2020 Writer's Hall of Fame: Lucy Furman
Lucy Salome Furman attracted national attention with her popular short stories and novels about small-town and rural life in both eastern and western Kentucky around the turn of the last century.
View Article2020 Writer's Hall of Fame: Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard was the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of 44 plays whose work reimagined the landscape and people of the American West, and it made him one of the best-known playwrights of his generation.
View Article2020 Writer's Hall of Fame: Hollis Summers
Hollis Spurgeon Summers Jr. wrote many novels, collections of poetry and short stories during an award-winning career teaching English at Georgetown College, the University of Kentucky and Ohio...
View Article2020 Writer's Hall of Fame: Gray Zeitz
Gray Zeitz thinks the best way to experience a poem is to hear it read aloud. But he has focused his career on the second-best way.
View ArticleUndercover Artist
Tucked away in the hills of northern Kentucky, sculptor Douwe Blumberg’s studio has a global reach
View ArticleNo Ordinary Season
Kentucky’s performing arts centers adapt to the challenges of today’s COVID-19 world
View ArticleFaith, Family and Friends
A chance meeting with an icon started Ricky Skaggs on the road to becoming the keeper of the bluegrass flame
View ArticleFrom The Heart
Lexington’s beloved WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour creates a front-porch community around the world
View ArticleCreative Currents
Folk opera uses the words and stories of Kentucky women from the past
View ArticleThe Father of Newgrass
As the accolades roll in, Sam Bush keeps on making new music while he sets the stage for a new generation of bluegrass stars
View ArticleThe Poet and The Goddess
Paducah welcomed Michael and Victoria Terra, and the proprietors of Terra Cottage Ceramics returned the favor
View ArticleThe Power of Dance
A Louisville nonprofit assists troubled veterans through the therapeutic benefits of communal dance
View ArticleSilent Fright
Owensboro filmmakers have released a new holiday movie, and … let’s just say it’s not your Hallmark Christmas flick
View Article2022 Writers Hall of Fame
These three authors and two deceased writers—pioneering Black journalist Ted Poston and poet Robert Hazel—soon will join 50 other living and deceased writers in the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.
View ArticleFinding Her Voice
Midway artist Ellen Skidmore channels human experience in an unrestrained, emotionally eloquent way
View ArticleTelling Kentucky’s Story
Kentucky Humanities celebrates 50 years with special events from Pikeville to Paducah
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