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Artists Talk with LVA: February 12, 2026

Kathryn Brooks, MA candidate in Hite Art Institute's Curatorial Studies program, joined us this week on Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM to discuss their thesis exhibit at 21c.

Kathryn Brooks, a student in the MA Program in Critical & Curatorial Studies at the Hite Institute of Art + Design, curated After Precarity as part of the program’s culminating MA Thesis Project, gaining hands-on experience organizing a professional exhibition at a major contemporary art venue.

After Precarity runs through June 2026  at the 21c Museum Hotel, 700 W Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202 (top floors, galleries 4 & 5)

After Precarity features work that has rewritten the narrative of discardable consumer goods, finding beauty in what was disposed of. 

Louisville-based artists, including UofL Professor Mitch Eckert, Albertus Gorman, Lori Larusso, and Tom Pfannerstill, each find their muse and often their material of choice in the discarded articles of consumer goods found in trash receptacles, along riverbanks, and on roadsides.