Artists Talk with LVA: August 7, 2025

Louisville-based fiber artist Debra Harley discusses her first solo exhibition at Capacity Contemporary Exchange Gallery in Louisville. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com at 10 am each Thursday to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Debra Harley is a Louisville-based fiber artist. She devoted over 35 years of her professional career to education, curriculum development, and teacher training in New Orleans, LA. After retirement, she became certified as a Personal Trainer and Aquatic Fitness Instructor. A former U. S. Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya and Fulbright Scholar in Zimbabwe, her focus on fiber arts comes after over 40 years of practicing various textile arts. 

Her first solo exhibition Kairos/Chronos, Experience in Fiber. The work of Debra Harley is currently on display at Capacity Contemporary Exchange Gallery in Louisville.

Artists Talk with LVA: December 19, 2024

Rhythm + Flow: Recent Prints + Collages by Elizabeth Foley is now open at Capacity Exchange Gallery, and we talk to the artist about her work. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

For over twenty years Elizabeth Foley has exhibited work regionally and has art on view at 21c Museum Hotel Lexington, UK Chandler Medical Center, May Department Stores, and Kentucky OneHealthcare Network.

She also taught art; five years at Wyoming Middle School in Wyoming, Ohio and fifteen years as the Upper School 3D Art Teacher at Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky. Since moving to Louisville, she has also been teaching art at Assumption High School.

Elizabeth is a founding member of the Bluegrass Printmakers’ Cooperative in Lexington and was Executive Director for ten years.

She is a member of the Kentucky Crafted Program, the Kentucky Arts Council Artist in Residence Program, and was a cohort in the 2017-18 Hadley Creatives Program. In 2020 she received an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Rhythm + Flow: Recent Prints + Collages by Elizabeth Foley is showing at Capacity Contemporary Exchange through January 5.

Artists Talk with LVA: November 21, 2024

Cédric Ballarati's exhibit, "Vibrant Journey Around My World" is at Capacity Contemporary Exchange extended through December 5, and he has organized an Art Book Sale at Kore Gallery for November 24. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Cédric Ballarati believes Photography is about writing with light. His photography depicts the complexities of life. In every picture the intricacies of our planet are unveiled. Even if it looks harder and harder to live with those layers of complexity. 

Cédric studied Architecture at Belgium Liege University and photography at Belgium Liege Art Academy. His work has been exhibited in group and solo shows beginning in  2007 and his first photography book “Terre de chiens” was released in 2019. He is currently living and working in Louisville, Kentucky.

Vibrant Journey Around My World : Selected Work by Cèdric Ballarati
At Capacity Contemporary Exchange extended through December 5

There will be an Art Book Sale in Kore Gallery today from 12 to 4pm. Organized by Cédric Ballarati & Tom Coash, several vendors will be selling books.