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Artists Talk with LVA: December 8, 2022

Lindsay Frost & Deborah Stratford tell us about their exhibit, "Women Carving" at Kore Gallery. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Lindsay Frost is a wood sculptor affiliated with the Kentucky Guild of Artist and Craftsman, Louisville Artisans Guild, Louisville Visual Art, & Kentucky Crafted/ Kentucky Proud. In 2022 she was selected by LVA to create the 2022 LVA Honors Awards.

Deborah Stratford is a printmaker, specifically, relief printmaking, in which she carves the surface of linoleum or wood.

“I often look around and think for a long time about how my observations tell a story. This I tell with a collection of objects, places, people, and animals printed. My hope is that my work encourages others to look deeper and longer at what surrounds them.” - Deborah Stratford

Women Carving is on exhibit December 1 - 30, 2022 At Kore Gallery with an artists reception December 10 from 6-8:30 pm

Print Making

Artebella On The Radio: December 5, 2019

"Extreme Prints: Printmaking at the Edge", an invitational exhibit curated by Debby Stratford & John Begley opens at Kore Gallery December 7. They joined us this week and brought two of the participating artists, Tatiana Ryckman & Susanna Crum and gallery owner Don Cartwright. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream at Artxfm.com Thursday at 10am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists on LVA's Artebella On The Radio.

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Tatiana Ryckman was born in Cleveland, Ohio and lives in Austin, Texas. She is also the author of two chapbooks of short prose, Twenty-Something and VHS and Why It's Hard to Live. Tatiana's work has appeared on Tin House's The Open Bar, Barrelhouse, Opossum Lit, The Establishment, Nonbinary Review, Flavorwire, and many other publications. Tatiana has been an artist in residence at Yaddo and Arthub, and she is the editor of Awst Press and Assistant Editor at sunnyoutside press.

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Susanna Crum’s work has been featured in several international and national exhibitions, she returned to her hometown of Louisville to start the city’s first shared printmaking workspace, Calliope Arts Printmaking Studio & Gallery, with fellow artist and partner Rodolfo Salgado. Since 2015, she has taught printmaking as an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN. From 2018-2020, she is serving as President of the Mid America Print Council.

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Debby Stratford is an artist and printmaker living in Louisville, KY. She spent many years teaching art to public school students in Louisville, and is now printing full-time in her studio in the Hope Mills Building.

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John Begley is currently a Freelance art worker (artist, curator, art services provider). Previously he was Gallery Director and Assistant Professor of Art (Emeritus), Critical and Curatorial Studies graduate program coordinator at the Allen R. Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, Director, Louisville Visual Art, Director, and was founding director New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN. He is now the co-founder with Peter Morrin of AFLOAT: AN OHIO RIVER WAY OF LIFE.

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Since 2012 Don Cartwright has owned and managed KORE Gallery, which is now located at 942 East Kentucky. KORE hosts "invitational" shows along with solo and multiple artists shows. This new gallery location offers 4500 square feet of exhibit space.