Artists Talk with LVA: December 19, 2024

Rhythm + Flow: Recent Prints + Collages by Elizabeth Foley is now open at Capacity Exchange Gallery, and we talk to the artist about her work. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

For over twenty years Elizabeth Foley has exhibited work regionally and has art on view at 21c Museum Hotel Lexington, UK Chandler Medical Center, May Department Stores, and Kentucky OneHealthcare Network.

She also taught art; five years at Wyoming Middle School in Wyoming, Ohio and fifteen years as the Upper School 3D Art Teacher at Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky. Since moving to Louisville, she has also been teaching art at Assumption High School.

Elizabeth is a founding member of the Bluegrass Printmakers’ Cooperative in Lexington and was Executive Director for ten years.

She is a member of the Kentucky Crafted Program, the Kentucky Arts Council Artist in Residence Program, and was a cohort in the 2017-18 Hadley Creatives Program. In 2020 she received an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Rhythm + Flow: Recent Prints + Collages by Elizabeth Foley is showing at Capacity Contemporary Exchange through January 5.

Artebella On The Radio: June 10

Printmaker Norman Spencer is one of the Featured Artists for the 2021 art[squared] Auction j and he is our guest this week. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 Fm, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10 am to hear artists talk about their work.

A Louisville native, Norman Spencer is known for his printmaking. His work focuses on themes such as identity, community, and the human relationship to their surroundings. His artworks are in private collections around the country.

The annual Art[squared] Online Auction is June 24, 2021 @ 6:30PM

The largest number of talented local artists to be found in one location!

The 2021 Online art[squared] will not be anonymous.
All artwork will be labeled with the artist’s name.

Other featured artists: Jessica Chao, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Bob Lockhart, & Shohei Katayama

Artebella On The Radio: December 5, 2019

"Extreme Prints: Printmaking at the Edge", an invitational exhibit curated by Debby Stratford & John Begley opens at Kore Gallery December 7. They joined us this week and brought two of the participating artists, Tatiana Ryckman & Susanna Crum and gallery owner Don Cartwright. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream at Artxfm.com Thursday at 10am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists on LVA's Artebella On The Radio.

Tatiana Ryckman was born in Cleveland, Ohio and lives in Austin, Texas. She is also the author of two chapbooks of short prose, Twenty-Something and VHS and Why It's Hard to Live. Tatiana's work has appeared on Tin House's The Open Bar, Barrelhouse, Opossum Lit, The Establishment, Nonbinary Review, Flavorwire, and many other publications. Tatiana has been an artist in residence at Yaddo and Arthub, and she is the editor of Awst Press and Assistant Editor at sunnyoutside press.

Susanna Crum’s work has been featured in several international and national exhibitions, she returned to her hometown of Louisville to start the city’s first shared printmaking workspace, Calliope Arts Printmaking Studio & Gallery, with fellow artist and partner Rodolfo Salgado. Since 2015, she has taught printmaking as an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN. From 2018-2020, she is serving as President of the Mid America Print Council.

Debby Stratford is an artist and printmaker living in Louisville, KY. She spent many years teaching art to public school students in Louisville, and is now printing full-time in her studio in the Hope Mills Building.

John Begley is currently a Freelance art worker (artist, curator, art services provider). Previously he was Gallery Director and Assistant Professor of Art (Emeritus), Critical and Curatorial Studies graduate program coordinator at the Allen R. Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, Director, Louisville Visual Art, Director, and was founding director New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN. He is now the co-founder with Peter Morrin of AFLOAT: AN OHIO RIVER WAY OF LIFE.

Since 2012 Don Cartwright has owned and managed KORE Gallery, which is now located at 942 East Kentucky. KORE hosts "invitational" shows along with solo and multiple artists shows. This new gallery location offers 4500 square feet of exhibit space.