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: September 17, 2026

David Helm just opened Labyrinths at the Cressman Center, and he will join us to discuss it. Tune in to Artists Talk with LVA each Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 FM or Artxfm.com.

After graduating from the University of Louisville in Fine Arts/Graphic Design and Atlanta’s Portfolio Center in Art Direction, David [Jelly] Helm began his career as an art director for The Martin Agency in Richmond before being recruited by Wieden+Kennedy in 1992. In 2006, he became the Executive Creative Director of Wieden+Kennedy Portland, which Helm considers one of his most meaningful and humbling professional moments.

In 2008, Helm founded Studio Jelly, an independent brand studio built on long-term relationships with people and organizations he cares about. Clients range from global brands to nonprofits, arts organizations, conservation groups, and purpose-driven companies. The work is characterized by its honesty, craft, and humanity, using the creative process to help organizations become deeper, clearer, more fully themselves.

Labyrinths is on view at The Cressman Center for Visual Art through October 31st, 2026

Labyrinths exhibit at Cressman Center for the Arts

David Helm

Artists Talk with LVA: June 25, 2026

It was recently announced that Lalana Fedorschak had won the 2026 Bill Fischer Award for Visual Art, and this week, they join us in the studio to discuss how it might impact their career. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA each Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com

Lalana Fedorschak is an artist working primarily in ceramic sculpture. Lalana is a friend of craft and a lover of objects, finding kinship with people who value physical, tactile intelligences and are committed to the analog properties of being alive.

Lalana was born and raised in Prescott, Arizona. They hold a BFA in Ceramics from Northern Arizona University and an MFA in Ceramics from Ohio University. Lalana is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Louisville and has previously held teaching positions at Vincennes University and Indiana University Southeast. Their work has been widely exhibited in museums, galleries, and artist-run spaces throughout the country.

2026 Bill Fischer Award Winner

Lalana Fedorschak

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