets are now on sale to“Murder Ballad,” which features Christina Booker, Andrew Newton-Schaftlein, Landon Sholar and Myranda Thomas, and is directed by Jaclyn Lyons. They are $22 and available at timesliptheatre.org.

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Billed as a sexy thriller, when asked to describe the show, Sisk replied with the following adjectives: salacious, seductive, sultry and dangerous. And, if that is not intriguing enough, the show is being staged in a totally non-traditional manner. A fresh and immersive theatrical experience, “Murder Ballad” will envelope the audience in the action as it takes place all around them in the bar setting of The Loft at the Biscuit Lounge, part of the new location of Barry Wooley Designs, at 120 S. 10th Street in Louisville.

Following “Murder Ballad,” Time Slip will produce “The Rocky Horror Show” at PLAY Louisville the last two weekends of October including Halloween, “Cruel Intentions: The ‘90s Musical” in January and “Once” in June. Student programming is underway and planning to launch spring 2022. Season tickets are available at timesliptheatre.org. “We are so excited to be here and be a part of this vibrant and rich arts scene of Louisville,” said Board President Michael Detmer. “Time Slip is going to do amazing things – whether it be creating exciting and engaging productions or working with students after school. There are so many great things on the horizon, and we’re exceedingly grateful for the support we’ve already received.”

TAKING its name from one of the ultimate musical theatre party songs, “The Time Warp,” the Time Slip Theatre is set to make its presence known in the Louisville theatre scene. With a mission to enhance the cultural landscape of Louisville while increasing arts education accessibility to students, the Time Slip Theatre is intent to produce extraordinary and innovative theatre experiences, while also running an after-school musical theatre program, with a focus on scholarships for students who would not otherwise have the opportunity to attend. Artistic Director Remy Sisk announced the new company on July 22 at West Sixth NuLu to a crowd of more than 60 arts-minded individuals who gathered together to celebrate this exciting launch. The first production from Time Slip will be the musical “Murder Ballad” presented by Barry Wooley Designs, running Aug. 19-29. “Murder Ballad” is a pulse-pounding rock opera that explores the dangerous intersections of love, lust, passion and murder. The story centers on Sara, who gave up her rock-n-roll lifestyle years ago, marrying the kindhearted Michael and, together, they are raising a daughter. After five years of motherhood, however, Sara’s restless depression and aimlessness eventually lead her to begin a salacious affair with her volatile ex, Tom. As obsession collides with rage for all the players, “Murder Ballad” barrels toward its fiery climax.

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Q: Is it ever ok to stop being GGG? I’ve been with my husband for 26 years. Shortly after we got together, my husband disclosed a major kink: MFM threesomes. I was young and a virgin and up for anything then, but we didn’t start hooking up with other men until around year six of our relationship. Over the last twenty years we’ve been on-and-off with this. We had children, we took a break, and we found the time to go wild now and then. My husband’s interests expanded into dominance play—owning me and sharing me—but I’m in my late forties now and my husband is in his ﬁfties. I’m approaching menopause and my sex drive has decreased. There were also instances where I was basically sexually assaulted—or at the very least, my boundaries were not respected on more than one occasion. Long story short, I want to be done being kinky. I want my body to be mine. My husband and I have been having other marital problems, and he thinks my rejection of his kinkiness is a rejection of him. I’ve told him I’m still interested in sex, I’m just tired of being GGG. He says he isn’t interested in vanilla sex with me because he is “disappointed.” When I told him to outsource his kink, he said, “Good luck ﬁnding that as a married man.” Am I ever allowed to retire from his kink? Am I the asshole here?

A: First and most importantly, if your husband stood by and did nothing while your boundaries were violated in front of him—or if he violated your boundaries himself—then there’s an asshole in this marriage, MYBOD, and it ain’t you. But seeing as you’re still with your husband and still interested in having vanilla sex with him, I’m gonna assume your husband recognized how he failed you on those occasions when you were violated and that he’s shown remorse, apologized specifically and profusely, and made whatever changes he needed to make for you to feel safe with him. If he’s done none of those things—if he hasn’t done all of those things— you should leave him. Zooming out for new readers: GGG stands for “good, giving, game.” As in, “good in bed, giving of pleasure, and game for anything— within reason.” I believe we should be GGG for our partners and that our partners should be GGG for us. Being GGG, however, does not mean doing whatever your partner wants. That’s why the final G has always come with that italicized-for-emphasis qualifier: “game for anything—within reason.” Being game means recognizing your partner will have sexual interests that you don’t share and being up for giving those things a try—so long as they’re reasonable. “Reasonable” is a subjective standard, of course, and we all get to decide for ourselves what may or may not be reasonable. Back to you, MYBOD. A kink for MMF threesomes is not a thing for feet or light spanking. It’s a big ask. And if your husband knew he needed MMF threesomes to feel sexually fulfilled, sharing that when he did— early in the relationship—was the right thing for him to do. He laid his kink cards on the table before you got married, before you had kids, and when you could easily walk away. You didn’t walk away. You told him you were open to the idea—you told him you were one of those rare “up for anything” virgins—and he didn’t rush you into anything. Six years went by before you had your first threesome. And while MMF threesomes probably aren’t something you would’ve sought out on your own, MYBOD, I’m hoping you enjoyed some of them—you know, the ones that didn’t involve boundary violations so egregious that you experienced them not as sexual adventures you were having with your husband, but as sexual assaults your husband participated in and Jesus Fucking Christ on the Cross. In all honesty, MYBOD, I’m having a hard time getting past those boundary violations. But seeing as you got past them—seeing as you’re still interested in being with your husband—I’m going to continue to assume he somehow made things right and advise you accordingly. If he didn’t make things right, disregard my advice and divorce the motherfucker Alright,already.youasked me if you can stop being GGG, MYBOD, and my answer is no. I think you should continue being GGG. That doesn’t mean you have to continue having MMF threesomes with your husband. You can decide you’re done with that—you can take them from the menu permanently—while still being GGG in other ways. You’re also allowed to be done with Dom/sub play. (Your husband never owned you and your body was never his to share. That was naughty dirty talk you indulged in, not a deed of sale you have to honor.) And doing what you’re doing—giving your partner permission to get a specific sexual need met elsewhere—is one way a person can be GGG. There’s this need, this kink of his, that’s important to him—so important he brought up early on—and you met that need for a long time but can’t meet it anymore. But you’re good enough, giving enough, and game enough to give him your blessing to get his kink on with other people. So you haven’t stopped being GGG. You’re being GGG in a different way now. And just as you’re not obligated to have kinky sex with your husband, MYBOD, your husband is not obligated to have vanilla sex with you. If you think he’s withholding sex right now because he’d disappointed, well, maybe you can see how it might be disappointing and give him a little time to get over it. But if, on the other hand, you think he’s withholding sex to manipulate you into having threesomes again, MYBOD, that’s a deeply shitty thing to do and you should leave him.

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P.S. Please show this to your husband, MYBOD: Dude. GET OVER YOUR DISAPPOINTMENT ALREADY. You had good run. I hope you’re grateful and I hope found some way to make up for boundary violations. Assuming you did: The sooner you stop fucking sulking and start fucking looking, the sooner you’ll ﬁnd couples seeking male thirds. And you know those couples are out there because you and your wife used to be one of those couples. And far from being a stumbling block, the fact that you’re married is a selling point for many couples seeking thirds. (A married or partnered man is seen as less threatening for obvious reasons.) And I don’t know if you’ve been online recently, but hot daddies are very much in demand these days, and dominant daddies get a lot of play. Your wife isn’t taking your kink from you. She’s telling you to get this need met elsewhere. You are not being wronged. Stop being a baby and an ingrate. Jesus! Q: I’m freshly out of a relationship and new to Grindr and I’m realizing that for me to get hard, I need slow kissing, I need to vibe to music, and especially need a soft touch on my dick. Too many guys pull on it with no lube and that makes me go soft. Slowly kissing to a chill song is my jam. Also, my dick is sensitive near the bottom of the shaft and I need wet ﬁngers to go all the way down to the base of my dick in order to come. Is there a quicker way to describe this? Is lowon-the-shaft stimulation called something? Is there a term for this or a name for me? Or do I need to send a paragraph to all the tricks I message? Very Into Being Erect A: That’s called the way you like it, VIBE. Alternately, it’s called what works for you,

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