Despite all of the challenges, 2020 was a year of accomplishment for Jaylin Stewart and she will be recognized as Emerging Artist at the 2021 LVA Honors on March 11. This week she tells all about it. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursday at 10:00 am to hear more about it.
Jaylin Stewart is an artist from West Louisville who has dedicated her talents to victims of violence & the community by creating therapeutic artwork. Through her non-profit company, Adah School of Art she provides visual art instruction to children. Although primarily a painter, her three-dimensional installation, God Rest America, was at Scheherezade Gallery in 2019. As the COVID pandemic overtook us last spring, she kept busy executing chalk sidewalk murals in tribute to health care workers, her portrait of Breonna Taylor gained national recognition, and more recently she has been actively creating new murals like the one at 1600 West Broadway. On March 11 she will receive the Emerging Artist Award at the 2021 LVA Honors, which this year will be a virtual event and fundraiser for Louisville Visual Art.
Actors Theatre Executive Artistic Director Robert Barry Fleming talks with us about the entirely virtual 2020-21 season and how it has presented creative opportunities for the company. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursday mornings to hear Keith Waits talk with artists..
before coming to ATL Robert Barry Fleming served as Associate Artistic Director at Cleveland Play House from 2016–2019. Prior to Cleveland Play House, he served as the Director of Artistic Programming at Arena Stage; world premieres he commissioned, developed and championed during this tenure include the 2017 Best Musical Tony Award-winner Dear Evan Hansen, Mary Kathryn Nagle’sSovereignty, John Strand’s The Originalist, Katori Hall’s Blood Quilt, Karen Zacarías’ Destiny Of Desire and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner Sweat, by Lynn Nottage. Fleming was an Associate Producer for the Off-Broadway premiere of The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams, starring Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif. He was also an Associate Professor (tenured) and Chair of the University of San Diego Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Department.
