Thursday Link Roundup: April 1

Shayne Hull at Rockerbuilt

NEW: Wayside Christian Mission opens "Sides of My Mind," an exhibit of pencil, marker, and watercolor paintings by local artist Chad Ashton with a reception Friday.

NEW: Liz Richter will have a Pop-Up Exhibit Saturday at Revelry Boutique & Gallery

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

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

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

NEW: but also full of seeds for a future that could have turned out differently is Megan Bickel’s MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Hite MFA Building in Portland.

NEW: Actors Theatre will release Romeo & Juliet: Louisville 2020 on April 2, a visually captivating interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic narrative, which explores the entrenched divisions that animate contemporary culture—and the tragic costs of intolerance.

NEW: Pandora Productions presents a virtual production of Tru by jay Presson Allen through April 2.

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.

Megan Bickel at Hite MFA Building

FRIDAY: Wayside Christian Mission opens "Sides of My Mind," an exhibit of pencil, marker, and watercolor paintings by local artist Chad Ashton with a reception tonight.

Late for Dinner with Hathor's Fire and Molly's Midnight Villains will be on Facebook Live from Art Sanctuary.

SATURDAY: Liz Richter will have a Pop-Up Exhibit today at Revelry Boutique & Gallery

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.

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

Friday Link Roundup; November 1, 2019

Open Studio Weekend

FRIDAY:

Open Studio Weekend Juried Exhibition opens tonight at The Cressman Center.

Laura Ross: A Retrospective Exhibition, with Bill Carner/Photographer opens at Swanson Contemporary tonight.

Tim Crowder "A Little Bit of Nothing Much" First Friday opening at garner narrative.

“INSCAPES” by Madison Cawein and Matt Gatton opens at Moremen Gallery.

The place to be on the Day of the Dead is at 1619 Flux.

La Vida, la Muerte y el Amor (Life, Death and Love) is at Craft(s) Gallery and Mercantile.

Theatre [502] presents MINE by Laura Marks opens tonight.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY:

Open Studio Weekend is both days 12:00 until 6:00 pm all around the city. Listen below to podcasts of participating artists being interviewed by Keith Waits on LVA’s Artebella On the Radio on WXOX 97.1 FM:

October 31 - Rosalie Rosenthal, Aaron Lubrick, Megan Kociscak

October 24 - Katherine Watts, Erica Lewis, Xuanyi Wang

Xuanyi Wang in Open Studio Weekend.

ONGOING:

The Future is Unwritten is at Revelry Boutique Gallery.

Syncopation: Works by Anne Huntington & Jenny Shircliff is at Pyro Gallery.

Finding Home + Across the Pond Photo Exhibit at Ivy Tech. (Louisville Photo Biennial).

Street Studies: Photographs by Guy Dove & Elizabeth Reilly is at Surface Noise.

Photo Journalism from the Courier Journal -Ali: Beyond the world’s stage at Art Sanctuary (Louisville Photo Biennial).

Yellowstone in Winter and Spring at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany (Louisville Photo Biennial).

John Scally, Joel Feldman + is at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

Scott Greenwell at Unique Imaging Concepts ( Louisville Photo Biennial).

Morocco, Many Eyes, One Vision! is at University of Louisville, Rowan Street Gallery. Listen to LVA’s Artebella On The Radio for an interview that includes curator and photographer Rachid Tagoulla. (Louisville Photo Biennial).

Ultimate Things: Madison Cawein at B. Deemer Gallery.

Jacob Heustis “Beasts Will Be Still There” is at Quappi Projects. Listen to an interview with the artist and Quappi director John Brooks on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio.

Taradiddle continues at the Paul Paletti Gallery. (Louisville Photo Biennial).

Cultivating Creativity: Photographs by Kevin Rose Schultz at the Kent Mansion Gallery. ( Louisville Photo Biennial).

John Nation & Joe Wolek at Galerie Hertz. ( Louisville Photo Biennial).

Don Stevens/FusionFire Glass Art is at Cook Studio & Gallery.

Connecting Community Through Creativity is at Studioworks.

The Triennial continues at KMAC.

Elements Group Show at Kentucky Fine Art Gallery.

Breaking the Mold: Sculptor Enid Yandell’s Early Life, 1869-1900 is at The Filson.

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

LVA's Artebella On The Radio: October 24, 2019

Open Studio Weekend is almost here, and this week we talked with three of the participants in the U of L/Hite MFA building: Katherine Watts, Xuanyi (Rosamund) Wang, & Erica Lewis. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 Fm, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursday mornings at 10am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists about their work.

Katherine Watts

Photo Credit: Tom Fougerousse

Xuanyi Wang

Erica Lewis

Photo credit: Jeremy Villar

LVA's Artebella On The Radio: September 26, 2019

The 2019 Photo Biennial is underway! Mia Hanson and Rachid Tagoulla are just two of the local artists exhibiting their work. They visited the Artxfm studios joined by Ash Braunecker of the Portland Museum and Mr. Photo Biennial himself, Paul Paletti of Paul Paletti Gallery. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 or stream at Artxfm.com this and every Thursday at 10am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists on LVA's Artebella On The Radio.

Magic Realism: Imagery by Mia Hanson Oct.26 – Nov. 30, reception Oct. 26 12-4pm

Portland Museum, 2308 Portland Avenue, Louisville, KY 40212

Mia Hanson Studied film theory and photography in San Francisco’s Bay Area before leaving to pursue a photographic mentorship with influential photographer/ videographer Matt Mahurin in NYC in the 90’s.She has lived in Stockholm but returned to the states with her partner, painter Hawk Alfredson to live for several years in the fabled Chelsea Hotel in NYC. While in residence there she, “Created portraits utilizing the light and charged energy of the hotel atmosphere while careful not to disturb or “document “ what is not entirely capable of being captured. The ghosts are best left alone.”

Morocco: Many Eyes, One Vision – Curated by Rachid Tagoulla Oct. 4-26, reception Oct. 5 1-3pm

University of Louisville Rowan Street Gallery, 1606 Rowan Street, Louisville, KY 40203

Rachid Tagoulla is teaching assistant at University of Louisville pursuing his MFA. He attended Ibn Zohr University - Agadir, Morocco, where he was born. He studied Leadership Skills for Teachers- Pilgrims' course at University of Kent. His exhibit at U of L/Hite combines images from University of Louisville students and Moroccan photographers from time spent together in Agadir, Morocco in Spring 2019.

Ash Braunecker is from Tell City, Indiana. She who earned her BFA from Syracuse University with a concentration in public and landscape art (sculpture major; metalsmithing and jewelry minor) and University of Louisville…and has worked at Portland Museum for a few years, where she was just named Co-Director with Danny Seim.

Paul Paletti is a Louisville, KY native. He attended Middlebury College for 3 years before transferring to the University of New Mexico where he studied with Beaumont Newhall, Van Deren Coke, and Ray Metzker and received a BFA in photography. Paletti earned a MA in photography at Central Washington University in 1975 and his JD at the University of Louisville in 1987. He has been a partner in the law firm of Sturm, Paletti, and Wilson since 1994.

The eleventh Louisville Photo Biennial takes place September 20, 2019 through November 10, 2019 throughout Louisville Metro and its surrounding communities. Our photography exhibitions – spanning traditional to contemporary, local to global – are mounted at museums, galleries, universities, and cultural institutions. The Biennial also presents accompanying workshops, public lectures and panel discussions to stimulate learning and reinforce visual literacy. Since photography is the most widespread art form, our goal is to educate via meaningful dialogue to help bridge understanding in our diverse world through this dynamic medium.