Artists Talk with LVA: December 8, 2022

Lindsay Frost & Deborah Stratford tell us about their exhibit, "Women Carving" at Kore Gallery. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Lindsay Frost is a wood sculptor affiliated with the Kentucky Guild of Artist and Craftsman, Louisville Artisans Guild, Louisville Visual Art, & Kentucky Crafted/ Kentucky Proud. In 2022 she was selected by LVA to create the 2022 LVA Honors Awards.

Deborah Stratford is a printmaker, specifically, relief printmaking, in which she carves the surface of linoleum or wood.

“I often look around and think for a long time about how my observations tell a story. This I tell with a collection of objects, places, people, and animals printed. My hope is that my work encourages others to look deeper and longer at what surrounds them.” - Deborah Stratford

Women Carving is on exhibit December 1 - 30, 2022 At Kore Gallery with an artists reception December 10 from 6-8:30 pm

Artists Talk with LVA: December 1, 2022

Louisville-born filmmaker scientist Peter Byck talks about his new 10-year project about Multi-Paddock grazing called "Roots So Deep You Can See The Devil Down There" which he recently previewed at Speed Cinema. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Peter Byck is a professor of practice at Arizona State University, in both the School of Sustainability and the Cronkite School of Journalism. He is the director, producer and writer of carbon nation. He is currently helping to lead a $10 million research project focused on Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing; collaborating with 20 scientists and 10 ranchers, focused on soil health & soil carbon storage, microbial/bug/bird biodiversity, water cycling and much more. Byck has currently completed a feature-length documentary (in 10 parts) focused on regenerative grazing: www.carboncowboys.org and is in production on a long-form documentary on the AMP grazing research project.

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