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Sponsored by Western Kentucky University, the Mountain Workshops held their 43rd annual workshop in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky during the week of Oct. 22, 2018. In addition to the students participating in the program, WKU faculty members were joined by volunteer shooting, editing, and writing coaches who traveled from across the country to participate in the program.

John Ward was selected to be one of the "stories" for the workshop and worked with photojournalist Alexander Volberding. It was an exciting and interesting process to have John's life documented in photos including capturing John's life at work and home.

Check out John's story called "Living Double" at: https://mountainworkshops.org/history/2018/14080 (link works best in Chrome)

Photos by Alexander Volberding.

John Ward partnered with Eddie Price, Kentucky author, to illustrate the cover of Mr. Price's new release titled "One Drop -- A Slave!", released in February 2018. The book is a sequel to Mr. Price's popular book, "Widder's Landing". Over Labor Day weekend, Eddie and John attended the Pioneer Festival in Winchester, Kentucky where those purchasing Mr. Price's book had the rare opportunity to have both the author (Eddie) and illustrator (John) sign their copies.

John Ward attended Talon Winery's release of their new Equestrian Series Kentucky Red Table Wine. John's image, "Mother's Love", was used for the new wine series bottle label.

John was on-site at Talon Winery's unveiling event to sign the bottles along with Wine Maker, Kerry Joliffe.

John attended the unveiling of "Camp McKee", the commissioned work he created for the Boy Scouts of America.

John and former Kentucky Governor, Paul Patton, unveiled the beautiful work which the Boy Scouts of America created prints from.