Artebella On The Radio: May 21, 2020

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.

Artebella On The Radio: May 14, 2020

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.

Artebella On The Radio: May 7, 2020

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.

Artebella On The Radio: April 30, 2020

Theatre director and Simmons College faculty Martin French & U of L Assistant Professor Dr. Janna Segal talked about the challenges facing academic theatre programs in an uncertain time. Tune in 10 am each Thursday to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com to hear Keith Waits talk with artists on LVA's Artebella On the Radio.

Martin French is the Co-Artistic Director of The Chamber Theatre and one of the Artistic Directorate for Louisville Repertory Company. From Ireland originally, he has worked in theatre for many years, covering a wide variety of positions. By trade a designer, and by preference a director, Martin has worked professionally in theatre for over 20 years in Dublin, London, and Louisville, combining his creative work with positions as a theatre technician, and more recently instructor. He has been an artistic director with Ourclann and Dublin Shakespeare in Ireland, and in Louisville has previously been on the board of The Alley Theatre, and currently serves on the board of the Louisville Repertory Company.

Depending on when you ask him, his influences may include Edward Gordon Craig, Vsevolod Meyehold, Tadeusz Kantor, Yoshi Oida, Robert Wilson, and Silviu Purcarete. He is known as a devotee to Henrik Ibsen, a student of the ancient Greeks, and a dabbler in Noh theatre when given the chance.

Some highlights of his directing work include The Bloomsday Breakfast Show, Elektra, Busu, Electile Dysfunction, Metamorphosis, and Chek-Mate.

His article, Don’t Cry For Theatre, Academia, was the catalyst for this conversation.

Dr. Janna Segal teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Louisville in: theatre history, literature, and theory; Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation; American feminist theatre; and dramaturgy. Prior to joining the UofL faculty, Dr. Segal was an Assistant Professor in the Theatre Department and in the MLitt/MFA Shakespeare and Performance program at Mary Baldwin College, and an IHUM Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. She has published single and co-authored works on Shakespeare’s As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet; Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl; Fo and Rame’s Elisabetta; and Chekhov’s Three Sisters. Her scholarly work has appeared in such journals as SDC Journal, JEMCS, Shakespeare, and Early Modern Literary Studies, as well as in numerous anthologies, including the forthcoming Performances at Court in Shakespeare’s Era (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018) and How to Teach a Play (Bloomsbury, 2018). Dr. Segal is also a freelance dramaturg whose past production work includes Shakespeare, Shakespearean adaptation, contemporary theatre, and new plays in development. She is the Resident Dramaturg of the Comparative Drama Conference, for which she dramaturgs two to three new plays a year, and a dramaturg for ATHE’s annual New Play Development Workshop. At UofL, she has dramaturged Baltimore,Eurydice, and The Master and Margarita, and The Taming of the Shrew. She has also worked locally as a guest dramaturg for Commonwealth Theatre Center. Dr. Segal is a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), and she serves on the Board of the Comparative Drama Conference.

Artebella On The Radio: April 23, 2020

The Fund for the Arts is redirecting their efforts into a $10 million Cultural Lou Recovery Campaign to combat the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our cultural sector. Thursday morning Fund President & CEO Christen Boone will talk with us about this important shift. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com at 10am each Thursday to hear Keith Waits talk with artists and cultural leaders.

(this is the pre-recorded only and lasts about 18 minutes)