Artists Talk with LVA: April 20, 2023

May O' Nays is one of the top drag performers in Louisville and she will joined us in the studio this week to talk about their work. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com at 10 am each Thursday to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

May O' Nays is one of the top drag performers in Louisville and she joined us in the studio this week to talk about their work. Also joining us was Tony Lewis, founder and producer of Drag Daddy Productions. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com at 10 am each Thursday to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Sex kitten. World class dancer. International runway model. These are just some of the phrases that have never been used to describe May O'Nays. May is an experienced performer based in Louisville, Kentucky with a background in musical theatre. She will sing, act, and cook her way into your heart.

May’s lifelong dream has been to join the ranks of the home-making greats—Martha Stewart, Ina Garten, Nigella Lawson, and Amy Sedaris as a queen of homemaking. May loves taking drag into the community and into places that don’t typically see this art form. You can find her teaching cooking, crafting, gardening, and doing drag queen story time all around Louisville, Kentucky, and the Midwest.

In the Spring of 2022, May was proud to debut her self-written cabaret, Tuba Atonement. In the show, May gives an inside look of what it means to grow up as a country queer in rural Indiana. You can watch her as she spends an hour shamelessly pressing her finger into the raw wounds of childhood trauma her therapist just can't seem to heal. If you like the tuba, musical theater, and sausage gravy, Tuba Atonement is a show you must see.

Artists Talk with LVA: April 13, 2023

KMAC Couture is Saturday, April 15 and we talked with designers Angela Davis & Rebecca Richards the day before! Tune into WXOX 97.1FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Angela Davis was born in Big Rock, Virginia and now works here in Louisville as a Social Worker/Trauma Specialist for Seven County Services. She has also been a teacher and has been a multi-media artist her whole life. This is her first time at Couture as a designer. Last year she modeled Laura Patterson’s design.

This is Rebecca Richards’ second time at KMAC Couture. Originally from Los Angeles, she moved to Louisville from New York City three years ago. For the 2023 Couture, she is collaborating with Stivian Widick

Artists Talk with LVA: April 6, 2023

Lennon Michalski is showing at garner narrative now and we are talking with him about his work this week. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Michalski’s two-dimensional and digital works have been exhibited in North Carolina, Kentucky, Colorado, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. He has also displayed work in group exhibitions internationally in Mexico, Colombia, and China. Michalski was on the Board of Directors for Creative Alliance for Art Education, a nonprofit organization, that worked to provide funding for art programs in Lexington, Kentucky public schools. Now he is has been appointed as a Board Member for the Kentucky Arts Council. He works with a number of other nonprofit art organizations in the Lexington area including the Lexington Art League, Lex Arts, and the Living Arts and Science Center. His previous solo shows were at The Cressman Center at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. He recently participated in a group show at the University of Northern Georgia and had a solo show at Georgetown University, exhibiting his series Ghost Bike. In addition to his painting and digital projects, Lennon also recently self-published two books entitled, “How Penguins Save Television” and the other “The Cosmic Sure”. The original artwork has been shown at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning and the Woodford County Library. How Penguins Save Television can be found wherever you buy books.

Lennon Michalski’s exhibit Cosmetic Construction is at garner narrative through April 30, 2023.

Artists Talk with LVA: March 30, 2023

Charles Ellis is a painter who has work now on exhibit at City Hall and this week he joins us in the WXOX studio. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists talk with LVA.

Charles Ellis was born in Lexington Kentucky now living in Old Louisville. He is an abstract colorist who works mainly in oil.

Painting oil on canvas, large abstracts with landscape imagery and portraits. Ellis also has worked on a series of prints of digitally manipulated photos that convey an image of perfect order through an abstract collection of squares of pure colors.

His work has been in many exhibitions, shows, and galleries yearly since 2000 in Kentucky, England, California, and Miami Florida.

Artists Talk with LVA: March 23, 2023

Jacque Parsley is being recognized for a lifetime of meaningful work at the 2023 LVA Honors and this week she joins us live in the studio to talk about that life. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Jacque Parsley is a Louisville-based artist with a lifelong passion for creativity. Her work incorporates a myriad of found or discarded objects, artifacts, ephemera, and vintage printed matter – presenting an iconography that creates a dialogue between the permanent and the transient.

Over the years, Jacque has established herself as a respected artist in the Louisville community and beyond. She earned a BFA, MA, and MFA in fine arts, and taught at the University of Louisville and Indiana University Southeast. For nearly 10 years, Jacque exhibited and mentored young artists at Liberty Gallery in Louisville, KY. She has exhibited her own work throughout the United States, Germany, and Mexico. Her work has received several awards, and can be seen in many private, corporate, and museum collections.