Artists Talk with LVA: March 24, 2022

Hannah DeWitt is an MFA student at the Hite Institute and will be performing "An Exercise in Unconditional Trust and Solidarity" March 26, 6 - 9 pm @ Carbon Copy. This week she talks all about it with us. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com at 10 am Thursdays to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Hannah DeWitt is a young artists working on her MFA at the Hite Art Institute at the University of Louisville, and has a BFA from Spalding University. She is a multimedia artist with an emphasis on conceptual performative works, both live and digital. her works are often participatory, deeply personal, and at times ethically fraught as she fumbles in the dark in search of someone, anyone to witness. Blurring the lines between public and private space, her work balances on the edge of radical vulnerability and exhibitionism.

An Exercise in Unconditional Trust and Solidarity takes place March 26, from 6 to 9 pm at Carbon Copy,

Artists Talk with LVA: March 17, 2022

Clare Hirn received a significant scholarship to attend the New York Academy of Art – Graduate School of Figurative Art, located in Manhattan. The curriculum continues to focus on strong foundational skills for working “realistically” from life and the figure.

After graduating with her masters in painting and drawing in 1990, Hirn worked for a mural design firm in NYC, learning the techniques of working large scale. Upon returning to her hometown of Louisville, KY she pursued both mural work and her personal painting, participating and receiving awards in many regional shows. Hirn’s fine art murals and paintings grace many homes, businesses, and public spaces and have appeared in numerous publications.

Shohei Katayama is a Japanese American artist who explores the space between light and dark, life and death, beauty and danger, nature and man. His work includes line drawings, sculpture, and installation art. ​

Katayama received his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2019. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award by the International Sculpture Center, the Frank-Ratchye Fund for the Art at the Frontier Award, and a finalist in the 21C Artadia award, among others. His work has been exhibited nationally, and internationally in Venice, Italy; New York; Portland, OR, and more. Katayama has participated in residencies in Norway; Brazil;  NJ; Tough Art Residency Program in Pittsburgh, PA, and at the Asia Institute Crane House in Louisville, KY.