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Artists Talk With LVA: October 13, 2022

Open Studio Louisville begins this Saturday so this week features two artists participating for the first time: Rhonda Goodall & Tomisha Loveley-Allen. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Rhonda K. Goodall is a painter living in Louisville, KY.  From her passionate support of the arts to her charitable and civic activities, Goodall is a beloved pillar of the community.  She is the principal and owner of her own consulting firm, Rhonda Goodall – Cre8ive Soulutions, which operates out of Goodall Gallery in the heart of the Clifton neighborhood.  She received her B.S. in Design from Eastern Kentucky University.  Her intuitive approach to art and design naturally ushered her into the forefront of a burgeoning, holistic faction of visionaries evolving the way humans inspire and inhabit spaces. 

Goodall’s paintings are the way she moves through the world; they are a concise expression of natural systems and the complex nuance of human emotion.  She awakens in one ideas they have yet to consider, revealing the true essence of life and channeling abundant heart energy onto canvas. 

Tomisha Lovely-Allen is a self-taught artist from Louisville, KY.  She earned a full scholarship at Northern Kentucky University and graduated with a Bachelor's in Accounting and Associate in Business Administration in 1998 and earned a Certified Public Accountant license in 2002. 

Tomisha began experimenting with watercolor, oil, and acrylics in 2002 but was most taken with oils and has concentrated on that medium and is drawn to figurative and portraiture.   

She has participated in art shows at the Portland Museum, Wayside Expressions Gallery, Maker’s Crucible, Kore Gallery, Roots 101 Museum (curated by Ashley Cathey), and most recently at the Arts Center of the Bluegrass. She obtained a spot to illustrate a historic Kentucky woman in the “Bluegrass Bold” children’s book project along with 35 other female artists, and she has exhibited in the Arts Center of the Bluegrass Show  “The Art of Being Black: Conversations and Experience,” and is a grant recipient from the Louisville Fund for the Arts '“Black Artist Grant”.