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On the Cover: Aerosol muralist Braylyn Stewart pauses for coffee while at his drawing table with his dog, Rufus, Tuesday morning in Louisville. staff photo by tyler stewart

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Jeffersonville’s artistic endeavor This weekend, Jeffersonville will share the headlines with Louisville as both cities celebrate their riverboat heritage.

Jeffersonville’s Steamboat Days Festival is shaping up to be a classy event emphasizing the arts.

Who says you have to cross the river to soak up some Jason Thomas, Editor culture?

Steamboat Days will offer a juried arts village and art demonstrations. One of those plying his trade will be Braylyn Stewart, 30, who is the subject of today’s cover story.

Stewart, who also goes by “Resko,” is a unique subject. One of his earliest memories is of a streak of yellow paint etched into a chunk of the Berlin Wall brought home by his father when his family was stationed in Germany.

“I was just kind of fascinated [with] what made

this actual mark,” Stewart told writer Elizabeth Beilman, and a career as an artist was born.

Stewart’s preferred medium is “aerosol muralism” — creating works of art with spray paint.

The Louisville resident who calls the Highlands neighborhood home will be demonstrating his skills all three days of the festival. He might even brighten up a section of the flood wall with his art.

How cool is that?

This is a big weekend for Jeffersonville, with Steamboat Days doubling as the coming out party for Big Four Station, the new park at the foot of the Big Four Bridge that is the epicenter of Steamboat Days activities.

Like any piece of art, Jeffersonville’s downtown is a work in progress. Big Four Station and Steamboat Days are important brush strokes in the process.

— Jason Thomas is the editor of SoIn. He can be reached by phone at 812-206-2127 or email at jason. thomas@newsandtribune.com. Follow him on Twitter: @ScoopThomas.

HANGING WITH TWAIN  What: ‘An Evening on the River with Mark Twain’

 When: 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17  Where: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 321 E. Market St., Jeffersonville

 Cost: $20; reservations may be made by call-

ing 812-282-1108 for will-call tickets payable at the door by check or cash.

To commemorate the Centennial Festival of Riverboats, the Clark County Museum and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Jeffersonville are offering “An Evening on the River with Mark Twain” on Friday, October 17, 8 p.m. at the church. The theatrical performance and wine and cheese reception afterward is a benefit for the soon-to-open Clark County Museum and the church’s community outreach.

The performance is adapted from Twain’s writings and speeches by actor and director J.R. Stuart, who created and is offering his one-man play in two acts, according to a news release from St. Paul’s.

His one-man show reveals not only a celebrated author, but also the Missouri-grown adventurer and family man as he puts together his autobiography.

Prior to the main program, Clark County Historian Jeanne Burke will offer a 7 p.m. presentation on “Jeffersonville in the Steamboat Age: Town Characters.”

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LET OFF SOME STEAM What: Jeffersonville Steamboat Days Festival

When: Friday-Saturday, Oct. 17-18 Where: RiverStage, Big Four Station, downtown Jeffersonville Info: jeffsteamboatdays.com Steamboat Days will feature a juried art village, live art demonstrations, live music on the RiverStage, a parade and a kids fun zone. Friday’s music on the RiverStage includes Appalatin (7:30 p.m.), 23 String Band (9 p.m.); Saturday includes Hart Strings (4:30 p.m.); Juice Box Heroes (7:30 p.m.) and Louisville Crashers (9 p.m.).

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What: Clarksville RiverFest When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18 Where: Ashland Park Info: clarksvilleparks.com Music from bluegrass to pop tunes will be offered in 40 minute sets followed by live storytelling for the intervening 20 minutes. Pull up a chair under the big tent and sit a spell.

There will be steamboat coloring for the kids plus a chance to work with a real sculptor on a steamboat carved from stone with your help. An old-fashioned ice cream social will make this a day to remember.

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GOING GREEN

What: Seeds and Greens Natural Market grand opening When: 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18 Where: 207 W. First Street, New Albany A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held at 9:30 a.m., and then the store will be officially open. Door prizes and food sampling will be available, and the market will remain open until 5 p.m. Owner Stacey Freibert offers vegetarian sandwiches and salads to farm-fresh eggs and organic products; Seeds and Greens will be stocked with healthy foods raised and prepared locally.

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ABOVE: Wooden blocks painted with sugar skull designs cure on aerosol muralist Braylyn Stewart’s table as he works through his sketch book.

FAR RIGHT: Aerosol muralist Braylyn Stewart completes his aerosol demonstration with the signature “RESKO” at the bottom of the canvas, an artist alias that he operates under.

BELOW: Aerosol muralist Braylyn Stewart works on a canvas outside his home studio, demonstrating his method of building texture and layering aerosol spray to create depth in his work.

STAFF PHOTOS BY TYLER STEWART

SO YOU KNOW

• WHAT: Live art shows featuring Braylyn “Resko” Stewart and others • WHERE: Steamboat Days Festival in Jeffersonville • WHEN: Oct. 17 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Oct. 18 from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Oct. 19 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

RESKO

• To check out more of Stewart’s work or contact him, find him on Instagram @reskotattoo or visit his Facebook page at Facebook.com/ BraylynStewart.

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT The Arts Council of Southern Indiana will host a series of events to spotlight the life and work Harlan and Anna Hubbard titled “Plain Living, High Thinking.”

Harlan Hubbard was born in 1900, and during his 88 years he became perhaps the greatest artist of this river world, according to a news release from the Arts Council.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

By ELIZABETH BEILMAN elizabeth.beilman@newsandtribune.com raylyn Stewart says that life starts twice — first when you’re born and second at your earliest childhood memory.

For Stewart, that second birth happened while his family was stationed in Germany in 1989, and ultimately shaped his entire life.

“I just remember one day [my dad] brought home a chunk of concrete from the [Berlin] Wall and it had a little streak of yellow spray paint on it,” said Stewart, a 30-yearold Louisville resident. “I was just kind of fascinated [with] what made this actual mark.”

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home-turned-studio in the Highlands. He works full time as an artist practiced in the “aerosol muralism” medium and as a tattoo artist.

“I kind of just got hooked on spray paint,” he said.

Stewart, who sometimes uses the art alias “Resko,” has been commissioned by Louisville Metro and the city of Jeffersonville as well as non-profit organizations like the Kentucky Center for the Arts.

And he’ll be demonstrating his skills with an aerosol can during a live art show at Steamboat Days Festival in Jeffersonville on all three days.

A rough sketch of one of his live art pieces shows Huckleberry Finn overlooking a steamboat on the Ohio River.

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ARTS COUNCIL OF SOUTHERN INDIANA — PAT HARRISON GALLERY • THROUGH NOV. 1 — Harlan Hubbard: Plain Living, High Thinking – Part 1 – exhibit (Main Gallery), Arts Council, 820 E. Market St., New Albany; Personal Flotation Devices: An Interactive Installation, second floor.

VINTAGE FIRE MUSEUM • THROUGH NOV. 1, with a lecture at 5:30 p.m. and opening from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., 723 Spring St., Jeffersonville; Harlan Hubbard: Plain Living, High Thinking – Part II, “How the River Shaped Our Lives” — Mark Wetherington (Filson Club Historian); Wonder: The Lives of Anna & Harlan Hubbard – Morgan Atkinson, film-education room.

JEFFERSONVILLE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY • Paul Hassfurder Exhibit, Oct. 17-Nov. 17 • Oct. 21, 5:30 to 7:30, Anna and Harlan Hubbard, Keeping It Simple, Images and Lecture, Paul Hassfurder, Library Auditorium • October 22, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Wonder: The Lives of Anna & Harlan Hubbard, Morgan Atkinson, lecture and film, education room.

JEFFERSONVILLE RIVERSTAGE • Oct. 16-19, Steamboat Days — Jeffersonville, artists, exhibits and music; Oct. 18, Fiddle Fest, a music competition.

ASHLAND PARK, CLARKSVILLE • Oct. 18 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Clarksville River Fest, music and artists NEW ALBANY-FLOYD COUNTY LIBRARY • Through Oct. 31, “Steamboat a Comin’: The Legacy of the New Orleans,” Exhibit — Lower Gallery, 180 W. Spring St.; Oct. 9, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., “Anna and Harlan Hubbard, Keeping It Simple,” Images and Lecture, Paul Hassfurder, Library Auditorium.

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Movies: é “Fury”

Oct. 17

 “The Book of Life”  “Men, Women & Children”

Fabrics, coffee, spray paint, oil pastels, sharpie pen, vintage fabrics and fur, shower curtain scraps, backpack canvas. submitted photo

ONE WITH THE EARTH

n a news release from Ilenwater Carnegie, curator Karen Gilwrites: “The title of

this exhibition, ‘Earth-Tones,’ reflects its focus on two recent series by Penny Sisto. We begin with 'earth,' a series that stems from Penny’s experiments with dying fabrics with coffee and then working with them to create subtle quilts that express her impressions of aspects of the stages of life. The coffeestained fabrics imbue these works with a sense of nature and history. The second part, 'tones,' is named for another series of artworks that explore the importance of music to cultural traditions across the globe.”

In her artist’s statement, Sisto, Floyds Knobs, writes: “This show Earth-Tones roughly divides into two groups. First are people of our planet ... from the Earth-song mother holding her newborn child as villagers bring her offerings of fruits and chickens and a musician serenades her baby on his steel-drum, to the story-telling griots. Griots are musician poets who travel from village to village in West Africa sing-

 What: “Earth-Tones:

Art Quilts” by Penny Sisto exhibit  When: Oct. 24 through Jan. 10; opening reception 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24  Where: Carnegie Center for Art and History, 201 E. Spring St., New Albany  Info: carnegiecenter. org ing, chanting and reciting the history of their people. They memorize the entire known history, taking several days to tell it, adding to their repertoire as Earth’s story grows. We listen because it is also our ‘Earthtone’, our story, and we add our own threads to its quilt.”

She added: “The second group came into being because of coffee ... and I don’t even drink coffee. But Richard my husband does. He set his cup down on my ironing board one hot summer morn, and it spilled. As I ironed it dry I saw sheer beauty appear."

ALBUMS: Oct. 21

é “Nostalgia” by Annie Lennox

“.5: The Gray Chapter” by Slipknot

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books: Oct. 14

é “Good Dog” by Editors of

Garden and Gun

 “Gray Mountain” by Josh

Grisham

state of the arts  What: ‘Color of River’ exhibit by Diane Dennerline

 When: Friday through Nov. 9;

opening reception: 5 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 18  Where: Gadabout Gallery and Artisan Shoppe, 249 Spring St., Jeffersonville Diane Dennerline’s first solo exhibition, titled “Color of River,” features a collection of photographs that are the result of her personal challenge to find and photograph color of the Ohio River, according to a news release from Gadabout.

Dennerline says that the river revealed images that she never expected to find.

“I was a spectator of an amazing performance, that began with a curtain call when the light was right, and proceeded through several movements, changing tempo and ambiance,” she said in the release. “Each night, when the light subsided, I packed up my gear and felt humbled and emotionally moved.”

The opening reception will be held in conjunction with Jeffersonville’s Steamboat Days, featuring a juried art village, live art demonstrations, live music on the RiverStage, a parade and a kids fun zone.

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Local SoIn Happenings Feeling left out? Send your establishment’s and/ or organization’s upcoming events/new features/entertainment information to SoIn Editor Jason Thomas at jason.thomas@newsandtribune.com

 Live music at Huber’s

When: 2 to 6 p.m. Friday; 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday Where: Huber’s Orchard, Winery and Vineyards, 19816 Huber Road, Starlight Friday: Nick Dittmeier; Saturday: Handcar Prophets; Sunday: The Mac Daddies

 Live music at Big Four Burgers + Beer

Where: Big Four Burgers + Beer, 134 Spring St., Jeffersonville When: Friday and Saturday Friday: Kyle Hastings; Saturday: Eric and Kenny

 Live music at Charlie Nobel’s

Where: Charlie Nobel’s Eatery + Draught House, 7815 Ind. 311, Sellersburg Friday: The Strays

 Battle of the Bands finals

When: 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17; $7 Where: New Albany Production House, 1736 E. Main St., New Albany No Fret Quartet vs. Better Than Salem vs. Forever Fades Away vs. Approaching The Unreal vs. Lilly Crowe Saturday, Oct. 18: Acoustic Live1 featuring Ashley Ledrick, John Thomas Renfrow, Buck Reynolds, Bryce Dayton, Rachel Esarey and Mariana Sampaio. $7 day of show; doors at 6:30 p.m.

 Indian Creek Antique Show

 Live on State at Wick’s

Where: Wick’s Pizza Parlor, 225 State St., New Albany When: Friday and Saturday Friday: 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., The Killer Lips; Saturday: 10 p.m., The Sell Outs [wickspizza.com]

 Corydon Jamboree

Where: 220 Hurst Lane, Corydon When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday Special guests Amber Martin, Clinton Spaulding and Allen Hilbert.

General Admission $10; children 6-12, $6; under 6, free. For reservations, directions or any other information call 812-738-1130. [www.corydonjamboree. com]

 Family Ark Festival

When: 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 25 Where: Family Ark, 101 Noah’s Lane, Jeffersonville Highlights of the day include guided nature walks, food and drinks and other family friendly seasonal activities. Featured artist and 2014 LMA winner — Singer/Songwriter of the Year, Alex Wright, will be on hand to share his award winning style. For more information, email info@thefamilyark.org or call 812-288-6800.

Where: Harrison County Fairgrounds, 341 S. Capitol Ave., Corydon When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 25 Cost: $2; 18 years and older Info: indiancreekshow.com

 Belle’s Big Birthday Bash

Where: Waterfront Park, Louisville When: 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18 Info: festivalofriverboats.com The festival will kick off the celebration at 1:30 p.m. with the Mark Twain Riverboat Parade down the Ohio River featuring all boats, and narrated by Mark Twain himself. Later in the evening, there will be a grand display of Fireworks over the Ohio River as we sing Happy Birthday to the Belle of Louisville.

Steamboat races: Friday, Oct. 17, 1:30 p.m.: Spirit of Peoria vs. River Queen; Sunday, Oct. 19, 3 p.m.: Belle of Louisville vs. Belle of Cincinnati vs. American Queen

 Farmers Market

Saturdays: 9 a.m. to noon (May 31 through Oct. 25) Downtown Jeffersonville at the corner of Chestnut and Locust streets (on the Wall Street United Methodist Church lot).

Tuesdays: 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (June 3 through Oct. 28) At the 10th Street entrance to Jeffersonville High School

ALL THAT JAZZ

he public lecture and performance will be presented to T the IU Southeast Music Department’s MUS-X095 Perfor-

mance Class students, and will involve a discussion about jazz music and how jazz musicians perform together.

Jamey Aebersold is the recipient of the 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award, the nation’s highest honor in jazz. He is the recipient of the 2014 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy, which is bestowed upon an individual who has contributed significantly to the appreciation, knowledge, and advancement of the art form of jazz.

In 1989, the International Association of Jazz Educators inducted Jamey into their Hall of Fame at the San Diego convention. With this award, Jamey joins other jazz  What: Jazz lecture, perforluminaries such as mance by Jamey Aebersold Count Basie, Duke El When: noon, Oct. 22 lington, Charlie Parker,  Where: Richard K. Stem ConLouis Armstrong and cert Hall of the Paul W. Ogle Culothers. tural and Community Center on Aebersold is a the IU Southeast campus, 4201 internationallyGrant Line Road, New Albany known saxophonist  Cost: Free and authority on jazz

education and improvisation, and has developed a series of Play-A-Longs (book and CD sets) as well as various other supplemental aids for the development of improvisational skills. The Aebersold book and recording sets allow a musician the opportunity to practice and improvise with well-known jazz personalities at home as well as in the classroom. The recordings employ some of the best jazz musicians in the world. This concept has been responsible for changing the practice habits of thousands of musicians around the world.

Aebersold was one of the first to encourage small group classes which concentrate on jazz improvisation, and he is the director of the Summer Jazz Workshops which now have 40+ years on record. Jamey feels that improvisation is something all people can do — and his clinics and lectures concentrate on demonstrating how the creative and spontaneous nature of each person can be brought to light.

These week-long Summer Jazz Workshops are having a profound effect on musical communities around the world.

The Workshops have traveled to Australia, New Zealand, Germany, England, Scotland, Denmark and Canada. Every summer there are at least two week-long workshops in the U.S. These camps employ many of the finest player/teachers in jazz and are open to any serious jazz student regardless of ability or age.

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Oct. 16, 2014 Aerosol muralist Braylyn Stewart shows examples of his work, painted designs on wooden canvases, hung on the wall of his studio. Stewart explains that the wooden canvases need time to cure after the designs are painted.

STAFF PHOTO BY TYLER STEWART

Steamboat Days Festival art info Juried Artists Art Village at Big Four Station

Name Business • Alex Reed Alex Reed images • Bob Hubbuch • Cheryl Ulrich Earth Heart Ceramics • Cory Smithson Hot Off the Lathe • Dawn Hatzidakis Designs by Dawn • Devin French Devin French Glass Art • Eddie Lomax Blue Ridge Designs • Enrique Gonzalez Enrique Gonzalez Art • Floyd Cornett • Jackie Gedrose Earth, Sand, and Fire • John Coburn Center Earth Pottery • Julia Aebersold Julia’s Utopia • Julie Moss Conrad • Karen Johnson Repurposed Mosaics • Kay Knigga Batik and Silks by K • Kent Epler The Laughing Boy • Larry Beisler • Linda Drescher Silver Visions • Linda Coppinger Coppinger Creations • Lisa Fowler China Blue Designs • Lynnea Bennett Designs by Lynnea • Mary Ann Hoskins Zorn Designs jewelry • Michael Wimmer WE Art Studio • Mike Miller Mike Miller Photography • Paul Brown Brown’s Natural Products • Robert Roby Lathe of Heaven • Susan Gay Sugee Coiled Baskets and More • Tamara Adams • Tonya Tate Nature’s Bath • Trish Cardill • Juliya Pogrebinsky Creative Matters • Josephine Hardison J. Hardison Fine Art • Bob Capshew Capshew Cellars • Janet Essenpreis Janet Essenpreis Pottery

Craft Show artists Spring Street

Name • Mina Sanford • Christina Brown • Linda Cissna • Karen Krill • Tammy Burke • Tom Hoeppner • Maria Tinnell • Deborah Osborne • Paula Whisman • Licia Wernert • Lori Klein • Damaris Sims • Janie Andrews • Brenda Vernia • Lena Stover • Alisha Cawthorn • Kathy Creech • Nancy McGee

Medium holiday crafts/jewelry personalized items jewelry wood leather stools clothing jewelry/clocks baskets/wearable baskets jewelry/garden art honey products lamps/floral Lots of Dots face painting ceramics/candles/floral jewelry puzzle lights soaps/candles/lotions embroidered items Halloween ceramics

Medium photography metal, wood clay wood jewelry glass jewelry painting wood jewelry clay jewelry jewelry

sculpture jewelry baskets glass, jewelry jewelry 3D mixed photography cosmetics wood baskets watercolor bath products clay jewelry painting vinegars pottery

ART: Stewart's work a mixture of 'wild and abstract' CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 He’ll also be selling some of his art at the festival, and he’s in talks with the city about possibly painting a portion of the floodwall in Jeffersonville.

Stewart said that live art gets conversations going more than completed and displayed art does.

“People see [how it’s being created] and then they’re more apt to ask those questions and find out if their assumption of what they’re seeing is correct,” he said. “So it just draws more people in, and that’s what I like about it.”

EVOLUTION OF AN ARTIST

Stewart said he’s been an artist “ever since he could pick up a pencil.”

“Growing up in the '80s, it was like everything was airbrush art or van art,” he said.

Stewart started to experiment with airbrushing but became attracted to spray paint because of its ease of use.

“When I expanded into doing more graffiti, I liked how aerosol spray can cover like an airbrush tool or airbrush gun without having all that equipment with you,” he said.

He was classically trained by the visual arts program at DuPont Manual High School in Louisville where he dabbled in aerosol art but was slightly restricted in using spray paint in class assignments.

His aerosol muralism work took off after high school until it evolved into what it is today — a mixture of “wild and abstract” forms and familiar images. A piece he did for the GonzoFest in Louisville shows the upper half of a face with the stenciled words “GONZO” above and the rest of

A large canvas bag holds dozens of multicolored aerosol cans as aerosol muralist Braylyn Stewart continues to unload boxes packed with various colors from a closet in his studio.

STAFF PHOTO BY TYLER STEWART the space mostly filled with color overlays.

“That’s why I like spray paint so much,” he said. “The materials are so opaque and they can overlap and you can get textures and build layers without having to add agents and varnishes. All you do is just add more and more to it.”

Stewart doesn’t confine himself to any single themes or styles, but his art does interconnect.

“I don’t really like to do the same thing twice, but I like to kind of evolve as I do my art,” he said. “A piece of each piece is in each next piece.”

As for the negative stigma attached with graffiti, Stewart said that all art can create or destroy. It’s up to the artist what he or she makes of it.

“Michaelangelo did graffiti, but people don’t realize that. Cavemen did graffiti,” he said. “Graffiti by definition is just writing on the wall.”