Thursday Link Roundup: April 8

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.

Rachid Tagoulla at Hite Institue

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:

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

LVA's Artebella On The Radio May 23, 2019

Tammy Burke and Helen Payne, from the current UofL/Hite MFA Graduates Exhibition at Cressman Center will be joining KeithWaits in the studio this week to talk about their work. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10am to hear artists speak about their work on LVA's Artebella On The Radio.

Tammy Burke has a MA in Media Communications, Webster University 2008 and a BFA in Painting Herron School of Art, IUPUI Indianapolis 1997. “Thinging”, solo MFA thesis exhibition, Grow West MFA Studios, Portland neighborhood, April 22 to May 3, 2019.   She mounted an installation concurrent with the run of Eurydice, at the U of L Thrust Theater in January 2018, and participated in the Artlink Regional Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN, January through March of 2018. 

Helen Payne was born on Jamestown, RI and was raised in Appalachia.  She’s studied poetry at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and art at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and the Maryland Institute, College of Art. Helen’s paintings and drawings have been shown nationally including Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC, Woman-Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, Mobius Gallery, Cambridge, MA and the Holzwaser Gallery. Her work is held in many private collections and Governor Gaston Caperton’s West Virginia Collection.

The Hite Art Institute 2019 MFA Graduates Exhibition. Featuring a selection of works from this year’s graduating MFA student’s thesis exhibitions.

2019 MFA Graduates include Lauren Bader, Reid Broadstreet, Tammy Burke, Helen Payne, Monica Stewart and KCJ Szwedzinski.

The exhibition will run through - August 30, 2019
Gallery Hours: Wed-Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11 am - 3 pm

Friday Link Roundup: April 12, 2019

2019 art[squared]

TONIGHT:

art[squared] Louisville's Premier Art Sale & Fundraiser for Children’s Fine Art Classes is TONIGHT!

Monica Stewart: All the Better to See You With opens at the U of L MFA building.

Win Place ART Show opens at Revelry Gallery.

SATURDAY:

WIN PLACE SHOW opens at Kentucky Fine Art Gallery.

ONGOING:

"Unbounded Domains" by Vian Sora at Moremen Gallery.

Horsepower at Craft(s) Gallery and Mercantile.

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

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

A Perspective In Paint by Geoff Crowe at Kore Gallery.

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.