Local musician Diane Earle has been invited to be the premiere pianist at a Carnegie Hall performance in July 2022.
The event, titled Jubilate: An Evening with Choral Masters, will be hosted by Mark Cabaniss, who worked at Kentucky Wesleyan College with Earle in the mid-1980s.
Cabaniss, who is now the president and CEO of Jubilate Music Group in Nashville, considers Earle to be not only a world-class musician but also a good friend, which is why she was chosen for this opportunity, he said.
Earle, who taught music at KWC for 36 years, is currently the pianist for Settle Memorial United Methodist Church as well as the Owensboro Symphony. She also is a Kentucky Arts Council performing artist and holds the position of professor emeritus of music at KWC.
By Stephanie Wolf (Kentucky Public Radio)
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“It was a very moving moment because it was a total surprise, no setup whatsoever,” Wilkinson said. “So I was very surprised and moved to tears because I was so honored.”
Wilkinson, who is an award-winning fiction writer, poet and an associate professor of English at the University of Kentucky’s MFA Creative Writing Program, was inducted Friday during a ceremony that was streamed over Kentucky Arts Council’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.
One of the first things she’d like to do during her two-year term as poet laureate is launch a podcast to elevate the members of Kentucky’s robust literary community, both already established and published writers, and those who haven’t been published yet. As a writer who grew up in Kentucky, she didn’t have many platforms or opportunities to have her work showcased.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 16, 2021) Check in with your emotional well-being this month with two programs from the University of Kentucky Women’s Forum. Mental health is the theme for the April professional development session and monthly “Coffee and Connect” programming. Don’t miss these final opportunities for professional development with the Women’s Forum this semester!
On Tuesday, April 20, from 11 a.m.–noon (on Zoom), Ann Bassoni, mental health counselor with the UK Office of Work-Life, will present “Emotional Well-Being During a Pandemic.” In this session, the discussion will focus on the challenges individuals and families are facing and how these have changed during the course of COVID-19. But why stop with identifying the challenges? Come up with your own emotional well-being plan while discussing various ways to check your emotional health and make adjustments as needed.
Dan Collins talks with Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson.
Crystal Wilkinson is the first black woman to be appointed Kentucky Poet Laureate. She spoke with us recently about her rural roots, her writing, and how she hopes to inspire young Kentucky writers.
A formal induction is planned as part of the Kentucky Writer’s Day celebration on April 23rd. The virtual ceremony will stream live on the Kentucky Arts Council Facebook page and YouTube channel. You can find more information about that at artscouncil.ky.gov.
Crystal Wilkinson is the author of
The Birds of Opulence,
Blackberries, Blackberries, winner of the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature, and
Rick Shaw (Photo Provided: Kentucky Fish and Wildlife)
Local residents will have a chance to experience Kentucky nature through the eyes of fish and wildlife artist Rick Hill during a special exhibition this spring at the Janice Mason Art Museum in Cadiz.
Spokesman Dave Baker with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources says Hill, of Shelby County, is a self-taught artist and naturalist and paints the covers for
Kentucky Afield, the department’s quarterly magazine.
The exhibition will feature acrylic paintings specially created by Hill over the past two decades for the covers of the magazine. Subjects will include a timberdoodle, shellcracker, American kestrel, gray fox, elk, various sporting scenes and more. An ecosystem painting and a portrayal of a Kentucky bobcat prowling the ridgetops of the Red River Gorge will also be featured as part of the display.