LVA's Artebella On The Radio: April 11, 2019

Vian Sora & John Brooks were the guests on this week's show. Both are included in LVA's exhibit at Metro Hall, "Imagined Monuments" and very busy exhibiting elsewhere in Louisville. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com every Thursday at 10am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

Imagined Monuments: A Louisville Visual Art exhibit for Metro Hall thru July 12, 2019

Born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq in 1976, Vian Sora a self-taught painter that began painting as a child. Her first first solo exhibition was at In’aa Gallery, Baghdad in 2001. Since then, she has exhibited internationally. “Raised under the Ba’ath Party and subject to its mandates and masochism, I breathed in the studio when life outside had been suffocated. I am expressive, constantly experimenting with color and techniques, influenced by the intensity of my home country, a student of the civilizations lost - Mesopotamia, Assyria, Babylon and ancient Kurdish tribes; home.”

Unbounded Domains by Vian Sora is on view at Moremen Gallery in Louisville through May 25, 2019

A native of Kentucky, John Brooks studied Political Science and English literature at the College of Charleston, in South Carolina, and art at Central St. Martins and the Hampstead School of Art in London, England. His work is held in private collections in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Germany, and India. He now lives and works in Louisville and is the director of Quappi Projects. 2019 Non-Arrivals, O Art, Louisville, Kentucky.

John Brooks will have a solo show at Moremen Gallery in July 2019.

Friday Link Roundup: April 5, 2019

“Citizen” by Vian Sora, Oil on canvas, 48 x48 In, 2019

TONIGHT:

Opening Reception of "Unbounded Domains" by Vian Sora at Moremen Gallery.

Horsepower-Opening Reception at Craft(s) Gallery and Mercantile.

She’s Silver and Orange 4 opens at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

Here for Today- Works by Heather Cameron and Allie Jensen opens at Art Sanctuary.

SATURDAY:

Geoffrey Crowe

A Perspective In Paint by Geoff Crowe opens at Kore Gallery.

ONGOING:

Joyce Garner - lazy susan is at garner narrative contemporary

Image and Word is at Kaviar Forge & Gallery through April 6.

Elmer Lucille Allen, Sandra Charles, and Barbara Tyson Mosley are exhibiting at Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany.

LVA's Artebella On The Radio: April 4, 2019

Hannah Drake is a true "Rock Star" in the Louisville community, a force to be reckoned with! She was my guest for April 4 on WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com. She is currently part of “Imagined Monuments”, an LVA exhibit for Metro hall that runs through July 12. Tune in at 10am each Thursday to hear Keith Waits talk to artists.

Hannah Drake is a blogger, activist, public speaker, poet, and the author of 9 books. She writes commentary on politics, feminism, and race and her work has been featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine. Hannah has presented at the Idea Festival, curated performances for the Festival of Faiths, partnered with The Louisville Ballet for their Choreographer’s Showcase, and exhibited her visual art and poetry at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft and 1619 Flux. Her poem “Spaces” was selected by the National Academy of Medicine for a national art exhibit about health equity. Hannah was selected as a 2017 Hadley Creative by the Community Foundation of Louisville and Creative Capital and her work has been honored by the Kentucky Alliance of Against Racist and Political Repression. In July of 2017, Hannah Drake was featured on the Tom Joyner Morning Show with Jacque Reid to discuss her movement, “Do Not Move Off The Sidewalk.” In February 2019, Hannah was selected by the Muhammad Ali Center to be a Daughter of Greatness which features prominent women engaged in social philanthropy, activism, and pursuits of justice. Hannah’s message is thought-provoking and at times challenging, but Hannah believes that it is in the uncomfortable spaces that change can take place. “My sole purpose in speaking and writing is not that I entertain you. I am trying to shake a nation.”

Friday Link Roundup: March 29, 2019

Cleveland Public Library by Yinka Shonibare

TONIGHT:

Opening Night Tour: Yinka Shonibare CBE: "The American Library" is at The Speed tonight.

Women Laughing Alone with Salad from Theatre [502]

Dogfight presented by Acting Against Cancer is at Artspace.

This is the first weekend for Smart People from The Liminal Playhouse

Panache by Don Gordon opens at Little Colonel Playouse

Women Laughing Alone With Salad from Theatre[502]

Louisville comedian returns home: Raanan Hershberg Live at The Bard's Town

SATURDAY:

The application period for the 2019 Hadley Prize for Visual Art is now open and there is an Information Session at Shawnee Library on how to prepare today.

SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day 2019 is at 2pm.

ONGOING:

Dru Pilmer’s exhibit Moving Through is at Art Seed Gallery through April 5th.

Freeze State: Dissociating from the Here and Now is at Swanson Contemporary

Duality | The New Work of Valerie Timmons is at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

Image and Word is at Kaviar Forge & Gallery through April 6.

Elmer Lucille Allen, Sandra Charles, and Barbara Tyson Mosley are exhibiting at Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany.

LVA's Artebella On The Radio: March 28, 2019

Excited to have Natalia Zuluaga, the Great Meadows 2019 Critic-In-Residence, and Julien Robson, the Director of the Great Meadows Foundation, in the studio this week. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Keith Waits talk to artists and curators and more.

Natalia Zuluaga, currently based in Miami FL, is visiting Kentucky as a Critic-In-Residence, a two-month residency program organized though Great Meadows Foundation in partnership with INhouse.

Between 2007 and 2012 Natalia Zuluaga was the manager of foundation programs at CIFO (Cisneros Fontanais Art Foundation), and from 2016 through 2018 she was Artistic Director of the ArtCenter/South Florida,. Since 2014 she has been the co-director of [NAME] Publications, a non-profit press and cultural office, and most recently she launched and is the co-editor of the bilingual online journal Dispatches.

Julien Robson has 30 years of experience with curating and organizing events. After studying Fine Art at Bath Academy of Art in England, he worked in Britain and Austria before coming to the U.S. He was the curator of Contemporary Art at Louisville’s Speed Art Museum from 2000 to 2008. He is now an Independent Curator and serves as the director of INhouse Foundation, which is a venue for creative retreats and an organization dedicated to supporting extraordinary creative projects located in Louisville, He is also the director of the Great Meadows Foundation.

Friday Link Roundup: March 22, 2019

Birds of Passage (Pájaros de Verano)

TONIGHT:

Birds of Passage (Pájaros de Verano), Directed by Christina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, opens at Speed Cinema.

Inaugural Rocinante Records Concert Series features Brent Mathis. and Adventure.

SATURDAY:

The application period for the 2019 Hadley Prize for Visual Art is now open and there is an Information Session on how to prepare today.

1619 Flux Artist Mixer Event happens this morning

ONGOING:

Jake Ford’s Unveiled opens tonight at Quappi Projects

Dru Pilmer’s exhibit Moving Through is at Art Seed Gallery through April 5th.

Freeze State: Dissociating from the Here and Now is at Swanson Contemporary

Duality | The New Work of Valerie Timmons is at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

Image and Word is at Kaviar Forge & Gallery through April 6.

Elmer Lucille Allen, Sandra Charles, and Barbara Tyson Mosley are exhibiting at Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany.

Rebirth, an exhibition by Bette Levy, continues at Pyro Gallery through March 23

Years of Chaos- Issues That Are Destroying Us is at Kore Gallery, now relocated to the Hope Mills Building.

Friday Link Roundup: March 14, 2019

TONIGHT:

Jake Ford’s Unveiled opens tonight at Quappi Projects

Ruben Brandt, Collector, Directed by Milorad Krstić opens at Speed Cinema.

Just Like Us/Justo como nosotros, a co-production of Looking for Lilith & Teatro Tercera Llamada opens at The KY Center.

Wayward Actors Company opens OH MY GODS! - "God" by Woody Allen & "St. Francis Talks To The Birds" by David Ives at The Bard’s Town

ONGOING:

Dru Pilmer’s exhibit Moving Through is at Art Seed Gallery through April 5th.

Freeze State: Dissociating from the Here and Now is at Swanson Contemporary

Duality | The New Work of Valerie Timmons is at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

Image and Word is at Kaviar Forge & Gallery through April 6.

Elmer Lucille Allen, Sandra Charles, and Barbara Tyson Mosley are exhibiting at Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany.

Rebirth, an exhibition by Bette Levy, continues at Pyro Gallery through March 23

Years of Chaos- Issues That Are Destroying Us is at Kore Gallery, now relocated to the Hope Mills Building.

Angie Reed Garner "shantyboating" is at garner narrative.

LVA's Artebella On The Radio: March 14, 2019

''House Boat on Ohio River,” by Cleveland, Ohio, painter/ceramicist Lawrence Blazey (1902-1999). Exhibited in 1933 at the 15th Annual May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art. Collection of Warren and Julie Payne.

Peter Morrin & John Begley in the studio (they are always welcome), but in this instance they will be talking about the "AFLOAT: AN OHIO RIVER WAY OF LIFE" project, which exists at the moment as exhibits and lectures about Harlan Hubbard and shantyboats on the Ohio River. We also took time to remember Louisville artist Ann Stewart Anderson, who passed away last week.

Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10:00am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists and curators.

Peter Morrin was the Director of the Center for Arts and Culture Partnerships at UofL from 2010 until his retirement in 2016. The Center sought to find ways in which the University could be of assistance to area arts and cultural organizations, and in turn, make those institutions more a part of the learning experiences of UofL students. Mr. Morrin also taught in the Department of Fine Arts, especially in courses serving the Critical and Curatorial Studies track in the Master’s Degree program.

Prior to coming to UofL, Mr. Morrin was a museum director for 25 years, including 21 years at the Speed Art Museum. 

John Begley is a Freelance art worker (artist, curator, art services provider). 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 2001 – 2014 (Retired) 

Prior to that he was Director, Louisville Visual Art Association for 19 years.

Together they curated:

The Art of Drifting: The Watercolors of Harlan Hubbard

The least known, but arguably the best, artworks in Harlan Hubbard’s body of work are his watercolors. Fresh, improvisatory, and spontaneous, they embody the lively, brief descriptions of nature found in his journals.

Frazier History Museum – running through May 5.

On this audio archive, the show begins at about 9:14.

Friday Link Roundup: March 8, 2019

Judith Godrèche & Matt Walsh in Under the Eiffel Tower.

TONIGHT:

Archie Borders’ new film Under the Eiffel Tower has SOLD OUT its Louisville premiere tonight at Speed Cinema, but there are several other showings on the schedule in the next week.

Cabaret opens at Commonwealth Theatre Center

Neill Robertson in Cabaret. Photo: Crystal Ludwick

SATURDAY:

Artist Talk "Network is Networth" With Victor Sweatt will happen at 1619 Flux.

KORE Gallery’s official Grand Opening is today

StageOne Playmakers Gala: Small Steps, Giant Leaps is at C2 Event Venue

ONGOING:

Freeze State: Dissociating from the Here and Now is at Swanson Contemporary

Duality | The New Work of Valerie Timmons opens at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

Image and Word just opened at Kaviar Forge & Gallery and runs through April 6.

Elmer Lucille Allen, Sandra Charles, and Barbara Tyson Mosley are exhibiting at Carnagie Center for Art & History in New Albany.

Rebirth, an exhibition by Bette Levy, continues at Pyro Gallery through March 23

Years of Chaos- Issues That Are Destroying Us is at Kore Gallery, now relocated to the Hope Mills Building.

Angie Reed Garner "shantyboating" is at garner narrative.

Industrial Wastelands Solo Exhibition from Dean Thomas at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

LVA's Artebella On The Radio: February 28, 2019

On the February 28 broadcast, Moira Scott Payne, President of Kentucky College of Art + Design, and Joyce Ogden, Dean of same, came to talk about KyCAD in a moment of transition and forward-thinking. Join us each Thursday at 10am on WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com for LVA's Artebella On the Radio.

After a six-month national search, Moira Scott Payne became KyCAD’s first Dean in June of 2017. She was named its President less than two months later. Scott Payne was born in India in 1959, but spent most of her life in Scotland, United Kingdom.

An artist whose research focuses on cultural heritage, Scott Payne has worked with international institutions throughout Europe and North America. She received a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree from the Glasgow School of Art in 1981, was awarded a funded Postgraduate Certificate from the same institution a year later, and a Diploma of Education from the Dundee College of Education in Dundee, Scotland, in 1986.

Joyce Ogden has taught art in higher education since 1993. She received an MFA from the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University, Bloomington, and a BFA from the Allen R. Hite Institute at the University of Louisville. Ogden has been the recipient of grants and awards that include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Program, the Kentucky Foundation for Women Sallie Bingham Award, the Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. She is a founding member of ENID, a Louisville-based women sculptors organization.

Due to technical difficulties, only the first portion of this program was recorded.

LVA's Artebella On The Radio: March 7, 2019

Haydee Canovas of Teatro Tercera Llamada & Kathi E. B. Ellis of Looking for Lilith will join us this week to talk about the upcoming collaboration between the two companies, "Just Like Us/Justo como nosotros", which opens March 14. tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10am to hear Keith Waits talk to artists.

Haydee Canovas is a Health Care Professional, a playwright, actor, director & producer and co-founder of Teatro Tercera Llamada, a Spanish-language theatre company here in Louisville.

Kathi E.B. Ellis is an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and a member of Lincoln Center and DirectorsLabChicago. She has attended the La MaMa Directing Symposium in Umbria, Italy and is featured in Southern Artistry, an online registry of outstanding southern artists. Her directing work has been recognized with nominations for South Florida theatre's Carbonell Award. Locally, Kathi is a member of Looking for Lilith Theatre Company, a founding principal of StageLab theatre training studio, and part of ShoeString Productions, an informal producing collective.

Just Like Us/Justo con nosotrs, based on Helen Thorpe’s book of the same name, dramatizes the lives of four Latinas in Denver – two of whom have papers, two of whom do not – as they navigate school and college, friends and romances, all within the shadow of their statuses. Their close-knit friendships and dreams begin to unravel when immigration status dictates the girls’ opportunities, or lack thereof. When a political firestorm arises, each girl’s future becomes increasingly complicated.

Hannah Connally and Jennifer Thalman Kepler (Founder & Co-Artistic Director Looking for Lilith) read a scene from the play.

Friday Link Roundup: March 1, 2019

2019 SXPF Guest Potter Didem Mert, mid-range+stoneware, 2018

TONIGHT:

The 2nd annual Southern Crossings Pottery Festival (SXPF) starts tonight at Copper & Kings.

Duality | The New Work of Valerie Timmons opens at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

ONGOING:

Image and Word just opened at Kaviar Forge & Gallery and runs through April 6, 2019

Elmer Lucille Allen, Sandra Charles, and Barbara Tyson Mosley are opening an exhibit at Carnagie Center for Art & History in New Albany.

Years of Chaos- Issues That Are Destroying Us is at Kore Gallery, now relocated to the Hope Mills Building.

Angie Reed Garner "shantyboating" is at garner narrative.

Industrial Wastelands Solo Exhibition from Dean Thomas at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

Friday Link Roundup: February 22, 2019

Elmer Lucille Allen, Sandra Charles, Barbara Tyson Mosley

TONIGHT:

Elmer Lucille Allen, Sandra Charles, and Barbara Tyson Mosley are opening an exhibit at Carnagie Center for Art & History in New Albany.

Mind’s Eye Theatre Company opens Children of Eden at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts tonight

MONDAY:

2019 Arts-Louisville/Broadway World Theatre Awards will be at The Columbia Theatre Ballroom.

ONGOING:

Shadowland an exhibition of stratographs and etchings by Anna Marie Pavlik, at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

Years of Chaos- Issues That Are Destroying Us is at Kore Gallery, now relocated to the Hope Mills Building.

Angie Reed Garner "shantyboating" is at garner narrative.

Industrial Wastelands Solo Exhibition from Dean Thomas at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

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Friday Link Roundup: February 15, 2019

FRIDAY:

Sergio's Museum presented by Theatre [502] opens tonight at The Barons Theatre on Main Street.

Afterloves: Love Lives in the Afterlife is co-created by Louisville native Betsy Reisz, and she has brought it home to The Bard’s Town for this weekend only.

Sister Cities of Louisville’s Cultural Ambassador Intern to Ghana, Cameren Golden, will lecture at Kosair Charities tonight. Love Ghana

SATURDAY:

Montage Lives! Our Artistic Past Informs The Future opens at 1619 Flux Art+Activism today. If you don’t know what “Montage” was then you should come to this event.

Opening Reception--Artist Talk for the Secret History of the American River People exhibit at The Portland Museum.

Young Picasso, directed by Phil Grabsky, is at Speed Cinema this weekend.

LVA's Artebella On The Radio: February 14, 2019

Ash Braunecker from Portland Museum came by to talk about A Secret History of American River People, which is a part of the "Afloat" series of exhibits happening in Louisville this year. There will be an opening reception Saturday 1-4pm, and the exhibit runs through August 3

A Secret History of American River People is a project to build a collection of personal stories of people who live and work on the river from the deck of a recreated mid-century shantyboat over a series of epic river voyages. The project examines the emerging crises facing current river communities dealing with economic displacement, gentrification, environmental degradation, and the effects of global climate change. 

“We make our way downriver in a rustic houseboat, built by the artists over two years, loosely based on designs from shantyboats in the 1940s, from largely recycled and reclaimed materials. People tell us that traveling on the river in an authentic shantyboat and taking the time to listen to people’s stories makes this project unique. This participatory art project inspires deep wonder and connects meaningfully with people’s personal histories.” - Wes Modes 

Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com, 10-11am every Thursday to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

The Secret History shanty boat in Tennessee.

We apologize that archive recording begins at the first song break.

Friday Link Roundup: February 8, 2019

Andy Perez, from Imagined Monuments: An LVA Exhibit For Metro Hall

“Living Monument, Angela Hollingsworth” by Sandra Charles

TONIGHT:

Non-Arrivals: o Art Opening Reception is at Natalie O Design Co.

Date Night at PAC: Black Light Art with Andrew Preston! starts at 6pm at Preston Art Center.

The 7th annual Cuteopia! is happening at Revelry Boutique and Gallery.

Art Sanctuary presents "Vizard of Voz" with Va Va Vixens! opens tonight.

The Roast of Netflix & Chill is the latest from Character Assassination at The Bard’s Town.

The Green Book Presented By Bunbury Theatre and ShPIeL opens tonight at the Henry Clay Theatre.

SATURDAY:

B Deemer Gallery hosts a reception for Yutori - New works by Teri Dryden

WXOX Voix De VIlle 2019 is the 3rd Anniversary Fundraiser for WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com.

MONDAY:

LVA’s exhibit for Metro Hall Imagined Monuments Exhibit Artist's Reception happens at 6pm. (see above image)

ONGOING:

Shadowland-Opening Reception an exhibition of stratographs and etchings by Anna Marie Pavlik, at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

Years of Chaos- Issues That Are Destroying Us has opened at Kore Gallery, now relocated to the Hope Mills Building.

WHERE WE ARE NOW - COMPOSITIONS by JODY JOHNSON  with GUEST ARTISTS: VIRGINIA SPEED and RITA CAMERON is at Pyro Gallery.

Currents:: Contemporary Artists Along the Banks of the Ohio is up at Swanson Contemporary.

Angie Reed Garner "shantyboating" is at garner narrative.

Industrial Wastelands Solo Exhibition from Dean Thomas at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

Friday Link Roundup: February 1, 2019

TONIGHT:

2019 Louisville Visual Art Honors Luncheon is today at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage. Tickets are still available at the door.

Guano Apasionado: Works by Ryan Case opens at Art Sanctuary.

Shadowland-Opening Reception an exhibition of stratographs and etchings by Anna Marie Pavlik, at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

The Louisville Ballet Choreographer’s Showcase runs this weekend in collaboration with the Kentucky College of Art + Design

Lil' Andy's BIG DATE is on at The Bard’s Town tonight and tomorrow!

SATURDAY:

Black Music and culture on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers is at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Kentucky Waterways Alliance Reception and Fundraiser is at garner narrative.

Years of Chaos- Issues That Are Destroying Us opens at Kore Gallery, now relocated to the Hope Mills Building.

ONGOING:

WHERE WE ARE NOW - COMPOSITIONS by JODY JOHNSON  with GUEST ARTISTS: VIRGINIA SPEED and RITA CAMERON is at Pyro Gallery.

Currents:: Contemporary Artists Along the Banks of the Ohio is up at Swanson Contemporary.

Angie Reed Garner "shantyboating" is at garner narrative.

Industrial Wastelands Solo Exhibition from Dean Thomas at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

The Carnegie Center for Art and History presents Biophilia Life; or, My Best Friend Has Four Legs and a Tail.

LVA's Artebella On The Radio: January 24, 2019

East of the Sun (West of the Moon) by Monica Stewart

Monica Stewart is a multi-media artist and current MFA candidate at the University of Louisville’s Hite Institute. She will be recognized at the February 1st LVA Honors Luncheon as the 2018 Emerging Artist. She joined Keith Waits in the studio this week to talk about fairy tales, feminism, and cutting paper. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com every Thursday at 10 am for LVA's Artebella On The Radio.

Friday Link Roundup: January 25, 2019

Jim Zimmer

TONIGHT:

Jim Zimmer / Often the Content is Impenetrable is on view to the public at Quappi Projects tonight

Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku), Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda was just nominated for the 2019 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and it opens tonight at Speed Cinema.

SATURDAY:

Artist Reception featuring Dean Thomas's Band Chomsky Jazz happens tonight at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

TUESDAY:

Art21 Season 9 Screening Episode: San Francisco Bay Area is at 21C tonight.

ONGOING:

WHERE WE ARE NOW - COMPOSITIONS by JODY JOHNSON  with GUEST ARTISTS: VIRGINIA SPEED and RITA CAMERON is at Pyro Gallery.

Currents:: Contemporary Artists Along the Banks of the Ohio is up at Swanson Contemporary.

Angie Reed Garner "shantyboating" is at garner narrative.

Current: an exhibition of the Southern Crossings Pottery Festival at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

Industrial Wastelands Solo Exhibition from Dean Thomas at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

The Carnegie Center for Art and History presents Biophilia Life; or, My Best Friend Has Four Legs and a Tail.

Elsa Hansen Oldham "Muses" is at KMAC through January 27, 2019.

LVA's Artebella On The Radio: January 17, 2019

Louisville Orchestra Music Director Teddy Abrams came to the WXOX studio to talk about music and the "Art+Music" program he will be conducting with the Louisville Orchestra January 25 and 26. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream at ARTXFM.COM at 10am every Thursday for LVA's Artebella On The Radio with Keith Waits. The show is produced by Louisville Visual Art.

Teddy Abrams is a widely acclaimed conductor, as well as an established pianist, clarinetist, and composer.  Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra and Music Director and Conductor of the Britt Classical Festival, he also serves as Resident Conductor of the MAV Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, which he first conducted in 2011. A tireless advocate for the power of music, Abrams continues to foster interdisciplinary collaboration with organizations including the Louisville Ballet, the Center for Interfaith Relations, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Speed Art Museum, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. His extensive community outreach continues to reach new audiences and bring classical music into increasingly diverse communities.