Artists Talk with LVA: October 22, 2026

Kayt & Annabella

Annabela Cockrell, & Kayt Robarts came to discuss Material Obsession at KMAC. Tune in to Artists Talk with LVA each Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 FM or Artxfm.com.

Annabella Cockrell earned their MFA from the University of Louisville’s Hite Institute in 2025. They are a mixed media sculptor working from a foundation of fiber art but incorporating metal and other elements into the forms. She works at Wheelhouse Art LOU.

Kayt Robarts graduated with a BFA in drawing from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. From 2001 to 2023, they lived in Japan, teaching English, studying, performing, and teaching dance. As a dancer, she took on the stage name of Ozma. She blogged and shared her dance musings, her art, her writings, and her life in Japan under the name Ozma of Japan. In April of 2023, she returned to America to focus more on her visual art.

Material Obsessions: Micro Macro opens October 22nd, 2026 at KMAC Museum.

Material Obsessions Micro Macro at KMAC

Annabela Cockrell, & Kayt Robarts

Artists Talk with LVA: October 1, 2026

Nahla Joy joined us in the studio to talk Artists & Afros. Tune in to Artists Talk with LVA each Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 FM or Artxfm.com.

Nahla Joy is an African painter whose work is rooted in memory, identity, and place. Raised in South Louisville and carrying an Arabic name, she brings a unique perspective to Kentucky’s art scene. Joy specializes in acrylic cityscapes that reimagine familiar environments through a lens of surreal optimism, using bold color and layered compositions to explore what it means to find water in a metaphorical desert. She earned her BFA in 2024 and will finish her MFA at the University of Louisville with a thesis exhibit in March 2027. During her undergraduate studies, she was honored with the Winthrop Allen Memorial Prize in Creative Art. She currently teaches for LVA’s Children’s Fine Art Classes.

The 3rd Annual Artist & Afros Art Sale will be this weekend, October 4 & 5, from 12 - 5 pm at The Norton Sports and Learning Center. Admission is free to the pubic.

2026 Artists & Afros

Nahla Joy

Artists Talk with LVA: July 2, 2026

Dr. Fran Kremer & Karen Boone joined us to discuss Human | Nature, the new exhibit opening at Louisville Visual Art on July 11th. Tune in to Artists Talk with LVA each Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com.

Dr. Fran Kremer served nearly four decades as a Senior Scientist with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s research office until 2025. She led multidisciplinary teams in developing innovative approaches for monitoring and controlling contaminants in water supplies and in anticipating and developing solutions for climate change impacts on public health and the environment. She is a co-founder of Uniting Artists and Scientists for Climate Action (UASCA).

In Karen Boone’s artistic practice, she uses less-toxic materials like foraged ochres from her own property, creek clay, and charred wood, an artistic pact with nature and the wilderness. She has exhibited locally and also in the southwest. Her most recent exhibit was Natural Formations – Sustainably made sculptures and paintings by Karen Boone at Moremen Gallery, Louisville.

Human | Nature Exhibit at LVA

Dr. Fran Kremer & Karen Boone

Artists Talk with LVA: May 28, 2026

The 2026 art[squared] Online Auction Party happens on June 11th, and featured artists Douglas Miller, Uhma Janus, and Drew Scanlon will be in the studio this week. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA each Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com.

Douglas Miller is a professional artist whose drawings are exhibited regionally and in galleries across the United States. Among other awards, he has received the Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship from the KY Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additionally, Douglas does freelance illustrations as well as private and corporate commissions. His artwork is in the collection of the Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, the University of Louisville, the Speed School of Engineering, and numerous private collections around the world.  He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Bellarmine University.

uhma janus is a native of León, Guanajuato, México. Her work deals with the representation of the essence of reality by visualizing its elements as independent and in the dynamic interstitial space that is enlivened through their connection. Such representations are imbued with her interests in the fundamental, in the dynamism of complex systems, and in the disciplines of Geometry, Physics, and Microbiology.

uhma resides in Louisville, Kentucky. She can be found in her studio, writing at a coffee shop, exploring the urban air of Louisville during her walks, in mechanical, dance-like trances when rhythmic music compels her, and, overall, just being human.

Drew Scanlon attended the University of Florida, earned their Bachelor of Arts in Art History & Ceramics Certificate in 2020. After graduating, they spent a 2020-2021 as a Post-Baccalaureate student at West Virginia University. They then spent two years studying at Indiana University Southeast as a Post-Baccalaureate. They worked as the ceramic studio assistant at both IUS and UofL.

Drew just completed the MFA program in Studio Art at the University of Louisville. Additionally, they are an Instructor of Record at the University of Louisville, with experience teaching both Foundation 3D design and Intro to Clay.

2026 art[squared] Online Auction & Party

Douglas Miller, Uhma Janus, and Drew Scanlon

Artists Talk with LVA: May 7, 2026

With Insects We Share the Same Light, curated by Clare Hirn, opens at MaybeItsFate on May 9th. Clare discusses her curatorial debut with Margaret Carreiro, Professor of Biology Emerita, University of Louisville. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

Clare Hirn, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, received her Master’s in Painting and Drawing from the New York Academy of Art - Graduate School of Figurative Art. With an emphasis on strong foundational skills of drawing and painting, Hirn has largely worked realistically over the span of her 30+ year career. Always inspired by the natural world, with a focus on landscape and the human figure.

Margaret Carreiro is a plant and soil ecologist working primarily in urban and suburban areas. She studies the impacts of cities and towns on natural areas and is also involved in restoration ecology studies. She was an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at UofL.

With Insects We Share the Same Light, curated by Clare Hirn, invites viewers to deepen their appreciation for insects — Earth's most diverse organisms and ecological cornerstone for over 350 million years — and to reflect on their critical role and growing vulnerability in the Anthropocene.

With Insects We Share the Same Light, curated by Clare Hirn

Clare Hirn & Margaret Carreiro