Ashley Cathey, Jaylin Stewart, & Chip Kafale Calloway are 3 of the 7 artists who will be featured in LVA's art[squared] online fundraiser on June 25, and they also happen to be Black artists who have something to say in this moment. Listen to them on this extended edition of LVA's Artebella On The Radio. The interview runs for about 1 hour and 16 minutes. Tune in each Thursday) at 10:00 am on WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on ARTXFM.com.
Ashley Cathey is a Louisville native whose paintings have brought her to prominence in a fairly short time after moving back to Louisville from Chicago. When she returned, she quickly found her footing and exhibited work in a group show at the Louisville Community Center, one of the Metro Parks community centers overseen by Portia White. From there, Cathey caught the attention of ArtsReach’s Julia Youngblood, who commissioned Cathey to create a series of portraits, which ArtsReach used for posters for their annual Keepers of the Dream celebration at the Kentucky Center for the Arts.
Jaylin Stewart is an artist from West Louisville who has dedicated her talents to victims of violence & the community by creating therapeutic artwork. Through her non-profit company, Adah School of Art she provides visual art instruction to children. Although primarily a painter, her three-dimensional installation, God Rest America, was at Scheherezade Gallery in 2019. Since the stay-at-home quarantine, she has kept busy executing chalk sidewalk murals in tribute to health care workers.
Tiffany Ackerman Westmoreland talks about the resurgence of her stained-glass practice during self-isolation and how long it will take Flame Run, where she is the Gallery Director, to fire up their furnace again on this week's Artebella On The Radio. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.
On her Instagram page: tart_ackerart, Westmoreland describes herself as:
Western Middle School Art Teacher Amanda Thompson talks about the challenges of visual art NTI, and artist/curator Ashley Cathey tells about the 3-D virtual reality version of her "Black Before I Was Born" exhibit that she is building. Tune in each Thursday to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com to hear Keith Waits talk with artists and teachers!
Amanda Thompson has a background in fine art, community outreach, and education. She currently holds a BFA in Mixed Media from the University of Kentucky and an MAT in art education and MS in human development from the University of Louisville. She is in her ninth year of teaching Art at Western Middle School for the Arts and Children’s Fine Art Classes with LVA . She has shown artwork, participated in art exhibits and programs throughout the US, Ireland, Italy, and China.
Ashley Cathey is a painter whose creative journey began with performing arts before she was eventually encouraged to develop her visual art talents, which, up until then had been purely for her own personal edification, by exhibiting in Chicago before returning to her native Louisville. She came to prominence when ArtsReach commissioned Cathey to create a series of portraits for their annual Keepers of the Dream celebration at the Kentucky Center for the Arts. In 2016 her work was featured on the cover of LEO Weekly as part of an extensive story on artists of color in Louisville. She recently curated the exhibit, Black Before I Was Born, still up at Roots 101.
Visual artists John Brooks & Andrew Cozzens will be joining us this week to talk about the changing landscape of gallery exhibits in the age of COVID. 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 on LVA's Artebella On The Radio.
Visual artist and poet John Brooks explores themes of identity, memory, death, place, and the transformative power and emotional resonance of particular experiences and what Max Beckmann described as “the deepest feeling about the mystery of being. His Quappi Projects gallery is located in the NuLu neighborhood of Louisville.
Andrew Cozzens is a visual artist who researches time subjectivity and its effect on human experience and aging. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally at Georgian in Ontario, Canada; the Arenes du Lutece in Paris, France; SCOPE at Art Basel in Miami Beach, FL; a solo exhibition during the Taipei Biennial in Taipei, Taiwan; and the Siena Art Institute in Siena, Italy. In 2018 he received his second Artist Development Grant from the Great Meadows Foundation and in 2010 he was an Artist in Residence at the Cite’ Internationale Des in Paris, France. Recently Andrew has curated multiple exhibitions and his essay Simultaneity and the Parallax in Art: The Fallacy of Absolutes was published in the International Journal of Zizek Studies.
Andrew has taught Art History, Sculpture, Environmental Art, 3D Design, Field Study, Art Appreciation, and Drawing courses on the collegiate level. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Center for the Environment at the Kentucky College of Art and Design.
This Thursday we talked with two JCPS teachers working with NTI. Ben Evans teaches science at Noe Middle School and Julie Dingman Evans teaches theatre at YPAS. They were joined by their daughter, Bailey and the trio sang “All of Me”, ! an example of something they've been doing on social media during the quarantine. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on ARTXFM.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.
