A SAG-AFTRA Solidarity Strike Rally at Denver’s City Park on Aug. 25, 2023. Photographed for The Colorado Sun. (Photos: Stephanie R. Wolf)
Mercy Academy teacher Abigail Kremer has brought her 12th grade U.S. government and politics class to Seneca High School on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022, for them to conduct exit polling. She hopes it engages them with the democratic process and inspires them to vote when they are old enough. (Photos: Stephanie R. Wolf)
The intersection of St. Paul Road and 920 in northeast Leitchfield, Ky. at sundown on Oct. 21, 2022. (Photo: Stephanie R. Wolf)
Emily Lush is known to many in Leitchfield, Ky. I got to document several days of her life, from Oct. 19 - 22, 2022, during Western Kentucky University’s Mountain Workshops still photography program. The 20-year-old runs an arts and crafts business with her mother, goes to piano lessons every week, loves concerts and regularly helps out at community businesses and schools. (Photos: Stephanie R. Wolf)
Kentucky Shakespeare performs “The Merry Wives of Windsor” in Central Park on July 7, 2022. A big part of the company’s summer festival gig is learning how to navigate the constant drone of low-flying planes due to the venue’s proximity to the Louisville airport. When an aircraft soars over, drowning out dialogue, actors improvise, what they call, “plane pauses.” (Photos: Stephanie R. Wolf)
The start of the 148th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 7, 2022. Rich Strike, a late addition out of gate 21 with 80-1 odds, would go on to win the race, the second-biggest upset in the Derby’s history. (Photo: Stephanie R. Wolf)
Conductor Judith Yan leads the Bourbon Baroque ensemble, which specializes in historically informed performances, during a Feb. 5, 2022 rehearsal for Kentucky Opera’s “Orfeo.” In this production, the creative team sought to re-capture the composer and librettist’s original intent and sound. (Photo: Stephanie R. Wolf)
Sculptor Brent McKinney walks away from the Ice House in Mayfield, Ky. on Dec. 20, 2021. The gallery and museum took a direct hit from deadly tornadoes that ravaged western Kentucky. McKinney had shown up to help recover some of the artwork. (Photo: Stephanie R. Wolf)
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks during a press conference on Nov. 14, 2021, announcing a new monument on the State Capitol grounds that will honor Kentuckians who have died from COVID-19. (Photo: Stephanie R. Wolf)
Painter Vian Sora poses in front of one of her new works, in its early stages, in a studio in the Berlin neighborhood of Moabit on Aug. 13, 2021. Sora came to Berlin for an artist residency because its story of destruction and rebirth reminds her of her hometown, Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo: Stephanie R. Wolf)
The 32-foot-tall fiberglass “Mustang” towers over Colleen Donohue, Alex Renteria, Adam Horst and Michael Gunstanson at the Denver International Airport on Sept. 25, 2019. There is a lot of lore behind the artwork, known to Denverites as “Blucifer,” including that it killed its maker — that part is true. (Photo: Stephanie R. Wolf)
Roy L. Smith, known as “Ramblin’ Roy,” at his Fort Roy at Royville in Colorado’s San Luis Valley on July 31, 2018. He says it took him a little more than a year to build his art compound. (Photo: Stephanie R. Wolf)