Folk Life Stage at 2012 Kentucky Crafted: The Market

Folk Life Stage at 2012 Kentucky Crafted: The Market

Bob Gates, Folk Life Director for the Kentucky Arts Council and The Kentucky Historical Society has invited Pamela Whinnery, local author and owner of Celebrity Cookbook Publications to do a presentation and cooking demonstration on the Folk Life Stage at the 2012 Kentucky Crafted: The Market. Whinnery will be preparing “Italian Pork Loin,” a recipe submitted to her cookbook “Favorite Recipes of Kentucky Celebrities” by Academy Award Winner and Louisville native Bub Asman. The presentation will be Saturday, March 3rd at 5:00 p.m.

This is the second year for the Folk Life Stage and Whinnery’s participation” “The Folk Life Stage is such a fun event and exciting addition to the Market.” Whinnery stated. Last year she prepared a “Southern Spice Tea” from her cookbook “Country Goodness Recipes of Tennessee Celebrities;” The recipe was contributed by actress Reese Witherspoon, who is from Nashville.

Celebrating its 30th Anniversary, The Market will return to Lexington in 2012. The award-winning arts marketplace, which had its debut in 1981 at the Kentucky Horse Park, will come home after a long run in Louisville at the Kentucky Exposition Center. The award-winning arts marketplace, the annual wholesale/retail show of art, craft, books, music and artisan food products will be held March 1 – 4, 2012, at the Lexington Convention Center, 430 W. Vine St., Lexington, Ky.

The Market features more than 200 juried artists, authors, and musicians offering shoppers jewelry, wearable art, home decor, furniture, paintings, prints, photographs and artisan foods along with Kentucky-related books, CDs and DVDs. It will feature two full days of hands-on workshops and activities on the Folk Life Stage and an exciting lineup of hourly performances by musicians to the Kentucky
Stage.

The first two days of The Market are the wholesale trade show days, which are open exclusively to qualified business owners who sell products in retail venues. The wholesale days act as an economic generator for Kentucky, annually attracting 500 – 600 buyers from 15–20 states. Kentucky Crafted: The Market opens to the public on March 3 and 4, giving customers an opportunity to purchase new work before it hits the store shelves or is installed on gallery walls.To find more information on the Market and to purchase discount tickets go to the Kentucky Arts Council’s website:
http://artscouncil.ky.gov/KentuckyArt/Event_Market.htm

ARTIST GARY BERTRAM

ARTIST GARY BERTRAM

Kentucky Folklore Program Director Bob Gates from the Kentucky Arts Council has invited me to do a presentation and book signing on the Food Stage at the 29th Kentucky Crafted, The Market in Louisville. I will be doing the presentation at 2:00 p.m. Sat. March 19th. This is such an honor for me! Stop by, as I will be preparing actress Reese Witherspoon’s favorite recipe.

I am doing a couple of blogs on contributors to the Kentucky cookbook “Favorite Recipes of Kentucky Celebrities,” who are also participating in The Market.

One of the contributors is artist Gary Bertram from Georgetown, KY. He will be at Booth 410 at the Kentucky Crated Market. He is such an incredibly talented artist.

Drawing has been one of Gary’s passions since he was a child, but he didn’t become a professional artist until later in life. He has spent the past twenty nine years working as either a teacher, a minister of music, or an associate pastor. However, during his college years, he started doing portraits of people, and for the last twenty years has been doing them on commission. Then in 2001, Gary became interested in wildlife portraiture, and in short order began exhibiting in some of the most elite wildlife art shows in the country, including the Safari Club International and the Southern Wildlife Festival, where in 2006 he won the coveted "People’s Choice Award." Gary has won numerous first place awards, including "Best of Show" and "Best of Professional" in many of the regional art shows.

Gary has also produced equine art of such high quality that it is registered with the Saddlebred Museum at the prestigious Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky, as well as with the Kentucky Artisan Center in Berea, Kentucky. In 2010, the Kentucky Arts Council nominated Gary to the Southern Artistry Organization. These artists are nominated based on the quality of their work by their state arts agencies, and is designed to spotlight the talent of the South's most acclaimed artists. Gary is also an associate member of the "Oil Painters of America.”

When coming to Kentucky

Crafted Market be sure to

stop by Gary’s Booth 410

and my Booth 714 as well.