Friday, August 31, 2007
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Participating Artists Announced!
Visual Artists
Anessa Arehart http://www.livingcolorstudio.net/
Lisa Dupree
Jill Frank http://jillfrankphotography.com/
Isabel Gadd
Teresa Huarte
Essye Klempner
Annie Langan http://www.annielangan.com//
Sarah Lyon http://www.sarahlyon.com//
Gillian Mosvold
Sarah Marie Miller http://www.sarahmariemiller.com/
Danica Novgorodoff http://www.danicanovgorodoff.com/
Laura Parker http://artbylauraparker.blogspot.com/
Letitia Quesenberry
Meredith Sarles
Myra Silva
Natalie Sud
Carla Terwilleger
Jessica Woolard
Lucretia X aka Tye
Performance Artists
Lauren Argo and Karen Greasly http://www.laurenargo.com/
Clara Harris
Musicians
Performing at Actors 10:30pm
Lucy Bickett http://www.lucybickett.com/
Tamara Dearing http://www.tamaradearing.com/
Dane Waters and Softcheque
Performing at Glassworks 8pm
Carter Wood http://cdbaby.com/cd/carterwood
Leah Ann Yost
Authors
Nickole Brown http://www.nickolebrown.com/home.html
Ellen Hagan http://www.ellenhagan.com/
Marian Silliman
Ameshia Williams
Megan Riggle
Elisabeth Meyer
Lucretia X aka Tye
Special Curatory Discussion with Karen Gillenwater at Glassworks
Special thanks to our 2007 Kentucky Girlhood Sponsors
Actors Theatre
Bluegrass Brewing Company
Glassworks
Northend Cafe
Nancy's Bagels
TARC
Pitt and Frank Attorneys
The Kentucky Women's Foundation
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Lisa DuPree, Visual Art Submission Example
A.W.'s Christina's World (In Thread)
by Lisa M. Dupree
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The New Duprees
by Lisa Dupree
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Artist Biography: Lisa M. DuPree
I moved to Louisville from Charleston, SC in December 2003 pursuing a permeable art scene while working a full time job. Since I moved here I have worked as a security guard at the Speed Art Museum, a PBX operator at Baptist Hospital East, a hostess at Bravo! Cucina Italiana, a receptionist for the Eye Specialists of Louisville, a Portrait Sales Consultant for Photography Company of America. I am currently working as a Precertification representative at Humana and am looking to advance within the company.
I work in a couple different mediums including amateur photography, found objects, and mail art, but the most interesting is a medium I created myself, called thread portraits. I lay fine strands of colored thread one at a time on a sticky surface until I’ve created a whole picture. This process is very time consuming and labor intensive. My unique, self-taught art form has allowed me to participate in art shows at the Kentucky Employees Credit Union in Frankfort, Cinderblock Art Gallery, North End Café, Frazier Historical Arms Museum, River Bend Winery, and The Forecastle Show.
Most recently, I have shown two pieces in a traveling show called, “Finding Family,” which has shown at Mount Sterling’s Art Gallery in Eastern Kentucky, 21C Museum in downtown Louisville, and Georgetown College. I would love to someday live independently as an artist, but my student loan is far from being paid off, I now have a mortgage, and the artwork isn’t quite selling out yet. I look forward to further.
Artist Lisa Dupree
Louisville, Kentucky
by Lisa M. Dupree
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The New Duprees
by Lisa Dupree
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Artist Biography: Lisa M. DuPree
I moved to Louisville from Charleston, SC in December 2003 pursuing a permeable art scene while working a full time job. Since I moved here I have worked as a security guard at the Speed Art Museum, a PBX operator at Baptist Hospital East, a hostess at Bravo! Cucina Italiana, a receptionist for the Eye Specialists of Louisville, a Portrait Sales Consultant for Photography Company of America. I am currently working as a Precertification representative at Humana and am looking to advance within the company.
I work in a couple different mediums including amateur photography, found objects, and mail art, but the most interesting is a medium I created myself, called thread portraits. I lay fine strands of colored thread one at a time on a sticky surface until I’ve created a whole picture. This process is very time consuming and labor intensive. My unique, self-taught art form has allowed me to participate in art shows at the Kentucky Employees Credit Union in Frankfort, Cinderblock Art Gallery, North End Café, Frazier Historical Arms Museum, River Bend Winery, and The Forecastle Show.
Most recently, I have shown two pieces in a traveling show called, “Finding Family,” which has shown at Mount Sterling’s Art Gallery in Eastern Kentucky, 21C Museum in downtown Louisville, and Georgetown College. I would love to someday live independently as an artist, but my student loan is far from being paid off, I now have a mortgage, and the artwork isn’t quite selling out yet. I look forward to further.
Artist Lisa Dupree
Louisville, Kentucky
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Call to Participate
Press Release August 2007
We would like to announce The Kentucky Girlhood Project: a provocative and multifaceted show of works produced by women from Kentucky with a particular interest in the theme of adolescence. Initiated by Louisville artists Laura Parker and Jill Frank, and supported by a grant through the Kentucky Foundation for Women; The Kentucky Girlhood Project specifically seeks to highlight current female contemporary artists working in all areas of Kentucky, in all mediums. The exhibition runs from September 14th to September 21st at both the Glassworks Gallery and Actors Theater with a blowout opening night on September 14th of live performance and visual art not to be missed!
Laura Parker and Jill Frank, both 1997 St. Francis High School graduates, initiated this project in order to create an outlet for their own work, as well as begin a dialogue with other female artists from all over the state whose work related to similar themes. In order to find new talent, the first-time curators took many trips around Kentucky, meeting artists and posting flyers, reaching areas and meeting people that would be otherwise inaccessible. To experience some of these curatorial adventures around the state, visit The Kentucky Girlhood Project blog at (http://kygirlhoodproject.blogspot.com/). The blog has been and will continue to highlight selected submissions, and explain more about the project and its goals. Please join us for an opening night of unique and compelling artwork and performance!
The Kentucky Girlhood Project Presents:
One night, two venues—
On September 14th, 2007, join us for an evening of new artworks from leading contemporary female artists, authors, musicians, performers, and much more!
Glassworks Gallery, downtown Louisville at Ninth & Market
Opening Reception
Sept 14, 8:00 – 10 pm
Glassworks, downtown at Ninth & Market
Free
Sponsored by BBC and TARC
The Late Seating at Actors presents
Kentucky Girlhood Project
Sept 14 at 10:00 pm
The Victor Jory Theatre and the Victor Jory Lobby
Doors open at 10 pm
Actors Theatre, downtown at Third & Main
Performance, music and art from the Kentucky Girlhood Project, highlighting current female contemporary artists working in all areas of Kentucky. Part of the late night series at Actors Theatre featuring new work by local artists.
TICKETS: $10 (or $5 with Actors Theatre ticket stub)
Call 502-584-1205 or available at Kentucky Girlhood Project Art
Exhibit Opening Reception.
Selected Kentucky Girlhood Project art on exhibit at Actors
Sept 12 – Oct 1 in the Victor Jory Lobby, Free
Tue - Thur, 7 pm – 10 pm and Sat – Sun, 2 pm – 10 pm
Attention all Kentucky Female Artists!
(Painters, Photographers, Writers, Filmmakers, Video artists, Sculptors, Performers, Print-makers, Musicians, any medium accepted…)
Kentucky Girlhood Project
Jill Frank and Laura Parker
502-821-9955 * Girlhood2007@gmail.com
Friday, March 2, 2007
About Jill and Laura
Photo By Jill Frank
Jill Frank's Bio
Jill Frank, co-curator of the Kentucky Girlhood Project, was born in 1978 in Georgia. At some point her family moved to Kentucky, and that is where she began her art career, in the early eighties. Early hand-print paintings and an unusual obsession with a blue plastic Fisher Price camera lead Jill to further investigate her artistic inclinations at Bard College, in upstate New York in 1997. She then lived in Providence, Brooklyn, Chicago and Louisville at for varying amounts of time. After many years of working in New York as a manager of a photo studio, Jill realized she should go back to school and get an MFA. The Art Institute of Chicago seemed like a good choice, so for the last two years Jill has been finishing her degree in Chicago, although still very much a permanent resident of Louisville, Kentucky. Her most recent finished work involves reenactments of pivotal moments in her immediate family history; some of the important memories that might otherwise be forgotten were acted out for the purpose of documentation. The series titled, The Franks focuses on the awkward, embarrassing and universal experience of adolescence. More recent projects are concerning the documentation of other people?s important recollections, please contact Jill if you are interested in re-enacting an important childhood memory.
Laura Parker's Bio
Laura Parker, co-curator of the Kentucky Girlhood Project, was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1979. She started oil painting when she was 11 years old, after being inspired by her older sister, who is also an artist. After high school Laura moved around the country for many years living in several states including Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington and New York. She spent four years living in New York City where she worked for art non-profits including the Art Directors Club and HOWL! Festival. Realizing that office life did not suit her soul she spent her last year in New York holding up welcome signs at airports and selling jewelry in street fairs for her friend's company, Lolabean. In 2005 she moved back to Kentucky to focus on her art career and began an experimental art project called Meet-A-Stranger. In Meet a Stranger, Laura introduces her audience to people doing interesting things based on impromptu interviews she conducts with random strangers.
Meet A Stranger
MEET ALEYDA
Aleyda, a seventeen-year-old recent high school graduate, works at a Mexican restaurant and grocery store in downtown Carrollton, Kentucky.
This week there have been few customers but she expects to be busy tomorrow for the soccer game. Mexico is playing in the World Cup and they have a television.
When Aleyda was six in Veracruz her father moved to Kentucky to make money. Six years later Aleyda and the rest of her family followed the father. Now in Carrollton, Aleyda enjoys watching movies with friends, reading celebrity magazines, and hanging out with her white boyfriend. Aleyda received a scholarship to attend the local two-year community college and plans to become a Chemical Engineer.
Aleyda enjoys the differences in people and has friends from many races and backgrounds. Her Hispanic friends in Kentucky often look at her strange because she has integrated more into the American culture. She explains “The Hispanic people here are always together in a corner at school. My brother and I talk to everyone pretty much. That is why they look at us weird. They are not racist or anything and I am still friends with them but they just like to stick together. I ask them, ‘How come you don’t talk to everyone?’ and they are like, ‘I don’t know.’”
Jill Frank's Bio
Jill Frank, co-curator of the Kentucky Girlhood Project, was born in 1978 in Georgia. At some point her family moved to Kentucky, and that is where she began her art career, in the early eighties. Early hand-print paintings and an unusual obsession with a blue plastic Fisher Price camera lead Jill to further investigate her artistic inclinations at Bard College, in upstate New York in 1997. She then lived in Providence, Brooklyn, Chicago and Louisville at for varying amounts of time. After many years of working in New York as a manager of a photo studio, Jill realized she should go back to school and get an MFA. The Art Institute of Chicago seemed like a good choice, so for the last two years Jill has been finishing her degree in Chicago, although still very much a permanent resident of Louisville, Kentucky. Her most recent finished work involves reenactments of pivotal moments in her immediate family history; some of the important memories that might otherwise be forgotten were acted out for the purpose of documentation. The series titled, The Franks focuses on the awkward, embarrassing and universal experience of adolescence. More recent projects are concerning the documentation of other people?s important recollections, please contact Jill if you are interested in re-enacting an important childhood memory.
Laura Parker's Bio
Laura Parker, co-curator of the Kentucky Girlhood Project, was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1979. She started oil painting when she was 11 years old, after being inspired by her older sister, who is also an artist. After high school Laura moved around the country for many years living in several states including Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington and New York. She spent four years living in New York City where she worked for art non-profits including the Art Directors Club and HOWL! Festival. Realizing that office life did not suit her soul she spent her last year in New York holding up welcome signs at airports and selling jewelry in street fairs for her friend's company, Lolabean. In 2005 she moved back to Kentucky to focus on her art career and began an experimental art project called Meet-A-Stranger. In Meet a Stranger, Laura introduces her audience to people doing interesting things based on impromptu interviews she conducts with random strangers.
Meet A Stranger
MEET ALEYDA
Aleyda, a seventeen-year-old recent high school graduate, works at a Mexican restaurant and grocery store in downtown Carrollton, Kentucky.
This week there have been few customers but she expects to be busy tomorrow for the soccer game. Mexico is playing in the World Cup and they have a television.
When Aleyda was six in Veracruz her father moved to Kentucky to make money. Six years later Aleyda and the rest of her family followed the father. Now in Carrollton, Aleyda enjoys watching movies with friends, reading celebrity magazines, and hanging out with her white boyfriend. Aleyda received a scholarship to attend the local two-year community college and plans to become a Chemical Engineer.
Aleyda enjoys the differences in people and has friends from many races and backgrounds. Her Hispanic friends in Kentucky often look at her strange because she has integrated more into the American culture. She explains “The Hispanic people here are always together in a corner at school. My brother and I talk to everyone pretty much. That is why they look at us weird. They are not racist or anything and I am still friends with them but they just like to stick together. I ask them, ‘How come you don’t talk to everyone?’ and they are like, ‘I don’t know.’”
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Submission Example, Ellen Hagan, Writer
It Was Me
Published in America! What's My Name?
By Ellen Hagan
Born in Bardstown, Kentucky
Body calling. For you. This is what they say. My body needs. What’s your desire? You want to be 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 and tight, one slick body calling you up, dialing.
At 13, I wanted to be kissed deep and long, not because MTV told me that’s what I wanted, not because of Jodeci’s ‘Forever My Lady’ or Naughty by Nature’s ‘Hip-Hop Hooray’, or the street corner or the pressure of my peers. Not because of anything other than wanting another mouth on mine. At 13, I was all legs and frizzy hair and nowhere to put all my longing. It wasn’t music videos, Madonna in a sprawl on a cross with a black Christ that made me want to slow grind on all the boys at the parties, throw my head back shooting tequila or vodka or bourbon and laugh high and loud.
It was me.
At 14, I lost my virginity at another 14- year old boy’s house, while his mother watched The Price is Right in the living room and his dog barked till he had to yell “Shut the fuck up,” while he was thinking of saying the same thing to me. And it was not Teen Beat, with Silk on the cover that had me wasted and naked from the hips down, not Seventeen or Beverly Hills 90210. It was not a zip code that made me buy a box of condoms on my way to his house because he said, “I don’t have none…could you?”
And I could. And I did.
At 15, I made out, put my tongue into warm mouths and kissed slow and deep in dark alleys, but I was terrible alone, and it wasn’t mass media that told me I was ugly. It was the mirror. “Sex me baby.” It was at 15 I learned other girls got breasts, not the girls in Snoop Dogg videos or on the covers of magazines, but my best friends. Got tits. And asses. And figures. And curves that went Bam! And touch me. I’m hot, kinda figures that said, “come and get it. come and get it. come and get it. come and get it.”
Like a looped record, full of Kentucky Southern.
Re-mix. “Turn off the lights cuz girl it’s on. Sex me.”
Re-mix. No matter how much I re-mixed it, I was still alone and there was no sex me in my future. And it wasn’t the supermodels on TV that told me I was ugly, or too skinny, or too stupid. It was the mirror. It was growing up.
It was me.
*Lyrics from R. Kelly’s Sex Me
Ellen's Bio
Ellen Hagan is a writer, actress and educator. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and can be seen in Failbetter, La Petite Zine, nervygirl, Monologues for Women by Women, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees and upcoming in Submerged: Tales from the Basin and America! What’s My Name? Her work has been featured on Kentucky Educational Television, New York’s WBAI and WNYE and produced by SpokenWorks for the New York International Fringe Festival, ROAR Theatre Festival and the American Living Room. She has had residencies at the Hopscotch House and The University of Kentucky and received grants from the KY Foundation for Women and the GSA Toyota Alumni Fund. Ellen recently performed for season five of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam and tours the state with her duo show Becoming Woman. She is also the co-founder of girlstory, a multi-generational, multi-cultural women’s collective based in New York City. girlstory was recently nominated as Vagina Warriors for V-Day at Adelphi University and performed for Eve Ensler’s Stop the Violence Campaign in the Y.Now Festival at HERE Theatre in summer 2006. Ellen holds an MFA in fiction from The New School University, and is working on a full-length novel entitled The Kentucky Notes.
www.ellenhagan.com
www.girlstory.org
www.becomingwoman.com
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Western Kentucky
Posting Flyers on Bulletin Boards in little towns across Western Kentucky.
Nicole and Tiffany, Yard Sale, Bonnieville, Kentucky
Kentucky Repertory Theatre
Tom Chaney, Owner of THE BOOKSTORE, in Horse Cave, Kentucky.
Tom talked to us about women authors in Kentucky and mountain top removal.
Nicole and Tiffany, Yard Sale, Bonnieville, Kentucky
Kentucky Repertory Theatre
Tom Chaney, Owner of THE BOOKSTORE, in Horse Cave, Kentucky.
Tom talked to us about women authors in Kentucky and mountain top removal.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Eastern Kentucky Here We Come!!!
Jill and I leave tomorrow to take a weekend trip through Eastern Kentucky to meet peope and promote the show! Stay tuned for updates and photos from our journey.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Middlesboro, Kentucky
Breakfast at the Cumberland Manor Bed and Breakfast in Middlesboro, KY. Owner and artist, Jill West, shares with us the history of Middlesboro and also gives us advice on promoting the show.
FInding Directions
Local cousins share stories with us about growing up in Middlesboro
54 year old Jim tells us about growing up in Middlesboro, coal and his relationship with his mother who gave birth to 13 children.
Posting the Flyer
FInding Directions
Local cousins share stories with us about growing up in Middlesboro
54 year old Jim tells us about growing up in Middlesboro, coal and his relationship with his mother who gave birth to 13 children.
Posting the Flyer
West Liberty, Kentucky
Debbie is an artist and owner of a amazing little teahouse in W. Liberty, Kentucky. She paints furniture and reproduction folk paintings as well and grew up in West Liberty.
McKenzie Pool Room
McKenzie Pool Room
Benham, Kentucky
JIll talks to Haley, an eigth grader in Benham, about participating in the project.
Morehead, Kentucky
Mapping out Day 2
Posting the Call in Morehead
Jill and I stop in a Bingo Hall on Friday night to promote the show. Neither of us had ever played Bingo this serious, but luckily Dana, a Bingo Hall Employee, showed us how to play.
Dana
Louis Magda, Artist and Owner of The Artist's Corner, an art store/gallery in Morehead, KY
Diner in Morehead. Jill and I sit below a portrait of the owner's grandchildren.
Posting the Call in Morehead
Jill and I stop in a Bingo Hall on Friday night to promote the show. Neither of us had ever played Bingo this serious, but luckily Dana, a Bingo Hall Employee, showed us how to play.
Dana
Louis Magda, Artist and Owner of The Artist's Corner, an art store/gallery in Morehead, KY
Diner in Morehead. Jill and I sit below a portrait of the owner's grandchildren.
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