Artebella On The Radio: December 10

This week we will be speaking with Remi about her latest project, the ISEEU Mobile Platform. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10 am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

Tara Remington (Remi) is an American Multi-Media 2D/3D Artist whose processes include: public art, installation, printmaking, drawing, photography, and sculpture. Remi’s formal study: Ringling School of Art, Sarasota FL and Portfolio Center, Atlanta Ga where she studied graphic design, photography, and advertising. Her professional career began in the early 1980s in arts management, programming, instruction, and facilitation. Remi’s ten-year focus has been on collaborative 3D temporary and permanent public art installations and murals. Her work has introduced mixed media processes and art to a cross-section of age, gender, race, and socioeconomic participants. Remi envisions art as a mindful and empowering vehicle of change, informing the masses how creativity can be embraced by everyone and can be approached from many perspectives.

Remi at Josephine Sculpture Park & ISEEU

Tara Remington (Remi)

Artebella On The Radio: December 3

Julien Robson has curated "The Shands Collection: New Directions" which opens at John Brooks' Quappi Projects this week. Both joined us this week to discuss this unprecedented exhibit. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com every Thursday at 10:00am to listen to LVA's Artebella On The Radio.

Julien Robson is Director of Great Meadows Foundation, the INhouse Foundation, and Curator of the Shands Collection and the collection of Brook Smith. He also works as a project-based Independent Curator/Consultant. He is based in Louisville, Kentucky in the USA and Vienna, Austria.

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. he is the founder and director of Quappi Projects in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Shands Collection: New Directions is on exhibit December 4, 2020 through January 16, 2021.

The Shands Collection: New Directions

Julien Robson & John Brooks

Artebella On The Radio: November 26

John Austin Clark of Bourbon Baroque joined us this week to talk about their "Messiah 2020: In Soli - tüde", a series of four online performances that will stream on successive Sundays beginning November 29. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Keith Waits talk with artists

Louisville native John Austin Clark co-founded Bourbon Baroque with the late violinist Nicolas Fortin. Mr. Clark operates a private piano studio, is an active accompanist and vocal coach, directs musical theatre and opera, and performs regularly with various ensembles and equity theatre houses such as Actors Theatre of Louisville and Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples, Florida.

He is the recipient of the 2017 Young Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater Louisville Collegiate School in Louisville, Kentucky and a recipient of a Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts Toyota Alumni Grant that he used to apprentice with harpsichord builder Yves Beaupré of Montréal, QC in August 2017. He performs on a variety of keyboard instruments and owns a 2017 Beaupré Italian harpsichord. He can be heard on the Naxos/Centaur label.

Messiah 2020: In Soli - tüde

John Austin Clark

Artebella On The Radio: November 19

Master Muralist Charlie Nunn is in Louisville conducting a workshop for Black Mural Artists through LVA and we recorded an interview with him for this Thursday's show. 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.

Charlie Nunn is a Louisville native now living in New York City where he works for Colossal Media. With Darius Dennis and Jared Diaz he is currently involved with creating the “I Am” series of large scale murals in Chicago and Louisville with a 3rd in the series now due to happen in Rochester, NY. The Louisville mural, “I Am Singing” is on The Nia Center at 2900 West Broadway.

“I Am Singing” is on The Nia Center in Louisville.

Black Mural Artists Workshop

Charlie Nunn

Artebella On The Radio: November 12

Dancer/choreographer Theresa Bautista is the recipient of the 2021 Al Smith Fellowship in Choreography. This week she talks with us about that and Modern Dance in this moment. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10 am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists. In the interview we talk about her piece, Pillowtalk, which you can view here.

Theresa Bautista has choreographed works for Cincinnati's Area Choreographer Festival, Moving Collective, the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts, U of L Dance Theatre, the University of Kentucky’s Department of Theatre and Dance, Berea College Dance Troupe, Empujon, the University of Kentucky Dance Ensemble, The Center for Women and Families, and Bluegrass Youth Ballet. She presented her solo work, “I am a pretty girl” at the Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival in September 2018, the Regional Alternative Dance Festival in Kalamazoo, MI in March 2018 and the Big River Dance Festival in Huntington, WV in September 2017. Pillow Talk: function, dream, support, rest was described by Keith Waits of Arts-Louisville,com as “a fresh piece of choreography [that is] arguably the most engaging dance of the evening.” It was re-staged in 2019 at Centre College and the Kentucky Center’s Governor’s School for the Arts. Theresa has also directed and choreographed three dance films with the Kentucky Center's Governor's School for the Arts.

2021 Al Smith Fellowship in Choreography

Theresa Bautista