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

Artebella On The Radio: January 9, 2020

Alonzo Ramont, Shaquille Towns & Marcus Fischer joined Keith in the studio to talk and sing about Choir Boy from Pandora Productions, which opens January 10. The result was an insightful discussion of inclusion in Louisville and Southern Indiana theatre. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com at 10am each Thursday to hear Keith Waits talk to to artists about their work.

Alonzo Ramont is Owner and Artistic Director of Redline Performing Arts. He is also the Executive Pastor of All Nations Worship Assembly Louisville. Alonzo's experience as Spotlight Theatre Camp Director, Asst. Director of Early Childhood Education at the Jewish Community Center of Louisville, Artistic Director at SC Theatre and New Albany Riverstage Productions. He recently appeared in Beauty and the Beast and directed Dreamgirls, both at CenterStage at JCC.

Shaquille Towns studied at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. he has appeared in Hairspray, A Raisin In The Sun, and in Dreamgirls at CenterStage at JCC.

Marcus Fischer has worked with CenterStage at JCC, TheaterWorks of Southern Indiana, Kentucky Black Repertory Theatre, and Faithworks Studios.

Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney with Guest Director: Alonzo Ramont

Race and sexuality collide with the gravity of history at the Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys is dedicated to the creation of strong, ethical black men. The sweet harmonies of spirituals and gospel unite the fractious voices of the young men but when they raise their voices in unison, they offer a glimpse of a world in which the cruelty that can divide and destroy is dissolved in a graceful order.

January 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 @ 7:30 pm; 12 @ 2:30 & 19 @ 5:30 pm

Choir Boy at Pandora Productions

Alonzo Ramont, Shaquille Towns, & Marcus Fischer

Artebella on The Radio: January 2, 2020

Katherine Martin

Jack Wallen

None of these talented thespians will be there, but the man who created these images, photographer Bill Brymer, was Keith's first guest of 2020 talking about his current exhibit at Kore Gallery. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on ARTXFM.COM every Thursday at 10:00am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

INSPIRED LOUISVILLE: ACTORS is a photography exhibition in celebration of Louisville’s theatrical community. The show opens at Louisville’s KORE Gallery (942 E. Kentucky Street, Louisville, KY 40204) January 2 and runs through February 2, 2020. Photographer Bill Brymer asked 40 local actors and artistic directors to sit for portraits in either the role that most inspired them to become actors, or in the role they’d most like to play some day. The actors also provided brief commentary illuminating their choices.

Meg Caudill

There will be an Artist’s Reception at KORE Gallery Saturday, January 4, from 6:00-8:30 pm.

Bill Brymer has been photographing local performing arts groups since 2009: his photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The Courier-Journal, American Theatre, Opera News, LEO Weekly, Arts-Louisville and elsewhere. Bill lives in Louisville, KY with his wife Sarah and daughter Ruby.

Inspired Louisville: Actors

Bill Brymer

Artebella On The Radio: December 19, 2019

Playwright, poet, and Artistic Director of Stage One Family Theatre Idris Goodwin and spoken word artist Morgan Allison were in the studio with Keith this week reading from, among others, idris' new collection, "Can I Kick It?" Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

Idris Goodwin is an award-winning playwright, director, orator and educator. He is the Producing Artistic Director of Stage One Family Theater in Louisville, KY for which he penned the widely produced And In This Corner: Cassius Clay. Other widely produced plays include: How We Got On, This Is Modern Art co-written with Kevin Coval, Bars and Measures, The Raid, and Hype Man: a break beat play which was just produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville. His poetry collection, Can I Kick It?, has just been published.

Morgan-Allison is a Louisville native and a graduate of Lane College and Vanderbilt University. She has been a spoken word artist for 7 plus years and spoken word is just a portion of who she truly is. Her particular interest is to use her voice to ask the hard questions or join into conversations that most people want to avoid.

She leads by example as her goal with her poetry is to inspire others to be open and walk in their truths, which she does through her poetry.

Kickin' The Spoken Word

Idris Goodwin & Morgan Allison