Artists Talk with LVA: April 18, 2024

Julie Leidner is one of the 2023 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) cohort and we talk to her as her curatorial project comes to fruition with a pop-up exhibit at LVA through April 19. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA every Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 WXOX-FM or stream on Artxfm.com

Julie Leidner is a Louisville native who has exhibited locally as well as in New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. She has taught for Louisville Visual Art, The Speed Museum, Kentucky College of Art + Design, and was a Museum Educator at The Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany, IN. She was the recipient of the 2015 Mary Alice Hadley Prize for Visual Art and a 2018 Great Meadows Foundation Residency Grant. She is the recipient of a 2023 Curate Purchase Inspire Fellowship with Louisville Visual Art. For that fellowship she is creating an exhibit to be housed with Hildegard House.

Last Flowers, a Pop-Up Exhibit is at the LVA Gallery through April 19

Hildegard House is Kentucky's first and only comfort care home. Through the support of our community and with the help of many volunteers, we provide a home and compassionate care for individuals at the end of life who have no home or loved ones to care for them so that they may die with dignity.

Artists Talk with LVA: November 10, 2022

Stephen Jenkinson is a culture activist, worker, and author. He has Master’s degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work). He once headed the counseling team of Canada's largest home-based palliative care program. Working with hundreds of deaths, he witnessed a wretched anxiety that gathered around dying people and their families. He recognized this phobia as not just a personal issue but something that has its parallel in our modern cultures' climate-killing way of life. After leaving palliative care, Stephen published the book Die Wise (2015) about his time in the death trade. He began teaching extensively across North America, then around the world. A synchronistic encounter with Canadian musician Gregory Hoskins gave rise to an unlikely collaboration and the 'Nights of Grief and Mystery' tour was born. 

Since co-founding the Nights of Grief and Mystery project with singer/ songwriter Gregory Hoskins in 2015, he has toured this musical/ tent show revival/ storytelling/ ceremony of a show across North America, U.K. and Europe and Australia and New Zealand. They released their Nights of Grief & Mystery album in 2017 and at the end of 2020, they released two new records; Dark Roads and Rough Gods.

Nights of Grief & Mystery - DUO - 2022 Tour will come to the Kentucky Country Day School Theatre in Louisville on November 18, 2022