This week we had CFAC instructor Janet Britt on the show! Janet graduated from Hanover College and University of Louisville with a Masters Degree in Art Therapy; however, art education became her passion. She concluded nineteen years of teaching at St. Francis School in Goshen in 2010. Though St. Francis was “an incredibly rewarding experience”, he…

For the past 30-years, John Nation worked as a photographer for the Louisville Magazine. He also worked as a free-lance photographer during his time with the magazine. He has been published regionally, nationally and internationally in many magazines and books including Time, Nation’s Business, Food Arts, and Landscape Architecture, Time Life’s “Th…

Danish Graffiti artist HUSKMITNAVN (RememberMyName) works in a multitude of media including, street art, paintings, drawings and graphics since the early nineties. He has marked his name both in Denmark and internationally by his controversial, humorous and political street art. His characteristic figures and comments are spread all over Europe and…

Brandon Bass is a mixed media artist and graphic designer currently living in Louisville, KY. https://lvaapublic.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/public-4-25-14.mp3 Like a crate of old vinyl contains samples for a music producer to rearrange into a chopped-and-screwed creation, a stack of magazines and paper ephemera from yesteryear serve as the palette…

This week Keith Waits spoke with artist and curator Stacey Reason. Listen below for our music pairings and a discussion of how art in galleries is changing and evolving. https://lvaapublic.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/public-4-11-14-part1.mp3 https://lvaapublic.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/public-4-11-14-part2.mp3 Stacey Reason is an artist and curat…

Listen in for an hour of hat-centric songs as we spoke with milliner Sarah Havens about her process and upcoming events! With Derby right around the corner, you won’t want to miss this one. https://lvaapublic.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/public-04-04-14.mp3 Each of Haven’s hats is a unique creation often designed with a specific person in mind. Her …

Julie Baldyga works primarily in oil pastel. Many of her pieces depict women working on machines, engines, and motors. She is fascinated with electrical systems, and this focus on the way things work also applies to her soft sculptures— which are built from the inside out, so a sculpture of a person would have a liver and intestines inside, for exa…

This week we tried something a little different. A couple weeks ago Jonathan Bastian interviewed Marc Murphy, the editorial cartoonist for the Courier Journal, about his style and process as an event to pair with the On the Strip exhibit at PUBLIC gallery. This week’s show paired clips from that interview with a few songs inspired by his political …

Whether it’s wood, bronze, clay or oil pencil, Lockhart is well known for his highly individual style that blends humor, irony, and fantasy to unsettle our usual view of the world and of art itself. In his most recent collection of drawings, Lockhart continues his life-long fascination with the humorous and the irreverent, and the absurd, by stretc…

This week we welcomed Victor Sweatt onto PUBLIC. He selected one of his works, “Sacred Waters” and helped us with the playlist as well! He says, “Created in watercolor and colored pencil, “Sacred Waters” is about the cleansing of the spirit. Water is formless but has many characteristics such as stillness, but there is also a constant flow that can…