Artists Talk with LVA: July 17, 2025

Jessica, Claire, & Lindsey

Curator Lindsey Cummins cut the ribbon on her CPI Fellowship project, "What We Need is Here: Finding Hope in Gathering Together in Places We Call Home", and she joins us with two of the participating artists, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Lindsey Cummins (she/her) is a Louisville-based Independent Curator, Collections Manager, & Community Arts Organizer. As the Founder of AVID Collectors, she strives to impact local arts communities by uplifting artists, patrons, and private collections. Lindsey is the Curator & Collections Manager of the SNAP Art Collection Lindsey received her education at Louisville’s Hite Art Institute with a degree in Studio Art, Art History, and Modern Culture. She currently serves on the Board of the Portland Museum, the SNAP Art Foundation, and is a member of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art. 

Jessica Chao is a native to New Mexico and currently based in Louisville, Kentucky, earned a Bachelors in studio arts at UNM with a focus on lithography, sculpture, and painting. Jessica presented work at the Harwood Art Center, 516 Art, the New Mexico Cancer Center Foundation Gallery where she received “Curator’s Choice” presented by Regina Held, a field mural designed with the Bosque biologist team at Valle De Oro National Wildlife Refuge, and a large-scale art installation at the the National Hispanic Cultural Center Museum as an homage to her Chinese and Korean heritage. She has presented lithographs at the Chicago Art Department, and featured at Louisville Visual Art and Carbon Copy Gallery in Kentucky.   

Claire Krüeger received an MFA in Photography & Film from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013. In 2021, she was a COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence at Louisville Free Public Library, and in 2024 was an Artist-in-Residence at Bernheim Forest in Clermont, Kentucky. Krüeger runs Take Shape Artlab, a set of creative programs designed to boost growth, problem solving, creative thinking, and collaboration through hands-on art making. Krüeger is the Creative Director of Spidertown, a collaborative zine project with Sean Rose.

Artists Talk with LVA: May 29, 2025

Curator Anne Borders discusses Pathways to Presence, an installation she curated of permanent outdoor sculptures at the Passionist Earth and Spirit Center. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Anne Borders is a Louisville-based artist who has exhibited at LVA, KMAC, and other venues. She is a 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire Fellow with LVA, and her curatorial project, "Pathways to Presence," was unveiled last Saturday, May 24, at The Earth and Spirit Center. It features installations by Casey Dressel, Matt Weir, & Jessica Beels.

Artists Talk with LVA: April 18, 2024

Julie Leidner is one of the 2023 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) cohort and we talk to her as her curatorial project comes to fruition with a pop-up exhibit at LVA through April 19. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA every Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 WXOX-FM or stream on Artxfm.com

Julie Leidner is a Louisville native who has exhibited locally as well as in New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. She has taught for Louisville Visual Art, The Speed Museum, Kentucky College of Art + Design, and was a Museum Educator at The Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany, IN. She was the recipient of the 2015 Mary Alice Hadley Prize for Visual Art and a 2018 Great Meadows Foundation Residency Grant. She is the recipient of a 2023 Curate Purchase Inspire Fellowship with Louisville Visual Art. For that fellowship she is creating an exhibit to be housed with Hildegard House.

Last Flowers, a Pop-Up Exhibit is at the LVA Gallery through April 19

Hildegard House is Kentucky's first and only comfort care home. Through the support of our community and with the help of many volunteers, we provide a home and compassionate care for individuals at the end of life who have no home or loved ones to care for them so that they may die with dignity.

Artists Talk with LVA: February 8, 2024

This week on Artists Talk with LVA Maureen Lane and Heather Potter joined us in the studio to talk about curatorial mission and practice with the Filson Historical Society.

Maureen Lane is the Curator of Museum Collections & Exhibits Coordinator at The Filson.

“I’m interested in collecting strategies that develop culturally diverse collections and better represent previously marginalized individuals in our communities; new ways to engage and collaborate with visitors in object based learning; multiple points of view in the interpretation of history, culture, and art; collaborative storytelling; and helping people discover and preserve their family and community history.”

Curator of Photographs and Prints Heather J. Potter received a BA degree from Washburn University and a MLS from Indiana University Bloomington.

Since its founding in 1884, The Filson Historical Society has preserved the region's collective memory, not only of Kentucky but also of the Ohio Valley and the Upper South. The Filson continues to collect and share the significant stories of the region. An independent historical society, The Filson serves the public through its extensive research collections and numerous educational opportunities. The Filson is headquartered in the Ferguson Mansion in Old Louisville and offers research facilities, event, and rental space.

Artists Talk with LVA: February 1, 2024

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).