Artists Talk with LVA: November 25, 2022

Squallis Puppeteers celebrates its 25th anniversary and Nora Christensen & Shawn Hennessey talk about that history with us. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Squallis Puppeteers has existed for twenty-five years and has always been dedicated to handmade and homespun. We have been making puppets, performing, and teaching children (and adults) in Louisville, Kentucky since 1997.

In 2003, Squallis Puppeteers Inc. became a nonprofit 501c-3 organization.

Our mission is to use the art of puppetry to free imaginations, create fantastic characters, and tell the stories that are important to our community.

Squallis is recognized as a positive and important part of the Louisville community, telling stories that challenge viewers to think, while reflecting values of citizenship, empathy, and collaboration.

Squallis has two full-time staff, Nora Christensen and Shawn Hennessey, who conduct most of the educational programs and two-person performances.

Artists Talk with LVA: November 17, 2022

John Begley speaks about curating Over the Moon: The Eclectic Art of Ann Farnsley, currently at The Carnegie Center for Art & History. Tune into WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

The exhibition Over the Moon: The Eclectic Art of Ann Farnsley, showcases the life and art of the Vevay, Indiana artist, was first at the Community Art Center of Switzerland County, and is now at the Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany through January 7, 2023.

John Begley is a Freelance art worker. 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, of the Louisville Visual Art Association 1983 – 2001, Director, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1975-1983

Artists Talk with LVA: November 10, 2022

Stephen Jenkinson is a culture activist, worker, and author. He has Master’s degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work). He once headed the counseling team of Canada's largest home-based palliative care program. Working with hundreds of deaths, he witnessed a wretched anxiety that gathered around dying people and their families. He recognized this phobia as not just a personal issue but something that has its parallel in our modern cultures' climate-killing way of life. After leaving palliative care, Stephen published the book Die Wise (2015) about his time in the death trade. He began teaching extensively across North America, then around the world. A synchronistic encounter with Canadian musician Gregory Hoskins gave rise to an unlikely collaboration and the 'Nights of Grief and Mystery' tour was born. 

Since co-founding the Nights of Grief and Mystery project with singer/ songwriter Gregory Hoskins in 2015, he has toured this musical/ tent show revival/ storytelling/ ceremony of a show across North America, U.K. and Europe and Australia and New Zealand. They released their Nights of Grief & Mystery album in 2017 and at the end of 2020, they released two new records; Dark Roads and Rough Gods.

Nights of Grief & Mystery - DUO - 2022 Tour will come to the Kentucky Country Day School Theatre in Louisville on November 18, 2022

Artists Talk With LVA: November 3, 2022

Melissa E. Feldman just wrapped up a stint as the 2022 Great Meadows Critic-In-Residence and she spoke with us about her experiences in Kentucky. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Melissa E. Feldman is an international contemporary art curator and writer. Her practice of over 25 years has focused on novel curatorial approaches, the geo-cultural context of art, and identifying emerging artistic trends. Recent traveling exhibitions include Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Pullman, WA (2022-25); Free Play, Independent Curators International, NY (2013-17); Another Minimalism: Art After California Light and Space, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2015-16); and Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik’s World of Ballet and Theatre, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland (2012-13).

Feldman has held positions for the last several years as Distinguished Visiting Faculty at Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, and Director of the Neddy Artist Awards at Cornish. A contributor to Art in America, Frieze, and Third Text among others. Feldman has taught at the California College of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute, and Goldsmith's College.

Artists Talk With LVA: October 27, 2022

Brook White, Jr. & Dave Caudill discuss the Stephen Powell Memorial in Danville. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Brook Forrest White Jr. discovered his passion for hot glass under the tutelage of Stephen Rolfe Powell at Centre College. Brook has worked with artists and visited glass centers around the world. He has garnered many honors including a 1998 Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Fellowship, the Owensboro Mayor’s Award of Excellence in 2001, the 2003 Centre College Distinguished Young Alumnus Award and inclusion in the 2005 Leadership Kentucky class. In 2004 the Kentucky Arts Council commissioned him to create that year’s Governor’s Awards in the Arts. His glass is in galleries across the country and in the collections of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Huntington Museum of Art and the Asheville Art Museum. His blown-glass art installations are featured in many private collections and public buildings throughout the Midwest.

His studio, Flame Run, is locate in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.

Dave Caudill creates artworks for public, corporate and private collections. His larger public works are found at Louisiana’s Rip Van Winkle Gardens, East Tennessee’s Horizon Center park, the University of Kentucky’s Singletary Center for the Arts and the University of Louisville School of Music. Corporate collections include Brown-Forman Corporation and Fire King International. Individual collectors across America have acquired his work.

He is also one of the few sculptors in the world who have created an environmental undersea sculpture. Caudill’s artwork was placed on the seabed near Nassau, The Bahamas.

Stephen Rolfe Powell (1951-2019) was hired by Centre College in 1983 to teach ceramics and sculpture. By 1985, thanks in part to Corning Glass in Harrodsburg, Philips Lighting in Danville, and Corhart in Louisville, he had built a glass studio and founded Centre's glass program. Powell designed and completed a new, state-of-the-art glass studio, which Centre College opened as part of their new Visual Arts Center in January 1998.

Powell was honored with Kentucky's Teacher of the Year award in 1999 and 2000. In 2004 he was presented with the Acorn Award by the Kentucky Council on Post-secondary Education.