Jon Cherry at The Speed and The Portland Museum.

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.

Rockerbuilt, at 1512 Portland Avenue, hosts new work from Shayne Hull. Listen HERE to an interview with the artist on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio.

FRIDAY: Late for Dinner with Mommy's Cigarettes and General Studies will be on Facebook Live from Art Sanctuary.

SATURDAY: James Russell May: Post-Coma/Post-Covid exhibit opens tonight 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: January 30, 2020

Guest User · January 29, 2020

She Did That at Speed Cinema. — *She Did That* at Speed Cinema.

THURSDAY:

Closing Reception for HOBA House's Liz Wierzbicki and Mad(e) Exhibit.

She Did That directed by Renae Bluitt opens at Speed Cinema.

FRIDAY:

femme maison: Mychaelyn Michalec & Karen Weeks opens at Houseguest tonight.

Artist Talk with Ashley Stewart at Revelry Boutique & Gallery.

Bonnie Prince Billy and Friends are doing an in-store performance at Guestroom Records.

Once On This Island opens 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.

SATURDAY:

Stage One’s Lawbreakers: A Fast and Furious History of Women's Suffrage has a public performance today. Click HERE to listen to an an interview with playwright Diana Grisanti on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio.

ONGOING:

Detroit ‘67 continue at The University of Louisville’s Thrust Theatre.

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 at Bourne Schweitzer gallery

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.

Inspired Louisville: Actors Gallery by Bill Brymer is at KORE Gallery. Click here to listen to an interview with Bill on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio.

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.

The Winter Show is at Craft(s) Gallery.

Louisville Photographic Society Group Show is at Unique Imaging Concepts.

Daydreams opens at Studioworks.

BRAD DEVLIN “CITYSCAPES” is at Galerie Hertz..

Small Works Show at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.

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

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LVA's Artebella On The Radio: September 12, 2019

Guest User · September 12, 2019

Jacob Heustis' “Beasts Will Be Still There” opens September 20 at John Brooks' Quappi Projects space. Both were here in the studio Thursday morning, and Peter Morrin joined us in the 2nd half to talk about the Afloat cruise. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10am to LVA' Artebella On the Radio to hear artists talk about their work.

Opened by artist John Brooks in 2017, Quappi Projects is a Louisville-based art gallery featuring contemporary artists whose works are reflective of the zeitgeist. “Because we believe the highest function of art is to allow human beings to know ourselves more deeply, we are interested in exhibiting challenging, even discomforting, work as a way to explore and understand the mysteries of the human experience.”

Jacob Heustis uses painting, drawing, and installation to question and explore value and class systems, vanity and desire and the nature of art and aesthetics within the context of contemporary society. Heustis’ large-scale works consist of a minimal but expressive application of medium and materials often combined with self-referential phrases and appropriated pop-culture lexicon in the form of hand written text.

Since 2004 he has exhibited at Swanson Contemporary, the Green Building Gallery, Land of Tomorrow, Zephyr Gallery, Actor’s Theatre, Brown Theatre, Kentucky School of Art, Hite Art Institute, The Speed Art Museum, Cressman Center for Visual Arts, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, and 21C Bentonville, Durham, and Cincinnati.

Jacob Heustis’ “Beasts Will Be Still There” will have an opening reception Friday, September 20, 5-9pm, Quappi projects, 827 West Market Street, Louisville

Peter Morrin was the Director of the Center for Arts and Culture Partnerships at UofL from 2010 until his retirement in 2016. 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, and before that he was the Director of the J.B. Speed Museum. He is now co-founder with John Begley of Afloat.

On September 22nd, join AFLOAT on the Belle of Louisville for a cruise with a variety of scholars, artists and performers who can tell about every aspect of Ohio River life and natural history. Informal, one-on-one up close and personal chats with the experts will be the order of the day. 5-8pm. Tickets at louisvillevisualart.org/ afloat

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

Guest User · 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.