Artists Talk with LVA: February 22, 2024

Donna R. Charging, Suyun Son, & Chloe Cheng are all MFA candidates at the University of Louisville's Hite Institute and they joined us in the WXOX studio this week. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA every Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 WXOX-FM or stream on Artxfm.com

Donna, Suyun, & Chloe all have a thesis exhibition scheduled at the MFA building in the Portland neighborhood.

Donna’s exhibit, That Limbless Sign, is now open and closes on February 23.

Suyun Son’s exhibit, Authentic Fake, runs from March 5 through April 1, with a reception on Friday, March 8 from 5-7 pm.

Chloe Cheng’s exhibit, Alabaster Glory, runs from April 12 through May 12 with a reception on Friday, April 12 from 6-8 pm.

Artists Talk with LVA: March 24, 2022

Hannah DeWitt is an MFA student at the Hite Institute and will be performing "An Exercise in Unconditional Trust and Solidarity" March 26, 6 - 9 pm @ Carbon Copy. This week she talks all about it with us. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com at 10 am Thursdays to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Hannah DeWitt is a young artists working on her MFA at the Hite Art Institute at the University of Louisville, and has a BFA from Spalding University. She is a multimedia artist with an emphasis on conceptual performative works, both live and digital. her works are often participatory, deeply personal, and at times ethically fraught as she fumbles in the dark in search of someone, anyone to witness. Blurring the lines between public and private space, her work balances on the edge of radical vulnerability and exhibitionism.

An Exercise in Unconditional Trust and Solidarity takes place March 26, from 6 to 9 pm at Carbon Copy,

Artists Talk with LVA: January 20, 2022

The Hite Art Institute presents Asia in Motion, an exhibition of contemporary work from students and faculty of the Hite Art Institute. Presented in Partnership with the 2022 Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, the artwork in Asia in Motion presents the wide range of media and conceptual topics currently being explored by artists of Asian descent within the Hite Art Institute. 

Students participating in Asia in Motion include Jonathan Loyd (BFA), Xin Chen (MFA), Xuanyi Wang (MFA), Yuran Seo (BFA), Suyun Son (MFA) Shachaf Polakow (MFA) and Jingshuo Yang (MFA).Faculty participating include Ying Kit Chan, Moon-He Baik, Dimitri Kim, and Delin Lai.

In this interview we speak with three of the artists: Examining gender and cultural differences between China and the United States, artist Xuanyi Wang, who was born and raised in China before moving to the U.S., explores conceptions of the self within her artwork and specifically how the self is defined by and altered by one’s personal environment.

The photography of Shachaf Polakow, documents Palestinian resilience and resistance under the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank. As a member of the artist collective ActiveStills, Polakow seeks “to confront the Israeli settler-colonial project in the region of Palestine.”

Jingshuo Yang’s ink and watercolor illustrations for example, examine the connections between spiritual Chinese philosophy and the work of the Western philosopher Nietzsche. Using the butterfly as a symbol of peace and freedom, she juxtaposes the delicate tactility of the butterfly against chaotic and colorful washes of ink to explore ways of balancing the stress of the world with the search for inner tranquility.

Asia in Motion
January 14-February 18, 2022
Cressman Center for Visual Arts

Artebella On The Radio: May 20

Hite Institute just graduated some new MFA candidates and this week we talk with two of them, Karen Weeks & Megan Bickel. Tune in to WXOX 97.1, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am to her Keith Waits talk with artists.

Megan Bickel is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer who was a Community Educator at Art Academy of Cincinnati and who operates Houseguest, an independent artist-run project space located in Louisville. Her exhibit l is meditating on two words as they relate to one another in our current moment: illusion and allusion. Specifically, this manifests by inquiring as to how we consume visual data, the probability of factual 'truths,' and cultivating safe, imaginative spaces for the viewer to conceive of ethically superior realities.

Karen Weeks is also a multi-disciplinary artist who has worked with fiber and a lot with the letterpress print studio. Her exhibit, Love Labor: Literal Symbols and True Abstractions, is comprised of images sourced from common ephemera of the home meant to represent the everyday: notes, discarded letters, open envelopes, unfinished knitting, garments, drawings, math homework. The works in this show seek to reimage this detritus by (re)organizing it into constructed passages that bear witness to the commonalities to be found in homemaking and artmaking, aesthetics and the commonplace, economics, and whining. They are abstract representations of that which is contained within us, by way of what collects in our homes, representations of the aesthetics of and the profundities contained within the mundane.

Megan Bickel, Karen Weeks, Katherine Watts & Rachid Tagoulla

MFA Exhibition
May 7-July 9, 2021

Cressman Center for Visual Arts
100 E Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202

Artebella On The Radio: October 29

Open Studio Weekend is November 7 & 8, so the next two weeks we will be talking with a few of the participating artists. LVA leader Kristian Anderson joins me along with Trish Korte, Philip High, & Rebecca Norton. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists on LVA's Artebella On The Radio. https://www.louisvillevisualart.org/osw

Trish Korte is a exhibiting artist and licensed visual arts educator and currently an MFA candidate it the University of Louisville’s Hite Institute for Art. She has taught for LVA’s Children’s Fine Art Classes for many years Her art classes exceed the Visual Arts Standards so that you always know kids are getting rich learning experiences while having fun.

Philip High was born in Louisville, Kentucky and studied painting, printmaking and ceramics at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. His career in graphic arts took him to Atlanta, Georgia, and Mobile, Alabama. Years later he returned to Lexington, he shifted his focus back to fine art. Philip has received regional, national and international awards for fine art and illustration in both digital and traditional media and currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Rebecca Norton,’s work examines theories of synthesis and connectivity as they relate to the activity of reconstructing reality in vision and thought. She takes a special interest in color theory and problems of the mathematical intelligibility of natural phenomena. Norton has exhibited nationally and internationally. She has been a contributing writer for The Brooklyn Rail, Arts in Bushwick and Abstract Critical. Rebecca Norton currently lives and works in Louisville, KY.

LVA Executive Director Kristian Anderson has 15 years’ 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.