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Artists Talk with LVA: March 5, 2026

Keith Waits ·

The 2026 Southern Crossings Pottery Festival happens this weekend at 1020 Brewery, so potters Lindsey Oesteritter & Autumn McKay join us to discuss what to expect. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM / Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA

Lindsay Oesterritter is currently a full-time studio potter in Manassas, Virginia. She is a co-organizer of the Southern Crossing Pottery Festival held in her hometown of Louisville, KY. Most recently, in 2021, Lindsay was awarded an Innovation Award by the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen for a piece juried into the Strictly Functional Pottery National. In 2020, she published her first book, Mastering Kilns & Firing. Lindsay had the good fortune to be a resident artist at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg and at Strathnairn Arts Association in Australia. 

Autumn McKay is a ceramic artist from Louisville, Kentucky. Since then, she has attended craft schools as a work study and artist assistant, participated in residency programs nationally and internationally, and studied as a post-bacc student at Indiana University Southeast (2021-23).

Currently, McKay is working as a long-term resident artist and teacher at Queen City Clay in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

The 2026 Southern Crossings Pottery Festival

Ten20 Brewery, 1020 E Washington Street, Louisville, Kentucky

First Pick Friday, March 6, 2026 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Doors open to the public from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Saturday, March 7, 2026 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

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Artists Talk with LVA: April 24, 2025

Keith Waits ·

Levi Justice & Christopher St. John open new exhibits at Galerie Hertz this weekend and join us in the studio. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Levi Justice is a contemporary visual artist specializing in large-scale, hyper-realistic oil paintings. At age 12, he began working with wood & various metals, creating sculptures he sold to private collectors. Justice pursued fine art at Kentucky's Centre College.  After graduating, Levi moved to North Carolina, where he began managing art galleries & teaching artistic techniques to his community. Levi currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky.

Christopher St. John received his BFA from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and his MFA in ceramics from Ohio University. He served four years of active duty in the Army. Travel has informed his practice, both in choice of material, appreciation of light and landscape, and adaptability to changing conditions. Christopher has artwork in the permanent collections of both the Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Alaska, and the Hawaii State Art Museum. He is always at home in a forest. 

Christopher began his journey with ceramics 5 years ago. He decided to return to graduate school to deepen his understanding of this field and devote himself fully to becoming a teaching artist. He is currently the Resident Artist at Indiana University Southeast. The values and goals of his work lie in support of the challenges human beings currently face on the only known planet that supports life. 

Two Approaches to Portraiture opens at Galerie Hertz Saturday, April 24 with a reception from 1 - 3 pm.

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Artists Talk with LVA: February 1, 2024

Keith Waits ·

The Blazing World, a new solo exhibit from Megan Bickel opens at Wheelhouse Art February 2 and continues through March 16, 2024.

Megan Bickel is an artist, writer, and educator currently working out of Louisville, Kentucky. Her work considers and utilizes various approaches and technologies such as painting, data manipulation, digital collage, database reconfiguration, and poetry. 

Bickel recently received her Master of Arts in Digital Studies in Language, Culture, and History at the University of Chicago. Her thesis research assessed how Google Vision API and other related APIs would impact the fate of climate reporting due to their current labeling production design. She is currently working on expanding this data set and expanding the research into a book with coauthor Joseph Solis. 

Bickel is the proud founder and organizer of houseguest gallery (Est. 2018) where she organizes and curates works by emerging and underserved artists and curators. She’s had arts criticism, science fiction, and images published in Burnaway, Anarchist Review of Books, Ruckus, NEWCITY, Sixty-Inches from Center, and others. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Louisville, Bellarmine, and Indiana University Southeast where she teaches Painting, Video Production, and Web Design. 

Her work has been exhibited at the Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY), University of Chicago Logan Center (Chicago, IL), LADIES' ROOM LA (Los Angeles, California), KMAC Museum (Louisville, KY), Georgetown College (Georgetown, KY), QUAPPI Projects (Louisville, KY), Art Academy of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH), and MADS Mixed Reality Gallery (Milan, Italy). 

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Artists Talk with LVA: March 23, 2023

Keith Waits ·

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.