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MESSAGE FROM CITY LEADERS As we all await a necessary vaccine to protect us from the Covid-19 virus, we each do life in our own new normal. For some it is possibly limiting exposure outside of the home, which may include ordering needed supplies and products online, eating meals at home, and curtailing in person contact. For others, who are employed in retail, a service position, or own a business, staying home is not an option. These folks must work to provide for themselves and their families. As city leaders, we would ask, that as you, and your family, require supplies, products, or services, that you find safe ways to support our local providers. It is essential that we be here for them now, during this very challenging time, so that they will still be here for us in better days to come.
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Attention young, and young at heart, ghosts, goblins, and other fairy tale beings. Get ready to participate in the City of St. Matthews yearly fun filled family event. While the Covid-19 pandemic presents challenges in keeping everyone safe, the folks with the Chamber of St. Matthews, who produces this event yearly, are certainly up to the task. Chamber staff members are busy creating a safety first workable plan for this year’s Halloween In Brown Park. Although the event will not be an exact replica of past years, it is sure to be imaginatively inspired with a fun Halloween atmosphere. Complete event details have not yet been confirmed, as of the time of this printing, so watch for more information to be posted on the city website, www.stmatthewsky.gov, Chamber website, www. stmatthewschamber.com, or better yet, sign up for the city’s free Reach Alert messaging system at www.reachalert.com, or call 877-307-9313, to register to receive a text, email, or telephone call, of event details as they become available. Plan now to attend this free family fun event. It will be a ghoulishly good time.
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The St. Matthews Police Department will hold a National Night Out community event on Tuesday, October 6, beginning at 6:30 p.m., in St. Matthews Community Park located on Ten Pin Lane. National Night Out is an annual community event that enhances the relationship between neighbors and law enforcement while bringing back a true sense of community. There will be exhibits, give-aways, prize drawings, and various equipment on display. SMPD invites everyone out to meet your police officers and get to know your St. Matthews neighbors. NOTE: This event is subject to Kentucky Governmental and health mandates, and will follow all Covid guidelines.
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ince he was a young boy, Richard Sullivan has had two loves - baseball and art. Admittedly, baseball took up most of the Louisville native’s time, but art was something he returned to again and again. Sullivan says his love of expressing himself through doodling or painting always came as natural as breathing. “I think it just came naturally to me when I was younger,” he says. “Whenever I was bored, or supposed to be studying or in class, I always had a pencil and paper. It always made me feel at peace and relaxed. There was never any pressure. It always made me feel really good.” Earlier this year, Woodford Reserve representatives tapped the Louisville artist to design the artwork for the company’s 2020 commemorative Kentucky Derby bottle. His elegant watercolor design depicts galloping thoroughbreds beneath the twin spires of Churchill Downs as they race toward the finish line. “There is poetic beauty in this year’s bottle because Richard Sullivan, the human athlete, is celebrating the equine athlete,” says Woodford Reserve Master Distiller Chris Morris. With the design, Sullivan, 32, says he hoped to convey movement and action. “The Woodford Reserve label is very horizontal, so it was a challenge because I like to paint very large-scale,” he says. “It was challenging and fun.” Before spending his days in a studio where he paints athletes, both human and equine, Sullivan spent most of his time on a baseball field. He attended Ballard High School where his natural ability on the baseball diamond made him a standout. “When you are naturally good at something, you like that positive attention that comes with that,” he says. “You want your parents or teachers to say ‘Oh, that’s a good job.’” Sullivan had the chance to bring together SEPTEMBER 2020 / 11
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his two passions when he signed with the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), the only art and design school in the country to have a sports team. He was able to hone his artistic ability while also playing for the school’s baseball team. It was the first time, he says, that he felt truly able to be himself. Sullivan was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 2008 Major League Baseball (MLB) draft. He spent the next six years playing in the minor leagues, and baseball took over nearly every waking moment of his life. His artwork had to be pushed to the back burner. Professionally, he was living his dream career. At some point in his baseball career, Sullivan says, the excitement he’d always felt for the sport wasn’t there. He wanted to grow as an artist more than he wanted to be a baseball player. He was released from his contract and found himself pondering what to do next.
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He began by returning to SCAD to complete a degree in illustration, and began painting athletic portraits.
at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He also recently finished a collaboration with Topps trading cards.
His skill at painting athletes, both equine and human, comes from his extensive knowledge of the human form as a baseball player.
Sullivan recently became an officially licensed artist with MLB and is now able to paint any active player. His goal is to expand his audience by selling prints of his work in MLB stadiums across the country.
“There is a connection to my past as a baseball player, especially with pitching,” says Sullivan, who accepts art commissions. “Every athlete gets into a flow - you get in that flow state. You are so focused, so present, that time kind of stops. You have to be so totally focused in that moment. That’s what it’s like for me when I’m painting.” Inspiration for Sullivan’s artwork flows from all areas of his life. Two watercolor artists that have heavily influenced him are John Singer Sargent, the renowned American painter, and Charles Reid, an American watercolor artist who passed away in 2019. Though his work might not reflect it, Sullivan is inspired by nature and by simply getting outdoors. “I love being in nature, being outside - just being free and being able to let your mind go is refreshing,” he says. Much of Sullivan’s work centers around a topic he is familiar with - Major League Baseball. In 2017 he was commissioned by his former team, the Atlanta Braves, to paint 18 original paintings that now hang in Truist Park, where the Braves play. Another one of his paintings was accepted into the permanent collection
Sullivan must balance his time between being an entrepreneur and an artist. Sometimes, he says, it’s hard to stay focused on painting when he must attend to the details of the art business. When he can spend an uninterrupted day in his Portland studio, Sullivan often cranks up music and starts by drawing. He’ll design a composition in Photoshop and transfer it to large-scale watercolor paper. The last step before painting is to sketch a little on the paper. The process of painting itself doesn’t take that long, he says. Now that Sullivan has been away from baseball for several years and devotes his time to his art, he wants others to hear his story and to let people know that they can forge their own path. “I want kids to know they can have more than one passion,” he says. “Playing a sport and being an artist were two very different things when I was a kid. I thought I could only focus on one thing. Life is not just black or white. There are so many different avenues.” To learn more about Richard Sullivan’s artwork, go to richardsullivanillustration.com.
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It is amazing to think how one conversation between two individuals can lead to positive change in a community that helps thousands of people. For Bob Callander, a longtime member of Beargrass Christian Church, a chat about transportation for refugee families in Louisville nearly eight years ago led to a mission that keeps him very busy in his retirement. Beargrass Christian Church in St. Matthews has long been involved with sponsoring refugee families who come to Louisville. While volunteering at Kentucky Refugee Ministries (KRM) headquarters, Callander noticed someone handing out TARC passes to refugee families and asked some questions. He learned that TARC was the only form of transportation, besides walking, that most local refugees have.
can’t get a license and they can’t afford a car,” Callander says. “I thought, ‘We’ve got 1,300 members. We’ll go into the membership, find old bicycles, and give them so they’ll have something.’” In the summer of 2013, Callander worked with others to locate and fix up bikes to donate to KRM, and he remembers what a big deal it was to get to 50 bikes. Some media coverage for that project, which became the Pedal Power ministry, led to an abundance of bike donations, and an increasing number of volunteers to help ensure the bikes were cleaned up and safe. “We were able to turn them around really fast, and we got hooked up with the mayor’s Give A Day,” he says. In that first year of participating in the Give A Day event, Pedal Power accumulated 160 bikes and gave them away all at once.
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that had clients that needed bicycles,” Callander says. Beargrass Christian Church members contacted and were contacted by a variety of local organizations to see what needs they had, including Louisville Community Ministries, Churchill Downs (which has a large Guatemalan community of workers and their families), St. Vincent de Paul, and Boys & Girls Clubs of Kentuckiana. “We’ve got about 15 different groups we give bikes to, but it’s always evolving,” Callander says, adding that addiction and prison re-entry programs also have a need for bikes. “We may focus on four or five for a few months until they get their fill, so we shift to other groups. We try to spread it around to whomever needs the bikes.” Callander says it has always been a balancing act between having enough bikes, having enough volunteers to fix the bikes, and having enough places to donate the bikes.
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The coronavirus pandemic has changed the situation a bit. Many of the individuals who fix the bikes are aged 60 and above, and most at risk for COVID-19 complications if they become infected. As a result, the labor supply has been reduced. At the same time, due to shutdowns and the loss of many indoor activities, bicycling has exploded in popularity. “We started getting calls from the bike shops wanting us to come and pick up the trade-in bicycles,” Callander says. “They were and still are donating those to us.” Many people have also had more time to clean out their garages, which means Pedal Power has been inundated with donated bikes from individuals and families. Scheller’s Fitness and Cycling, the Louisville Metro Police Department and TARC have been some of the biggest suppliers of used bikes for Pedal Power.
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educational program. “It seems like long-term, we need to move in that direction,” he says.
Callander wonders whether affiliating with When Callander thinks about the future of the Pedal Power ministry, he has big dreams. the Norton Sports Health Athletics and Learning Complex at 30th Street and West “I’ve talked to other organizations in town, Muhammad Ali Boulevard might be a good fit for ensuring individuals get bikes they and there is a general consensus that just giving the bikes away isn’t enough,” he says. need, and also acquire training for fixing them so they last longer. At this point, “We would like people who get the bikes he doesn’t know who to turn to in order to have some basic skills and know how to begin that conversation, but he says to fix them. We’d like them to know about bicycle safety and the rules of the road for Beargrass Christian Church can provide the volunteers. bicycles. We’d like them to have helmets outreach programs at Beargrass. and locks. All that has been beyond us In April of 2020, Pedal Power donated its so far - we’re just cranking them out and “We do a lot of this kind of thing,” 5,000th bike to the community. giving them away.” Callander says. “I think the church prides itself on the fact that much of our ministry “I don’t see much stopping that other In Callander’s experience, bike and repair is outside the walls, not necessarily just on knowledge hasn’t been an issue for refugees than getting enough [people] to fix them,” Sunday morning.” because they often rode bikes in their home Callander says. countries, but he sees many local individuals For more info on the Pedal Power project, The bike ministry is just one of many who could benefit from an expanded visit beargrass.org/pedal-power.
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That he did. In fact, the couple moved to Louisville permanently, and for 10 years she worked as a private nanny for several families, many of whom employed their own landscapers, maids and milliners. Each time a milliner came to the house, Mobley was riveted.
“When you have a mother who overdosed on pills, the last thing you want to tell your doctor is, ‘I’m depressed. I need medication to help turn things around,’” Mobley says. “At the same time, after losing my mom, I felt like I had to be the best mother that I could be.”
Ultimately, she sought treatment, engaged in self-care, and now feels 100% better. “I’d observe these lovely hat makers and would think, ‘I could do that!’” Mobley says. Though she played around with hat design, Mobley’s daughters Liza Lynn (2) and Caroline Mark (1) have transformed her she never dove in completely. world view — making her appreciate what Not long after she married Mark, Mobley she has and evaluate what she needs. experienced tragedy when her mother, who had battled mental illness for years, took her “It’s been wonderful having children, but I own life. Several years later, when Mobley needed an outlet,” Mobley says. Though she had children of her own, she suffered from resold retro clothing, jewelry and consigned debilitating postpartum depression. items from her closet, she wanted to give return to her interest in hat design. 18 / SEPTEMBER 2020
After posting pictures to Instagram, her designs began garnering attention. The positive response from fashionforward folks inspired her to enter several hat designs into a contest with the theme “to the future and back” in which designers were asked to submit a hat that was either futuristic or retro. Mobley chose to submit a flower crown, plus three others. In December 2019, when she learned that two of her designs were selected to showcase in the 2020 London Hat Week Exhibition, she was honored. She was even more flattered when she was told that she was the only milliner from Kentucky with a selected hat. “I was in shock, honestly,” Mobley says. “My whole life my grandmother told me that with my talent, I could do anything I set my mind to, but you kind of roll your eyes at that stuff. But if London thinks I have talent, maybe my grandma was right!”
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When it comes to hat design, Mobley finds that it’s important to sit down and doodle. That way when the time comes to make the hat, she has a sense of direction. She designs hats for clients for the Kentucky Derby in which she matches a hat design to a dress. She’s already fielding requests for this year’s race.
“I have a local radio host who is interested in having me design a hat for his girlfriend,” she says. “There’s also a local boxer who wants me to work with his date on designing a hat.” She’s thrilled to do it because this is where she’s in her element.
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“Fashion is so fun!” Mobley adds. “It’s fun to get dressed up and stand out. Even if someone doesn’t like what you’re wearing or they say, ‘Wow, what is that?’ I enjoy the curiosity of it all.” The Derby, of course, is the culmination of fun fashion. In fact, Mobley calls it a “runway of spectacular fashion.” “It’s just a good time — the verve and the horses. It’s so much fun,” Mobley says. “I could make a coffee table book from all of the awesome hat designs I saw at the Derby last year. “Millinery can be isolating so I’m looking forward to learning from all these people who are masters at their craft,” she adds. For instance, she plans to take a class in London from a milliner who teaches how to make a hat out of straw and then a purse to match.
simply finding the time to do it all. “Setting that time aside to be creative and try new things is the hardest part,” she says. Currently, Mobley designs for Revelry Boutique, a local gallery that requested to carry her unique hat designs. As far as future plans, Mobley hopes to add jewelry design to her repertoire — mainly earrings. She likes the idea of offering a hat/purse package as bamboo purses are all the rage right now. In addition, she’s toying with the idea of designing shoes. “I’m also trying to think of an interesting way to honor my mother,” she says. In her spare time, Mobley enjoys gardening, reading and traveling, normally to attend a concert or music festival with her husband. Her favorite vacation spot is New Orleans because, like the Derby, it’s a big party.
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Throughout her life she maintained her love of nature and bird watching. While pursuing a career as a teacher, Pittman became more serious about learning about birds and their habits. In 2012, she attended a field trip organized by the Beckham Bird Club in Louisville. “I remember it being a cold morning and I wasn’t dressed for the weather,” Pittman says. By the end of the day, she was hooked.
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she decided 100 was her next goal. She quickly surpassed that number and is still counting. The total number of bird species she saw and heard at Tom Sawyer Park in 2018 and 2019 is 161. As Pittman’s experience and love of Tom Sawyer Park grew, so did her interest in the park’s potential for other birders like herself. “I realized that the wooded area was a diamond in the rough and had great potential,” she says.
In 2017 she spoke with Nick Price, who at the time served as the park’s naturalist and E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park is situated on is now park director. She proposed putting 539 acres of rolling fields and woodlands, on together a monthly list of bird species what was once farmland. compiled from her hours spent in the park. She now typically goes to the park four In the beginning, Pittman told herself she’d times a week, and spends an average of three be happy to identify 50 species of birds. hours on each excursion. She says every When that achievement came very quickly, hike is different.
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At the end of each month, Pittman prepares a list of species she’s seen or heard. As Pittman began to spend more and more time birding in the park, she noticed areas in need of some attention. She created a list of ideas for Price, such as pruning branches and vines to open up trails, that she thought would enhance the experience of the wooded areas for park goers. “I wanted to give back at least as much as I was getting from the park,” she says. Building on the species list she compiles for the park, Pittman also began submitting her species lists to Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology eBird site. The eBird site is an online database of global, real-time bird distribution and abundance. In 2019 Pittman was awarded the Beckham Bird Club Award for the most species of birds found in a hot-spot area, based on her birding in 2018.
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Tom Sawyer Park uses the bird species list to help determine the types of trees, bushes and wildflowers that could be planted in the park to help maintain and increase the bird population. As her involvement with the park grew, Pittman says she began to appreciate what the park has to offer on a deeper level. As her experience in birding developed, she became familiar with the various nooks and crannies of the park. In addition to birding and trail maintenance, Pittman also began photographing various spots and wildlife for the park’s Facebook page. Through her involvement in the park, Pittman has grown from a mere volunteer to an ambassador of sorts. She gives impromptu walking tours for park newcomers and helps hikers back to their cars if they’ve gotten turned around.
“My volunteer time in the park has resulted in my getting to meet many of the park users,” she says. “People come up and ask what birds I had seen that day, or will talk about the birds at their yard feeders and hope I can identify them from their descriptions. I am surprised at how many people have thanked me for helping to take care of the wooded area.” Park goers often ask Pittman where they can see a particular species - often bluebirds. She suggested to Price that the park construct bird boxes that could be placed in areas where a particular species has been spotted. She monitors the boxes, and the park continues to have nesting bluebirds, tree swallows and chickadees. Bluebirds, she says, can be seen year round in the park, and the best place to spot them is near the front of the recreation building. Tree swallows are often observed swooping low over the soccer fields during the summer.
Pittman recently began assisting a fellow Beckham Bird Club member who is conducting research on the nesting and hunting habits of the great-horned, eastern screech and barred owls. This has resulted in a spotting of a northern saw-whet owl and a barn owl, which she says are rare for Tom Sawyer Park. “Park walkers might be in for a treat when walking the fitness loop at dusk,” Pittman says. “A great-horned owl or eastern screech owl might be heard, or they’ll have a magical moment if one flies by.” Casual bird watchers or hikers will have an easier time spotting one of these common park species this winter: red-winged blackbird, northern cardinal,American crow, Carolina chickadee, mourning dove, house finch, Canada goose, common grackle, American robin, American goldfinch, red-shouldered hawk, blue jay, northern mockingbird, white-breasted nuthatch, song
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