Artists Talk with LVA: January 22, 2026

Terry Spangler Dunham & Charlotte Pollock discuss their upcoming exhibit at Pyro Gallery on Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM / Artxfm.com.

Terry Spangler Dunham’s current work focuses on images that evoke a sense of sanctuary, places that feel restful and inspiring. She holds a BFA degree in drawing from Kansas State University and a BA from Pennsylvania State University, with an emphasis on drawing and photography. Her current body of work is acrylic painting, some mixed media, and drawing.

Charlotte Pollock received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Louisville, Major: Studio Art, Louisville, Kentucky, and also studied at The Marchutz School of Art, Plein-air painting, Aix-en-Provence, France. She has twice received Great Meadows Foundation Travel Grants, including a trip to the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. 

Homegrown Stories, new work by Terry Spangler Dunham with guest artists Charlotte Pollock & Sherrie Spangler, opens at Pyro Gallery on January 31st with a reception from 5 - 8:30 pm. There will also be a Gallery Talk and demo on February 1 beginning at 1:30 pm.

Artists Talk with LVA: December 18, 2025

This week Vian Sora joined us to discuss Vian Sora: Outerworlds which is now on exhibit at The Speed Museum. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Vian Sora: Outerworlds is part of Current Speed, a series of contemporary art exhibitions that introduce the Kentuckiana community to new and emerging artists as well as celebrated mid-career artists previously underrecognized in the region. Current Speed exhibitions are open to the public and included with general museum admission. The series is initiated and organized by Tyler Blackwell, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum.

Born in Baghdad, Iraq, and now based in Louisville, artist Vian Sora (b. 1976) creates dazzlingly layered abstractions that channel the turbulence of history, memory, and the natural world. Outerworlds—her first solo museum exhibition in the United States—assembles major works from the past ten years, charting her transformation into one of today’s most distinctive voices in painting.

Sora’s practice emerges directly from lived experience. Having grown up amid the Iran-Iraq War, the Gulf War, and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, she witnessed the devastation of her homeland firsthand. Forced to leave Iraq, she eventually resettled in Louisville, Kentucky, where her practice has flourished.

Artists Talk with LVA: November 6, 2025

Erin McGee Ferrell, Kacey Slone, Alana Fitzgerald, & Jen Deleuw are all participating in Open Studio Weekend this year and will be in the studio to discuss it. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM / Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

The 2025 Open Studio Weekend takes place November 15 & 16 from 12 - 5 pm. These 4 particpating artists will be found at the following locations: Kacey Slone at Junior Jr Studio, 804 E. Broadway, Alana Fitzgerald at Hite MFA Building on Rowan Street, Jen Deleuw at Art Sanctuary, 1440 S. Shelby Street, & Erin McGee Ferrell at the Smoketown Art Studio, 770 S. Preston.

The Open Studio Calendar for 2025:

Open Studio Preview at Portal, 6 pm. Keith Waits interviews JW May, Robyn Gibson, Dru Pilmer, Samantha Griffith, Richard Sullivan, Rita Cameron 

Open Studio Exhibit Opening at Cressman Center, Friday, Nov. 14th, 5 - 7 pm.

Open Studio Weekend Sat. Nov. 15 & Sun. Nov. 16, from 12 - 5 pm

Artists Talk with LVA: July 3, 2025

Artistas Cubanos Chévere opens at Louisville Visual Art on July 11th. Two of the artists, Carlos Gamez De Francisco & Julio Cesar joined 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.

Carlos Gamez de Francisco was born in post-revolutionary Cuba in 1987, to a Cuban-Spanish mother and a Cuban-American father. He grew up in Cuba and was educated in an academic style heavily influenced by the Russian Academy. At age five, he determined, with absolute certainty, that he would be an artist. By the time he was fifteen, Gamez de Francisco was diligently painting 8 hours a day, every day. Today, he often spends 15 hours a day painting and feels “very blessed to do what I love.”His exceptional talent, hard work, and perseverance led him to earn artistic commissions and recognition.

Julio Cesar Rodríguez Aguilar was born in 1976 in Holguin, Cuba. From a very early age, he was enthusiastic about drawing. As an adolescent, he entered the Vocational School of Art Raúl Gómez Garcia, and later he entered the Professional Academy of Visual Arts in his city, graduating in the specialty of Painting, Drawing, Photography, and Artistic Weaving in 1995. Julio also went on to be a professor of the arts and involved himself in book illustration, stage and costume design, muralism, and more. 

He specifically found fascination in surrealism, which provided him with the necessary vision of what he most identified with: the mystical, the surreal, and the poetic.

Artists Talk with LVA: June 5, 2025

Elmer Lucille Allen and Sandra Charles join us to talk about their exhibit, “Echoes of the Ages,” which opens on June 7th at the Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery. Tune in to WXOXm 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Sandra Charles & Elmer Lucille Allen are here to talk about their exhibit Echoes of the Ages, which opens June 7th at Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery with a reception from 1 - 3 pm. There will also be an artist's talk on July 10th

Sandra Charles is an oil painter who believes you should never give up on your dreams.  Her work focuses on the culture, history, and social issues that affect African American women.  Sandra has painted all her life, but began her career as a batik fiber artist.  She returned to school in 2011 and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in painting from the University of Louisville.  After graduation, she realized painting was her passion and retired to concentrate on her art. 

Elmer Lucille Allen is a ceramic and fiber artist and chemist who graduated from Nazareth College (now Spalding University) in 1953. Both her father and brother were named Elmer, and the family chose to name her Elmer Lucille. She became the first African-American chemist at Brown-Forman in 1966. After retiring, she began studying art at the University of Louisville, where she received her Master of Creative Arts degree with a focus on ceramics and fiber in 2002. Allen's textile work incorporates shibori dyeing techniques.