Artebella On The Radio: January 30, 2020

Mural artist Liz Richter was our guest this Thursday. Liz is being recognized as the Emerging Artist at the Louisville Visual Art Honors event on February 7. We talked about murals, art education, and other things. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on ArtXFM.com each Thursday at 10:00 am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

Liz Richter was born in Paducah, KY and raised in rural Southeast Missouri. Although primarily focused on painting and drawing, Liz also explores wearable art, printmaking and other mixed media.

In 2016, she expanded into larger public art projects, completing a 1300 sq. ft. mural in Hikes Point, Louisville. Since then, she has completed other large murals for clients such as Kroger and Google Fiber. She views large-scale works and community live-paintings as an opportunity to draw the audience into the joy of the process, and engage younger artists, to empower the next generation of creatives. She has said, "I just want to cover the whole world in so much color that you can't hear or think anything but positivity."

In 2019 she was one of the featured artists in the Imagine Mural Festival sponsored by Metro Louisville and the Fund for the Arts, and she will be recognized as the Emerging Artist at the LVA Honors luncheon on Feb 7

Louisville Visual Art Honors

Honoring Nana Lampton, Billy Hertz, Che Rhodes, & Liz Richter

February 7, 2020 - 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage - 1701 W Muhammad Ali Blvd

LVA Honors Emerging Artist for 2019

Liz Richter

Artebella On The Radio: January 16, 2020

Brennen Cabrera's exhibit "Colors of Humanity" opens at Tim Faulkner Gallery on January 19 and Diana Grisanti's play "Lawbreakers: A Fast & Furious History of Women's Suffrage" opens at Stage One February 1. Both came in the Artxfm studios with Keith this week. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

Artist Brennan Cabrera, will have work on exhibit for this weekend ONLY. Colors of Humanity is a one-person show at Tim Faulkner Gallery. 991 Logan Street. This is a limited opportunity exhibit and will hang from January 19th through January 22nd.

As Brennen describes, his intentions as an artist are to create "Depictions of the human condition... primarily in the fields of psychological health, emotionality and sexuality. I am deeply impacted by my own experiences and my compassion, desire, need, and understanding of the lives, stories, and acts of other people."

Playwright Diana Grisanti was a Playwright in Residence at Theatre [502] in Louisville, Kentucky but she is NOW, along with her husband, Steve Moulds, C-=Artistic Director of that group. She is an Affiliated Writer at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. Her plays include The Patron Saint of Losing Sleep (Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte), River City (NNPN Rolling World Premiere), Abilene, Semantics, and Mandatory (Weber State University). She was a contributing writer on the bluegrass-inspired anthology That High Lonesome Sound (Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville) and her new play, Lawbreakers: A Fast and Furious History of Women's Suffrage opens at Stage One Family Theatre February 1 and 8 at 2:00 pm. At the KY Center – Bomhard Theatre.  For more information: Stageone.org

Colors of Humanity and Lawbreakers

Brennen Cabrera & Diana Grisanti