Artists Talk With LVA: August 11 2022

In February 2022 Lindsey Cummins & William Smith launched Printed: Edition One was launched and now they are gearing up for Edition Two. Find out more by tuning in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

In February 2022 Printed: Edition One was launched featuring seventy creatives as selected by a committee of community arts leaders. 

Lindsey Cummins (she/her) is a Louisville-based independent curator, collector, archivist, and arts community organizer. As the Founder of AVID Collectors, she strives to impact local arts communities by uplifting artists, patrons, and private collections. Lindsey received her education at Louisville’s Hite Art Institute with a degree in Studio Art, Art History, and Modern Culture. She currently serves on the Board of the Portland Museum and the SNAP Art Foundation. 

William Smith (he/him) is an Art History and Economics graduate from the University of Louisville. There he acted as Vice President of the Honor Student Council’s Outreach Committee, working to raise awareness for and facilitate interactions between the campus and the creatives of its greater city. William has interned with the Fund for the Arts, and today works as the Administrative Coordinator of the Portland Museum.

Artists Talk With LVA: August 4 2022

Pyro Gallery opens ZECK featuring Suzi Zimmerer, Juli Edberg, Nancy Currier, & Keith Kleespies on Aug 5 so we talked with the 4 artists. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk to LVA.

PYRO Gallery presents: ZECK featuring Suzi Zimmerer, Juli Edberg, Nancy Currier, and Keith Kleespies

August 5 - 28, 2022

Opening Reception: Friday, August 5, 6-9 P.M.

Gallery Talk: Sunday, August 7 AT 2 P.M.

Artists Talk With LVA: July 28 2022

Filmmakers Stu Pollard, Mellissa Gregory Rue, & Richard Van Kleeck talk about the 12th Annual Flyover Film Festival taking place at Speed Cinema this weekend, Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

The 12th annual Flyover Film Festival kicks off at the Speed Cinema from July 28-31. Presented by the Louisville Film Society and the Speed Cinema, this year’s lineup includes narrative and documentary features as well as a shorts program, and filmmaker panels. Each of the screenings will be followed by discussions with the filmmakers.

Stu Pollard is an American film producer, writer, and director. His credits include Nice Guys Sleep Alone and Keep Your Distance. With his production company Lunacy Productions, Pollard produced the critically acclaimed survival thriller Rust Creek, which won the Best Thriller Feature Award at the San Diego International Film Festival. n November 2020 Rust Creek had its Netflix debut. The film spent more than a week on Netflix's top ten movies list. His latest release is the romantic comedy Plus One, starring Jack Quaid and Maya Erskine.

Melissa Gregory Rue writes, directs, and produces films and series that examine neglected social issues to inspire compassionate action on our planet. Her work has been shown on PBS, Roku, Amazon, and in film festivals around the world.  In her latest documentary, LIVE OUT LOUD, Melissa had the great privilege to work with the world-renowned musicians of The Gallop Quintet. Before shifting her focus to film, Melissa taught writing and literature at Portland Community College in Portland, Oregon for many years. In 2020 she moved back to her home state, Kentucky, in order to be closer to family. Melissa grew up on a cattle and tobacco farm in Bourbon County long before smoking was out and Bourbon was cool. As a person with chronic Lyme and autoimmune disease, she is eager to get started on documentaries that address inequities for people with both visible and invisible disabilities.

Richard Van Kleeck  – Producer/Director credits include long-form films Tempest Rising (featuring the Louisville Ballet), Dancing With Clara, and Taste the String. Short films include The Veil; Convergence Redux (with Julius Friedman), and Prokofiev On the Ohio: Cinderella’s Dream. And featured in the festival Gurgle: Pulling Water; 

His other credits include the award-winning PBS music series The Lonesome Pine Specials (Co-produced with KET) now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of American History and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at the Library of Congress. As Director of the Davee Distance Learning Initiative at Northwestern University, directed over one hundred live webcasts of opera, orchestra, wind ensemble, pop, jazz, and master classes from the Bienen School of Music including soprano Renée Fleming; rock legend Todd Rundgren; composer John Corigliano; composer/saxophonist Victor Goines; and many members of The Chicago Symphony Orchestra.  

Artists Talk With LVA: July 21 2022

It's time again for the Louisville Fringe Festival and Nick Hulstine, Cris Eli Black, & Hannah DeWitt talk about what's in store for 2022. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Nicholas Hulstine (he/him) is a Louisville, Kentucky- based theatre artist. On stage he’s appeared in Tuesday Night Poker (Theatre Row, NYC), Foreign Gothic (FringeNYC), The Dazzle (John Cullum Theater, NYC), The Flick (The Alley Theater), Nobody Bunny and the Golden Age of Animation (Theatre 502), Tales of the 4th Grade Nothing (StageOne). He’s directed productions of Abramovic (Richmond Shepard Theater, NYC) and The Principles of Dramatic Writing (Slant Culture Theatre Festival). As a playwright, his plays have been produced in Chicago and NYC.

Cris Eli Blak is an award-winning and internationally produced writer for the page, stage, and screen. His work has garnered him a Bronze Remi from the Worldfest Houston International Film and Video Festival, the Christopher Hewitt Award in Fiction, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and honors from Vectis Radio, Negro Ensemble Company, Clocktower Players and A is For. His work has been produced, performed, and/or published worldwide, from Off-Broadway, California, London, Australia, and Ireland. He continues to strive to create work that reflects the world that we live in, with all of its different and diverse colors, creeds, and cultures, through his artistic endeavors and work with organizations such as TedxBroadway, Fine Arts Forward, and the Black Theatre Caucus.

Hannah DeWitt is a young artist working on her MFA at the Hite Art Institute in Louisville, Kentucky, 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 ethically fraught as she fumbles in the dark in search of anyone to witness. Blurring the line between public and private space, her work balances radical vulnerability and exhibitionism.

Artists Talk With LVA: July 14 2022

Multi-disciplinary artist Colleen Toutant Merrill’s work examines the simultaneously personal and social history of textiles. Her adorned, embellished, and sometimes garish composite forms scrutinize the beauty and tension of our most interdependent relationships

She has exhibited her work here in Kentucky in  Lexington & Louisville but also in New York, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh, and at the International Textile Biennial in Haact, Belgium. Merrill has received grants from the Kentucky Federation for Women and the Great Meadows Foundation. She has been awarded fellowships for the Byrdcliffe Artist Residency in New York, and the Pentaculum Textiles Residency at the Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts in Tennessee. 

Merrill is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Bluegrass Community & Technical College and a part-time Instructor in Fiber & Material Studies at the University of Kentucky.

Her latest body of work, Day In & Day Out, opens at  WheelHouse Art  Saturday, July 16, 3:00 - 5:00 pm. The exhibition continues through September 3, 2022.