InTouch with Southern Kentucky August 2020 | Page 9

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Tyler Whitaker, has been
creating for as long as
he can remember, back
to his Kindergarten
days at The Children’s
House or then Hopkins
Elementary.
Capturing a City’s Vision
Whitaker creates visions on film (as well as a certain mural)
BY CHRISTOPHER HARRIS
COMMONWEALTH JOURNAL
Tyler Whitaker’s name is a lot
more well-known now than it was a
few months ago. But his talent has
been around for a long time.
The 2013 graduate of Somerset
High School, born and raised in this
community, has been creating for
as long as he can remember, back
to his Kindergarten days at The
Children’s House or then Hopkins
Elementary.
“I’ve always had artistic interests,”
he said. “I experimented with my
own mediums of art, and didn’t
often learn as well from the book as
opposed to firsthand expression.
Throughout elementary and middle
school, art class was core content
and in high school it was elective
except for one nine-week period
in the mandatory humanities
course, but I always had the desire
to pursue film instead. They say a
picture can say a thousand words.
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