Artists Talk With LVA: October 27, 2022

Brook White, Jr. & Dave Caudill discuss the Stephen Powell Memorial in Danville. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Brook Forrest White Jr. discovered his passion for hot glass under the tutelage of Stephen Rolfe Powell at Centre College. Brook has worked with artists and visited glass centers around the world. He has garnered many honors including a 1998 Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Fellowship, the Owensboro Mayor’s Award of Excellence in 2001, the 2003 Centre College Distinguished Young Alumnus Award and inclusion in the 2005 Leadership Kentucky class. In 2004 the Kentucky Arts Council commissioned him to create that year’s Governor’s Awards in the Arts. His glass is in galleries across the country and in the collections of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Huntington Museum of Art and the Asheville Art Museum. His blown-glass art installations are featured in many private collections and public buildings throughout the Midwest.

His studio, Flame Run, is locate in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.

Dave Caudill creates artworks for public, corporate and private collections. His larger public works are found at Louisiana’s Rip Van Winkle Gardens, East Tennessee’s Horizon Center park, the University of Kentucky’s Singletary Center for the Arts and the University of Louisville School of Music. Corporate collections include Brown-Forman Corporation and Fire King International. Individual collectors across America have acquired his work.

He is also one of the few sculptors in the world who have created an environmental undersea sculpture. Caudill’s artwork was placed on the seabed near Nassau, The Bahamas.

Stephen Rolfe Powell (1951-2019) was hired by Centre College in 1983 to teach ceramics and sculpture. By 1985, thanks in part to Corning Glass in Harrodsburg, Philips Lighting in Danville, and Corhart in Louisville, he had built a glass studio and founded Centre's glass program. Powell designed and completed a new, state-of-the-art glass studio, which Centre College opened as part of their new Visual Arts Center in January 1998.

Powell was honored with Kentucky's Teacher of the Year award in 1999 and 2000. In 2004 he was presented with the Acorn Award by the Kentucky Council on Post-secondary Education.

Artebella On The Radio: October 7

Open Studio Louisville runs the next 4 Saturdays & we talked with 4 of the artists: Andrew Marsh, Feral Fagiola, Sarah Ferguson, & James May. Tune in @ WXOX 97.1 FM or stream @ Artxfm.com Thursdays @ 10am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists on LVA's Artebella on the Radio.

James May is a Kentucky native who has been working in the arts since 2001 as artists’ assistant, educator, and technician. He has a BFA from Tulane University and an MFA from Illinois State University and has been a working artist in both New Orleans and Cincinnati, prior to moving to Louisville in 2015. He is a fabricator, installer, contractor and consultant for numerous other artists and has designed equipment for several studios nationally. He is the co-founder of Acme Artworks.

A Louisville native, Sarah Ferguson has years of varied experience working in galleries and art venues in the area. She is a Centre College graduate. Her volunteer and community service history has given her ample experience with youth programs and community outreach as ACME strives to be a centerpiece in the greater Louisville community.

Feral Fagiola is an artist, designer, metalsmith, and tattooist living and working at Lucky 7 Arts at Bldg 15 Studios in Louisville. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, she studied at Vermont College of Fine Arts and Kennesaw State University.

Andrew Marsh makes beautiful and terrifying art to celebrate life in the face of severe chronic pain. He combines brutal, explosive performances with cast iron, welded steel, and chainsaw carved wood sculptures at his studio, Lucky 7 Arts at Bldg 15 Studios in Louisville, KY. He was an artist in residence at City Museum in St. Louis after earning his MFA at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (‘01) and BFA at the University of Kentucky (‘95). His work has appeared in over 250 group and solo exhibitions, collections, and events throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. Marsh is assistant director for Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research and program officer for the Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy at the University of Louisville. He serves as chair of the board of directors and executive officer for Josephine Sculpture Park and is a contributing artist at Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum. He chaired the 2017 and 2019 National Conferences on Contemporary Cast Iron Art & Practices.

Artebella On The Radio: May 28, 2020

Tiffany Ackerman Westmoreland talks about the resurgence of her stained-glass practice during self-isolation and how long it will take Flame Run, where she is the Gallery Director, to fire up their furnace again on this week's Artebella On The Radio. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

On her Instagram page: tart_ackerart, Westmoreland describes herself as:

Artist, gallery director, all things colorful, & porkchop adventurer. #art #arttherapy #arteducator #maker #louisville #painter #stainedglassartist