Artists Talk with LVA: December 28, 2023

Kentucky Shakespeare opens Kate Hamill's adaptation of Sense & Sensibility on January 6 and director Amy Attaway was live in the studio this week to tell us all about it. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Amy Attaway has been the Associate Artistic Director of Kentucky Shakespeare since 2016, after several summers directing with the company. She also serves as director/facilitator of Kentucky Shakespeare’s Shakespeare with Veterans.

Before that Amy was a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director for 10 years of Theatre [502], a Louisville company dedicated to recent and relevant theatre, and she spent five seasons as Associate Director of the Apprentice/Intern Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Amy is a graduate of the University of Evansville and lives in Louisville with her fantastic husband and daughter and a growing menagerie of rescued pets.

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Wendi Smith, Elegy, runs from Friday, Sept. 3 through. Sunday, Oct. 10 at garner narrative contemporary fine art and she talks with us about it this week. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10 am.

Smith has been a practicing artist for over 40 years, an art educator, and a gallery manager. Her work is an intersection of ritual, ritual objects, and the Natural world. She adapts reliquaries, totems, and prayer sticks to reflect the sacred quality of Nature.

There will be no reception for Elegy but the artists will be present from 5-6 pm Friday, September 10, Friday, September 24, and Friday, October 8.