Artebella On The Radio: October 7

Open Studio Louisville runs the next 4 Saturdays & we talked with 4 of the artists: Andrew Marsh, Feral Fagiola, Sarah Ferguson, & James May. Tune in @ WXOX 97.1 FM or stream @ Artxfm.com Thursdays @ 10am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists on LVA's Artebella on the Radio.

James May is a Kentucky native who has been working in the arts since 2001 as artists’ assistant, educator, and technician. He has a BFA from Tulane University and an MFA from Illinois State University and has been a working artist in both New Orleans and Cincinnati, prior to moving to Louisville in 2015. He is a fabricator, installer, contractor and consultant for numerous other artists and has designed equipment for several studios nationally. He is the co-founder of Acme Artworks.

A Louisville native, Sarah Ferguson has years of varied experience working in galleries and art venues in the area. She is a Centre College graduate. Her volunteer and community service history has given her ample experience with youth programs and community outreach as ACME strives to be a centerpiece in the greater Louisville community.

Feral Fagiola is an artist, designer, metalsmith, and tattooist living and working at Lucky 7 Arts at Bldg 15 Studios in Louisville. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, she studied at Vermont College of Fine Arts and Kennesaw State University.

Andrew Marsh makes beautiful and terrifying art to celebrate life in the face of severe chronic pain. He combines brutal, explosive performances with cast iron, welded steel, and chainsaw carved wood sculptures at his studio, Lucky 7 Arts at Bldg 15 Studios in Louisville, KY. He was an artist in residence at City Museum in St. Louis after earning his MFA at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (‘01) and BFA at the University of Kentucky (‘95). His work has appeared in over 250 group and solo exhibitions, collections, and events throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. Marsh is assistant director for Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research and program officer for the Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy at the University of Louisville. He serves as chair of the board of directors and executive officer for Josephine Sculpture Park and is a contributing artist at Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum. He chaired the 2017 and 2019 National Conferences on Contemporary Cast Iron Art & Practices.

Artebella On The Radio: September 30

Esther Callahan is the 2021 Great Meadows Critic-in-Residence. We had a blast talking to her this week halfway through her residency. You won't want to miss this interview so tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM or stream on Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am.

Esther Callahan is an African American independent curator, arts organizer, and feminist scholar with roots in Minnesota. Over the past 20+ years in the Twin Cities, she has created and co-created various platforms for cultural production rooted in interrogating the impact of racial and gender equity. She is the former Co-Director of the Emerging Curators Institute, a Minnesota-based nonprofit designed to build the individual practices of emerging curators from diverse backgrounds. In 2018-2019 she was Curatorial Fellow at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Mia), where she co-founded the Curatorial Advisory Committee—embracing all departments in Mia, including facilities, accounting, and visitor information—which has been adopted at Mia and other museums to help inform Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion practice in curatorial work. 

And LVA is excited to announce that Esther has agreed to conduct the next entry in our Artist Resource Series in October. Look for the date and how to register to be announced SOON!

Artebella On The Radio: September 23

Photographers Andrew Cenci & Scotty Perry are both exhibiting during the Photo Biennial and we will be talking with them on this week's show. Andrew's work will be at LVA & Scotty at fifteenTWELVE. Tune in to WXO X97.1 FM/Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am.

Andrew Cenci is a photographic artist based in Louisville, KY. He uses photography to focus on the beauty of the every day through portraits, contemporary landscapes, and candid images. A self-taught photographer, working with traditional practices in order to create bodies of work with poetic sensibility. His photos highlight the beauty, joy, loneliness, and longing of the realities of everyday life. 

A Walk in the Park is available for viewing September 30 through November 7 with an Artist Talk on Saturday, October 9.

Scotty Perry is also a Louisville-based photographer and educator, He is a recipient of a Great Meadows Foundation, Artist Professional Development Grant, and has published the Here Book.

His exhibit, Here, is at fifteen TWELVE now through September 28.

Artebella On The Radio: September 16

LVA Executive Director Kristian Anderson joins us this week to talk Open Studio Louisville, LVA Free Wall, The Local Muse, Give4Good, and other news from Louisville Visual Art. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear about visual art in Louisville.

LVA Executive Director Kristian Anderson has 15 years of experience in the arts and culture sector, most recently as Senior Policy Advisor to the Mayor of Salt Lake City. In that role, he oversaw a variety of community, operational and political projects encompassing arts and culture as well as land use, urban design, economic development, and more. Prior to his mayoral appointment, Kristian was for four years the Executive Director of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and Executive Director for the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries in Seattle.

Artebella On The Radio: September 9

The Louisville Photo Biennial is back and this week we have separate interviews with keynote speaker Keith Carter and Biennial founder Paul Paletti. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10 am to hear Keith Waits speak with artists.

Keith Carter is an internationally respected author, educator, and workshop leader. He has published 13 books of his expressive images. In addition, two documentary films have been released: Keith Carter: The Artist Series, Ted Forbes, and A Certain Alchemy, Anthropy Arts. A fifty-year retrospective book was released fall of 2019 from University of Texas Press. Carter has been described as a "Poet of the Ordinary" by the Los Angeles Times (1994) and received the Texas Medal of Arts in 2009. Mr. Carter’s work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the George Eastman House, and the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University.

The 2021 Louisville Photo Biennial takes place from September 9, through November 14, 2021, at locations all throughout Louisville Metro, Southern Indiana, and Central Kentucky.

Paul Paletti is a lawyer and collector of photography who now heads the Louisville Photo Biennial. He attended Middlebury College for 3 years before transferring to the University of New Mexico where he studied with Beaumont Newhall, Van Deren Coke, and Ray Metzker and received a BFA in photography. Paletti earned a MA in photography at Central Washington University in 1975 and his JD at the University of Louisville in 1987. He has been a partner in the law firm of Sturm, Paletti, and Wilson since 1994.