Artists Talk with LVA: August 13, 2026

Emily Cooper discusses her film, Willie and His Pigs, which will screen at LVA on August 16th. Tune in to Artists Talk with LVA each Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 FM or Artxfm.com.

Emily Cooper is a producer and director shaped by the South — cicada summers, tornado sirens, a knack for talking to absolutely anyone, and one childhood year lived entirely in red cowgirl boots. An Emmy-nominated filmmaker, her projects have premiered at the Venice, Tribeca, and Red Sea International Film Festivals, and screened at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Sidewalk Film Festival, and Flyover Film Festival.

Most recently, she produced the upcoming feature Ruby Road, starring Frances Fisher, Will Patton, and Lauren Holly, and was an associate producer on the music documentary Louder Than Guns, featuring Old Crow Medicine Show, which had a limited theatrical release and is currently streaming on PBS through Reel South. SXSW. She is currently in post-production on a feature she produced starring Oscar- and Grammy-nominated actors, and in pre-production on a feature adaptation of an acclaimed novel.

Willie and His Pigs film

Emily Cooper

Artists Talk with LVA: December 26, 2024

"New Beginnings" opens at Pyro Gallery on January 3 and will feature work by Janet Dake and Erica Chinise Wilcox, Janet joins us in the studio this week to talk about it. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Janet Dake is a figurative painter from Versailles, Kentucky, now based in Louisville. Her work is about people, both real and imagined. Dake’s paintings tell stories. Through intricate (and often made-up) backgrounds, Dake creates narratives that reflect contemporary social issues and cultural phenomena. In 2021 she completed an Artist Residency in Toronto, Canada, where she had her first solo show entitled Human Nature. In 2022, her work was selected for the Ferrara Showman Gallery for their annual No Dead Artists group show and the Post Roe Louisiana show at the Carrollton Gallery at Tulane University. Her work was recently displayed at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art for the annual Louisiana Contemporary showcase. Dake is currently a member of Pyro Gallery in Louisville, KY. 

“New Beginnings”, in which Janet will be exhibiting with Erica Chinise Wilcox, opens at Pyro Gallery on January 3, with a reception from 5:30-8:30 pm

"New Beginnings" at Pyro Gallery

Janet Dake

Artists Talk with LVA: August 17, 2023

Cynthia Kelly Overall is a Bardstown, Kentucky artist well known for her oil paintings depicting rural landscapes and pastoral scenes. Her work holds an unmistakable luminosity and technical application reminiscent of Old Dutch masterworks with just a hint of a Kentucky accent.

She received her B.A. from the University of Kentucky, and her Master of Art and Master of Fine Art Degrees from the famed Rosary Graduate School of Fine Art in Florence, Italy.

Following two shows at the Villa Schifanosa in Florence, Cynthia returned to the United States, where she has exhibited in New York, Morehead State University; Frankfort, Kentucky; Atlanta; and at The Midwest Museum of American Art; and various other galleries throughout the United States.

Overall’s latest work focuses her attention to Dutch Golden Age Still Lifes, a popular movement that emerged in the 17th century during the Dutch Golden Age. 

Cynthia Kelly Overall's Fifty-One Shades of Gray...Still Life in the Dutch Manner. Open at Wheelhouse Art with a reception this Friday, August 18, 6:00 - 8:00 pm. There will be a gallery talk with the artist at 7:00 pm. The exhibition continues through September 30, 2023.

Fifty-One Shades of Gray...Still Life in the Dutch Manner

Cynthia Kelly Overall

Artists Talk with LVA: April 6, 2023

Lennon Michalski is showing at garner narrative now and we are talking with him about his work this week. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Michalski’s two-dimensional and digital works have been exhibited in North Carolina, Kentucky, Colorado, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. He has also displayed work in group exhibitions internationally in Mexico, Colombia, and China. Michalski was on the Board of Directors for Creative Alliance for Art Education, a nonprofit organization, that worked to provide funding for art programs in Lexington, Kentucky public schools. Now he is has been appointed as a Board Member for the Kentucky Arts Council. He works with a number of other nonprofit art organizations in the Lexington area including the Lexington Art League, Lex Arts, and the Living Arts and Science Center. His previous solo shows were at The Cressman Center at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. He recently participated in a group show at the University of Northern Georgia and had a solo show at Georgetown University, exhibiting his series Ghost Bike. In addition to his painting and digital projects, Lennon also recently self-published two books entitled, “How Penguins Save Television” and the other “The Cosmic Sure”. The original artwork has been shown at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning and the Woodford County Library. How Penguins Save Television can be found wherever you buy books.

Lennon Michalski’s exhibit Cosmetic Construction is at garner narrative through April 30, 2023.

Artists Talk with LVA: November 17, 2022

John Begley speaks about curating Over the Moon: The Eclectic Art of Ann Farnsley, currently at The Carnegie Center for Art & History. Tune into WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

The exhibition Over the Moon: The Eclectic Art of Ann Farnsley, showcases the life and art of the Vevay, Indiana artist, was first at the Community Art Center of Switzerland County, and is now at the Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany through January 7, 2023.

John Begley is a Freelance art worker. Previously he was Gallery Director and Assistant Professor of Art (Emeritus), Critical and Curatorial Studies graduate program coordinator at the Allen R. Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, Director, of the Louisville Visual Art Association 1983 – 2001, Director, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1975-1983

Over the Moon: The Eclectic Art of Ann Farnsley

John Begley