Artists Talk with LVA: May 15, 2025

Rebekah Calhoun, Josie Seymour, & Abi Womack are all graduating seniors at the Kentucky College of Art + Design and will join us in the studio this week Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Abi Womack is an artist born in Bowling Green Kentucky. Abi has exhibited her work at Carbon Copy, Speed Mansion Solarium Gallery, 849 Studio Gallery all in Louisville, Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center (SKyPAC) in Bowling Green.

Rebekah Calhoun is a Kentucky-born mixed media artist based in Louisville. She was a member of the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts class of 2021. In 2022 she was a co-creator and artist in Creamy Dream at the Carbon Copy Gallery and has shown work at the Speed Mansion Solarium Gallery and 849 Gallery. 

Josie Seymour is an American artist, born in Kentucky, but from all over. Josie returned to Kentucky and started creating music videos, and taking photos for clients. While attending college she worked as a Production Assistant on a variety of films and shows. Josie was a photographer for unpublished magazine having photos published in issues such as“flare” and “New beginnings” also having photos in the book “Archive: Summer 2021”

Artists Talk with LVA: January 4, 2024

Carnegie Center for Art & History opened "Intentionally Intimate: The Choice to Work Small," which runs through March 16 & the artists, Wendi Smith, Nancy Currier, Caroline Waite, Kay Grubola, and Rachel Singel joined us this week.

Wendi Smith’s work has been exhibited regionally for over thirty years. She has been a member of local co-ops Zephyr and PYRO Gallery, as well as a supporter of the local arts scene. Exhibit credits include Four Star Gallery in Indianapolis, the Carnegie for the Arts in Cincinnati, and Zephyr Gallery in Louisville. She has taught fine arts at Bellarmine University and Indiana University Southeast.

Nancy Currier is a painter who also creates drawings and mixed-media sculptures. She grew up around art as the daughter of the esteemed Louisville painter Mary Ann Currier. She also has taught art at Louisville's Foster Traditional Academy.

Caroline Waite is from an English village called Cookham Dean, known for its famous and eccentric resident, wartime artist Stanley Spencer whose stylized scenes in the 1940s of Cookham village life and residents have hung in the nation's leading museums. He described Cookham as a “village in Heaven”.

In England, Waite taught at Northbrook College, Sussex North East Wales University Telford College, Shropshire. Since moving to the U.S. in 2001, she has lived in Texas and New Mexico but prefers her current home Louisville.

Kay Polson Grubola is an artist and independent curator in Louisville, Kentucky. Creating assemblages using natural found objects, Grubola’s work is a celebration of nature. The work is also an allegory for the natural process of human life, both its ascendance and its decline. She has shown her work nationally and internationally. 

Grubola was the Executive Director of Nazareth Arts, a regional arts center on the campus of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky, as well as the Artistic Director of the Louisville Visual Art Association.  For 10 years she taught drawing and printmaking at Bellarmine University and Indiana University Southeast. 

Rachel Singel is a printmaker and faculty at the Hite Institute at the University of Louisville. Rachel has participated in residencies at the Penland School of Crafts, the Venice Printmaking Studio, the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, and Art Print Residence in Barcelona. As an artist interested in working using non-toxic methods, Singel, has studied with the founder Grafisk Eksperimentarium studio in Andalusia in 2018 and worked as a resident artist at Wharepuke studio in New Zealand.

Artebella On The Radio: August 26

Susan Harrison is an artist & educator and is exhibiting at Pyro in September and she will be talking about it with us this Thursday morning. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am.

From September 3 through 26, 2021, Pyro Gallery will present Staying Cozy During Covid: Comfort Designs by Suzy Harrison, featuring the member artist's textile installation derived from her sketchbook India ink designs created in 2020 and 2021. Presented in the form of digitized patterns output into woven blankets, the textiles address what it means to seek comfort during the isolation of the Covid-19 pandemic timeframe.

Harrison's installation runs September 3-26, with a First Friday Reception on September 3 from 6-9 pm and a Sunday Reception on September 5 from 1-4 pm. The show closes with an artist talk at 2 pm on September 26.  

She ia a resident and educator at Brick Street Studios, along with artists Katherine McCadden and Shamia Gaither. Its next public exhibition, entitled "Transitions"  will take place at the end of August. The opening reception is Friday, August 27th from 5 to 9 pm.

Artebella On The Radio: May 20

Hite Institute just graduated some new MFA candidates and this week we talk with two of them, Karen Weeks & Megan Bickel. Tune in to WXOX 97.1, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am to her Keith Waits talk with artists.

Megan Bickel is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer who was a Community Educator at Art Academy of Cincinnati and who operates Houseguest, an independent artist-run project space located in Louisville. Her exhibit l is meditating on two words as they relate to one another in our current moment: illusion and allusion. Specifically, this manifests by inquiring as to how we consume visual data, the probability of factual 'truths,' and cultivating safe, imaginative spaces for the viewer to conceive of ethically superior realities.

Karen Weeks is also a multi-disciplinary artist who has worked with fiber and a lot with the letterpress print studio. Her exhibit, Love Labor: Literal Symbols and True Abstractions, is comprised of images sourced from common ephemera of the home meant to represent the everyday: notes, discarded letters, open envelopes, unfinished knitting, garments, drawings, math homework. The works in this show seek to reimage this detritus by (re)organizing it into constructed passages that bear witness to the commonalities to be found in homemaking and artmaking, aesthetics and the commonplace, economics, and whining. They are abstract representations of that which is contained within us, by way of what collects in our homes, representations of the aesthetics of and the profundities contained within the mundane.

Megan Bickel, Karen Weeks, Katherine Watts & Rachid Tagoulla

MFA Exhibition
May 7-July 9, 2021

Cressman Center for Visual Arts
100 E Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202

Artebella On The Radio: February 18

Healing Walls Project presents ”From Spark to the Streets” Healing Immersive Art Experience benefitting the Louisville BIPOC artists HWP Mural Cycle. Artist & curator Ashley Cathey, singer Michelle Johnson, singer-songwriter Tabin Ibershoff, & writer Valentina Ashrova joined us to talk about this fundraiser and the larger mission of this organization. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10:00 am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

Healing Walls Project presents ”From Spark to the Streets” Healing Immersive Art Experience benefitting the Louisville BIPOC artists HWP Mural Cycle

8 Immersive rooms

6 ways to heal through creating art

$25 donation,

Private, safe

COVID compliant

February 26-28 -

Friday, – Sat 3-9 pm / Sun 1-6 pm

Artspace, 321 W Broadway, 7th Floor

Hosted by Creatives of Color Collective