TONIGHT: Spark2Streets: HWP Presents 7 Interactive Immersive Art Experiences is open this weekend at Creatives of Color in Artspace.

NEW: PANDEMIC STUDIO is open at PYRO Gallery. Twenty regional artists creating art during a global pandemic.

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. Promise, Witness, Remembrance is highlighted at Virtual After Hours at The Speed Friday.

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 are open 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: Promise, Witness, Remembrance is highlighted at Virtual After Hours at The Speed tonight.

Late for Dinner with Grandma's Boys and The Frog Brothers will be on Facebook Live from 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: March 25

Keith Waits · March 24, 2021

TONIGHT: The 2021 Arts-Louisville Theatre Awards Virtual "Spotlight" Edition taped at Art Sanctuary, airs tonight on Facebook.

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

NEW: Moremen Gallery presents Vian Sora's second solo show: Floodgates with an opening Friday night.

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

NEW: Looking for Lilith Theatre Company presents Good Grief (a staged play, with music) by local playwright Erin Fitzgerald. Listen now to an interview about it on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio.

NEW: 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!

NEW: “Art-Griculture”, an exhibit featuring Bob Lockhart, Lindsey Duffy, and Elmer Lopez has now opened at Pyro Gallery.

Jagged Little Quill opened their first solo show at Revelry Boutique & Gallery.

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: Moremen Gallery presents Vian Sora's second solo show: Floodgates with an opening tonight.

Fragments Now Bright, Now Dim, a new exhibit from Erika Jeffries opens at Quappi Projects today.

Late for Dinner with Addults and The Char will be on Facebook Live from Art Sanctuary.

SATURDAY: “Art-Griculture”, an exhibit featuring Bob Lockhart, Lindsey Duffy, and Elmer Lopez has now opened at Pyro Gallery.

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.

Keep making art! Preston Art Center will deliver and has curbside pickup during their shortened hours.

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

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Thursday Link Roundup: February 20, 2020

Guest User · February 19, 2020

THURSDAY:

Farewell Reception for 2019 Galt House Artist in Residence Gibbs Rounsavall

Ed McClanahan appears at Carmichael’s Bookstore to talk about his new book, In Not Even Immortality Lasts Forever

FRIDAY:

Opening Reception for Permanent and Natural at The Carnegie Center in New Albany.

SATURDAY:

Black Before I Was Born: A Meditation on Identity at the new African American Museum.

Call Out or Cancel: Picasso in the Age of Summer Wheat is a panel discussion at KMAC.

Kentucky Shakespeare’s Shakespeare in Love Diamond Anniversary Gala is at 21c Museum & Hotel.

MONDAY:

2020 Arts-Louisville/Broadway World Theatre Awards are at Art Sanctuary tonight, hosted by LVA’s own Keith Waits. Listen to an interview with Juergen Tossmann, Shannon Wooley Allison, & Jennifer Thalman Kepler about their roles in this event on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio.

ONGOING:

Time Identity: MFA New Work Exhibition at the MFA building ion Portland.

Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht is at Locust Grove.

Neighbors Who COLOR Together Vickie Wheatley, Roy Ruiz Clayton and Bob Lockhart at PYRO Gallery.

Peter Williams: Incarceration is at Hite Institute’s Cressman Center.

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

Bill Pusztai "Downtown East Side" at garner narrative

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

Gold Key & American Visions Exhibition is at KMAC.

Suyun Son is at Downtown Pilates.

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

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.

Louisville Photographic Society Group Show is at Unique Imaging Concepts.