Louisville is Hot for Artists

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I recently had a really entertaining conversation with a interior designer in Boston. It’s so funny how they struggle to say Louisville - almost makes you forget we’re in the same country. I struggled myself to say Boston and not use three syllables. The designer said that Louisville is becoming quite a haven for emerging artists, kind of like Asheville, North Carolina. I’ve always known that there are many great artists right here in Louisville. It just never dawned on me that other people in the civilized art society (I hear Boston is civilized now) knew it, too. Big confession - I used to not tell art consultants and designers (especially if they were in L.A) that we were based in Louisville (unless they asked). I felt they would somehow think we couldn’t play in the big leagues as art publishers without being in Atlanta or New York or San Francisco. I stand accepted. Don’t get me wrong, I love the town. Arts-wise and restaurant-wise its like a little Chicago sans the wind chill, and yet intimate like a giant Owensboro (Kentucky, population 55,000 and birthplace of moi and my friend Johnny Depp, (He was great in The Aviator and Titanic). I digress. “A diverse art scene…” is one reason that MSNBC recently touted Louisville as one of the Top Ten underrated U.S. cities. Actually, where an artist lives and creates is completely irrelevant, (proven by the fact that so many of the masters were from France), but it is so wonderful that so many great artists are living and creating right in my own backyard.