♪ >> A visitors at the state Capitol may notice more artwork lining the halls.

The team Kentucky gallery was started in 2021.

By Governor Andy Beshear and first Lady Britainy Beshear every 6 months.

A new exhibit is display with artwork made exclusively by Kentucky hands.

We spoke with the first lady and some of the artists as they prepared for a new exhibit.

That story is this week's Arts and Culture segment.

We call Tapestry.

>> And depending on who you ask me, Randi, of this story varies a little bit.

But the idea was to bring parts of Kentucky that don't have have a home in the capital.

I have a home and to bring a little more color and life and understanding into our capital of what it means to be a Kentuckyian so when children come through, our legislators are guess they all get to feel a little bit more of Kentucky.

There's a very easy submission process There's a committee of 4 who goes through each photo and they're all laid out on the table, all the samples and we just kind of start going through them and talk about them.

And, you know, the ones that really tell a story are the ones that that really capture it most.

This is a special photo from him.

It was the first time I ever tried to do a night, Scott and a long exposure.

So we KET exactly when the Milky Way was going to be showing so much Stern.

I went down to Aurora, which is in western Kentucky.

>> And I was so thrilled with how it came out.

It's always been one of my special pictures.

So when I saw the they team Kentucky gallery, I thought that so on.

>> This picture was in my mother's batch and it's my father and a friend of his and not remember that weekend at Rupp Forever.

But I just I love being there.

We were there every other weekend spent most of our summers there.

>> Actually, the one behind you right now is it's a bald eagle taking flight and it's so powerful and I told our tissue and even need to explain it to just.

Tells you a story.

I think it's just an honor to be included in all of these talented people of this state.

>> I'm so excited.

First thing I did, my sister and I photographed together.

We always go out a person.

That is just what guess what?

I'm so excited.

It is a privilege.

To know.

Is that something I created is getting displayed in a place like this.

You know, this is our this is our state capitol.

And this is where our governor works and people are here every day and it was such a privilege.

Are there different things in people's lives, whether it's their farmland, whether it's the grandfather working on a car, you know, newborn baby.

>> Pictures of the devastation after the tornadoes.

But it all comes speaks to Kentucky's common humanity and the things that make us uniquely Kentucky, whether it's our people or whether it is our landscape.

>> I think it shows a lack of a diversity of the geography of the state is obvious noticing it falls and rivers and just the hills and the wildlife is so much of it in this state.

And this this exhibit exemplifies all of that.

>> Plus, the the newest exhibit features more than for to 40 pieces and runs through June.