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DANIEL CAMERON is a failed experiment. He’s the exact example of someone given an opportunity and placed in a position to do something good by the people of the state, yet, he’s pouring his energy into affairs that do not benefit the citizens of Kentucky. In fact, I would call his behavior and attention to his job a dereliction of duties, particularly in the case of Breonna Taylor. Failing to acknowledge civil rights violations as a Black man in America? Give me a fucking break. The irony here is too much. Cameron is wearing blinders of the most heinous kind. To say that Cameron is frankly another sell-out to special interests and Republican hyperbole is too mild a statement when one looks at the absolute failure of his tenure as attorney general of Kentucky.
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“President Trump is a fighter,” Cameron recently wrote on his Twitter page. “No raid at Mar-a-Lago is going to stop him from working hard for the American people. Folks here in Kentucky will always support someone the media despises and the left hates, because it means that person is standing up for their values.” I’m not even going to touch how absolutely, mind-numbingly sycophantic this is, but just come on this journey of words with me. “Folks here in Kentucky will always support someone the media despises and the leftDude,hates…”grow up.
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Cameron has fallen into the trap of equating all Kentuckians with the stereotype of the brainless yahoo. Sure, Kentuckians love an underdog but Trump isn’t any underdog. He’s a rich white fool who plays on the sentiment of true underdogs by hyping them up on racism and blatant lies. He sells a fantasy that many Kentuckians, some poor… some racist as fuck, want to buy into — if they step on others, they might be like Trump, too.The funny part of this statement is that Cameron isn’t even really talking about Trump here. He’s talking about himself. He’s hoping that how the media ‘hates him’ makes him more palatable to Trump’s audience, and therefore ensures that Kentuckians will elect him as their first “Black” leader. But what qualifications does Cameron have to lead Kentucky through a continued pandemic, widespread poverty, a neglected Eastern Kentucky primed for growth but suffering from flood damage? This should be what Cameron is selling — skills and leadership qualifications — not the hopes that Kentucky will accept his Black face because he aligns himself with Trump. It’s such a thin attempt to be palatable. Cameron is a sad, sad and tired trope. Can you blame a brother for trying? It works for Clarence Thomas, at least it has until Ginni Thomas’ shenanigans start to get in the way. Cameron is on the same razor’s edge where success for him hinges on selling himself to the tastes of white people. In Kentucky, I guess that means shouting out for Trump and doing whatever the Senate Minority Skeksis Mitch McConnell asks of you. It’s embarrassing and it is a prison. What Cameron should be doing as attorney general is performing the basic duties given to him by Kentuckians and diligently dealing with the bad policing in the state that caused Breonna Taylor to lose her life. He could have done this and still held fast to his “support” for the police. Cleaning out the criminal cops would seem to indicate that he both supported a transparent and strong force while also caring that citizens’ rights were protected. Who am I fooling? That’s a fantasy just like Cameron’s bid for governor. He doesn’t deserve to be attorney general. And the state’s governor? Hard pass. He’s an opportunist like the rest of his party, maybe worse because he’s proven that he would ignore the civil rights of his own people. All chatter, no substance and nothing to show Kentuckians that he is worthy to hold the highest office in the state. Alignment with Trump and McConnell doesn’t feed, clothe or keep Kentuckians safe. “I don’t care what anybody says in the national media, when it comes to supporting and defending law enforcement, we are going to do that. We are going to back the blue,” Cameron said at Fancy Farm. Your job, Cameron, is to back Kentuckians — and making law enforcement transparent, honest and safe should be a priority. ON DANIEL
You failed at that and, in turn, your friends in blue have to bear the dishonor of the FBI arresting members that you should have taken care of yourself. Kentucky owes you nothing and really, just enjoy these last months of your AG job, then step off and disappear. I’d certainly rather the votes of my friends and family go to a qualified candidate, and one day, a qualified and sensible Black one.
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The Point also existed on a peninsula at the time. While today Beargrass Creek spills into the Ohio River just east of the RiverPark Place marina, until the 1850s, it emptied into the Ohio River downtown near where the George Rogers Clark Bridge stands today. Until that juncture — the city turned the original route into a sewer — The Point was a peninsula that was accessible by bridge, setting apart physically from the main part of the city much as it was set apart financially.Ms.Paget unfortunately was only able to enjoy her newly-built mansion for four years, as she died in 1842, and the mansion fell to her heirs. The house changed hands repeatedly over the next century, at one point being known as the Riverview Boat Club, and the interior was extensively remodeled to change its function as a place for community events and meetings. Sadly, for The Point, floods in the 1880s and again in 1913 took their toll on the buildings and the residents alike, and more and more people left. The 1937 Great Flood was essentially the last stand (although the fact Paget House withstood the flooding remains a testimony to Hollingshead’s work). The city purchased the land and most of the buildings were destroyed. Paget House remained but was abandoned in the 1970s, Wiser said, which is when it began to decay. Today, Paget House has a fresh look, back to its bright red shine, complete with a rebuild to parts of the original building, new roofing, gutters and a replica of the original balcony. (Wiser said the original balcony had found a home at Joe Ley’s Antiques, but that it has disappeared in the wake of the antique store’s closure.) But at least the mansion itself remains. “Now we’ve got it back,” Wiser, who referred to himself as the “squeaky wheel” in the city’s efforts to restore the home, said of Paget House. And while the interior hasn’t been touched, he said it’s possible one day it can receive further restoration. Until then, even another Great Flood shouldn’t budge the old building that has haunted the river’s edge for almost as long as Louisville has existed. “It’s good to go for another 100 years or so,” Wiser said. “Hopefully longer.”
4 LEOWEEKLY.COM // AUGUST 17, 2022 VIEWS HISTORIC PAGET HOUSE FINALLY GETS LONG-AWAITED FACELIFT
To view Paget House, simply enter the parking lot on the left side of RiverPark Place from River Road; the mansion is to the right near the back of the parking lot. There also is an information board Waterfront Development Corporation has placed in front of the mansion to offer visitors a peek at some of its history. •
The Point itself is an often-forgotten part of Louisville’s interesting history. The neighborhood thrived in the city’s early decades, made up largely of stately mansions, many of them owned by rich Southerners who spent their winters in New Orleans and would come to Louisville to ride out grueling summers.
THE OLD RED mansion sat for decades on the Ohio River east of downtown, slowly decaying. It was the last building standing from a historic neighborhood that ultimately was swept away in the wake of the 1937 flood. But the Paget House, built in 1838, today looks shiny and new. The former family home, which once held the address 1562 Fulton St., sits behind the RiverPark Place apartment and condo complex on River Road in the same spot it was originally built, defying time, weather and wear. On many occasions, I’ve walked my dog Atticus from our Clifton home down along Beargrass Creek to where the old building withered behind chain-link fencing. In photos I took just a year and a half ago, the red bricks look faded and tired and a section of one wall looked to have partially caved in above a side window. Remnants of an original wrought-iron balcony hung flimsily on the building’s façade. But over the past year or so, the old house was restored as part of the Waterfront Development Corporation’s plans to completely redevelop the Louisville waterfront — plans that began back in the 1980s. Steve Wiser, a local developer and historian who served on the corporation’s Design and Review Board, has been following plans and progress of the building’s renovation ever since.Why is the building important to local history? Plenty of reasons. For one, the back half of the structure dates to sometime in the 1790s, making it one of the oldest buildings in Louisville. For another, when the front part of what would become a mansion was added, it was done so by the great-great niece of America’s first president, George Washington. It was 1838 that Margaret Wright Paget hired a carpenter named Jeremiah Hollingshead to add on to the structure; records from the National Register of Historic Places indicate that she had the addition built specifically to rival some of the most beautiful homes in the city. Back when the Point still existed, Fulton Street was often referred to as “Frenchman’s Row” due to the many New Orleans residents owning mansions there. Ms. Paget’s mansion was a red brick Georgian-style structure that matched the original building, complete with the front-facing cast-iron balcony; with a perfect view of the river, the balcony was the home’s distinguishing feature. Most Louisvillians are familiar with the Heigold Façade, which is the only other surviving structure that once called The Point home. In fact, Paget House — also sometimes called “Mansion House” — once was situated just around the corner from the Heigold Mansion; the façade was moved first to Thurston Park and then to the foot of Frankfort Avenue in 2007 and is now a local hotspot for photo opportunities. (Note: If you’re getting your engagement photos and band photos taken by the Heigold Façade, you might be a Louisville cliché.)
Before (left) and after (right) the historic building’s recent renovations.
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LOTS of left-skewing folks, including me, have expressed irritation at the Justice Department’s delay in charging the former president for trying to replace Congress with a battalion of deadbeat dads who still listen to Ted Nugent. But things are looking up. The fact that the feds executed a search warrant at Trump’s Florida pleasure palace should inspire some confidence. And the charges levied against four LMPD officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s murder, including a charge against former officer Brett Hankison for conduct that a Louisville jury already found him not guilty of, might stoke one’s optimism, too. What do these charges mean for what we can expect out of this DOJ in coming months?
While I don’t love the fact that the feds have the power to charge someone for something they’ve already been acquitted of, at least they’re occasionally using that power against cowboy cops. That’s a notable improvement from previous administrations. There’s another piece here that’s helpful for context: Last month, three former Minneapolis officers — J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao — were sentenced on federal charges under the same statute used to prosecute Hankison and the other LMPD officers. Those three were popped by the DOJ for “failing to intervene” so as to prevent George Floyd’s death. None of them will do more than four years in prison, but the fact that the feds went after them in the first place means something. The overall picture is one of a Justice Department that is willing to take risks to do what’s right. Up until now, courts and prosecutors have been telling cops that even the most reckless Deadpool-style policing will be excused: firing into moving cars full of children? Fine. Making up charges on the spot so someone gets thrown in jail? No biggie. Blasting golden retrievers and tossing concussion grenades into occupied cribs? Yawn. As someone who used to sue cops all the time, it’s been next to impossible to convince the federal courts that they should be subjected to simple monetary penalties, let alone criminal ones. That’s what makes the charges against the LMPD officers so extraordinary. In the past, the feds have been willing to overlook any bad behavior by police during a home invasion if someone shoots at a cop. Lying on a search warrant is practically something they teach at the academy, so they haven’t gone after officers for that one either. Thao and Keung were just standing around watching their colleague kill a man; I don’t remember hearing of cops getting charged for that ever in my life. There’s a dimensionpoliticaltoconsider, too. The FBI and LMPD work together a lot, and these prosecutions will almost seemsachargingevenship.relation-theirdamagecertainlySoifbadcop like a actanstillit’ssense,inbrainer,no-a of bravery. The feds didn’t have to do it (and historically speaking, they haven’t). Regular readers will know to take my tempered praise of the DOJ for what it’s worth, which isn’t much. Federal law enforcement still has racist and classist roots, and it’s hard to imagine that the DOJ would have pursued these charges had the Taylor and Floyd murders not captured so much national attention. And of course, underlying all this is America’s chronic insistence on clubbing every social problem over the head with the criminal law. There’s not much that’s objectively “good” about this situation overall. But if you’re turning over stones looking for hope wherever you can get it, I think there’s some to be found.
• Dan Canon is a civil rights lawyer and law professor. His book “Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class” is available for preorder wherever you get your books.
6 LEOWEEKLY.COM // AUGUST 17, 2022 VIEWS THE MIDWESTERNIST WHAT THESE DOJ CHARGES MEAN By Dan Canon | leo@leoweekly.com
The decision to re-prosecute Hankison is even more curious when you consider that federal prosecutors will have to convince a jury composed not just of Louisvillians, but of Nice White Jurors from surrounding counties, too. These Nice White Jurors are more likely to be pro-cop, and therefore less likely to convict someone of firing shots wildly into a neighboring apartment. And the prosecutions of the other officers, at least on the charges connecting their lies to Breonna Taylor’s death, are anything but a slam dunk. Still, accountability is accountability.
The main statute under which the four LMPD officers are charged was part of a post-Civil-War act meant to give the federal government power to enforce the law in places where states would not. Crime and punishment were handled locally in those days; it was rare for the feds to dirty their hands with plain-old murders and robberies. But white supremacists were terrorizing the South during Reconstruction, and Southern states weren’t doing much to stop them. As one congressman put it in 1871, “men were murdered, houses were burned, women were outraged, men were scourged, and officers of the law shot down, and the State made no successful effort to bring the guilty to punishment or afford protection or redress to the outraged and innocent. The State, from lack of power or inclination, practically denied the equal protection of the law to these persons.” Laws like the one LMPD officers are charged under allowed federal agents to mop up the Klan without the help of state governments.
The 2015 murder of Walter Scott in South Carolina provides an example of how this is supposed to work today. A bystander captured a video of officer Michael Slager shooting Scott eight times in the back, from a considerable distance, as he was running away. As you may have guessed, Scott was Black and Slager is white. The judge declared a mistrial when one of the jurors refused to convict, despite unmistakable evidence that Scott’s death was a coldblooded assassination. The feds took over the case, and Slager got 20 years. With this history in mind, Hankison’s second round of charges might make more sense. The state’s little dog couldn’t get the job done, so in barges the federal pit bull. The difference here is that Hankison was tried and acquitted of exactly the same conduct the feds charge him with now. Laypeople often ask, “Isn’t that double jeopardy?” It probably should be, but the Supreme Court says it’s not. We should be suspicious of this kind of power, which is regularly directed at people who state prosecutors are mad at. In the rare event that a defendant is found not guilty after a trial, state prosecutors will sometimes go running to Big Brother to make sure that someone goes to prison, no matter what any ol’ jury says. I’ve seen them do this many times, and it’s almost never directed at crooked cops.
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THORN: GANNETT TUMBLES AND STUMBLES
ROSE: A SELL-OUT FOR LYNN FAMILY STADIUM
Last week, Gannett, the parent company of more than 200 newspapers nationwide, including the USA Today and Louisville’s Courier Journal, announced a dismal quarter, su ering a loss of nearly $54 million. And right away, local and regional journalists started to once again feel the weight of the situation as a round of layo s almost immediately began. And, we’ve learned over the last few years that local and regional journalists are as important as ever. Gannett also eliminated some open positions. All signs point to the publicly-traded company caring more about their market value than the hard-working journalists that win them awards. Journalism is under attack from multiple fronts.
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Butchertown’s Lynn Family Stadium saw its rst ever sell-out crowd on Aug. 13, when 14,673 fans watched Lou City FC beat the Tampa Bay Rowdies. In a town that’s crazy about college sports, it’s good to see pro sports get attention — and to see the beautiful new stadium full for once.
THORN: KY GETTING HOTTER AND HOTTER
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FOR the next mayor of Louisville, policing — and rebuilding trust in Louisville’s police force — will be a major issue. After a tumultuous 2020 that saw the police killing of Breonna Taylor spark months of protests, the Louisville Metro Police Department came under a Department of Justice pattern or practice investigation that is expected to result in a federal consentSeparately,decree.the DOJ has built misconduct cases against LMPD officers, with seven charged this year alone. Most recently, on Aug. 4, four LMPD former officers were charged for their role in the raid on Breonna Taylor’s apartment — including two officers who had not been disciplined by LMPD. The department’s own investigations into alleged officer misconduct can be delayed by years. As trust in LMPD has frayed, 2022 is the third year in a row where Louisville has seen more than 100 homicides. And the police department is hundreds of officers short. Both Democratic nominee Craig Greenberg and his opponent, Republican Bill Dieruf, say public safety is their top priority and have underscored the need to increase LMPD staffing and engage in community policing. Following the latest federal indictments, LEO Weekly sat down with both candidates to ask about issues that weigh on community trust in the police department.
Republican candidate Bill Dieruf. |
LMPD’s own internal investigations into alleged officer misconduct can, at times, take years to resolve. For instance: As LEO previously reported, in the case where an LMPD officer fired pepper balls at a Wave 3 News crew that was on air during protests in May 2020, the department had yet to initiate its investigation nearly two years after the incident, saying they had to wait for an FBI probe of the matter to be completed. Both an officers’ bill of rights under Kentucky’s law and provisions in the city’s contract with the River City Fraternal Order of Police — the union representing officers — mandate that alleged misconduct must be investigated before an officer can be fired. Outgoing Mayor Greg Fischer cited those provisions in 2020 to explain why he was not firing officers in the Breonna Taylor case. Both Greenberg and Dieruf said they would move quicker on investigations than the current administration does. “I think part of improving trust between the community and the police, the community and the government is transparency, accountability and acting in as close to real time as possible. Being prompt,” said Greenberg.Headded: “Acting with a sense of urgency is critical. In terms of disclosing facts. Releasing body camera footage. And taking action. All of that is important to happen with a sense of Dieruf,urgency.”whoiscurrently the mayor of the Louisville suburb of Jeffersontown, said his city moves quickly to address cases of alleged misconduct and that he would do the same as mayor of Louisville. “In J-Town, we don’t procrastinate on moving forward with an officer,” said Dieruf. “If an officer has committed something as egregious as you’ve said, we investigate, we send it to the civil service and it is moved forward.” He also said his city is transparent
Democratic candidate Craig Greenberg. |
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AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN LOUISVILLE DEMOCRAT CRAIG GREENBERG AND REPUBLICAN BILL DIERUF TALKED TO LEO ABOUT SOME OF LMPD’S MOST PRESSING ISSUES
On Aug. 15, WFPL’s environment reporter Ryan Van Velzer wrote a story about how, according to a study, in three decades Louisville is expected to see 21 days per year with a heat index above 105 degrees. Louisville’s summer heat already feels unbearable and creates major health risks; the thought of those days becoming more frequent is terrifying.
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“I am focused on right now ensuring that we have a police department that has the people and resources it needs to prevent violent crime. Right now, we are approximately 300 officers short of a fully-authorized staff. So that makes it difficult to be involved in community policing,” he said. “That’s going to be my focus in the negotiations with the FOP contract.”
When the Department of Justice announced on Aug. 4 that four former LMPD officers would be charged in connection to the raid on Taylor’s apartment in 2020, the public was learning the names of two officers for the first time: Kyle Meany and Kelly Goodlett, who were both involved with the drafting of the warrant for Taylor’s home. Despite an internal LMPD probe into the raid and an investigation by Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s office (Cameron claims his office’s “primary task” was looking at the execution of the search warrant, not the drafting of the warrant), no misconduct or criminal activity by those officers was previously found.
Greenberg said he was not sure what the DOJ would find, but that as mayor, he too would use the consent decree to improve the force.
During the next administration, it is all but certain that Louisville’s police force will be under a federal consent decree following the Department of Justice’s wide-ranging pattern or practice investigation of LMPD. Consent decrees are settlements between the city and the federal government, with police departments agreeing to changes in policy and practices depending on what the DOJ demands. The agreements, which have notably been put in place on departments in cities like Baltimore, Cleveland and New Orleans, often last for years.
LEO also asked the candidates what they would change in the city’s contract with the police officers’ union.
After the DOJ indicted four former LMPD officers on Aug. 4, Greenberg released a statement calling the charges “long overdue” and said Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, whose office investigated Taylor’s death, “fell agonizingly short.” Like Greenberg, Dieruf said he believes it is only a small fraction of police officers that are engaged in misconduct. “I’d say 98% of all police officers are great police officers. When they put on the badge everyday they’re here to protect us,” Dieruf said. “The few bad apples profes-inareany sion. And professionanythat has bad apples, we need to move them to another profession or move them out of the profession they’re in.”
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Dieruf said that when his city’s department recently had two openings, 100 LMPD officers applied.
“I have not read the contract to tell you what we would change,” said Dieruf. His opponent, Greenberg, said when the contract is renegotiated next year, his focus would be on attracting more police officers to the short-staffed department.
In the Breonna Taylor indictments, prosecutors allege that multiple officers knowingly included false information in their application for Taylor’s Springfield Drive apartment and later conspired to get their story straight. And in “Slushygate,” LMPD officers with the now-disbanded 9th Mobile Division allegedly threw drinks at pedestrians in the West End while filming their exploits and sharing videos of their assaults with fellow officers. LEO Weekly asked the candidates whether they were concerned about the potential existence of groups of officers engaged in misconduct within LMPD. “It’s certainly concerning,” said Greenberg. “I still think it’s a very small fraction of the total number of dedicated, hard working men and women of LMPD that are putting their lives at risk every day to protect all of us.”
8 LEOWEEKLY.COM // AUGUST 17, 2022 NEWS & ANALYSIS and that that practice would continue. “As a mayor that has a police force right now, when situations occur, they’re rectified right away,” said Dieruf. “They’re also very transparent when we talk to the press. When we have a situation here, we not only are transparent the press but we bring in whoever [was affected], we sit down and talk to them.”
LEO asked both candidates whether, given cases like this, they were concerned about LMPD’s ability to conduct internal investigations.“LMPDuses the state police to investigate during situations generally like this. They didn’t then, but I understand they do now,” said Dieruf. While the city announced in 2020 that the Kentucky State Police would take the lead on investigating shootings by Louisville police officers as a measure to rebuild community trust, a high-profile July 10 shooting at Shawnee Park was investigated by LMPD. Incidents of alleged officer misconduct that do not involve a shooting are investigated by LMPD unless an outside agency probes them for potential criminal charges.
“As an accountant, so many people are afraid of being audited. But an audit is something to make you better, not as something you should fear,” said Dieruf. “So the same thing with this: we look at what they do to make the police department better and move forward with where LMPD should be to be the best of the best department. LMPD should be the department in the state that all other officers want to come to.”
“We need to use that as an opportunity to make Louisville a safer city,” he said. “We need to use that as an opportunity to ensure we have the best trained, the most trusted and the most transparent police department in America. And as mayor, that’s going to be my focus: Working with any member of the community that wants to be a part of that solution. We all have to work together.”
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Greenberg said he had some concern about LMPD’s ability to conduct investigations of its own officers, but that the new Inspector General’s office, which can independently investigate officer misconduct in response to citizen complaints, creates “an opportunity to improve that process.”Headded that the city needs to make sure LMPD has the resources to do thorough investigations. “Ultimately the mayor is accountable,” Greenberg said. “The mayor is accountable to the people. And the city government is accountable to the mayor. And it’s going to be my job to make sure that we hold people accountable when mistakes are made,” he said.
He added: “At the same time, when people in law enforcement… when people do things that are clearly not acceptable, we have to be transparent about that and we have to take appropriate action for that particular incident. That’s important. That’s a hallmark of transparency, accountability. I think that will help restore and improve trust in government at all levels.”
He added: “My intent has alway been to make the best of the best. Anybody that we hire in JTown, we always look for the best of the best. And when you do that, a consent decree doesn’t matter.”
BAD APPLES OR BAD BUSHELS? When there is talk of police misconduct, the phrase “bad apples” invariably comes up — the idea that there are rare cases of individual officers whose conduct gives the entire department or profession a bad rap. In recent federal indictments of LMPD officers, however, it has been groups of officers involved.
It’s not known what changes the DOJ will require, but both Greenberg and Dieruf say the consent decree is an opportunity to make LMPD better.
The Jeffersontown mayor plans on bringing his current police chief, Rick Sanders, to LMPD “in some capacity” if he is elected — a move he says will push the department in the right direction and enhance public trust.
LEOWEEKLY.COM // AUGUST 17, 2022 9 ISDOCTORTHEIN THE RESILIENT STORY OF RACING LOUISVILLE STRIKER NADIA NADIM, A SOCCER STAR AND MEDICAL DOCTOR WHO FLED THE TALIBAN AS A CHILD By Josh Wood | jwood@leoweekly.com PHOTO BY CAROLYN BROWN.
More than 100 caps (international games, in soccer talk) for the Danish national team. A French league title with the historied Paris Saint-Germain Féminine. The top scorer on the Portland Thorns FC when the team finished with the best record in the National Women’s Soccer League in 2016. But the goal Nadim holds dearest didn’t come under towering stadium lights in front of thousands of adoring fans as she played on the highest stages of women’s soccer. Instead, it came on a more humble pitch (field, in soccer talk) as a young Afghan refugee newly arrived in Denmark after escaping Taliban rule in her homeland. On a rainy day when she was 12 or 13 in the early 2000s (she can’t recall exactly when), Nadim was playing in her first championship, a regional affair. She had only been in Denmark for a short time — and had only picked up soccer after her arrival in Scandinavia — but had already established herself as a talented player. Her team was the underdog going into the seven versus seven championship match. But with her team trailing, Nadim scored a hat trick to hand them a 3-2 victory. For her culminating goal, she faced a defender one on one and then “smash[ed] it, upper 90, opposite long corner.” (In non-soccer speech: the far, opposite corner of the goal, a location where it is very difficult for a save to be made). After that goal — still her favorite — she did a flip and almost hurt her back.
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“It was such a big moment for me and my teammates. Everyone just like lost their shit,” she says. Nadim had never experienced soccer until after she arrived in Denmark with her mother and four sisters two years earlier, smuggled in the back of a truck from Italy after flying to Europe on forged documents. The first refugee facility they were brought to, the Sandholm Asylum Center outside the Danish capital of Copenhagen, felt like a prison to Nadim; there were guards and barbed wire and they couldn’t leave. But after they were processed, Nadim and her family were moved to a refugee camp in Visse, a town just outside of Aalborg, Denmark’s fourth-largest city, in the far north of the modationscountry.Theaccom-in Visse sparse,werewith andmunitycom-safety,offeredButings.build-fabricatedsharedlivingrefugeesinpre-itachance
IT WAS the kind of moment she had dreamed of as a child refugee in Denmark first learning soccer: Just four minutes after she took the field for the second time of the 2022 season, Racing Louisville striker Nadia Nadim, M.D., was squaring up for a penalty shot. The little time she had spent on the field since being substituted in during the 61st minute had already been eventful, with Nadim taking a close-quarters shot off of a rebound just seconds after she entered the game to the crowd’s most thunderous cheers of the night. That shot was blocked by a defender, but after Racing midfielder Savannah DeMelo was flattened in front of the goal just over a minute later, Nadim was called forward to take the resulting penalty shot. The 34-yearold Afghan-born forward now had another opportunity to score her first goal since tearing her ACL in a potentially career-ending injury last September. Before she came into the game, Nadim had found a distant spot on the sidelines to warm up alone after former Angel City FC midfielder Savannah McCaskill netted a goal a minute into the second half giving the visiting team a 2-1 edge. From the upper deck of Butchertown’s Lynn Family Stadium, it looked like Nadim was annoyed and impatient as she, like the fans, was relegated to the role of powerless spectator. Lined up for the penalty shot, Nadim stared in at the goalie, who clapped her hands above her head and moved from side-to-side in her 24-foot-wide domain. In the standing room only section behind the goal, the flags of Black Lives Matter, gay pride, Nadim’s adopted nation of Denmark and the embattled nation of Ukraine were hanging from the rails alongside a banner depicting a protest fist between two ovaries. The Taliban, which Nadim escaped as a child, would not have approved of the scene: Not of the shorts she was wearing or her uncovered hair; not that she was an educated, independent woman; not that she was a professional athlete; not of the flags in the stands or the fans sipping Modelos. Nadim surged forward and struck the ball with her right foot. The goalie went right. The ball went left, finding the back of the net. Nadim had her first goal of the season, tying the game for Racing. Purple and white smoke filled the air. As the defeated goalie walked towards the ball where it had come to a rest, Nadim ran forward at the net, gave a triumphant leap and snatched up the ball (later, on a podcast, she’d say that she felt irritated and provoked by the goalie before the shot and decided to “irritate her back.” As she unboxed a new pair of cleats in one of the stadium’s luxury boxes in July, she’d tell me that she enjoys situations where there’s more pressure than usual). At the far end of the stadium, in the supporters’ zone where chants keep going the entire match, the words on a red and white Danish flag that began the match reading “THE DR. IS OUT” now read “THE DR. IS IN.”A career that started as a child practicing with deflated balls in a Danish refugee camp had taken Nadim to some of the top women’s soccer teams in the world, eventually landing her in Louisville, where she has tried to help a young club that continues to struggle in the standings. The torn ACL kept her off the field, limiting her ability to do that. But for a person who continually had to overcome adversity, the painful injury was just a bump in the road. “I’m not really a person who gets scared of things,” she says. “I accept things the way they are. That makes my life a lot easier.”
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for Nadim to just be a kid again after fleeing Afghanistan, where Nadim had seen war and death and been forced into hiding with her family once the Taliban took over and killed her father, a general in the Afghan National Army. “It was really minimal,” she says of the Visse refugee camp. “But I didn’t really care. It was safe. And we were together.” In the camp there were refugees like Nadim’s family from all over the world: Iraqis fleeing Saddam Hussein’s egodriven dictatorship; Somalis escaping chronic instability in their homeland; and fellow Afghans fleeing the Taliban. A soccer club practiced near the refugee camp and Nadim and other refugees acted as “ball boys” chasing down and returning wayward soccer balls that flew off the field during shooting drills. The pitch was bounded by woods and one day, Nadim talked her friends at the camp into searching the woods for balls that might not have been found. After what she describes as a systematic search of the woods, they came out
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Through the ‘80s and early ‘90s, Afghanistan was dominated by war, first between the Mujahideen and the Soviet Union and later, after Moscow called their occupation quits in the land called “the graveyard of empires,” civilAfghanistanwar. knew war and hardship, but the 1990s saw the emergence of the Taliban, a group of hardline Islamists with little tolerance for those who strayed from their interpretation of Islam. Fighting intensified around Kabul and in 1996, the Taliban captured the capital. A former president of Afghanistan, who had headed a Soviet-backed government in the early 1990s, was killed, with Taliban fightPHOTO BY CAROLYN BROWN.
“A lot of moving around. A lot of not knowing what’s happening. You saw things as a kid like you’re not supposed to see,” she says. “I’ve seen dead people. I’ve drove past places where you saw just… blood.”
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FROM BEGINNINGTHE Nadim was born in 1988 in Herat, in the far-western reaches of Afghanistan near the Iranian border. However, her father was in the Afghan National Army so her family moved around. She ended up spending most of her early life 500 miles east of her birthplace in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, a city that was once a major waypoint on the ancient Silk Road and later the trans-continental Hippie Trail that in more recent decades has been a byword for conflict and occupation. To Nadim, her childhood felt like two very different movies. In one, she felt safe and secure, growing up “probably on the wealthier side of society” in a heavily-guarded Kabul neighborhood. The second, when the Taliban took control, was like a horror movie.
ers dragging his body behind a truck through the streets before hanging it from a lamppost. Music was banned, as was television and sport. Women were not allowed to work or study and were required to cover themselves from head to toe. Minorities were persecuted. Those who ran afoul of the stringent rules were beaten or killed. With sports banned, the extremists turned Kabul’s soccer stadium, Ghazi Stadium, into a venue for public executions, shooting kneeling men and women on the field. Footage smuggled out of the country that showed a woman in a blue burqa being executed with a Kalashnikov on the lines of the penalty area in 1999 served as an iconic image of the Taliban’s brutality. After the Taliban had entrenched itself, Nadim’s father was called to a meeting with them. Her family would later be informed he had been taken out into the desert and executed. They never received a body to bury.
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With her father dead and the Taliban in control, Nadim’s family went into hiding, moving from place to place and eventually fleeing to the countryside. Nadim stopped going to school. Her mother stopped working. “Basically just trying to survive, I guess, and see what tomorrow’s going to bring. Is it going to get better? Is it going to get worse?” she says. “It was just hiding, staying low, staying Thereput.” was no future for them in Afghanistan anymore, so Nadim’s family fled. First, they went across the border into Pakistan. Then, with pre-9/11 airline checks nowhere near as stringent as they would become, they were able to use forged documents to fly to Europe. From Italy, where they landed, her family was smuggled overland by truck. They were trying to get to England, where they had family, but then, like now, those being smuggled often have little control over their
Being a professional athlete and being a medical student are both vocations that can account for all of a person’s attention and energy. Rather than draining her, Nadim found that the two balanced each other out, with soccer acting as a liberating escape. “Whenever I feel I’ve been sitting down too long and I have too much energy to use, then I love that little outlet that you get of being on the field because you forget all the pressure of school, all the 40 books you have to remember, all that disappears,” she says. At 34, Nadim is the oldest player on Racing — though Swedish coach Kim Björkegren is quick to point out “she don’t look like a normal 34-year-old.” She remains a dominant force on the field, but is also at the age where people start wondering about retirement plans; The oldest player in the league, Washington Spirit goalkeeper Nicole Barnhart, is 40 and OL Reign FC (and U.S. national team) star Megan Rapinoe is 37, but for the most part, NWSL rosters are dominated by 20-somethings.Nadimsays she’ll keep playing as long as she’s in good shape and is making an impact on the field (which, if she keeps playing like she is, could mean she’s around for some time). While some professional athletes have feelings of uncertainty surrounding what comes next, Nadim already has her future charted out: She’s going to enter postgraduate medical residency training, practicing medicine as a doctor for the first time.
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“When everyone was off and they used to go to the pool or watch a movie, I just went directly to bed around 4 or 5 p.m. because that’s what I needed,” says Nadim. “And it wasn’t fun. It was hard. But I guess that’s just life sometimes. You have to get through things even though they’re not fun at the moment as there’s a greater meaning with what you want to achieve.”GemmaBonner, a British defender for Racing Louisvile, recalled how studying and soccer seemed to occupy all of Nadim’s waking moments at points last year. “You wouldn’t really see her outside of training for that time period because she was studying so much,” says Bonner one day in June after practice, her leg bloodied from a fresh scrape on the field. “I just think it shows how incredibly, like, driven she is and determined not to let one thing fall.”
The next time she would step on a pitch would be nearly nine months later on June 4 of this year, when she was subbed in in the 66th minute of a game against the North Carolina Courage. She jogged out with the number 10 on her back, which, like all of her teammates’ numbers, was filled in with the colors of the rainbow for Pride Month. Her return has given the team a jolt, with her intensity contagious at times. Nadim’s bubbly 24-year-old Swedish teammate, midfielder Freja Oloffson, relayed a story about how in a June 17 contest against the Washington Spirit, a frustrated Nadim worked to rally her teammates while they were losing“Before2-0. we went out for the second half, she said, like: ‘If they can score two goals, we can fucking score two goals. Come on!” says Oloffson one day in July sporting a fresh bandage on her arm from an after practice IV.
Nadim says she’s looking forward to “just feeling the pressure of being a doctor. And I guess being tossed around as a younger doctor and climbing higher up in the hierarchy.” She’s still not sure about what she will specialize in during residency, but it will “definitely” involve surgery (well known as a competitive branch of medicine that attracts competitive people). She thinks she could land in reconstructive or orthopedic surgery or maybe sports medicine — it will depend, she says, on where she feels she’ll have the most impact and what suits her best. To Nadim, medicine is another field where she can climb her way from the bottom to the top and “conquer” as she puts it.
two decades after she left her homeland, Nadim is a monument to everything the Taliban was trying to strip from Afghan women. She is educated, speaking eight languages (Hindi, Urdu, Persian, Dari, English, French, German and Danish, while understanding Pashto, Swedish and Norwegian) and earning her medical degree last year (which she pursued while playing soccer professionally). She is outspoken. She is uncovered. She plays sports. In the eyes of the extremists she escaped, everything about her would be a sin.
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Nadim waking up at 1:45 a.m. to attend class until 6 a.m., upending her schedule.
Last September, Nadim was just a month and a half into her Racing career when the team headed to Florida to take on the Orlando Pride. Nadim had been named to the NWSL’s “team of the month” for August and netted three goals for Louisville, giving the team hope in its rookie season. Just 12 minutes into the Sept. 11 game against the Pride, Nadim was taken down by a tackle as she went to intercept a pass. She fell to the ground, writhing in pain before she was carried off in a stretcher. Days later, Racing would say her ACL was torn and her season was“I’veover.never felt anything like it pain-wise. I think the only reason I didn’t faint was because I was angry, pissed. I was very, very pissed off at the situation,” she says of the hit. “I felt the ref could have prevented it somehow. But after a day of mourning, crying and feeling bad for myself, feeling sorry for myself, I got over it and my mind was set for ‘How am I going to get back as soon as possible?’”
Entering the game in the 56th minute, Nadim scored two goals (a breakaway strike and a header) giving Racing a draw instead of a loss. After the game, Nadim “said: ‘I’ve got to walk the talk,’” says Oloffson. “That’s something that I think reflects on her as a person too. She demands a lot as a teammate. But she also does the things that she demands from others. So she’s a great role model. You kind of want to play good for her because you want to raise the standards because she’s raising the NadimAsstandards.”ofthiswriting,hasscoredfour goals in 399 minutes of play, meaning she averages one goal per 100 minutes — roughly on pace with some of the league’s top goal scorers. Her intensity has also shown through when she has publicly pushed back against the league. Last year, after she was injured, Nadim claimed on Twitter that her old team Sky Blue FC had forged her signature on a contract accepting an extension. By doing so, she alleged, Sky Blue was able to get more favorable terms when she was traded to the Portland Thorns. In that same Twitter thread, Nadim alleged that NWSL league lawyers said they would “consider taking actions” against her if she got her ACL surgery outside of the U.S., saying that if something went wrong and she couldn’t recover, the league could lose a lot of income by losing a star player like her. “NWSL is such a joke,” she wrote. “League wants to see themselves as the best in the world but with this shit that keeps coming we won’t be more than just a massive joke for the rest of the world.” When I ask her about it at Racing’s training facility just off of River Road, she is a little more polite. “I’m of the opinion that if you want to make a change, you need to speak of the issue,” she Nadim’ssays.intensity isn’t reserved for soccer. Studying for her medical degree in Denmark while playing soccer in the US saw
When Nadim sees those images, she sees herself and what she went through.
“Being a refugee is not something you’re going to be all your life. Just as if you’re homeless: You’re not going to be homeless all your life, you’re just in a situation right now where you’re homeless, you can’t afford to pay your rent or you’ve been fired from your job. It’s kind of the same thing with being a refugee: You’re being forced to lose everything you have and somehow, you need to figure out how to create a new life.” While it has been popular for right-wing politicians in the U.S. and Europe to use refugees to bait fear and win votes (just see Donald Trump or France’s Marine Le Pen), Nadim hopes instead that people can find empathy for those in the situation that she once was in.
“I want to be a force to be reckoned with as a doctor. And I want my name to be known,” she says. “Because you’re young and you start as a nobody. You have to work your way up. And I love that. It’s a new challenge and I have to prove myself.” Sitting in a luxury suite at Lynn Family Stadium the day before a game in July, I ask her if she’ll take a break between soccer and her medical career. “Maybe a week or so, I don’t know,” she says. “I get bored really quick not doing stuff.”
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Despite her time on the pitch being limited by her injury and recovery, Nadim is a fan favorite. Part of it has to do with how good she is: Despite the late start and limited play time this season, she is the team’s top scorer. But the other part is who she is. “I think what drew me to Nadia is she has so many similarities to Muhammad [Ali],” says Annie Moore, a board member of the Lou City Ladies supporter group whose favorite player is Nadim (and who, coincidentally, works in communications for the Muhammad Ali Center). “You know, she really stands up for what she believes in. She’s great at what she does on the pitch, but off of it she’s really an advocate for people like her.”
In recent years, scenes of people fleeing war, persecution and collapsed economies have become ubiquitous, with migrants making dangerous crossings of the Mediterranean Sea on overcrowded dinghies and walking thousands of miles towards the southern U.S. border from Central America. Others who did not flee to the West settled down in sprawling refugee camps and slums, sometimes in places only marginally more stable than the homes they had fled.
Nadim told me she had hoped to briefly return to Afghanistan in April of last year while filming a French documentary, but that producers pulled the plug after being warned by a diplomat that it could be dangerous for her. With the Taliban in control, Nadim does not know when or if she will be able to see the homeland she escaped more than 20 years ago.
Nadim’s aunt, famous Afghan singer Aryana Sayeed, was stuck in Kabul as the Taliban captured the capital, turning Nadim’s WhatsApps with her family into a stream of panicked messages (Sayeed was able to get into the airport and was evacuated to Qatar).
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“People have to understand that no human being is going to leave their house or their loved ones or their identity behind to go on this trip where you might lose your life, and end up somewhere where you’re not going to be respected or accepted — forget respected — for who you are as a human being,” she says. “No one wants to do that. The only reason you chose to do it is because you have no other choice, it’s because you are trying to survive.”
In a rare weeknight game at home in August, Racing earns a 1-1 draw, largely thanks to the efforts of goalie Katie Lund and the defense holding strong against relentless attacks by the much-better-on-paper OL Reign of Seattle. It’s hot, Racing is near the bottom of the standings and in the upper deck of their Louisville stadium you can catch sniffs of the wafting stench from the nearby JBS meatpacking plant. But the team is playing with heart; Bonner, the English defender, finishes the game with stitches in her head after a first half collision. Nadim, fresh off of her first full 90-minute game since 2021 four days earlier, came off the bench at halftime to try to break the stalemate. But in a game where they were outshot 25-6, Racing struggled to get the ball to her and other forwards, leading to few good opportunities. After the final whistle blew without a resolution, players lingered on the field as a few throngs of fans remained in the stands hugging the pitch hoping for an autograph.
“Obviously I was upset about the situation, but I’m a professional and I could concentrate on my training and games,” she says. “That said, it was devastating to see how quick the Taliban gained power again.”
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On Aug. 15 of last year, the Taliban seized Kabul in the stunning climax of a series of lightningquick battlefield gains that against a demoralized, unprepared and under-equipped Afghan National Army that, for all intents and purposes, had been abandoned by its American backers.Images of the panicked evacuation of Kabul dominated TV screens and newspaper pages as Afghans tried to get to Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, the last remaining territory held by the U.S. forces, who had invaded the country nearly 20 years earlier to oust the Taliban after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. The Biden administration had stressed that a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was not the inevitable result of a U.S. withdrawal, but as U.S. troops left, Taliban forces surged and the Afghan National Army crumbled. Now, tens of thousands of civilians were being evacuated out of the capital packed shoulder-to-shoulder on herculean C-17s. Two people trying to flee fell to their death after trying to stow away in the wheel well of one of the jets in a tragic scene captured on camera. As things fell apart, comparisons to the United States’ hasty 1975 retreat from Saigon were inevitable. Racing was in New Jersey the day Kabul fell, playing an away game against Gotham FC, Nadim’s old team (though called Sky Blue FC when she played for them). The situation in Afghanistan was on her mind, but she netted a goal in the 13th minute, Louisville’s only score. The game ended in a 1-1 tie.
While most players signed by the benches and the stairs leading off the field to their locker room, Nadim struck out on her own, walking across the empty pitch to the other side of the stadium where a smaller crowd of home and away fans were gathered. “Talk to the Doc! Talk to the Doc!” a woman urged (presumably) her children as Nadim approached the stands. “I live right downstairs from you! We should hang out!” yelled another woman to Nadim before following up with her apartment number and inviting the striker to come by whenever.
“Seeing what we’ve been working on for 20 years — to escape that regime and try to build the country — just thrown back within one day…That was obviously sad to watch,” says Nadim. Trying to paint a slightly softer image of themselves this time around, the Taliban said that sports would be allowed, but only for men.
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18 LEOWEEKLY.COM // AUGUST 17, 2022 WFPL.org/newsletters Better news is out there. Keep up to date with your community and beyond with the WFPL Newsletter. Let’s explore it SUBSCRIBEtogether.FREE STAFF PICKS THROUGH SEPT. 1 ‘In A New Light: Couplets From The Paul Paletti Collection’ Paul Paletti Gallery | 713 E. Market St. | paulpalettigallery.com | Free LEO Weekly readers know that Paul Paletti has one of the best photography collections in town. The gallery is a wonderful place to view photos once, twice, even fteen times. Sometimes you can see things a little bit di erently, such as if an image is displayed beside another resulting in a new conversation. The juxtaposition becomes the story and the premise behind this exhibition. —Jo Anne Triplett PICTURE PERFECT ‘Dr. Nancy Dawson Picks Vegetables’ by Jon Cherry. Photograph. THROUGH OCT. 15 ‘Ate x 10: A Group Exhibition About Food’ Carnegie Center for Art & History | 201 E. Spring St., New Albany | carnegiecenter. org | Free The Carnegie Center asked regional artists, “What does food and access mean to you?” Over 10 artists replied with works on 8-by-10 inch paper or canvas for a clever play-on-words exhibition title. The show features Pulitzer-Prize winning photojournalist Jon Cherry’s series on Black Kentucky farmers and, on Sept. 1, will launch the Floyd County Library’s community cookbook. —Jo Anne Triplett FOOD ART ‘Wind re’ by Edward Steichen. Photograph.
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commentmadefriendandstylerhythm-bossaanstrummingalmostnovapart,mya about how it sounded nice. After recording some other tracks, I decided to unwind by taking a walk in Nashville’s Shelby Park. Even though, at the time, I was between jobs and not sure of what I’d do next or even where I’d even live, it was a gorgeous summer night, and I felt an almost child-like sense of peace. I felt fully present in the moment, not stressed or burdened by regrets of the past or fears about the future. When I got back from the walk, I recorded a first draft of the song right there in the parking lot. I actually think it makes a great metaphor for escaping whatever confines you find yourself in.” •
It’s obvious that Keyes is a very intentional musician and tunesmith, but “Nowhere” was created a bit differently in that regard. “I actually ‘Nowhere’wrote the recordingdaythebeforenightlastofmy “IKeyessession,”said.was
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JACK KEYES is a person who appreciates an open interpretation to his music, and his song “Nowhere” is no exception. Joyfulness and wistfulness, he argues, are two sides of the same coin, and he’s decided that it should be up to the listener to decide which one they are experiencing. “It’s a song about being at peace with where you are, even if you feel like you have nowhere to go,” he said. “I wanted the song to be oreitherpretedbeenoughvaguetointer-asasadhappy track. I tend to write songs tryingabout to find a sense of self or a ofsenseplace. I have struggled quite a bit with finding out who I am, what my beliefs are, and where I fit in in the world, and I think music has been my outlet for figuring that out. With ‘Nowhere,’ I simply accepted the not knowing, and found a good deal of solace from that.” “Nowhere” is a raw, quiet song perfectly at home in both the early hours of facing the day to the world of late-night hangouts. Keyes’ drives the mid-tempo number with his dark, Beatles-tinged guitar, which serves as a counterpoint to the haunting swoon of his vocals. “At the time, I had been listening to Alice Coltrane’s rendition of ‘Govinda Jai Jai’ which feels so euphoric and devotional,” Keyes said. “I wanted to write something like that with the theme of finding presence. My goal was to reimagine the feeling of having nowhere to go or nowhere to be as something freeing rather than something scary. I got a little worried while recording that it almost sounded too close to ‘NorwegianDespiteWood.’”his initial concern, Keyes laughs about it now; “My friends reassured me that the Beatles likely have better things to do than sue me!”
DeShawndra Ray, who manages hip-hop artist Bblasian, noted how Louisville has been consistently supportive of the best local music. Ray said that Bblasian been dealing with some issues with his label, which is why he hasn’t released new music. “The fans have been turning out and supporting him through it,” Ray said. “They’ve been showing up for him. And overall there are a lot of good things happening for artists here.”
But, there’s a but …
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Every weekend since 2017, from March to October, John Young has gone to Mellwood Tavern for a recurring concert series called Sunday Service. “We all show up for the music. The vibe is hippy jam bands, bluegrass, jazz, soul and funk. They’ve nicknamed me the Mayor of Mellwood because I always let loose and have fun. I’m a fixture there,” he said. “We have an amazing local scene no matter what genre you’re into.”
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR LOUISVILLE’S MUSIC COMMUNITY?
Louisville, armed with its fleur-de-lis, has that je ne sais quoi, that certain intangible something that translates to a vibrant music scene across genres. Yet, there is something missing.Themost established music cities, such as Los Angeles, Nashville and Atlanta, are magnets for commercially-successful artists looking for the best resources in the business. And these cities are able to keep local talent local, because if you’re an artist, why leave a city that nurtures your craft? Unfortunately, it is the case that many Louisville musicians equate success with getting out of the city, escaping violence and poverty, and finding wealth, peace and a great big party somewhere else. This rags-to-riches fantasy is fueled by need and blind hope, Louisville artist Bblasian (front left) visiting students at the Academy of Music Production Education and Development. |
LOUISVILLE music is something to love, and it’s love that makes the music. No matter how hard you try, you can’t force growth. Growth comes from within, which is why the future is bright for Louisville’s music scene: The city is bursting at the seams with talented musicians and a local fan base that’s expanding to include national audiences.Whenmusic fans in Louisville pop out to support their favorite local artists, they are as much screaming for the city itself as they are the artists. There’s a reason. “I love making music because it allows me to express myself to the fullest,” said Asly Toro, a singer/songwriter who moved from Venezuela to Louisville eight years ago at age 19. “What I give to the audience is my true self-performing and telling all these different stories through songs and movements … it’s justJarrodmagical.”McClellan, bassist for Mr. Please, shared these thoughts on the love that makes music: “When I’m performing with Mr. Please, one of my primary goals is to build a connection with the audience. I look at our music, and especially our live improvisation, as a living, organic being. I want people at our shows to feel like they’re as much a part of manifesting this musical being as the ones playing the instruments.”
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Ray points out that there is an existing program, Academy of Music Production Education and Development, or AMPED, with the mission and resources to offer productive afterschool and summer camp environments for kids to explore their creativity through music, learning songwriting, music composition, recording, engineering, audio equipment setup, video, photography, and other fundamental skills that can set them up for a career in music. “I went to AMPED in March with Bblasian because Executive Director Dave Christopher invited him to visit the kids in the program. When we walked in the front door, I immediately heard the sounds of music coming from all corners of the building. They have practice rooms, production rooms, music lessons. Everywhere you look there are kids engaged in music making,” said Ray. “In the smaller production room I sat and talked with a kid who was making beats on FL Studio. He told me he is in there all the time practicing to make his beats better.”
MUSIC and frequently ends with disappointment and depression.“Streetviolence has led to fear-based thinking, especially for hip-hop artists. People are looking for freedom from that, and freedom from poverty, and they are looking at music as a way out. And it can be, but not always. Certain changes in the music industry could make Louisville an even better foundation for artists than it already is,” said Ray. “Creating longterm career opportunities in music can help solve street violence from the outside in.”
Leaders in the Louisivile music community would do well to follow the bourbon industry’s roadmap to getting heard by elected officials. Officials need to recognize their part in supporting music. Potential to pave a financial path for musicians is signaled by the presence of commercially successful artists such as EST Gee, Bryson Tiller, Vory and Jack Harlow. There’s no reason to think Louisville doesn’t have more stars up its sleeve. Louisville’s most famous artists make it a point to pay homage to Louisville, and do so generously, but whether they are actively involved in building a world-class infrastructure that will transform Louisville into a music-making destination for artists nationwide, while also helping retain top talent in the city, that’s another question. Their own needs are met by the best producers, engineers, studios and visual teams in the world — wherever they may be — and they don’t rely on Louisville.
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The LCC team just made a short film that’s the first in the series highlighting artists. They clearly take music seriously, evidenced by the inclusion of Allen Vice, Adonis Gentry, Q Stiles, Colton Clark and Safire Ball, all local music artists speaking on the connection between music and community, inspiring viewers to come out of the closet as creatives and actualize.
400 Recording’s new owner Nick Meredith is hopeful about what is to come. “I think we’re definitely headed in the right direction compared to where it used to be. There’s an actual culture and a community. It used to be that if an artist was performing, they would get their friends to come out and support, but going to a local show wasn’t the thing to do on a Friday or Saturday night. That has changed.”
With leadership and strategic funding, all these things are possible: a thriving community of well-trained producers, engineers, and managers; optimized studios equipped with the latest technologies; collaboration between artists and venues across genres; top-tier photographers and videographers providing necessary visuals; Louisville music bringing films, television, and commercials to life.
It’s interest tipping over to obsession that makes an artist, and AMPED fuels that. A less formal yet deeply impactful group, Louisville Creative Connection, has formed at lightning speed. “Every city that has grown into a magnet that attracts and keeps creatives has started with a thriving community, and that’s what we facilitate,” said co-founder Jason Morales. “We host events all around the city that bring artists of all kinds together.”
ECONOMIC STIMULATION
The state of Kentucky is serious about bourbon, and the Distilled Spirits Tax Credit is evidence of this. Tax breaks for music scoring in Tennessee and Georgia and incentives for music industry jobs creation in Louisiana demonstrate that those governments connect the dots between a thriving music sector and the overall economic health of their states.
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The number of venues regularly featuring live music is proliferating. “I usually go see live music every night of the weekend. Headliners Music Hall, Zanzabar, High Horse. These are just a few of the places. Based on the talent I’ve seen here locally, I don’t see any reason why they shouldn’t be nationally-known bands,” said Doug Baird, a music fan who can list off local musical acts like they’re letters of the alphabet.Thepresent moment for Louisville music is pivotal. The DNA is exactly right for a major come-up. •
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Yep, Barn 8 is related by family to Proof on Main, 21c’s much-lauded downtown eatery. I might not call Barn 8 “Proof East” or “Proof in the countryside,” but it’s fair to point out the similarities, and there are plenty of them. Both restaurants give more than lip service to regional farm-to-table dining, particularly to respected local farms for meats and produce. Both restaurants also reach beyond the local area when it makes sense to seek out quality, such as Proof’s Ōra King salmon from New Zealand and Barn 8’s Riverence farmed trout from Idaho and Washington State. You’ll find plenty of Steve Wilson’s beloved art pieces at Barn 8, too, although it’s not as much of an eatery-in-a-museum spectacle as is Proof. Barn 8’s revamped horse barn, with private rooms in former stable stalls and design by Bittner’s, is art enough in its own right. It’s about a half-hour drive out to Goshen from Louisville, but it’s a pretty drive on a long summer evening, straight out US 42 through fancy suburbs, forests and rolling farm fields. When you pass Francis Parker School (the just-renamed St. Francis School), watch out for the Hermitage Farm - Barn 8 sign on the right. Turn in between two large, intentionally rusted Corten steel sculptures by French artist Jean Dupuy, one reading “Here” and the other “Where.” We summoned a couple of refreshingly bitter, light Campari-and-sodas ($9 each) to begin a celebratory anniversary dinner, and enjoyed the scene while checking out the current summer menu. The 13-item menu doesn’t distinguish among appetizers, small plates and main dishes, but it’s easy to make them out as sizes and prices increase as you go down
IF YOU haven’t made your way out to Barn 8 Restaurant at Hermitage Farm in Goshen, take my advice: You ought to give it a try soon. You’ll be glad you did. Walk in the front door of the black, redtrimmed former horse barn on U.S. 42, and one of the first things you see will be a small painting of local art enthusiast and 21c hotel founder Steve Wilson, showing a big smile and his trademark red glasses.
Barn 8 Restaurant really is in a barn, once a working horse barn on Hermitage Farm in Goshen. You can even reserve a table in a private stable if you like!
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When I asked them how Louisville can best support Gye Nyame — beyond the obvious spending money in the store — they all said to attend the community events they’re planning in the space at fifteenTWELVE. They are planning events for all ages, like Black History Trivia Night, story times, poetry readings, and more. The goal is to be able to eventually grow out of the Portland space and move Gye Nyame to the West End and into a building that they can restore.
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The next two events at Gye Nyame are a book signing of “Sincerely, DuWaup” from the author, Kimberly “DuWaup” Bolden on Aug. 28 at the store, and a special screening of “The Woman King” at Xscape Theatres Blankenbaker 16 on Sept. 13th. Tickets are available at gyenyamebooks502.info
Promoting literacy in the Black community of Louisville is also very important to the women of Gye Nyame, and they stock books that are written by a variety of African authors with an emphasis on African history and children’s literature. They are committed to highlighting work by and for people of the African diaspora, and are excited to be the only Black-owned bookstore in Louisville. For Britt, literacy is important: “I’m a substitute teacher. I’ve been subbing for about 13 years, and what I’ve noticed is that the kids that aren’t able to read or comprehend, are the ones that we usually have a lot of issues — whether it’s being more active in class or real quiet and not saying anything. A lot of times, when you actually focus on that reading comprehension aspect of it, they tend to just blossom.”
Much like Kente International, Gye Nyame is once again a family business, but this time it’s mainly a collective of the women in BennettUthman’s family. When I spoke with BennettUthman, I also spoke with her business partner, Jacy “Prolific Jones” Britt, and her daughter, Amina Thompson. Thompson shared memories of growing up playing in Kente International with her siblings and being involved in her parents’ business. “Growing up, my favorite memories as a child is the Reggae Festival and her [BennettUthman] having us run around, selling incense for a dollar. Now we have children, and our children are able to, kind of, live the childhood that we did. So, it’s really important to us, as a family, to keep this going.”
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IF you were a teenager in Louisville in the ‘80s and ‘90s and spent any time on the stretch of Bardstown Road in the Highlands, you were familiar with Kente International, the African imports store that Lisa Bennett-Uthman owned and ran with her (now ex-)husband, Musa Uthman. It was the place to go for incense, oils, drums and books. Although the Uthmans closed Kente in the early 2000s, Lisa Bennett-Uthman never lost her entrepreneurial spirit. She has been a staple of the annual Reggae and World Fests here in town, and has even been known to invite customers to her home to shop. A few years ago, she rebranded to Gye Nyame, and began looking to open a storefront, which finally occurred last month at fifteenTWELVE Creative Compound, 1512 Portland Ave., the site of the original Tim Faulkner Gallery.
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INCORPORATING VIDEO, SOUND AND IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE INTO ROTATING EXHIBITS
Ron Davey: We recently had a work by Sanford Biggers where we placed a caution label outside the room for [potentially] disturbing images and sound. The video consisted of three monitors showing traditional African sculptures being blown apart by gunfire. A comment possibly on gun violence and colonialism. As far as future exhibitions that use video, we have one based on Alfonse Mucha, who was an Art Nouveau artist. This is more of an experience with traditional art, but incorporates a large video as an additional way to flesh out the exhibit. Alice Gray Stites: Exhibitions at 21c usually include video and other art forms that utilize technology. All 21c exhibition spaces are designed to include a dedicated video lounge for showing film, video and other tech-based artworks. Currently, the video lounge in Louisville is occupied by a site-specific installation, ‘The Garden,’ by Portia Munson. However, also featured in ‘Still, Life! Mourning, Meaning, Mending’ are two videos by Calixto Ramirez on a monitor in the main gallery, as well as an interactive, generative work by Jonathan Rosen. Visitors to 21c can always expect to encounter moving images and other tecnology-based art, in our exhibitions as well as in permanent, site-specific installations, such as ‘Text Rain,’ by Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv, in the elevator lobby, which offers an interactive experience. Films, videos, artist interviews and more are also accessible on the 21c Art Channel in all 21c guest rooms, and via the 21c YouTube channel. Andrew Cozzens: As an educational gallery in an interdisciplinary program, we try to represent a broad spectrum of artists and creative practices to expose the students to many different approaches to making and thinking. Technology plays a huge role in the development of new artistic practices. As technology progresses and expands, so does the artist’s toolbox. Furthermore, artists are often the drivers of technological progression as they constantly dream of new ways to push their ideas that may not necessarily speak to the needs of the existing marketplace. One exhibition that we hosted at the 849 Gallery that directly addressed the historical progression of video and technology was Christopher Ottinger’s solo exhibition, ‘Cinema of Distraction.’ This specific show examined and reinterpreted our intrinsic fascination with moving pictures, from the flickering shadows on the walls of ancient caves to the ever-present video imagery that spills out of our smartphones. The artist was offering us new applications for a number Van Gogh exhibit at the Lume in Indianapolis, 2021. | Photo by Erica Rucker.
LEO: WHAT RECENT EXHIBITS HAS YOUR ORGANIZATION USED TO INCORPORATE VIDEO AND/OR TECHNOLOGY? DO YOU HAVE ANY EXHIBITS UPCOMING OF THIS TYPE? HAVE ANY OF THESE INCLUDED OTHER EXPERIENCES?SENSORY/IMMERSIVE
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This article is part of a series funded by Great Meadows Foundation. WHAT’S it like to live inside an artist’s mind? Kentucky International Convention Center’s recent “Beyond Van Gogh” exhibit creates an interactive experience that takes visitors inside the artist’s psyche, utilizing technology and video to immerse guests directly into Van Gogh’s works, from emotional letters to his brother to electric swirling projections that wrap viewers into his celebrated works. While the interactive experience incorporating video and technology is not an entirely new concept, it is an impressive use of the mediums and certainly a “must-see” show.LEO recently caught up with local visual arts institutions to discuss the role of video and technology in the viewers’ experience. We spoke with Andrew Cozzens, assistant professor and director of 849 Gallery at Kentucky College of Art and Design; Ron Davey, head preparator, Speed Art Museum; and Alice Gray Stites, chief curator and museum director at 21c, to get their takes on the integration of video, technology and immersive visual art experiences happening in our community.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT of pre-cinematic devices and techniques. Another show that comes to mind was ‘Fragments of a German-American Mind’ by Ron Schildknecht. Ron combined staged interviews with insightful documentary footage from German-American communities here in Louisville. In the process, he created portraits of both a fictional filmmaker and of a real place that was designed to be projected simultaneously all over the gallery space. We recently hosted our annual Senior Thesis exhibition, which also contained video work from one of our new graduates. Mackenzie Taylor created an installation that focused around a video projection in which she is chewing on sugarcoated photos of her late grandfather while an audio clip of her family members are telling stories about him.
Davey: Viewers seem to like the incorporation of video and technology. In fact, I think they now almost expect it. People of all ages are drawn to it because of its immediacy and familiarity in today’s world.
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Stites: Experiencing artworks that incorporate technology is at once familiar, since so much of our daily lives are spent consuming information on screens, and also expansive — seeing screens and projections alongside paintings and sculptures gives viewers a sense of the ever-broadening possibilities of what contemporary art can be and do. 21c stands for 21st century — a commitment to the art of today is embedded in the 21c experience. 21c’s mission is to expand accessibility to the most dynamic art being produced today and to support visionary artists. Presenting work that is being created on the latest creative platforms is an essential part of the 21c museum program.
DO MULTIMEDIA SHOWS RESONATE WITH A SPECIFIC AUDIENCE? DO YOU FIND VIEWERS STAY WITH THE PIECES LONGER THAT INCORPORATE SOUND/TECH/ VIDEO? Stites: It’s tempting to say that younger audiences resonate stronger with tech-based artworks, but as with any medium, when the content of a video, film, digital animation or other tech-based work is compelling, it resonates with a wide range of visitors. We do find that visitors to the dedicated video lounge do tend to stay for the duration of these works — which are typically between 5-15 minutes — considerably longer than the average viewing experience for other art forms. Cozzens: I find that multimedia shows have become more popular for a lot of different audiences. Younger folks seem more interested for the reasons I mentioned above; they were raised in a time where digital technology has really progressed rapidly. I think the general public audience has become very interested, as well because it creates an experience within the fine art context that can compete with other means of entertainment that many people, especially those that may not necessarily be interested in fine arts, seek out. I also think folks that are interested in the history and traditions of fine arts have interest, as well, and multimedia exhibitions, for better or for worse, have received a lot of attention in and out of the art world. For some, it is
Cozzens: All of the [above-mentioned works] use video and technology that affect the viewer’s experience. Ottinger’s exhibition utilized objects from both cinema history and current technology to show the spectacle of the moving image. From bouncing videos from multiple angles onto a single spinning block to projecting a moving image onto water vapor, he used light and movement to play with/skew the viewer’s experience of light and space. Schildknecht’s exhibition was more concerned with the traditions of film and filmmaking. He would project a narrative film alongside an installation where viewers were encouraged to try their hand at Dainty, a Germantown street game that dates back to the 1800s. Viewers were also allowed to manually view film through an early mechanism that Schildknecht utilized in his exhibition. By incorporating these techniques, the artist was expanding the viewer’s understanding and experience of watching film. Taylor’s use of video perfectly complements the other works in her exhibition. While her body of work focuses on issues of family lineage and the shortcomings involved with connecting to your ancestors, the up-close video of her wrestling to consume the images of her late grandfather allows the viewer to witness a repetitive act while listening and contemplating the metaphors within the multiple facets of the piece. By doing this, she makes the viewer consider multiple sensual impulses simultaneously.
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the natural progression of artists using the tools that are available to them, as they have throughout the centuries. For others, it is a spectacle that relies on its ability to visually captivate, although often lacking in originality and philosophical thought. It seems to appeal to most audiences for one reason or another because, regardless of your opinion of the work, it is not easily ignored. Personally, I equally appreciate artwork that makes me excited or disgusts me, but indifference is always a letdown. I approach video and new technology the same as I do drawing and sculpture — it starts with the idea, and I make work with whichever methods best carry out that specific idea. Of course, it is always fun to incorporate new technology because I get to learn new things and there is an inherent interest that it seems to cause in the viewer. I remember the first couple times I saw a video playing in a gallery/museum, and I sat and watched the entire thing each time. After a few trips to different galleries I noticed that most of my time visiting those exhibitions was spent watching video pieces of varying lengths. On one hand, I thought it was cool that these video works were holding the viewer’s attention much longer than other forms of artwork. Then, I began to consider the amount of time I was spending watching video work instead of artworks that I found much more interesting. I think it is inherent because we are all so accustomed to looking at screens for a significant part of our day. Other than eating and sleeping, most of the things we do as humans can be done through a screen these days. Specifically, we are used to watching narratives unfold in front of our eyes through movies and TV, so it is very comfortable and familiar for us to relax in front of a moving image and wait to see what unfolds. The Image from the 2021 Van Gogh exhibit at the Lume in Indianapolis. | Photo by Erica Rucker.
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Stites: The Speed Museum has done an excellent job in recent years of building dedicated spaces for important video works by artists like Mika Rottenberg, Ebony G. Patterson, Sanford Biggers and others. Cozzens: I curated an exhibition years ago that touches on this topic pretty directly. It was an exhibition called ‘Cinema Killed the Video Star’ that was a co-curated project with a fellow artist/curator Stacey Reason at the PUBLIC Gallery, which was once located down on Whiskey Row. It was an exhibition that highlighted the specific characteristics of video artwork as opposed to cinematic film. Beyond curating, I also use video installation in my own practice. My work deals with the human perception of time which often includes durations such as melting, rusting or evolving over the course of the exhibition. Some ideas are better realized through a video projection due to the limitations of the gallery or if the work is more about capturing and presenting phenomena rather than creating it. Video is a great tool to have in your toolbox. I recently visited the ‘Van Gogh Experience’ in Indianapolis. It was cool like a light show at a dubstep concert is cool — technically and visually impressive but lacking in meaning and originality. I appreciate it for what it is, and if it gets more people to seek out Van Gogh’s work, that’s great. However, it left me missing the texture of Van Gogh’s paint, the individual marks on the canvas, and his use of contrasting color. I also missed the opportunity to look closely at the artwork, to really consider all of the aesthetic decisions that the artist made, and to sympathize with what he was going through at that particular time. The only intentions I noticed in the ‘Van Gogh Experience’ involved multiple t-shirt stands, expensive tickets and endless selfie opportunities.
Again, I think the production is exciting and it serves a specific role in the artworld, but I hope it is contextualized as a show and not a replacement for the experience that you can have in front of the artist’s original works.
mistake, however, is that we often assume that the ‘entire story’ of a drawing, sculpture or photograph is unveiled to us instantly and automatically, allowing us to move on from it after just a few seconds of viewing. This is usually not the case. It takes time to see an artwork, from the artist’s aesthetic decisions to the use of material, and the hand of the artist, and not to mention all of the possible connections to our universal and individual past experiences and histories that we bring to the work. The contexts and connections are endless. I often tell students that viewing artwork is just as important as making it — both parties can only achieve 50% alone, just like a speaker and listener or performer and audience. This is why we must make an effort to pay attention to the artworks that aren’t as prescribed or extravagant. Some of the best artwork I have ever seen was visually very boring. My favorite video artworks seem to be the slower and more mundane ones because they offer more time and space for me to reflect and think about what I am looking at.
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TAKEN TO IMMERSE VIEWERS IN A MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE (I.E. TASTE, SMELL, INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES, ETC.)? Stites: 21c has commissioned and exhibited a wide range of multimedia experiences, including VR works by Jakob Kudsk Steensen, an AR wallpaper installation by Claudia Hart, interactive works that utilize surveillance technology by Rafael LozanoHemmer, and many more. One AR work that 21c produced in Louisville remains on view and accessible to the public via mobile phone: a collaboration between Louisville artist Brianna Harlan and LA-based artist Nancy Baker Cahill. “She Ascends,” is an AR memorial to the life of Breonna Taylor that is geolocated via Drive Studio’s 4th Wall app, floating in front of Louisville’s Metro Hall. Cozzens: Yes, in addition to exposing our students to such artwork and experiences, KyCAD has also partnered with the Louisville Orchestra and Louisville Ballet to create collaborations with artists that included a very wide range of approaches. During the Orchestra performance, artists used laser projection and even artwork that utilized taste that coincided with the music. During the Ballet production, artists were collaboratively displaying sculptural installation, video and projection mapping that moved along with the dancers. Davey: Today’s exhibits seem to rely on technology more and more. Seldom do we have an exhibition now that does not incorporate some sort of video technology. We had a medieval Book of Hours on view once and the curator, Kim Spence, figured out a way to digitize all the pages and allow the viewer to flip through them on a touch screen, thus allowing the person to actively look at the book without touching it. Another interactive piece was done by the artist Yinka Shonibare called ‘American Library.’ There were shelves of thousands of books covered in Dutch Wax cloth. Dutch wax is the term for a brightly colored patterned cloth introduced by the Dutch in colonies of Africa. Each book was inscribed with the name of a notable person. Viewers could search the program downloaded on iPads to research that person’s background, ancestry and family immigration. Another interesting technology piece is one by Wolfgang Buttress. He has set up a live feed from a Brambley apple tree in the UK. This tree, over 200 years old, is the ancestor of all Brambley apples and is dying. The live feed reports the weather and natural effects on the tree any time of day or night. At the Speed is a sculpture comprised of thousands of 3-inch glass blocks in which a 3D image of the tree is etched. A light panel mounted below the blocks changes light according to the live feed from the tree in the UK. [It is] not interactive with the viewer, but with nature in a sense. Other video-based pieces we had in a recent exhibit called ‘Supernatural America.’ One artist used a life-size highdefinition plasma screen to show a video of a daughter, mother and grandmother in slow motion moving toward the viewer in a sort of unfocused haze, but ultimately break through a screen of water and confront the viewer in high definition.
TELL ME HOW VIDEO AND TECHNOLOGY PLAY AN OVERALL PART IN KYCAD’S CURRICULUM. Cozzens: KyCAD’s curriculum is subject-led. This means that students are encouraged to think interdisciplinary regarding their approach to making. We focus on developing their understanding of their individual subject matter and research. This inadvertently allows students to get excited about new technology and the options to mix and match what materials they’re using in their practice. Video and installation are two avenues that younger students seem to be drawn to more and more as many contemporary artists are working in those areas and younger students generationally are more familiar and knowledgeable about screen-based interfaces. •
Portia Munson’s “The Garden” at 21c. | Photo by Erica Rucker.
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Can you count all those freckles? Neither can we! Harley is about two years old and has many traits of an Australian Cattle Dog...but his bulky physique lends to some American Pit Bull Terrier influence. American and Australian - what a combo! Regardless of what Harley's genes entail, we can assure adopters that he is a "purebred good boy." Harley came to the Kentucky Humane Society when he no longer fit into his family very well. You see, Harley the Heeler likes to herd things...including children! Harley is incredibly clever and active, and his desire to herd is as natural as swimming is to a fish. Unfortunately, his persistence was too overbearing for the little ones in his previous home. As a result, he is looking for a home without kiddos or small animals (cats, ferrets, etc.) that he may be tempted to corral. Harley has enjoyed play wrestling with a similar-sized dog but can be a bit vocal when saying hello. We want him to meet any resident dogs before he goes home to make sure they get off on the right paw! But even if you don't have a canine friend at home, Harley would still love to meet you! He would be a great choice for someone looking for an athletic companion to join them on hikes, long walks, or even figuring out a Rubik's cube. (No promises on that last one, though.) Harley is neutered, microchipped, and up-todate on his shots. Come meet him at our Main Campus, 241 Steedly Drive, or learn more at https://www.kyhumane.org/ adopt/dogs/.
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