Artebella On The Radio: December 31

Alonzo Ramont returns this week with Jack Sutherlin to talk about DigitalArtsLou.com, a new online platform for Louisville artists being launched by Redline Performing Arts and which will host a reading of Jack's new musical play, "Strings" on January 3. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com at 10:00 am each Thursday to hear artists talk about their work with Keith Waits on LVA's Artebella On The Radio.

Alonzo Ramont is the Owner and Artistic Director of Redline Performing Arts. Alonzo's experience includes 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.

Jack Sutherlin is a musician, singer, songwriter, and scriptwriter currently living in NYC but originally from Sellersburg, IN. 

“Strings” will stream on DigitalArtsLou.com on January 3, 2021.

Artebella On The Radio: December 17

Is Jesse Alford the busiest lighting person in Louisville? Fortunately, his skills as a circus artist help him juggle a schedule this full: Lighting Designer at Big Apple Circus, Lighting Designer at Louisville Ballet and Resident Lighting Designer at Pandora Productions. He'll answer this and other questions in our interview airing this Thursday morning. Tune into WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10:00 am.

Jesse Alford is originally from Redlands, CA and earned a BA in Theatre Arts from Washington State University. His lighting work can be seen with a variety of groups in Louisville, St. Louis, Cincinnati, New York, and other places. Collaborators include The Louisville Ballet, The Louisville Orchestra, The Big Apple Circus, The Kentucky Opera, Stage One Family Theatre, Circus Flora, Pandora Productions, Acting Against Cancer, Kentucky Shakespeare, The Va Va Vixens, The Mary Shelly Electric Company, Theatre [502], The Liminal Playhouse, Circus Culture, Suspend Performing Arts, and many more.

Jesse also works as a circus coach, teaching unicycle, juggling, partner acrobatics, and much more. He is the Head Coach for My Nose Turns Red Youth Circus, and serves as the Board President of the American Youth Circus Organization and American Circus Educators.

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.

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.

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.