Artists Talk with LVA: January 23, 2025

Louisville quilter “Sunshine Joe” Mallard joined us to talk about his piece, the Obama Tie Quilt, which has been accepted into the collection of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each week at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

For more than 50 years, American Quilt Maker Joseph Mallard also known as ‘Sunshine Joe’ has chronicled world, national, and local events through his vibrant and intricately detailed thread collages. Born of brilliantly-colored embroidery floss, fabric, patience and time, Mr. Mallard’s work competes in national and international quilt shows.

Sunshine Joe’s exquisite tapestry-quilts consist of thousands of tiny hand tied knots. They take 4 to 5 years to complete. They pulsate with color, energy, and joy.  He uses his quilts as a teaching tool in classrooms, community Centers, homeless shelters, senior citizens facilities, libraries, juvenile detention centers and quilting guilds.

Mr. Mallard was inducted into the McComb, Mississippi Wall of Fame for his quilting and his work with children in November 2019.

His exhibit, Joe Mallard:  Threading His Grandmother’s Needles, is on view at the National Quilt Museum through February 25.

Artists Talk with LVA: January 16, 2025

Erica Chinise Wilcox. Born in 1990 in Cleveland, Ohio. She moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 2014 where she eventually found mentorship with artist Bob Lockhart.

Now she is a member of Pyro Gallery and is exhibiting with another new member, Janet Dake, in “New Beginnings”, which runs throughJan 26, 2025.

“I began my journey into pencil artwork when I was 17 years old. I didn’t use creation to escape life, but I instead used it to process and understand it. At that age, trying to understand my queerness and my place in the world as a young black woman brought on a large bought of depression.  It wasn’t until I discovered art within Spiritual Alchemy that I gained a deeper understanding of myself and artwork. Spiritual Alchemy reminds me of the workings of my mind and my artwork – I strive to understand who I am and the people around me to heal myself, thus healing the world.

With my Intuition, Meditations, and Alchemy being my main inspiration, I strive to capture the link between human and Godlike energy. My goal is to evoke deeper thinking to encourage mental, emotional, and spiritual understanding. Many people will say that I am an activist – If I am an activist, it is one for spirit and the connection with self that we desperately crave. We all need the reminder of connection with self and others; Balance is vital in this world.“

Artists Talk with LVA: January 9, 2025

Bailey and Andrew

KyCAD faculty Andrew Cozzens & Bailey Moorhead joined us to talk about the school recently being granted institutional accreditation through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

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; Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MO; 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. He is a contributing member of the International Society for the Study of Time, and recently Andrew has curated multiple exhibitions and has been published in the International Journal of Zizek Studies and the Louisville Health Equity Report.

Bailey Moorhead’s research and teaching interests are multidisciplinary, drawing together U.S. literature and history, film and media studies, writing studies, and gender studies. Recent areas of focus include modernism, historical materialism, and critical race theory. Bailey earned their PhD in English from the University of Mississippi, where they taught courses on literature and composition. They also served as the Assistant Director of the UM Writing Center for three years. Before joining the faculty at KyCAD, she spent time at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, teaching courses on writing, literature, film, and American Studies.

Artists Talk with LVA: January 2, 2025

“Shadows in the Sun” by Nathaniel Hendrickson & Douglas Lucas, opens at  Maybe Its Fate on January 4th, as part of its Winter Exhibitions, and the two artists speak with us about their collaboration. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

“Shadows in the Sun” is a collection of mixed media, sculpture, sound, film, video, photography, and more that squints at over thirteen years of collaboration and dialogue between Nathaniel Hendrickson and Douglas Lucas.

Nathaniel Hendrickson is an interdisciplinary artist, painter, curator, documentary filmmaker, and freelance producer based in Casey County, KY. Their work explores the edge of performance and visual art and has worked on collaborative projects internationally with the Open Program of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski (Italy/Turkey/Lebanon/USA); Hyunji Park (Korea/Finland); Gianluigi Biagini (Finland/Italy); Pietro Varrasso (Belgium); They most recently staged an intervention with Pietro Varrasso at the University of Liege School of Architecture’s: Borderscapes 2023 on the unique geopolitical region of Mt. St. Pierre, and presented their work at the Multispecies Ethnography and Artistic Methodology conference at the University of Liege School of Anthropology. ‍

Based in an undisclosed location, Douglas Lucas works in various locations in the fields of sound, film, text, collage, performance, and installation. He has run two record labels; Arcana Machine, releasing esoteric sound recordings, and NONE Records, the only label ever to release anti-records exclusively. He also has curated numerous performances, exhibitions, and screenings.

Artists Talk with LVA: December 26, 2024

"New Beginnings" opens at Pyro Gallery on January 3 and will feature work by Janet Dake and Erica Chinise Wilcox, Janet joins us in the studio this week to talk about it. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Janet Dake is a figurative painter from Versailles, Kentucky, now based in Louisville. Her work is about people, both real and imagined. Dake’s paintings tell stories. Through intricate (and often made-up) backgrounds, Dake creates narratives that reflect contemporary social issues and cultural phenomena. In 2021 she completed an Artist Residency in Toronto, Canada, where she had her first solo show entitled Human Nature. In 2022, her work was selected for the Ferrara Showman Gallery for their annual No Dead Artists group show and the Post Roe Louisiana show at the Carrollton Gallery at Tulane University. Her work was recently displayed at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art for the annual Louisiana Contemporary showcase. Dake is currently a member of Pyro Gallery in Louisville, KY. 

“New Beginnings”, in which Janet will be exhibiting with Erica Chinise Wilcox, opens at Pyro Gallery on January 3, with a reception from 5:30-8:30 pm