Artists Talk with LVA: January 6, 2022

Skylar Smith opens an exhibit at fifteenTWELVE this week and Megan Massie Ware is directing the world premiere of Zac Hoogendyk's play Ossietzky. We talk to all three this week on Artists Talk with LVA. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am to listen in.

Skylar Smith is an artist, curator, and educator. Her work deals with micro and macro perceptions of the natural world, and human-scale politics that influence perception. 

She is a founding member of Kentucky College of Art + Design (KyCAD), and she has taught college-level art studio and art history courses for over a decade, in addition to teaching at non-profit and alternative-education venues.  

In 2020 Smith curated BallotBox, a contemporary art exhibition examining past and present voting rights with support from Kentucky Foundation for Women, Louisville Metro, Louisville Visual Art, and Great Meadows Foundation. BallotBox was on display in Louisville Metro Hall and at 21c Museum Louisville through March 2021. 

skylarsmith.com/
@skylarsmithart

Megan Massie Ware is an actress & director, known for the films Reading Kate & Wretch and the web series Bagged and Bored. Onstage she has worked with Kentucky Shakespeare, Stage one Family Theatre, Derby Dinner Playhouse & Actors Theatre.

Hailing from Arizona, Zac Campbell-Hoogendyk is an actor & playwright now working in Louisville. He has worked at the Repertory Theatre of St.Louis, The Cleveland Playhouse, The Gulfshore Playhouse in Florida, and several theatre companies in NYC.

Ossietzky: A Peace Play January 20 - 30 at The Mex Theatre in the KY Performing Arts Tickets at kentuckyperformingarts.org

Artebella On The Radio: December 30

.Brigit Truex, Fayette, Enrolled Member (Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi [Vermont], and Fred Nez-Keams, Anderson, Enrolled Member (Navajo) are both in the Native Reflections exhibit now in Metro Hall. They speak about their work and Fred performs on the flute this Thursday at 10 am. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each week to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

The Kentucky Arts Council, the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission and the Kentucky Heritage Council worked together to invite American Indians living in Kentucky to share their visual art. A panel of American Indians and experts on Native American heritage selected works to include and the result is this amazing collection.

As required by law and custom, the Native Reflections exhibit labels indicate whether an artist is an enrolled member of a state- or federally-recognized tribe, or if they are not currently enrolled or recognized. Each artist is listed as either “Enrolled Member” or “Native Inspired.”

To learn more about how American Indian people receive or apply for enrolled status, contact the Kentucky Heritage Council or find links and resources at http://heritage.ky.gov.

Artebella On The Radio: December 23

Mary Carothers, new chair of the Hite Institute of Art & Design, & Kat Cox, the new Ceramics/Fiber instructor, join us this week to discuss new growth at U of L. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

Mary Carothers has been a professor at Hite Art Institute, Louisville, Kentucky since 1998 and is currently the Department Chair. Her artworks are often site-specific. Carothers’ collaborative project with Sue Wrbican , The Frozen Car (2008) was featured on the Discovery Channel, Floating Seeds (2013), juried by COD+A (Commission of Design and Architecture) received an international merit award and most recently, her sculptural commission Beneath the Surface was recognized by Americans for the Arts as one of 38 of the most outstanding public art projects created in 2015. Beneath the Surface was reinstalled permanently at Great Meadows Estate owned by Al Shands in 2016. 

Originally from Southern California, Kat Cox joined the Fine Arts faculty at University of Louisville in the middle of 2021. Previously, Kat was living and working in Northern California as an Art Lab Technician and Adjunct Professor. She is a 2019 graduate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with her Masters of Fine Arts in Art focusing on ceramics. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from California State University Long Beach in the spring of 2015. She has worked in clay and fibers since a young age and uses both mediums within her work. Kat’s work has been exhibited at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, and The Epperson Gallery. 

Artebella On The Radio: December 16

Vidalia Unwin, Joyce Barbour, & Alexis Kite talk about their work and the experience of being a trans artist in Louisville. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

Joyce Barbour (She/They) is a transfeminine multimedia artist focusing primarily on sound and installation. Conceptually, Barbour’s work often explores the therapeutic possibilities of art and the idea of creativity as a communal effort. Collaboration is a strong part of her creative practice.

Explore Barbour's music and sound art project further at the Psychic Skin bandcamp page. For more video work, check out the small family Vimeo page.

Alexis Kite is a Louisville artist in the mediums of music, cartooning, and being an Art Hoe. Her main work in the ongoing diary comic Is Life. She was the guitarist for the trans radical punk band Bathroom Laws, and will eventually re-establish her current music project, Syldra. Lexi is also known for being a bimbo and loving 80's era video gaming.

Vidalia Unwin is an actress and playwright who studied creative writing at the University of Louisville and studied theater unofficially at Bellarmine University. Her full length credits include Domesticate, Punk Snot, Broken Iris, and The Ballad of Night Moose (co-written by Lex Mitchell). Her short plays include Cruise Control, Hunting For Jackalopes, and Hiding on Jupiter. She has worked with several Louisville theatre companies including Derby City Playwrights and Looking for Lilith Theatre Company.

Artebella On The Radio: December 9

Raphaela Platow assumed her new role as the Director of The Speed Museum on August 30, of this year. Platow has served as the Alice & Harris Weston Director of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in Cincinnati, Ohio since 2007.  This week she came to speak with us about it. Join us at WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am.

During her 14 years at the CAC, Platow increased annual attendance fourfold. This growth follows two major initiatives driven by Platow to enhance the CAC’s physical space and improve visitor experience through renovations and the implementation of free admission for all in 2016. Under her leadership, she doubled its annual operating budget through substantial increases in earned revenue and private support and made both environmental sustainability and diversity, equity, and inclusion key priorities.