Artists Talk with LVA: January 11, 2024

Aurora Gallery and Boutique opens a dual art show with Ember Crow’s Inside Show and Kara Renee’s Big Feelings and both artists were live in the studio this week. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each week at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Ember Crow is a queer and strange artist based out of Louisville, KY. They make ceramics, assemblages, paintings, sketches, and more that are a mixture of macabre, nature-inspired, and light-hearted. 

Their new exhibit, Inside Show opens Saturday at Aurora Gallery and Boutique

Kara Renee was born in Kentucky in 1986, she is an established painter whose work exhibits attention to detail and captures her subject's emotion, as well as the power of affirmation.

Her new exhibit, Big Feelings, also opens at Aurora on Saturday and there will be a reception for both artists from 6 - 10 pm.

Artists Talk with LVA: January 4, 2024

Carnegie Center for Art & History opened "Intentionally Intimate: The Choice to Work Small," which runs through March 16 & the artists, Wendi Smith, Nancy Currier, Caroline Waite, Kay Grubola, and Rachel Singel joined us this week.

Wendi Smith’s work has been exhibited regionally for over thirty years. She has been a member of local co-ops Zephyr and PYRO Gallery, as well as a supporter of the local arts scene. Exhibit credits include Four Star Gallery in Indianapolis, the Carnegie for the Arts in Cincinnati, and Zephyr Gallery in Louisville. She has taught fine arts at Bellarmine University and Indiana University Southeast.

Nancy Currier is a painter who also creates drawings and mixed-media sculptures. She grew up around art as the daughter of the esteemed Louisville painter Mary Ann Currier. She also has taught art at Louisville's Foster Traditional Academy.

Caroline Waite is from an English village called Cookham Dean, known for its famous and eccentric resident, wartime artist Stanley Spencer whose stylized scenes in the 1940s of Cookham village life and residents have hung in the nation's leading museums. He described Cookham as a “village in Heaven”.

In England, Waite taught at Northbrook College, Sussex North East Wales University Telford College, Shropshire. Since moving to the U.S. in 2001, she has lived in Texas and New Mexico but prefers her current home Louisville.

Kay Polson Grubola is an artist and independent curator in Louisville, Kentucky. Creating assemblages using natural found objects, Grubola’s work is a celebration of nature. The work is also an allegory for the natural process of human life, both its ascendance and its decline. She has shown her work nationally and internationally. 

Grubola was the Executive Director of Nazareth Arts, a regional arts center on the campus of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky, as well as the Artistic Director of the Louisville Visual Art Association.  For 10 years she taught drawing and printmaking at Bellarmine University and Indiana University Southeast. 

Rachel Singel is a printmaker and faculty at the Hite Institute at the University of Louisville. Rachel has participated in residencies at the Penland School of Crafts, the Venice Printmaking Studio, the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, and Art Print Residence in Barcelona. As an artist interested in working using non-toxic methods, Singel, has studied with the founder Grafisk Eksperimentarium studio in Andalusia in 2018 and worked as a resident artist at Wharepuke studio in New Zealand.

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.

Artists talk with LVA: December 21,2023

Clarity Hagan is a writer, director, actor, and generous spirit in the Louisville theatre community. She was live in the studio this week to talk about all of the many projects she is involved in. Tune in to WXOX 97.1/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

In Louisville, Clarity Hagan has worked as a stage manager with Kentucky Shakespeare, a playwright with the Derby City Playwrights, a company member with Looking for Lilith, and as an educator with Drama by George, the Louisville Nature Center, Looking for Lilith Theater Company, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Their play The Moth and the Masked Man was independently produced in November 2022. They are one of the founding members of three witches shakespeare, a queer, feminist theatre company focused on innovative classical theatre,  and adapted and directed their spring 2023 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Artists talk with LVA: December 14,2023

Shauntrice Martin is just one artist featured in "Perspectives: 35 African American Artists" at Moremen Gallery. (Kenyatta Bosman, who took this picture at the opening, is another). Shauntrice will be in the studio live this week talking about that, her curatorial efforts, and recent trips to Senegal. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists talk with LVA.

Shauntrice is a Black/Choctaw contemporary artist & curator loving in Kentucky. She was the inaugural Speed Art Museum Artist-In-Residence and Louisville Visual Art (LVA) Curatorial Fellow. Shauntrice's museum solo exhibition "Something in the Water" was featured at the Speed Art Museum 2021-22. Most recently, she curated a permanent exhibit entitled "Sweet Fire" with Play Cousins Collective in the Historic Lyles Mall.  Her exhibit at the Muhammad Ali center, We Don’t Wither, featured seven local artists.

"Perspectives 2023" showing December 8 through January 28 is a group show of works by over 30 black artists from Louisville and the surrounding region. Filling the entire gallery space, this exhibition highlights the depth, talent and diversity of the artists’ perspectives. Work includes paintings, sculpture, photography and installations. This exhibit offers a profound exploration of the artists' unique perspectives, their diverse voices, and the impact they have on the art world.​