Artebella On The Radio: January 14

Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest Visual Arts Coordinator Jenny Zeller is our guest this week. She will give us an update on the Artist residencies and how Bernheim has adapted their programming in the time of the pandemic. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursday at 10:00 am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists and curators.

Jenny Zeller was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky.  Upon graduating from University of Kentucky in 1995, she moved to Key West, she has traveled far off the beaten track to places such as Haiti, Africa and Indonesia before returning home where she was named a 2014 Al Smith Fellowship Award recipient by the Kentucky Arts Council. From 2013 to 2015, Jenny held the position of Photographer, Artist in Residence at St. Francis School.  In 2017 she was awarded an Artist Professional Development Grant from the Great Meadows Foundation and a Regional Artist in Residence at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.

In July 2017, Jenny stepped into the role of Visual Arts Coordinator at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.

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: April 23, 2020

The Fund for the Arts is redirecting their efforts into a $10 million Cultural Lou Recovery Campaign to combat the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our cultural sector. Thursday morning Fund President & CEO Christen Boone will talk with us about this important shift. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com at 10am each Thursday to hear Keith Waits talk with artists and cultural leaders.

(this is the pre-recorded only and lasts about 18 minutes)

Artebella On The Radio: March 12, 2020

Skylar Smith has curated an exhibit for Metro Hall working with LVA and other partners called Ballot Box. She will join us this week along with two of the artists, Taylor Sanders and Sandra Charles. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists. https://www.facebook.com/events/543396966382799/

Skylar Smith is an artist, educator, and entrepreneur. She is a founding member of Kentucky College of Art + Design (KyCAD), and helped build the school from the seed of an idea to a living and evolving entity. Smith has taught college-level studio and art history courses for over ten years, in addition to teaching in non-profits and alternative-education venues. Her artwork deals with micro and macro perceptions of the natural world, and human-scale politics that influence perception.

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 is her passion and retired to concentrate on her art.

Taylor Sanders is a upcoming artist from Louisville, Ky. She studied at Spalding University earning a BFA degree in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a minor in African American Studies. With no specific medium, her main focus is integrating found three-d objects with multiple sculptural processes, techniques and materials while addressing relevant topics in history and in today’s society. 

Public Art Spotlight: Hogan's Fountain by Enid Yandell

Photo: Metro Louisville Commission on Public Art

 We call attention to Enid Yandell at the end of 2019, which was her 150th birthday, and as we move into 2020, which is the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote. Yandell was an ardent member of the suffragist movement and an internationally recognized artist who studied with Frederick MacMonnies and Auguste Rodin in Paris. In 1898 she became the first woman inducted into the National Sculpture Society.

Yandell created some of Louisville’s most venerable and familiar public sculptures and her birthday was recognized with seven exhibits at various locations throughout the year, and in March her Hometown Hero banner, one of the last of that series, was installed on the Harbison Condominiums building near Fort Nelson Park, located at Seventh and Main streets in Louisville Kentucky.

The Metro Louisville Committee on Public Art (COPA) website relates the history of Hogan’s Fountain:

“In 1903, not long after the completion of Ruff Memorial Fountain and Wheelman's Bench, Yandell was approached by General John Breckinridge Castleman (1841—1918), founder of the Louisville Parks Department and a close friend of the Yandell family, to design a fountain for Cherokee Park. Hogan's Fountain was commissioned by prominent merchant William J. Hogan and his wife, who actively collaborated with Yandell about the choice of subject matter. By that time, Yandell was living and working from her studio in Paris, where she created the Louisville work and had it shipped to the States for construction.” 

“Hogan's Fountain, which was originally intended as a watering fountain for horses and dogs, is topped with a small bronze figure of the mythical Pan, god of nature, the wild, shepherds, flocks, and goats, among other things. Pan, who has the body of a human but the hindquarters and legs of a goat, appears to dance in a patch of lily pads and cattails, holding his famous lute above his head, presumably having just used it to call the animals of the nearby park. Yandell represents Pan's "flock" below, where bronze turtles spout water into the large basin and, located underneath at the base of the fountain, several small dog heads act as water fountains for park—goers' leashed dogs. Yandell, always intent to capture her subjects accurately, is said to have modeled the bronze turtles from live turtles she found near Louisville.” (KTF)

For many who came of age in Louisville, the fountain was a touchstone for after school gatherings and family events, the broad, open space surrounded by trees with its nearby pavilion comprising arguably the most welcoming spot in Cherokee Park.  

And, not surprisingly, Hogan’s Fountain is the subject of an urban legend that allows that, at every full moon the statue of Pan comes down from the perch to wander the park, creating mischief for innocent passers by.

Hogan’s Fountain
1905
Bronze/Vermont Granite

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Hogan's Fountain/Pan, c. 1906-1916

Hogan’s Fountain at Cherokee Park, 1905. Historic photo provided by the University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections, Claude C. Matlack Collection.

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Written by Keith Waits. Entire contents copyright © 2019 Louisville Visual Art. All rights reserved. In addition to his work at the LVA, Keith is also the Managing Editor of a website, Arts-Louisville.com, which covers local visual arts, theatre, and music in Louisville.