1:11 - Early years of the the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen / first arts fairs
5:44 - Richard Bellando and tents for the fair
8:40 - Fred's role for the Kentucky Guild / Board nominations / Clara Eagle
11:17 - Exhibiting art train
13:55 - Other artists at the art fairs / KY Guild encourages quality art and craft
19:25 - Training artists in business
22:50 - College curricula
25:09 - Fred's teaching career / Pritchard Committee
27:23 - Recruiting students to join the Guild
30:39 - Camaraderie of the Guild
32:37 - Solitude (Fred)
33:44 - Fred's open studio / selling work
37:25 - Fred shows his work
42:00 - Running into a former student / What is talent?
45:59 - Overcoming challenges (Fred) / A teacher's influence
[Some chatting before interview begins --Shepherd tells about something that
happened in the past to an acquaintance or coworker of theirs.]SHEPHERD: And Dick, but Dick never got to work before 11 o’clock.
WOLFSON: Yeah.
SHEPHERD: That was Dick.
WOLFSON: That was Dick.
SHEPHERD: But he had had it. He went into that office. He was as red as that
chair. Said, ‘God damn it, Dick, Gordon, you dumb son of a bitch. Get me my ball for my typewriter!’ You got, he just, one up side, down the other.WOLFSON: I can’t believe…
SHEPHERD: Poor Dick was not the same for the whole day. The whole idea -- I
think he felt personally violated that this man…WOLFSON: Well, of course.
SHEPHERD: …would go into his office and take his things and…
WOLFSON: He had no business in there, and what did he do with it? Put it on
his typewriter?SHEPHERD: Yeah, yeah, too cheap to go get another one I guess.
WOLFSON: Oh, for Heaven’s sake.
WOLFSON: I didn’t know that.
SHEPHERD: He was an absolute idiot.
WOLFSON: Oh, my, well, I’ve got to change chairs, ‘ cause I’m too low.
SHEPHERD: Okay, you want to get up on -- put the pillows up there?
WILLIHNGANZ: Here, here. You want these?
WOLFSON: We’ll just move the chairs.
WILLIHNGANZ: Let’s just change chairs. Yeah, change chairs. There you go.
WOLFSON: We always - I had to take pillows with me to buy my last car.
1:00Oh, my!
SHEPHERD: Oh, my!
WILLIHNGANZ: So, tell me a little bit about the uh, the early years. When did
you join, Fred, when did you join that Guild?SHEPHERD: I think it was in 1967 or ‘68.
WOLFSON: I think that’s about right.
SHEPHERD: Yeah, around that time.
WOLFSON: I think it was ‘67 that we started the fair.
SHEPHERD: Yeah.
WOLFSON: Yeah.
SHEPHERD: And, the first fairs were absolutely hysterical. ‘Course, we were
all excited about going to the Indian Fort, wherever that was, and we discovered that when we got to Berea.WOLFSON: Yeah.
SHEPHERD: But, you entered into the big parking lot, which was below a trail
that led to the Indian Fort, and the craft persons would be on either side of this trail, that proceeded all the way up to the amphitheater and the Indian Fort. And when we got up there, we were greeted by the chair…was Garry, I 2:00guess, Garry Barker, and there was nothing to put your work on except you were directed to a pile of concrete blocks. WO 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 24:00 25:00 26:00 27:00 28:00 29:00 30:00 31:00 32:00 33:00 34:00 35:00 36:00 37:00 38:00 39:00 40:00 41:00 42:00 43:00 44:00 45:00 46:00 47:00 48:00 49:00 50:00 51:00 52:00 53:00 54:00 55:00 56:00 57:00 58:00