Artists Talk with LVA: May 7, 2026

With Insects We Share the Same Light, curated by Clare Hirn, opens at MaybeItsFate on May 9th. Clare discusses her curatorial debut with Margaret Carreiro, Professor of Biology Emerita, University of Louisville. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

Clare Hirn, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, received her Master’s in Painting and Drawing from the New York Academy of Art - Graduate School of Figurative Art. With an emphasis on strong foundational skills of drawing and painting, Hirn has largely worked realistically over the span of her 30+ year career. Always inspired by the natural world, with a focus on landscape and the human figure.

Margaret Carreiro is a plant and soil ecologist working primarily in urban and suburban areas. She studies the impacts of cities and towns on natural areas and is also involved in restoration ecology studies. She was an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at UofL.

With Insects We Share the Same Light, curated by Clare Hirn, invites viewers to deepen their appreciation for insects — Earth's most diverse organisms and ecological cornerstone for over 350 million years — and to reflect on their critical role and growing vulnerability in the Anthropocene.

With Insects We Share the Same Light, curated by Clare Hirn

Clare Hirn & Margaret Carreiro

Artists Talk with LVA: February 12, 2026

Kathryn Brooks, MA candidate in Hite Art Institute's Curatorial Studies program, joined us this week on Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM to discuss their thesis exhibit at 21c.

Kathryn Brooks, a student in the MA Program in Critical & Curatorial Studies at the Hite Institute of Art + Design, curated After Precarity as part of the program’s culminating MA Thesis Project, gaining hands-on experience organizing a professional exhibition at a major contemporary art venue.

After Precarity runs through June 2026  at the 21c Museum Hotel, 700 W Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202 (top floors, galleries 4 & 5)

After Precarity features work that has rewritten the narrative of discardable consumer goods, finding beauty in what was disposed of. 

Louisville-based artists, including UofL Professor Mitch Eckert, Albertus Gorman, Lori Larusso, and Tom Pfannerstill, each find their muse and often their material of choice in the discarded articles of consumer goods found in trash receptacles, along riverbanks, and on roadsides.

After Precarity at 21c Museum & Hotel Louisville

Kathryn Brooks

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.

Echoes of the Past at Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery

Sandra Charles & Elmer Lucille Allen

Artists Talk with LVA: May 22, 2025

Drew & Vincent

Vincent Young has curated Queer Convergence: Figurative Abstraction in Contemporary Art at Hite Institute’s Schneider Hall Galleries. he and two of the artists in the exhibit, Lalana Fedorschak & Drew Scanlon, join us to discuss it. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Vincent Young is a Louisville native who earned a BA in Art History at the University of Louisville. He is currently finishing his MA in Curatorial Studies..

Drew Scanlon earned their Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Ceramics Certificate from the University of Florida in 2020. They spent a 2020-2021 as a Post-Baccalaureate student at West Virginia University then spent two years studying at Indiana University Southeast as a Post-Baccalaureate. Currently, they are in their second year of the MFA program in Studio Art at the University of Louisville. Additionally, they are an Instructor of Record at the University of Louisville, teaching Intro to Clay.

Lalana Fedorschak is an artist exploring experiences within individual and social bodies. 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 formerly held teaching positions at Vincennes University and Indiana University Southeast.

Queer Convergence: Figurative Abstraction in Contemporary Art

Vincent Young, Drew Scanlon, & Lalana Fedorschak

Artists Talk with LVA: May 8, 2025

Louisville native and U of L grad Robyn Gibson is a Black artist focused on self-portraiture and the exploration of her trauma, grappling with Black identity, the depiction, perception and value of Black bodies, and what it means to be authentic. She joins us in the studio this week to talk about that and more. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Robyn Gibson is an emerging artist and curator living and working in Louisville, KY.

She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Louisville in 2014, earning a BFA in Painting and a BSBA in Marketing. Since receiving her MFA in 2018 from the New York Academy of Art, Gibson has been developing her multidisciplinary art practice.

After she started boxing in 2016, Gibson began incorporating it into her art practice. Larger-than-life-sized bold, gestural charcoal figures on canvas, a lyrical writing style meant to pack a punch, and voluptuous vessels inspired by her own curves all convey the movement and force important to her work and inspired by her boxing practice. The act of taking up space and claiming ownership of it is important to her work. As a Black artist focused on self-portraiture and the exploration of her trauma, Gibson grapples with Black identity, the depiction, perception and value of Black bodies, and what it means to be authentic.

Unsettled at Wheelhouse Art

Robyn Gibson