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: 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.

Artists Talk with LVA: December 8, 2022

Lindsay Frost & Deborah Stratford tell us about their exhibit, "Women Carving" at Kore Gallery. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Lindsay Frost is a wood sculptor affiliated with the Kentucky Guild of Artist and Craftsman, Louisville Artisans Guild, Louisville Visual Art, & Kentucky Crafted/ Kentucky Proud. In 2022 she was selected by LVA to create the 2022 LVA Honors Awards.

Deborah Stratford is a printmaker, specifically, relief printmaking, in which she carves the surface of linoleum or wood.

“I often look around and think for a long time about how my observations tell a story. This I tell with a collection of objects, places, people, and animals printed. My hope is that my work encourages others to look deeper and longer at what surrounds them.” - Deborah Stratford

Women Carving is on exhibit December 1 - 30, 2022 At Kore Gallery with an artists reception December 10 from 6-8:30 pm

Artebella On The Radio: September 10

Art in the Time of COVID-19 is an on-line exhibit for the Portland Museum curated by Bailey 0'Leary and featuring the work of Jeribai Andrew-Jaja, Rachel Singel, & Erica Lewis. All four join us for an interview on this week's show. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.comThursday mornings at 10:00am to listen to LVA's Artebella on the Radio.

Art in the Time of COVID-19, a digital exhibition now being featured on Facebook and Instagram social media platforms.

Art in the Time of COVID-19 details three artists' experience of the novel coronavirus pandemic; 

Bailey O’ Leary, the Curator, is an MFA candidate in Curatorial Studies at the University of Kentucky.

Jeribai Andrew-Jaja is a Nigerian-born artist but currently;y living in Louisville, Kentucky.

Rachel Singel is an Associate Professor at Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville. She has participated in residencies in Italy, Spain, New Zealand.

Erica Lewis is an MFA candidate and graduate teaching assistant at the Hite Art Institute at the University of Louisville.

Artebella On The Radio: July 9, 2020

Rudolfo Salgado, jr. & Susanna Crum of Calliope Arts talk with us this week about a project called C19: Art Works for Kentucky. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Keith Waits speak with artists on LVA's Artebella On The Radio