Artebella On The Radio: April 29

Kyle Citrynell, Vallorie Henderson, Ramona Lindsey, & Sarah Lindgren recently participated in a State of the Arts panel for LVA, and this week we will listen to portions of that conversation. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com this Thursday at 10 am to join in.

As the COVID pandemic slowly begins to wind down and 2020 gains distance in our rear-view mirror, it feels like a time to take stock. How did artists fare in the time of pandemic and what has been their contribution to society in such difficult times? We also want to talk about what resources are available for artists and what the immediate future might look like in the “new normal” awaiting us all. For this conversation we welcome four highly respected professionals who have experience with these and other related questions: 

Kyle Citrynell has a national litigation and transactional practice in the areas of arts, entertainment, media, publishing, and technology, and intellectual property law. Kyle has litigated copyright, trademark, trade dress, trade secret and patent matters, and cases involving business torts and unfair competition, as well as employment and product liability. She has worked with for-profit and tax-exempt organizations from formation and as corporate counsel covering a wide variety of licensing, merchandising, distribution, and franchising transactions for any and all manner of creatives.

Vallorie Henderson is the Center Director, Kentucky Small Business Development Center in Berea, which is the first SBDC in the U.S. that focuses on the impact created by entrepreneurs working within the creative and tourism sectors of the U.S. economy. Vallorie has also served as Business Development Director of the Kentucky Arts Council and is herself a Working textile artist. 

Sarah Lindgren is currently the Public Art Administrator for Louisville Metro Government where she supports Arts & Culture initiatives within Develop Louisville, a city department that includes a range of land and community development programs.  

Sarah manages the city's External Agency Fund grants for arts programs, as well as public art collections and exhibitions. Recent projects include the city’s “Build Back Better, Together” initiative, and “Making It Public”, a series of public art workshops and opportunities, in collaboration with Forecast Public Art and Community Foundation of Louisville.

Sarah currently serves on Louisville’s Commission on Public Art, Arts & Culture Alliance Board, and Kentucky Arts Council Peer Advisory Network.

Ramona Dallum Lindsey joined the Community Foundation of Louisville in 2017 and is currently a Senior Program Officer where she is primarily responsible for several foundation efforts focusing on racial justice, community empowerment, and leadership development. Before that, she was at KMAC Museum as their Director of Education and Museum Educator. As a practicing mixed media textile artist, Ramona’s artistic practice and visionary background equip her to think outside traditional processes to coordinate, design, develop, implement, advise and manage philanthropic, civic, and cultural initiatives shifting decision making to those most impacted by systemic injustice. 

Artebella On The Radio: July 30, 2020

On this week's broadcast we introduce you to LVA's new Executive Director, Kristian Anderson. Kristian comes to us from Salt Lake City, Utah where he was the Mayor’s Senior Policy Advisor for Arts and Culture.

Anderson has 15 years’ experience in the arts and culture sector, most recently as Senior Policy Advisor to the Mayor of Salt Lake City. In that role, he oversaw a variety of community, operational and political projects encompassing arts and culture as well as land use, urban design, economic development and more. Prior to his mayoral appointment, Kristian was for four years the Executive Director of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and Executive Director for the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries in Seattle.

He is the founder and host of “SLC Culture” – a weekly radio show highlighting arts, culture and social issues. Anderson earned his B.A. in History and Classical and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at the University of Minnesota.  He also holds a Masters in Museum Studies from the University of Colorado and a Certificate of Academic Museum and Gallery Leadership from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. 

Anderson says, “I am exceptionally excited to be given the opportunity to lead Louisville Visual Art at this critical juncture.  Although these are uncertain times, no incoming leader could ask for a better team and engaged board, and I know that incoming board president Jake Theisen, the staff, and I will work tirelessly to bring the power of art, community, and education to every corner of Louisville.”

Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists and arts related people on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio..