♪ A staple in downtown Lexington celebrates a milestone.

A look back at the Kentucky Peters history and look at what's coming to the theater in the near future.

>> One person can there issue broken down because truckers what they call it.

And I was there to reconstruct to know, to make it look like a worsening and, you know, make sure that it was the globe or were being.

>> Worst racing and over the top outfits always been intertwined.

One man is designing custom sneakers.

Well, forest.

This is trash are, you know, you realize taking trash when people pull out when you turn into art and when you can sell it.

And meet the Kentucky artist putting the can and can do.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KET Endowment for Kentucky Productions.

Leonard Preston Down for Public Affairs and the KET Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky.

Addition for Friday, December 30th, I'm Casey Parker Bell filling in for Renee Shaw.

On this special episode of Kentucky EDITION.

>> We're looking back at some of our most colorful stories each week we bring you arts and culture stories from around Kentucky.

A segment we call tapestry.

We begin today's show in Lexington where the Kentucky theater turned 100 years old this year.

This Stark theater has faced its fair share of obstacles over the century, including a devastating fire in 1987 and the COVID-19 pandemic.

And yet the theater remains a popular spot for moviegoers from across the company.

>> The theater was built by a young man.

His name is Harry And this family were Russian jus immigrants.

Harry, one of the sons live next door to the Kentucky theater here in Lexington in 1921.

And oversaw the building of the theater and the theater was constructed almost 365 days to that.

They that, you know, that construction began.

We try to be something.

For everybody.

We refer to ourselves as a art House cinema.

I think that means that year.

Very selective of the films that we show here.

>> We show a really wide variety of films here and we show films that I might say.

We're just pure entertainment.

They're just fun.

And we love that.

And that's one reason people come to the cinema to be entertained.

But in that mix, we will show films.

I think some people might find retaining, but I think would be challenging.

And by that, I mean, the cinema like poetry like fiction, painting.

It's an art form and sometimes art forms challenging sometimes art forms asked more questions than they answer.

This is a beautiful place.

Architecturally.

It's just a a stunning play.

We we forget how beautiful it is.

The L against of walking in and seeing the old-style marquee out in front.

The marble floors and >> the gold tram throughout the building to really hard to beat this grand building.

I think that probably this is the way movies were meant to be seen.

If you will, using the term movie palace.

People here feel like our family.

I think they think we're part of their families.

That sets us apart.

And then when you put into that, that just really, really eclectic mix of film there.

There's something for everybody.

You know, we show Casa Blanca and some are classics.

And then we show Rocky Horror Picture show every month and in between.

Those is a wide variety of documentaries, foreign films and just plain fun film.

My favorite phrases.

It's the best-kept secret.

Lexington.

And that even though that's gotten all the publicity that he's had over the years that you would be surprised that the number of folks that have lived here for 10 years or 15 years or 20 years, they've never been down to the Kentucky theater.

Don't confuse 100 years with Bean Daughtery nanda no longer of any use to anybody.

I think we're just the opposite.

I think because of the service we provide people because of the links we go to really cure 8 films to really see what's out there and to bring in things that are funded, things that are challenging that films that will take you into the past into the future and take your around the world without leaving the seat.

What we've always said it is that it's a venerable institution with great, great traditions.

And we want to preserve the best of this traditions.

And we are I hope we just KET moving forward and that it's still here 100 years from now.

>> A movie at the Kentucky Theater is a great way to escape.

Now we're hitting the road and heading to the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green.

We're special exhibit on display over the summer.

Not only celebrated a popular toy, but also used it as a learning tool.

♪ >> We think that this is a fantastic place to host the exhibit because we are an automotive related museum.

We have our motorsports park just across the interstate.

So this exhibit will appeal not only to Corvette enthusiasts racing enthusiast in general.

>> We enjoyed how much there's more goals in here, more than boys because I just felt really comfortable.

When I came here because mostly at play with cars do not like Barbies and staff.

>> We all know the kids like to learn when the play and the Delta do too, quite frankly.

And so this really is that interactive play.

While you learn learn while you play opportunity.

I mean, who doesn't love hot wheels?

>> One of the reasons we brought this exhibit here because it was 7 focused and that simply means that it has a science technology, engineering or mathematics component to it.

So the different zones that are around this exhibit each teach a scientific principle that are easy for children to understand or for parents to teach their children and the kids walk away with a little information about how science is used in >> I really love cars.

And when I got up, I really want to like learn how to fix cars on about things like we are about the ties and like one about.

I like what they mean.

So I just felt really comfortable.

And I like anger.

>> I've been making our my whole life more recently.

I've been doing your work.

the murals from Bowling Green and Glasgow.

We wanted something that was kind of busy showed movement.

And of course, being Corvette Museum.

We use hot Wheels.

Corbis.

>> And so this just allows people to get down on their hands and names and be able to interface with their kids.

Each other and let go of the stresses of daily things that you didn't even realize.

You're learning all those cool curriculum based things.

>> To left.

Actually, this one.

>> But they're learning through play.

That's an important goal.

Albert Einstein once said play is the highest form of research.

And we we believe that's true as well.

>> Looks like we might have a future engineer race car driver in that show.

Its harshest, but not the kind you're thinking about while horse racing and over the top outfits have always been intertwined.

The horses are often lacking in style.

But what if that were the horses who are dressed to impress one Lexington Man designs custom sneakers for resources.

>> I always love coming through from the time that I can remember, you know, in the garden on about the future.

>> I got to customizing might have been around Christmas time 2017, my wife bought me bres kid and I just decided to start paying sneakers at that point.

I work at Toyota as a team leader.

So in the paint department.

So I do that for anywhere from 8 to 9 hours a day and I come home and put in work and my business, you know, I'm pretty busy all day long.

I I just put a lot of work into my craft.

>> I was contacted by visit, through the corn.

That group.

And though they pits to me that they want to make a future for worth.

So they left it up to me to design everything and, you know, figure out what they should look like.

We're pretty complicated.

I had to figure out what a sneaker force will look like.

Obviously, there was no blueprint for me to go off of.

So I had to do 100%.

Imagine you know what that will look like.

So I just sit down and threw it out several times until like I got a look at.

I was happy with.

Just reverse engineer it I took a human issue.

Broken down.

The construction is what they call it.

And I was able to reconstruct the know to make it look like a were sneaker and, you know, make sure that it was >> The process that I used to make the sneakers as much like I do when make a super human.

The very first thing you know, I had to break down and with a drawing that I did earlier, I took the pieces and kind of fit into the blue.

How I like them.

I take them on there.

And so I was happy with the way that they fit.

Once I was happy with that.

So that all together and got if it back onto the blue as one hope he's glued it on and then and then I was able to throw it back onto the blue for that was durable.

>> I put out a brew that no more horses can were.

>> And there every day, you life as far as running and jumping and just walking around.

that's what I'm traveling right now.

He's trying to put a veteran who doubt that no more thing before every game.

>> I believe that has a lot of I've been contacted from.

>> Everyone from celebrities to your local everyone to rest and then put in some style was on the horses and they want to make sure that there were some good is still an investment from them for.

They just want to make sure that the horse and sellers and it's just some new and it's never been done You know us as humans, anything new we flocked to.

So I think that is just a refreshing thing for the equine world.

not only is the 4th is able to worry that And you know, it looks good on you.

>> With a pair of those shoes, those resources could be ready for Kentucky Derby party.

Ford recently designed a pair of commission Corps sneakers for visit.

Lex Lexington's Visitors Bureau.

The shoes were auctioned at a fundraiser event last month with proceeds going to charities across Central Kentucky.

Some artists work with shoes.

Some artists working paints some in clay, many Kentucky artists whose media as aluminum cans.

Alright, was always in my blood.

You know, we love to do art.

Alright, background legal bag.

Only 2 hours of like a elementary school.

And later on in >> I was in the was a projection.

Is, you know, operate the camera.

It's always in love with the arts in the cinemas.

I was on a family reunion cleanup committee.

I had all these bags and cans in the garage is going to have these cans and about 3 o'clock in the morning to spear.

It hit me.

Do art.

You always wanted to do art while can you do order to Cannes?

And then one was playing with my granddaughter Emily, which could help people because, you know, could not cause and making clothing, putting it on the paper goes.

That's when it hit me.

So sort of covering up images of the outline and I would take the can and overlay it full of clothing.

ISIS.

I think I'm on to something here.

And one of the trade classic art and transferred to a can.

You look at inspiration and photography.

I have fashion because you see a picture of a model model address a suit.

So, Ashley, I want to take that image transfer to a camp at the same time, a look at the magazines for colored like the Greens and the yellow of the blue and the gold.

You know, the Reds and the arch.

And because of the can are bright.

Debra, get good.

Good moment.

And you've got this to shine lights it.

So detail it.

I'm boss and now you have the white light.

The light is bounce and the high low spots.

You see the movement.

I've been doing.

This cannot now for about 10 years each year.

I I would learn to take me a bill on that.

And over the years apart, you know, I would say all 400 items.

When people.

And neighbors her I collect cans will art.

They were coming in every day.

can screw and come home from the store church.

There's been actually up or to allow more cans.

This is trash are you know, you realize you've taken trash the people who are out.

You turn into art and when you can sell it.

It's a twofold.

Purpose of Korea, something from trash has been for now.

Take that off the street and created something that could be hang on the wall and the misses.

Everything's has a recyclable purpose.

And life itself has a recyclable purpose and minutes I can do is create a you know.

Go to the next likely going to be.

But it is out.

There you go.

♪ Final records, a format that became all but obsolete in the 90's.

It's continuing its comeback every year for the past 15 years.

Sales of vinyl records have grown according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

Final Record sales topped 1 billion in 2021. after seeing a 50% jump in sales the year prior.

This resurgence is not only having an impact on the music industry, but local businesses as well.

>> Independent record stores account for more than 50% of all final record sales.

And this tapestry piece.

You'll hear why this vinyl revival.

>> He's been music to the ears.

One Lexington, Record store owner.

>> When I was a kid in high school and college, I mean, that's it was records.

Everybody had a record question.

Fact that.

The big thing was to have a awesome stereo system and vinyl collection.

People are getting into vinyl for like all different reasons.

Now.

You know, a lot of people who never got out of to see that they can bill their collections again.

We have a lot of customers.

Sure.

>> 40's 50's 60's or older.

They just don't enjoy risk.

And you know, the experience of listening to vinyl.

>> And you have a lot of people who are, you know, in high school are college and they're just getting into vinyl.

It's one thing for a few outliers to understand what it is that makes vinyl.

So cool and worth getting into.

But it's a whole other thing for it to become that kind of a trend.

A lot of the boom is being fueled by the dollars of people who until the last few years never had a turntable.

You know, I didn't even necessarily grow up with a lot of miles.

I think a lot of this is a reaction to, you know, how much in this day and age is just online and digital.

It's a different listening experience.

You know, when you're listening to something on the computer.

>> A lot of times it's just background music.

When you're playing a record or CD for that matter, you have to take the discount and put it in the player with the record.

You have to turn it over when it's halfway to.

>> One of the things I like about listening to vinyl is that.

>> There is a commitment level to make sure, you know, pay attention in a way that other formats don't.

I think that it kind of >> changes your relationship to music.

>> There's >> also the collect ability aspect of it.

A lot of the collectors, particularly younger collectors, are are buying them.

Not just to listen to, but as an investment as something that people always want.

It's a collectible, but it's a it's a practical collectible is not just something that sit on the shelf as you could actually enjoy it.

So I think there's definitely an aspect of that.

That's that's contributing to the vinyl in the last decade or so.

The growth has been absolutely phenomenal.

I don't think anybody really would have predicted the level it's gotten to at CD Central.

You can use of space and that place.

A good bit of the real estate is taking up a vinyl.

>> So I think that definitely reflects that.

There's a it's booming in Lexington for sure.

When we started, we didn't sell any final, actually.

Very few stores in 1995.

We're doing much at all with vinyl because it had almost died out for that.

Really starting in the early 2, thousands who started showing more interest in collecting vinyl.

And that's snowballed over the years.

And particularly the last 10 years or so.

>> There's been a lot will interest a lot more availability, a vinyl records and some of the smaller communities in eastern See news stories popping up have some That's really cool to see that.

>> And happening feel like people are going to continue to enjoy listening to records and that sales out to be fairly safe.

The experience of listening on Lionel Messi, the warm.

>> Full sound that you can see it will turn away from from that.

>> Less than 5% of people working in professional sound our with our women.

But you wouldn't know that by stepping into knocked or sonic sounds.

It's the state's only female owned operated recording studio.

And as you're about to see, there's a growing list of artists bring their music and ideas to Lexington studio.

The fine tuned.

♪ >> It's a special thing in a musician's life when they get to come to a real studio.

I just want to date back to 2005 as I got in with the studio and work my way up to become assistant manager.

Everything we got offered the opportunity to buy the studio.

I looked at it is a you won't get this opportunity again.

>> It even if it fails, at least you did it.

You will kick yourself for the rest of your life running the Trump can't pass up that opportunity >> lead I can oversee the recording sessions and and it's and mastering and play in Durham >> Studio manager as and one of the engine years.

I run the recording sessions with help from in yellow.

And then I do primarily most of the mixing.

>> stream as rent player for hire and moral support.

>> It's fun to kind of watch people the shock to win it all.

A bunch of female engineers did this genetic makeup has nothing to do with audio.

And once people hear what we can do, it doesn't matter that were female.

They just know that they can get a great recording here.

>> I really wanted to work with someone with a woman running women-owned studio that was really important to me.

Luckily I found a curse on it.

>> All right.

If you are us that have >> come through because they have a friend of an artist has come through or so.

We've been getting a lot of word of mouth.

I walked in with my guitar.

>> And some I had printed off the lyrics and to remember remind myself of the cords and the tempo.

I brought those in.

And I just sat down and they set up a local mike in a guitar.

Mike and I just I played through all of the songs.

>> There's not a lot of planning because the recession is its own child and it's going to have its own personality and go where it wants.

And you just have to adapt and roll with it and the jobs have psychology, half audio engineering.

If someone's not in the right place in their head, they're not going to get the tape.

>> Route 80 in signing that.

>> Different ways that people work different ways.

People think about things.

If it is that they're right.

And then my involvement is usually try to help flush that out and make it.

>> Bigger, more later >> they would have their ideas and add drums and guitar and we talk about it and we tried again until we got pretty close to it.

I really like this process just because it is really nice to sit down with us the artists and get their direct.

>> He back or to the point where we're.

>> During the final at its in mixing in.

So hopefully in in the next few weeks will we finished mastered in ready to put out into the world.

I'm definitely a different person after working with them.

As far as the confidence I have in my songwriting and in my voice I sing like twice as loud.

>> It's helped a lot with them.

I think for me the best part about this job is being able to the with our artists when there and some of their most vulnerable moments.

It's magical and it's humbling.

>> An exhibition earlier this year at the Kentucky Folk Arts center at Morehead State University celebrated the collaboration between renowned eastern Kentucky artists, many Atkins and children's book author Mike Norris and our Last Tapestry segment Today, we explore the world these 2 have created for children of all >> Has started carbon out of >> I didn't have toys to play with it and I would make Bowen, Now's pop them.

Slingshots and stuff like that.

Why we're and that's when I realized back would car I had made some little to lead grows.

Jurors might be that at all.

And I had them there with that.

And they slide to come along.

And she said, Honey, these belongs in the gallery.

The relationship between the Kentucky Folk Art center and many Atkins goes back to the very origins of the folk art center, the current exhibition at the Kentucky Folk Art Center is titled Me Add Can Story Carvings.

>> And this work that you see here, it's over 200 little less than 300 carvings that she made minis.

Carved figures really bring the characters that might creates in his written storytelling to life.

My and many met back in the early 1990's.

He's a writer, a storyteller, a musician, and he shared some of his both nursery rhymes and music.

>> And she in turn shared with him what she creates, which are wooden carving.

I had won an award at center college where he wore it.

>> And he give me a look are safe today and there's psalm the tape was real polluting shot, you said I've got a bright blue ridge drew 3 legged.

How war app directory Mono County bowed.

And that will a little blue rooster and asked and the time as a thank you to be a man lighter.

he called me back and he said, you know, if you would would allow the character's too much, that some would could put it in a children's book.

And I just thought that was funny.

So I start with all of them and saying I'm showing, you know, Mike and many approached us about the idea of doing an exhibition that would bring together for the first time.

All of the works for all 4 of the books have already been published.

And it's wonderful because it really showcases the relationship.

>> They're they're they're creative You see how they work together, how they inspire one another, which is a really cool aspect of full carton of art in general, how artists inspire one another.

My favorite is that could zoom and is granny run and the Cajuns start drying in her hands.

>> Said the could sue had stowed her brand pains that will be served.

Grain man with the scale of the news.

Each am and I call that the cause of man.

And that's my favorite character is.

first one, I really do that.

Bradley Rooster.

I've never painted any of them.

Moved to got a wind with Magno ERs start paying.

>> Blue Rouge Gerson.

>> May I make all different colors.

>> Said amounted to about over and siac Hollaback colorful flaw.

>> Her work is really foundational to this collection.

We had an opening on July 15th and it was probably the largest crowds we've seen in here in years.

We had folks that came from all over the country to see many and to see this work for the community of Morehead and the eastern Kentucky region, including Elliott County, where where monies from she's kind of a full cart celebrity.

I don't like to be.

>> Called folk artist.

I like to be called a wood carver.

A lot of people say is the rule would speak still.

And that's a that's a piece would speak it.

Scared me.

Real bad.

>> So far is intuitive comes from the got its traditional.

It's passed down through generations and it's also narrative it has a storytelling quality that invites people in.

>> You need body.

>> That wants to be a folk artists can be a folk artist if they desire to because it is for ordinary people.

You now.

>> We hope you'll join us again Monday night at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central for Kentucky Edition or we inform connect and inspire.

Thank you for joining us for our last episode of 2022, we have to see you again next year.

Take care.

Have a happy news.

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