Kevin Nance is a photographer, arts journalist and poet living in Lexington, Kentucky. His photographs have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Chicago, Portland, Danville and Lexington, including at the Lexington Art League, the Lexington Public Library, the University of Kentucky Hospital and Arts Connect’s Mobile Gallery. His two collections of photographs and haiku are Even If (University of Kentucky Arts in HealthCare, 2020) and Midnight (Act of Power Press, 2022). As a journalist, Kevin’s work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, Poets & Writers Magazine, the Lexington Herald-Leader, Ace Magazine, UnderMain and many other publications.​He’s the host of Out & About in Kentucky with Kevin Nance and a co-host of the Kentucky Writers' Roundtable, both on RadioLex.

​Born in 1942 in Espanola, New Mexico, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval is a fiber artist and educator best known for his weavings and for incorporating unconventional recycled materials – including vinyl and microfilm – into his works. Arturo taught at several schools around the country before accepting a faculty position in the art department at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, in 1974, where he remained until his retirement. Sandoval has gained wide recognition for his experimental approach to working in fiber, receiving fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1973 and 1992) and the 2003 Artist Award from the Kentucky governor. Arturo has had his fiber art exhibited regionally, nationally as well as accepted into numerous international juried exhibitions. His work is represented within numerous collections and museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council.He is one of five artists whose work will be in the show RADIANCE opening at the Headley Whitney museum mid April thru June.The others exhibiting work will be glass artists Guy Kemper, Stephen Rolfe Powell and Travis Adams as well as jewelry designer and artist Daria de Koning.

Mary Ann Taylor-Hall was born Oct. 17, 1937, in Chicago, but spent much of her childhood in Florida. She attended the University of Florida and earned a masters in English at Columbia University. She taught at Auburn University, Miami of Ohio and the University of Puerto Rico before coming to the University of Kentucky in 1977. She met and married her creative writing colleague, James Baker Hall, in 1982. Taylor-Hall’s most famous novel is Come and Go, Molly Snow, is about a single mother and musician, and considered a Kentucky classic. She has also published a book of short stories and three volumes of poetry. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in the Paris Review, the Sewanee Review and the Kenyon Review.Her stories and poetry are inseparable from the rural landscape of Harrison County where she has found inspiration for nearly 5 decades.  On March 25 she will be one of the three living inductees honored and welcomed into the Carnegie Center’s Kentucky Writers’ Hall of Fame 2024.​"It seems to me that almost everybody in Kentucky has a background that is worth fiction: how they got here, why they stayed, what happened on the way," she said.  "I think that's one reason Kentucky is so rich in writers.  It's both the people who live here, and it's the landscape.  You drive down the roads, and you see history.  People want to write about their own history or their parents' history, or they know a story they've been told.  It's a storytelling place."

​Daniel Graham was raised in a military family and moved every two years for most of his life. ​He comes from a family of storytellers who love investigation and creativity. He earned his Undergraduate Degree at the University of Florida in Printmaking and a Masters Degree from the University of Georgia also in Printmaking.Between the two programs of formal education Daniel lived in downtown Washington DC and trained as a furniture maker under woodworker Dennis Sitka. He has received numerous grants and awards over the course of his studio practice. His work has been in over 200 exhibitions in 8 countries and is housed in multiple collections including the library of congress.Currently Daniel is a Professor of Art at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky where he teaches a variety of courses including Sculpture, Printmaking, 3D Design, and Luthiery.  He recently shared an exhibition of his musical instruments with Ben Mason at the Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center, Lexington, KY., and gave a demonstration at 21c Museum Hotel in Lexington.

Episode #23 of the Art Throb Podcast features a conversation with writer Jayne Moore Waldrop about her most recent illustrated children's book - She Remembered It All: The Art of Memory Painter Helen LaFrance.Jayne is the author Drowned Town, names a 2022 Great Group Reads seletion by the Women's National Book Association and INDIES Book of the Year Award silver winner in fiction; She Remember It all: The Art of Memory Painter Helen LaFrance; A Journey in Color: The Art of Ellis Wilson; Pandemic Lent: A Season in Poems, and Retracing My Steps, a finalist in the New Women's Voices Chapbook Contest.Her work has appeared in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Appalachian Review, Still: The Journal New Limestone Review, Women Speak Anthology, and other journals and anthologies.

Episode #22 of the Art Throb Podcast features a conversation with Kevin Lane Dearinger, a retired actor and teacher and recent author of a collection of poems titled COLD AS A SILVER SPOON.Kevin has written four volumes of theatre history two memoirs, assorted plays and monologues and five volumes of poetry.He tries to listen to a multitude of voices while striving to be true to his own voice.  Which has always been a Kentucky voice.His most recent book: COLD AS A SILVER SPOON is about growing old in Kentucky.

Roda has more than twenty years of experience leading, assessing, and promoting library, museum, research, and educational services, including her work with the Keeneland Library and National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Through her focus on creating responsive systems of access for researchers and racing fans around the world, Keeneland Library’s research services volume doubled during Roda’s tenure as Head Librarian – a position she previously held. Additionally, the library’s outreach programs tripled their reach under her management, while her focus on digitizing collections grew the library’s digital assets by more than 500 percent in six years.  Roda returned to Keeneland Library in 2022 to curate the library’s exhibit, The Heart of the Turf: Racing’s Black Pioneers, and its educational programs and materials. The exhibit’s programs for youth and adults reached record-breaking audiences for the library in 2023, and Roda will continue to work with industry and community partners to provide educational programs and travel the exhibit across the country. Roda began her new role as Director of the Library in the fall of 2023 with goals to grow and preserve the Library’s world-renowned collections and research services and to expand its outreach efforts to meet the evolving needs of its global patron base. 

​Episode 20 of the Art Throb Podcast features Colton Ryan and Lyndy Smith in conversation about the upcoming Lexington Theatre Company's production of the annual Concert with the Stars  in which Colton Ryan will be performing as the Headlining Veteran Star. Colton was recently nominated for a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his performance as Jim Doyle in the Broadway production of New York, New York.   Having made his debut with The Lex in Concert With The Stars in 2016 as one of the Collegiate Rising Stars, he returned for Concert With The Stars  in 2018 as one of the Headlining Broadway Veterans, after his Broadway debut in Dear Evan Hansen.  Then in 2019 he starred as Tony in The Lexington Theatre Company's production of West Side Story.  This year Colton will be coming back to his hometown Lexington to perform as the Headlining Veteran Star in a one night performance in the Lexington Theatre Company's signature Concert with the Stars.Lyndy Franklin Smith, along with her husband Jeromy, is the founder of The Lexington Theatre Company.  Their two-fold mission is to create professional theatre and to train the next generation of theatre artists through their education programs.  They have a robust 2024 season already planned with, in addition to their January production of Concert with the Stars; Fiddler on the Roof and Jersey Boys followed by next November's traditional holiday musical A Christmas Story  that will then see out the year's line-up.

Katharine was appointed in August 2023 as Museum Manager of the 21c Museum Hotel here in Lexington.  Prior to that she has worked as an educator at a number of museums including The National Gallery of Art, the Washington National Cathedral, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and, for the majority of her career, at the Getty Villa in LA where she managed the Gallery Teaching program.Katharine has a BA in Art History from Emory University and M.A.T in Museum Education from the George Washington University. 

Episode 18 of the Art Throb podcast features Jessica Winters, one half of the husband/wife team who in 2011 founded PRHBTN, Lexington's first street art festival.For more than a decade, Jessica and John Winters have facilitated the installation of large-scale murals by international artists throughout Lexington and have hosted annual gallery events to provide opportunities to local and regional artists.  PRHBTN is an annual celebration of art forms that have been criminalized, marginalized, and under-appreciated in the mainstream, featuring public murals alongside an exhibition of street art works in a space that complements the raw, powerful nature of the message and artistry of each piece.“The name PRHBTN originated because we felt like street artists and graffiti artists, folks of that ilk, were kind of prohibited from appearing in standard galleries and from being part of the art establishment,” John said. “That would be a kind of prohibition. We're in Kentucky, too, and since it’s bourbon country, we thought people would think the name is kind of funny.” The shortened version came along after John and Jessica decided the word was too long and decided to omit the vowels to make it more concise and easier to put on the flyers and stickers.In 2022 they decided to no longer produce mural, although the gallery exhibition of work will continue at The Lexington Art League's Loudoun House.  Now Jessica and John are shifting toward transformative, interactive pop-up pieces such as Call of Joy.