Bob Hower is a Louisville photographer who was born in Boston in 1947. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1968 and studied photography at both MIT and Harvard. He taught photography at Wright State University for four years and is a founding partner of Quadrant, a commercial photography studio located outside Louisville, Kentucky. His career includes two grants from the Ohio Arts Council and an Individual Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was

Ross Gordon is a Louisville-based photographer and visual storyteller known for connecting cultures through his lens. His global projects include documenting life in Cuba and cowboy culture in South America. He’s also exhibited work on Muslim-American life at Louisville’s 21c Museum Hotel. Ross has photographed in over 50 countries and brings a personal, thoughtful approach to each project—whether local or abroad. In addition, Ross is the founder of Atlas Images, a company pr

Shayne Hull is a Louisville-based artist whose paintings and sculptures have appeared in over 150 exhibitions. His art can be found in the collections of Brown-Forman, 21C Museum, the SNAP Foundation and the Kentucky Arts Council. He is a recipient of the Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Fellowship and four Great Meadows Foundation Artist Professional Development Grants. Hull's work has been featured in numerous magazines including Studio Visit, Dialogue and New American Pain

​ For more than 30 years I have been driven to examine my experiences of the world and its inhabitants with paint. Through a combination of abstract figuration, abstract expressionism and collage I share that which is personal in an allegorical manner that invites the viewer to discover solutions, consider the relationship between the past and present and to ultimately appreciate, or at the very least recognize the universal between us all. My explorations have dissected a my

Contemporary artist Bryce Hudson is a widely exhibited and published creative force living in the United States (studios in St. Petersburg, FL and Louisville, KY). The bulk of his work deals with social issues surrounding ideas of race, beauty, gender identity politics and stereotypes in contemporary society. The weapons in his arsenal; bold color, pattern, composition, symbolism and digital manipulation of preexisting imagery. Hudson’s esthetic is inspired by historical art

​ ABOUT One of art’s most powerful qualities is its ability to be beautiful and unsettling at once. My work lives within that contrast—between tenderness and distortion, the alluring and the grotesque. It is this tension, this push and pull, that most captivates me. I see my creative process as a journey through a hallucinatory world governed by its own logic, dimension, and time. It is quiet, yet loud—soft in appearance, yet psychologically intense. The objects I create

In my work, I explore the fluid intersection of visual art and sound, where color and geometry create a kind of silent symphony. Drawing inspiration from music’s structure and emotional resonance, I see my compositions as visual melodies—rhythms, harmonies, and beats expressed in vibrant shapes and lines. Just as a single note may seem flat on its own, a color, by itself, is only part of the story. It’s the arrangement of colors, interacting together, that sets a visual rhyth

ABOUT CARLOS Carlos Gamez de Francisco was born in post-revolutionary Cuba in 1987, to a Cuban-Spanish mother and a Cuban-American father. He grew up in Cuba and was educated in an academic style heavily influenced by the Russian Academy. At age five, he determined, with absolute certainty, that he would be an artist. By the time he was fifteen, Gamez de Francisco was diligently painting 8 hours a day, every day. Today, he often spends 15 hours a day painting and feels “very

I can’t remember the last time I rode a horse drunk with forty cowboys for twelve straight hours in the mountains of Ecuador. But if I could, I’d probably tell you it was one of the best days of my life. I know that because that’s exactly what happened yesterday—and it was, in fact, one of the best days I’ve ever had. Three days ago, late in the afternoon, I decided to drive by myself back to Alao to find Pepe Abarca—a well-known and respected Chagra—and ask if I could stay w