Artists Talk with LVA: August 7, 2025

Louisville-based fiber artist Debra Harley discusses her first solo exhibition at Capacity Contemporary Exchange Gallery in Louisville. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com at 10 am each Thursday to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Debra Harley is a Louisville-based fiber artist. She devoted over 35 years of her professional career to education, curriculum development, and teacher training in New Orleans, LA. After retirement, she became certified as a Personal Trainer and Aquatic Fitness Instructor. A former U. S. Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya and Fulbright Scholar in Zimbabwe, her focus on fiber arts comes after over 40 years of practicing various textile arts. 

Her first solo exhibition Kairos/Chronos, Experience in Fiber. The work of Debra Harley is currently on display at Capacity Contemporary Exchange Gallery in Louisville.

Artists Talk with LVA: July 30, 2025

Artist & theatre designer Karl Anderson discusses his new solo exhibit at Kore Gallery, "Kaleidoscope". Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Karl Anderson is a freelance visual artist/painter and theatrical scenic designer. He has worked for Actors Theatre of Louiville, Stage One Family Theatre, Pandora Productions, and Kentucky Shakespeare, among many others. "Kaleidoscope", an exhibit of his newest work as a visual artist will open at Kore Gallery on August 2 with a reception from 6 - 8:30 pm.

Abstract Landscapes: a New Look by Chris Hartsfield will also be opening at that time.

Artists Talk with LVA: July 24, 2025

Dr. Eileen Yanoviak discusses her book, The Tenacious Nurse Nichols, this week. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Eileen Yanoviak holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Louisville. She is the former Director of the Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, Indiana. Yanoviak is the coeditor of a collection of essays entitled Formations of Identity: Society, Politics, and Landscape and the author of Gaela Erwin: Reframing the Past.

She teaches for Northern Kentucky University and the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and is now a Program Officer with the J. Graham Brown Foundation. Her new book is The Tenacious Nurse Nichols: An Unsung African American Civil War Hero

Artists Talk with LVA: July 17, 2025

Jessica, Claire, & Lindsey

Curator Lindsey Cummins cut the ribbon on her CPI Fellowship project, "What We Need is Here: Finding Hope in Gathering Together in Places We Call Home", and she joins us with two of the participating artists, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Lindsey Cummins (she/her) is a Louisville-based Independent Curator, Collections Manager, & Community Arts Organizer. As the Founder of AVID Collectors, she strives to impact local arts communities by uplifting artists, patrons, and private collections. Lindsey is the Curator & Collections Manager of the SNAP Art Collection Lindsey received her education at Louisville’s Hite Art Institute with a degree in Studio Art, Art History, and Modern Culture. She currently serves on the Board of the Portland Museum, the SNAP Art Foundation, and is a member of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art. 

Jessica Chao is a native to New Mexico and currently based in Louisville, Kentucky, earned a Bachelors in studio arts at UNM with a focus on lithography, sculpture, and painting. Jessica presented work at the Harwood Art Center, 516 Art, the New Mexico Cancer Center Foundation Gallery where she received “Curator’s Choice” presented by Regina Held, a field mural designed with the Bosque biologist team at Valle De Oro National Wildlife Refuge, and a large-scale art installation at the the National Hispanic Cultural Center Museum as an homage to her Chinese and Korean heritage. She has presented lithographs at the Chicago Art Department, and featured at Louisville Visual Art and Carbon Copy Gallery in Kentucky.   

Claire Krüeger received an MFA in Photography & Film from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013. In 2021, she was a COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence at Louisville Free Public Library, and in 2024 was an Artist-in-Residence at Bernheim Forest in Clermont, Kentucky. Krüeger runs Take Shape Artlab, a set of creative programs designed to boost growth, problem solving, creative thinking, and collaboration through hands-on art making. Krüeger is the Creative Director of Spidertown, a collaborative zine project with Sean Rose.

Artists Talk with LVA: July 10, 2025

This week, we talked with Licia Priest, the winner of the 2025 Bill Fischer Award for Visual Art. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Licia Priest: I Am We Crafting Community in Paper Tole is at KMAC Museum through August 17th, 2025

Priest is a bold interdisciplinary artist whose work blends painting, photography, digital media, sculpture, and even scent and sound. Rooted in personal reflection and cultural reclamation, her vibrant, layered pieces draw on childhood memories, travels to Zimbabwe, and a deep connection to textiles.

This body of work is an ongoing investigation into identifying and analyzing African & African-American cultural similarities & differences due to the African Diaspora.  Priest’s artistic practice explores perceived views versus the realities of Africa. Through an onsite immersion in African culture, similarities & differences are captured through photography.

Intrigued by traditional “craft” techniques, Priest utilizes them to express ideas, feelings and vision thereby creating “fine art” that appeals to the mind and touches the emotions . African art does not draw such a clear delineation & thus she, of African roots seems more drawn inherently to that way of viewing art, despite being a product of African-American heritage.

The process used in this body of art is called, Paper Tole. First comes  photographs, then manipulation of the imagery through color changes, merging imagery, altering line, space & shape. Next duplicates of the image & use of up to 40 layers occurs, cutting each layer out by hand , stacking shaping & coloring the edges & then assembling the work. This is a fresh new approach to a very old “craft”,  to create a level of depth & complexity in the work that echoes the depth & complexities of African & African-American cultural norms.