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Paducah Arts Alliance (PAA) is dedicated to fostering artistic growth and cultural exchange through our vibrant Artist in Residence Program. The Program aims at building cultural dialogues and plays an important role in Paducah’s involvement in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network artist exchanges. PAA has created an on-doing dynamic network with diverse artists and cultural clusters within the United States and beyond.
The Paducah Arts Alliance consists of a group of artists, arts educators, writers, and marketing/communications persons dedicated to maintaining a fresh and interesting perspective on Paducah’s creative culture. The PAA members work as a team to implement the program.
Mitch Kimball was born in Bastrop, Louisiana and graduated from The University Of Southern Mississippi with a B.F.A. He worked at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art until 2005 when Hurricane Katrina relocated him to North Carolina. In 2009, he moved to Paducah, Kentucky to...
John Romang is originally from central Illinois. He attended Eastern Illinois University and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2006. After he graduated, he moved to Paducah, Kentucky to pursue his teaching career. Since arriving in Paducah, John has continued...
Originally from the Paducah, Kentucky area, Randy Simmons creates large scale realistic figurative charcoal drawings covering topics of parenting, social/political topics, and adult relationships. He exhibits his work across the United States and has twice been a...
C. Todd Birdsong is an artist who blends visuals and sound to create experiences that move, inspire, and connect people. Whether through photography, sound art, or radio art, he dives deep into the ways we relate to nature, our memories, and the landscapes that shape...
Stefanie Graves has had a fascination with art since childhood, but her career path took some rather wide diversions before she decided to make art her livelihood. Originally a nurse and later a health care administrator, she began working full-time as an artist in...
Amelia Martens is the author of The Spoons in the Grass are There To Dig a Moat (2016), a book of prose poems, selected by Sarabande Books for the 2014 Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature. She received both an MFA in Creative Writing and an MS in Literacy,...
Rosemarie Steele is a freelance marketing and communications professional focusing on connecting creative networks. She was the marketing director for the Paducah Convention & Visitors Bureau from 2001 to 2012. As marketing director, Steele oversaw the CVB’s brand...
Anita Stamper is a freelance writer and avid gardener. She is a retired Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences/Director of Institutional Effectiveness at Lambuth University. She was also a Professor and Assistant Director at the University of Southern Mississippi....
The Paducah Arts Alliance (PAA) was established in 2008 with the purpose of providing cross-cultural educational experiences between the Paducah-area arts community and visiting national/international visual/performing artists. Since January 2009, PAA has hosted nearly 60 visiting American and international artists from 17 states and 9 countries. Over the past decade, resident artists have conducted more than 65 events, which include workshops, lectures, exhibitions, performances and installations. Learn more about the artists and their involvement in Paducah Creative City.
