August Lineup for The Rising Art, Music, and Spoken Word Show at Blackacre Nature Preserve

Louisville, Kentucky, July 29, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Butler Creative Solutions, LLC today announced the August lineup of features for The Rising Art, Music, and Spoken Word Show at Blackacre Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead at 3200 Tucker Station Road in Jeffersontown. The monthly open-mic and art exhibition series, whose mission is to give local emerging performing artists, writers, and fine artists a platform to share art, music, and words is co-sponsored by Louisville Area Realtors and Blackacre Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead.

The Friday, August 22nd show runs from 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. and features writer Angela Jackson-Brown, musician Jacob Head, and artist Sheri Wright.

Jackson-Brown was born in Montgomery, Alabama and grew up in Ariton, Alabama. She is an English Professor at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. She graduated from Troy University in Troy, AL (B.S. in Business Administration); Auburn University in Auburn, AL (M.A. in English); and Spalding University in Louisville, KY (MFA in Creative Writing). Her work has appeared in literary journals, such as: Pet Milk, Uptown Mosaic Magazine, New Southerner Literary Magazine, The Louisville Review, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal, Blue Lake Review, Identity Theory, Toe Good Poetry, and 94 Creations. Her short story, "Something in the Wash" was awarded the 2009 fiction prize by New Southerner Literary Magazine and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Fiction. Her debut novel, Drinking from a Bitter Cup was published in January 2014 by WiDo Publishing.You can find out more about Ms. Jackson-Brown by visiting her webpage: www.angelajacksonbrown.com.

Jacob Head will soon be starting a music therapy internship for the completion of his Bachelor's of Music Therapy degree from the U of L School of Music.  He has been arranging and composing music for concerts and groups since 2008, mostly for The Compass Quartet. He is currently the worship leader at Life Bridge Christian Church, and hopes to continue bringing joy to others through the music he creates.  Aside from playing the violin, Jacob also enjoys playing the guitar, bass guitar, piano, mandolin, ukulele and banjo.  He is a 2009 graduate of Atherton High School in Louisville, Kentucky.   

Two-time Pushcart Prize and Kentucky Poet Laureate nominee, Sheri L. Wright is the author of six books of poetry, including the most recent, The Feast of Erasure. Wright’s visual work has appeared in numerous journals, including Blood Orange Review, Prick of the Spindle, Blood Lotus Journal and Subliminal Interiors. In 2012, Ms. Wright was a contributor to the Sister Cities Project Lvlds: Creatively Linking Leeds and Louisville. Her photography has been shown across the Ohio Valley region and abroad. Currently, she is working on her first documentary film, Tracking Fire.

The Rising is free and open to the public. Open-mic signups start at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.butlercreativesolutions.com/events.

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