NEW: Late for Dinner: Art Sanctuary+Girls Rock Louisville Fundraiser will be the re-opening of live events at Art Sanctuary Friday night.

NEW: On Sunday, Pyro Gallery opens Natural Connections a group show featuring Pamela Couch, Bill & Gean Bowen, Cathy Hillegas, & Rachel Singel..

NEW: Anil & Aravind Vinayakan have a photography exhibit, Nature vs Man Made, at Mellwood’s Pigment Gallery through June 18.

NEW: 2021 Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie Center for Art & History opens Friday and runs through July 17.

NEW: Rogue Intensities, new work from Lori Larusso is open at Quappi Projects. Listen HERE to an interview with the artist on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio.

NEW: The University of Louisville/Hite Institute MFA Exhibition is open at the Cressman Center for Visual Art.

NEW: About Convergence, recent works by Heather Jones is now open at Moremen Gallery.

NEW: Revelry Gallery is debuting the first solo exhibition of local painter and muralist, WASP. Their new body of work, One Thing is Certain.

NEW: Tim Faulkner Gallery is showing new work from painters Hawk Alfredson and Debra Guess..

REFLECT, REFRAME, REMAKE, REMODEL 40 Years of Recrafting KMAC is up through August 1.

Rainbows and Moons Over Prospect Park, Brooklyn, new work from Emily Church, has opened at Galerie Hertz.

Promise, Witness, Remembrance at the Speed Art Museum, curated by Allison Glenn, reflects on the life of Breonna Taylor, her killing in 2020, and the year of protests that followed, in Louisville and around the world.

Wayside Christian Mission has opened The Pessoptimist -Al-mutasha’il an exhibit of photographs by Amira Karoud.

FRIDAY: Late for Dinner: Art Sanctuary+Girls Rock Louisville Fundraiser will be the re-opening of live events at Art Sanctuary.

LOCAL ONLINE OPTIONS: Here’s what we know, but local artists are doing impromptu live performances online daily. Stay alert!

ONGOING:

While the Speed Museum has reopened, the cinema is closed during the COVID-19 crisis, but you can stream these selections at home. A portion of each streaming ticket purchase goes directly to the Museum.

Speed Cinema offers Free Films Addressing Systemic Racism.

Elizabeth Kramer is writing about the challenges facing local arts groups at Louisville Arts Bureau.

Think we are missing something? Let us know: info@louisvillevisualart.org

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Thursday Link Roundup: April 8

Keith Waits · April 7, 2021

Jessica Chao in Open Studio Weekend at Art Sanctuary

THIS WEEKEND: Open Studio Weekend is happening Saturday & Sunday, rescheduled from November, this is the 7th year for the LVA/Hite Institute event. Listen to an interview with participating artists Kenyatta Bosman & Jessica Chao on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio.

NEW: April 13 LVA will host a free online panel, State of the Arts, with Kyle Citrynell, Vallorie Henderson, Sarah Lindgren,, & Ramona Lindsay.

NEW: Promise, Witness, Remembrance at the Speed Art Museum, curated by Allison Glenn, reflects on the life of Breonna Taylor, her killing in 2020, and the year of protests that followed, in Louisville and around the world.

NEW: Wayside Christian Mission has opened "Sides of My Mind," an exhibit of pencil, marker, and watercolor paintings by local artist Chad Ashton.

NEW: Fragments Now Bright, Now Dim, a new exhibit from Erika Jeffries is open at Quappi Projects.

NEW: Moremen Gallery presents Vian Sora's second solo show: Floodgates.

NEW: Rockerbuilt, at 1512 Portland Avenue, hosts a show of new work from Shayne Hull.

NEW: 2 MFA Thesis Exhibitions open this Friday, April 9th at 6pm at the Hite MFA Building in Portland: Rachid Tagoulla’s Shifting Sands, and. Karen Weeks’ Love Labor: Literal Symbols and True Abstractions.

NEW: Archetypes - Recent Portrait Paintings by Damon Thompson is at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

NEW: Actors Theatre has released Romeo & Juliet: Louisville 2020 , a visually captivating interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic narrative, set during May 2020 in Louisville Kentucky.

Art Sanctuary Presents TRUTH TO POWER, a film about Serj Tankian, the Grammy-winning lead singer of System Of A Down.

OPEN AGAIN TO THE PUBLIC: Masks and social distancing are Required for ALL of these locations!

G.W. Morrison at 200 has opened at The Carnegie Center for Art & History.

Land Is: Parks, Cultures, Stories is open by appointment at KMAC.

FRIDAY: 2 MFA Thesis Exhibitions open tonight at 6 pm at the Hite MFA Building in Portland: Rachid Tagoulla’s Shifting Sands, and. Karen Weeks’ Love Labor: Literal Symbols and True Abstractions.

Late for Dinner with Batwizard and Prayer Line will be on Facebook Live from Art Sanctuary.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Open Studio Weekend is happening this weekend, rescheduled from November, this is the 7th year for the LVA/Hite Institute event. Listen to an interview with participating artists Kenyatta Bosman & Jessica Chao on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio.

TUESDAY: LVA will host an online panel tonight, State of the Art, with Vallorie Henderson, Kyle Citrynell, & Ramona Lindsay. It is available for free.

WEDNESDAY: # stopasianhate Virtual Town Hall is online at Noon today.

LOCAL ONLINE OPTIONS: Here’s what we know, but local artists are doing impromptu live performances online daily. Stay alert!

ONGOING:

Speed Cinema offers Free Films Addressing Systemic Racism.

Elizabeth Kramer is writing about the challenges facing local arts groups at Louisville Arts Bureau.

Think we are missing something? Let us know: info@louisvillevisualart.org

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Thursday Link Roundup: February 6, 2020

Guest User · February 6, 2020

THURSDAY:

Stage on Spring presents A.R. Gurney's Love Letters

Hannah L. Drake will be doing a reading tonight at Carmichael’s Bookstore.

FRIDAY:

Louisville Visual Art Honors is today at the Kentucky African American Heritage Center.

And tonight there is a Receptionat Cressman Center for Peter Williams: Incarceration.

Greetings from Love City | Opening Reception is at Craft(s) Gallery.

Bill Pusztai "Downtown East Side" opens at garner narrative

Pony Daddy a Solo Exhibition from John Paul Kesling opens at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

First Friday Photographer Talk w/Andrea Hutchinson at Paul Paletti Gallery.

Gold Key & American Visions Exhibition Opening is at KMAC.

Artist Talk with Imar Hutchins is at The Muhammad Ali Center.

Suyun Son Opening Reception is at Downtown Pilates.

2020 State of Black Louisville Release Event will be at The Speed Museum.

The Chicken Coop's 90 Minute Valentine's Day Variety Hour is at PLAY Louisville.

Also at The Speed is Tales from the Turf: Tour with the Experts.

SATURDAY:

Voix de Ville 2020 celebrates the anniversary of WXOX 97.1/Artxfm.

African American Women:Celebrating Diversity with Art opens at Kore Gallery.

Squallis Puppeteers’ The Last Puppet Prom is tonight.

Before The Buff: A Closing Party for Marks on Society is at The Carnegie Center.

There is a matinee of Diana Grisanti’s Lawbreakers: A Fast and Furious History of Women's Suffrage from Stage One Family Theatre.

Le Pouvoir de L'Amour: Nicolas Fortin Memorial Concert from Bourbon Baroque is at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

ONGOING:

Once On This Island is at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Click HERE to listen to an interview with Robert Fleming on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio, director of this production and Executive Artistic Director of ATL.

26th Annual African American Art Exhibition is at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

QuArtz - A Queer Arts Exhibit is at LAUNCH Louisville.

Illumination: Nature's Light in Watercolor. New Works by Cathy Hillegas at Mary Anderson Center.

LAUNCH 2020: Setting the Stage for the New Year can be found at Moremen Gallery.

L Autumn Gnadinger at Quappi Projects.

Shawna Khalily Wood Cuts is at the NEW Bourne Schweitzer Gallery in New Albany.

Brenda Wirth and Mary Newton are at Kleinhelter Gallery.

2020: The Vision of Hindsight by Rebecca Aldammad at Mellwood Art Center.

Our World Our Say is at U of L’s Schneider Hall.

A Julius Friedman Sampler – Art, Design, and Innovation Over Fifty Years is at the Filson Society. (2/28)

Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition at IU Southeast.

Often Seen Rarely Spoken Presents…Marks on Society is at The Carnegie Center in New Albany.