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Stephanie Wolf
@StephRWolf
Ex-ballerina. Public radio journalist. Arts & culture reporter @WFPLNews. 2021 Arthur F. Burns Fellow. Formerly @CPRNews. (she/her/hers)
Sep 23, 2020 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
4th & Broadway, Downtown Louisville, Ky. I’ll be downtown today. Image 4th Street Live right now. Image
Sep 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
.@jess_m_clark and I are downtown right now. Many businesses are boarded up or putting up boards. Speaking to a landlord who says they’re putting these up “out of an abundance of caution.” He hopes the decision comes today or tomorrow given how the city has shut off downtown. Image Things are mellow at the square, people talking, someone playing the piano. We spoke w/Carmen Jones of Kentucky Alliance & Black Women’s Collective, who described scene as “prickly,” as city awaits the AG announcement. Jones thinks the barricades are “an intimidation tactic.” Image
Sep 18, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Lou's @CarlyJMusic released 1st single off forthcoming album today. Music vid features 3 @LouBallet artists & 4 musicians.

🎧to "Burn Your Fears"⬇️

Johnson says, "I wrote "Burn Your Fears" for a dear friend of mine, Marisa Wittebort, shortly after she was diagnosed w/ an extremely rare form of lung cancer. She really beat the odds and was able to live 4 full years after being diagnosed, but she passed away last November..."
Sep 17, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Another Greater Lou area arts & culture org will soon have a vacancy at the top.

Eileen Yanoviak will step down as director of the Carnegie Center in New Albany at the end of this month. Story below.

wfpl.org/director-of-ne… First a quick s/o to @newsandtribune, which reported this 1st.

Yanoviak came to the center in 2018. She's leaving to be an art teacher with Sacred Heart Model School in Louisville.
Sep 14, 2020 • 16 tweets • 2 min read
Tuning in for today's Commission on Public Art meeting. You can follow along here. facebook.com/17210534290010… A proposal for the msd building. Image
Sep 5, 2020 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
I’ve arrived @ChurchillDowns. I’ll be here the rest of the day bringing you updates. ImageImage Derby 2020, “masks required.” Image
Sep 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Inbox: News from @SpeedArtMuseum this morning. Director @StephenReily will step down as director in March 2021, saying he told the board earlier this yr he would not renew his contract. Seems to be a time of transition for Lou arts institutions.

@christenboone announced recently she'll leave @FundfortheArts in 2021.

wfpl.org/fund-for-the-a…
Aug 31, 2020 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
Prepare yourself for a thread w/a lot of info about how dancers are re-entering the dance studio to rehearse in-person during a pandemic after 5+ months of trying to stay in shape/train at home.

Here's the story & below more details: wfpl.org/louisville-bal… .@LouBallet dancers returned to work today, as did the members of the studio company. The ballet, like many U.S. ballet co., announced 20-21 season would be virtual, but dancers would rehearse/film the works in person.

Masks r required + temp checks, 10 ft of social distancing. ImageImageImageImage
Aug 25, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
At a march organized by @untilfreedom. Crowd chanting, “fists up, fight back.” Image Crowd joins in song as they prepare to get into formation to march.
Aug 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
At the Kentucky State Fair today for day one and it feels like this guy is staring into my soul. Image This is my first State Fair here, but I’ve been told repeatedly that things look, sound and feel different with all of the festivities canceled and it being only open to participants. Image
Aug 16, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Press conference downtown to discuss Breonna’s Law for Kentucky legislation. Image “When cops go out there in plain clothes, and beat down doors, bad things happen,” Sam Aguiar, attorney for Taylor’s family, says. Image
Aug 13, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
New report from @BrookingsInst looks at COVID-19 pandemic's effect on country's arts/culture sector.

A few key findings:

- Estimate 2.7M job loss & $150B+ loss in sales of goods/services nationwide. That's nearly 1/3 of all jobs & 9% of annual sales in the creative industries. The researchers say fine & performing arts "will be hit hardest," w/estimated losses of nearly 1.4M jobs & $42.5B in sales. That's about 50% of all jobs in these industries & more 1/4 of all lost sales nationwide.
Aug 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
.@teddyconducts has joined @nivassoc & other top arts leaders in a national push for more federal relief aid for the arts and live events industries.

wfpl.org/kentucky-arts-… “What we’re all talking about is just recognizing that the live events industry was one of the first to be impacted, and it will certainly be the last one to return to any semblance of normal,” Abrams said.
Jul 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Some moments from last night's 50th Dainty Contest at Germantown Baseball. ImageImageImageImage This year's event was a socially distanced one. Masks required and no spectators. You show up, you play, you leave. But everyone seemed to still have a good time. ImageImageImageImage
Jul 27, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The 50th Annual Championship Dainty Contest has begun at Germantown Baseball Park as the rain starts to subside. This individual just knocked the dainty more than 120 feet. Image
Jul 25, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
At the Yum! Center where a LGBTQ for Black Lives is about to depart. Image Crowd cheered for the people who got arrested in NuLu today.
Jul 24, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Police taping off Market between Shelby and Clay where there was a block party. Police surrounded some block party attendees after they declared it an unlawful assembly. Those individuals are still on the ground. Image
Jul 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Inbox: More legislation introduced to help independent music & entertainment venues. This time from the House. It's called the ENCORES Act. Here's the bill: kind.house.gov/sites/kind.hou… Image For context, a lot of these bills that would help the live music biz have been informed by advocacy from the National Independent Venue Association, or NIVA. Formed early in the pandemic when it became clear how massively this would impact the industry. wfpl.org/concert-venues…
Jul 13, 2020 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Tuning in for today's Commission on Public Art meeting. You can follow along here: facebook.com/DevelopLouisvi… Ramona Lindsey is newest appointed commissioner. She's a celebrated Lou artist and arts administrator and is currently with Community Foundation of Louisville.
Jul 11, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Ok, finally had a chance to finish combing thru KY arts & culture orgs that received PPP loans.

In the $1M - $2M range:

@ATLouisville, @KentuckyKingdom, @kyperformingart & Petersburg nonprofit Crosswater Canyon Inc (affiliated w/org behind Ark Encounter & Creation Museum). $350K - $1M includes:

@LouBallet
@derbymuseum
@FrazierMuseum
@AliCenter
@KYScience
@LouOrch
Willis Music Co. in Florence
@SpeedArtMuseum
@corvettemuseum in Bowling Green
Jul 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Inbox: Arts Council of Indianapolis, IN Arts Commission + partners surveyed more than 1,400 IN creatives to see how the pandemic has impacted them. About half are unemployed.

16% not applied for unemployment
33% applied & are waiting for benefits
51% started receiving benefits Other key takeaways. Image