Artists Talk with LVA: July 11, 2024

As we begin the Centennial year for Louisville Visual Art's Children's Fine Art Classes, LVA opens an exhibit of work from some of the teachers, and 2 of them, Wilma Bethel and Claire Krüeger join us in the studio. Tune in to 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Analog experiments, a love of camp, and melancholy humor inspire Claire Krüeger. Her work includes videos, photographs, illustrations, and zines and she is passionate about community arts, printed matter, and accessible media. She received an MFA in Photography & Film from VCU in 2013. Claire is based in Louisville, KY.

Wilma Bethel has taught for LVA in the Children’s Fine Art Classes for 52 years. She taught for JCPS for over 40 years. She was the first recipient of the LVA Honors in Visual Art Education.

The LVA Teacher’s Exhibit runs July 12 through August 22 at Louisville Visual Art at 1538 Lytle Street. An opening reception with the artists is scheduled for July 12 from 5 - 7 pm.

Artists Talk with LVA: May 9, 2024

Sean Patrick Hill joined us this week to talk about his exhibition in the LVA 2nd Floor Gallery, Our Innocent Minds. Rebecca Norton worked on this exhibit with Sean and also joined us. Tune in to WXOX 97.1FM.Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Sean Patrick Hill is a film photographer, writer, and poet. He was the 2023 photography artist-in-residence at The Bascom: A Center for Visual Arts in Highlands, North Carolina, where his residency culminated in a solo exhibition in the Joel Gallery. He has been awarded three grants from the Great Meadows Foundation. He holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and is the author of three poetry collections. Sean has received grants and fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Elizabeth George Foundation. 

Rebecca Norton is an artist, curator, and educator. Norton's work is included in permanent collections at 21C Hotel Louisville, the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, and the Kentucky Museum at Western Kentucky University. She is the recipient of many awards and grants. Her lectures and writings have been published on MOCA tv, the Brooklyn Rail, Duke University Scalar publications, and Blacksun Lit. Recently she has been working as an independent curator for ArtPortal in Louisville. Rebecca is co-founder and program director for Orbit and Maybe It's Fate, an arts and culture establishment and for-profit member-based artist cooperative based in Louisville. 

Our Innocent Minds opens at the LVA 2nd Floor Gallery May 10 with a reception from, 5-7 pm, and runs through May 30, 2024

Artists Talk with LVA: April 18, 2024

Julie Leidner is one of the 2023 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) cohort and we talk to her as her curatorial project comes to fruition with a pop-up exhibit at LVA through April 19. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA every Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 WXOX-FM or stream on Artxfm.com

Julie Leidner is a Louisville native who has exhibited locally as well as in New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. She has taught for Louisville Visual Art, The Speed Museum, Kentucky College of Art + Design, and was a Museum Educator at The Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany, IN. She was the recipient of the 2015 Mary Alice Hadley Prize for Visual Art and a 2018 Great Meadows Foundation Residency Grant. She is the recipient of a 2023 Curate Purchase Inspire Fellowship with Louisville Visual Art. For that fellowship she is creating an exhibit to be housed with Hildegard House.

Last Flowers, a Pop-Up Exhibit is at the LVA Gallery through April 19

Hildegard House is Kentucky's first and only comfort care home. Through the support of our community and with the help of many volunteers, we provide a home and compassionate care for individuals at the end of life who have no home or loved ones to care for them so that they may die with dignity.

Artists Talk with LVA: March 7. 2024

Amanda Thompson has been a Visual Art teacher at Western Middle School for the Arts since 2010. She joined LVA’s Children’s Fine Art Classes the same year. She was recently awarded the Baird Excellence Award Outstanding Teacher for Middle School 2023. She served as a Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence Teacher Fellow in 2022 and Classroom Teachers Enacting Positive Solutions fellow in 2020. In collaboration with LVA and PNC Broadway, her classes have participated in 3 separate art installations at Kentucky Center for the Arts for Blue Man Group, Little Mermaid, and Anastasia, the Musical. 

Artists Talk with LVA: February 29, 2024

The 2024 LVA Honors takes place on March 21, 2024 at the LVA Building. This week is the 1st of 3 conversations with Honors recipients, C.J. Pressma (Legacy Award), Jon Cherry (Community Impact), Amanda Thompson (Teaching), & Sheila fox (Emerging Artist). You may purchase tickets to this fundraiser HERE.

In 1970 C.J. Pressma founded the Center for Photographic Studies – an alternative school of creative photography. The Center provided a learning experience for those seeking to explore photography as creative expression. During its eight- year existence the center attracted students from over 35 states and foreign countries to its full-time resident program and provided part-time instruction and darkroom access for hundreds of students in the Louisville metropolitan area. Its two galleries provided monthly photographic exhibits featuring the works of local, regional, and internationally acclaimed photographic artists including Ansel Adams and Minor White. In 1978 he was awarded a National Endowment Fellowship in Photography.

In 1979 Pressma embarked on a career as a multimedia producer and marketing communications specialist. In 1984, his seven part series Witness to the Holocaust, was released in the U.S. and Canada where it remains in distribution today. One of the first productions to use survivor interviews as the exclusive content to tell the story of the Holocaust, Witness to the Holocaust has received numerous national awards

Jon Cherry is a photojournalist based in Louisville, Kentucky. Jon works  as a stringer with Getty Images, Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg News, and The New York Times and has been published independently by The New York Times, Sierra, TIME Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, New York Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, and others. Jon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography as a part of the Getty Images team for “comprehensive and consistently riveting photos of the attack on the U.S. Capitol” with Win McNamee, Spencer Platt, Drew Angerer, and Sam Corum.