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.

Artists Talk with LVA: February 5, 2026

This week's guest, Aurora Noctua, recently exhibited at Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM / Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Aurora Noctua is a Kentucky native and local Louisville artist, writer, and designer. Her favorite medium is traditional pen and ink, coupled with mixed media techniques. Her hobbies are martial arts, video games, biking, hiking, writing, playing violin, and running the occasional Dungeons and Dragons campaign

"Ad Astra Per Aspera" Aurora Noctua's First Solo Show was at Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery through Jan 31, 2026.

Artists Talk with LVA: January 29, 2026

Thaniel Lee joins us to discuss his first curatorial effort, Market Boom: Emerging Artists from Louisville’s East Market District 2000–2008, the day before it opens at WheelHouse Art. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM / Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Thaniel Ion Lee's work explores both the body and the mind. His work attempts to make the viewer look beyond the everyday by juxtaposing unrelated symbols and words to force the viewer to connect concepts that are normally separated in the viewer's mind.

Lee's work has been exhibited at the Speed Art Museum, the Kentucky Museum of Art + Craft, and was represented at Swanson Contemporary in Louisville, KY from 2005 to 2019. His work can be found in the collections of the KMAC Museum, 21c Museum Hotels, the University of Louisville, as well as in private collections across Kentucky, California, and New York, among others.

Market Boom: Emerging artists from Louisville's East Market District 2000-2008 at WheelHouse Art, Curated by Thaniel Ion Lee

January 30 - March 14, 2026. Opening reception Friday, January 30, 2026, 6:00 - 8:00 pm.

Artists Talk with LVA: January 22, 2026

Terry Spangler Dunham & Charlotte Pollock discuss their upcoming exhibit at Pyro Gallery on Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM / Artxfm.com.

Terry Spangler Dunham’s current work focuses on images that evoke a sense of sanctuary, places that feel restful and inspiring. She holds a BFA degree in drawing from Kansas State University and a BA from Pennsylvania State University, with an emphasis on drawing and photography. Her current body of work is acrylic painting, some mixed media, and drawing.

Charlotte Pollock received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Louisville, Major: Studio Art, Louisville, Kentucky, and also studied at The Marchutz School of Art, Plein-air painting, Aix-en-Provence, France. She has twice received Great Meadows Foundation Travel Grants, including a trip to the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. 

Homegrown Stories, new work by Terry Spangler Dunham with guest artists Charlotte Pollock & Sherrie Spangler, opens at Pyro Gallery on January 31st with a reception from 5 - 8:30 pm. There will also be a Gallery Talk and demo on February 1 beginning at 1:30 pm.

Artists Talk with LVA: January 15, 2026

Woody & Barrett

J. Barrett Cooper & Steve Woodring came in to discuss their upcoming production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame at Bunbury Theatre. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM / Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists talk with LVA.

J. Barrett Cooper is an actor, director, fight director, storyteller, and acting instructor, and an avid cyclist. He has taught theatre at Walden Theatre and Idylwild Institute, and was the founder of Savage Rose Classical Theatre Company. He has worked as an actor for Stage One Family Theatre, Kentucky Shakespeare, and Bunbury Theatre.

Steve Woodring was the Director of Production and Consulting at the Kentucky Center for the Arts, and has directed many productions for Bunbury Theatre, including the upcoming production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, which opens January 30 and runs through February 15 at The Henry Clay Theatre on the 3rd floor of the Henry Clay building.

Endgame is an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play by the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. First performed in London in 1957, it is about a blind, paralysed, domineering elderly man, his geriatric parents, and his servile companion in an abandoned house in a fictional post-apocalyptic wasteland, all of whom await an unspecified "end".