Thursday Link Roundup: March 4

Southern Crossings Pottery Festival (SXPF)

NEW: The Southern Crossings Pottery Festival (SXPF) is online this weekend.

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

NEW: Voices of Kentuckiana Presents Virtual Cabaret: “Hindsight 2020”

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.

NEW: Jagged Little Quill opens their first solo show at Revelry Boutique & Gallery Friday night.

NEW: Moremen Gallery presents New Work by Rebecca Norton & Jake Heustis. Listen to an interview with the artists on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio.

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

Mirabilia: A Cabinet of Curiosities, a solo exhibition by University of Louisville Associate Professor of Art Mitch Eckert is open at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts.

Eight Perspectives is at Galerie Hertz, featuring work from Elmer Lucille Allen, Allie Jensen, Lucy Azubuike, Jean Salmon, Cheryl Chapman, Taylor Sanders, Ton’ea Green, & Guinever Smith.

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

Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End is streaming from Actors Theatre Direct. Listen to an interview with star and Louisville-born Jessica Wortham on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio.

Jagged Little Pill at Revelry

Ballot Box: an LVA exhibit for Metro Hall curated by Skylar Smith has now relocated to 21c Museum & Hotel! It is also has a website and MetroTV video. Listen to an interview with the curator, three of the participating artists, and Rep. Attica Scott on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio.

There is also an interview with BallotBox artist J. Robert Southard.

FRIDAY: Jagged Little Quill opens their first solo show at Revelry Boutique & Gallery tonight.

Late for Dinner- Dez Levier Benefit Show with Connor Kissel and Their Friends 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.

The Southern Crossings Pottery Festival (SXPF) is online this weekend.

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: January 11, 2019

TONIGHT:

Pyro Gallery opens Where We Are Now featuring Jody Johnson, Rita Cameron and Virginia Speed from 5pm-9pm

Night At The Carnegie is happening tonight. Biophilia is still on exhibit there.

The Tilted Crown Theatre Company Presents Beirut at The Bard’s Town.

TUESDAY:

2019 Fischer Award for Visual Art Presentation Ceremony will be at Portland Museum this morning.

ONGOING:

Current: an exhibition of the Southern Crossings Pottery Festival at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

Industrial Wastelands Solo Exhibition from Dean Thomas at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

The Carnegie Center for Art and History presents Biophilia Life; or, My Best Friend Has Four Legs and a Tail.

Deborah Whistler: “Follow The Rabbit” is at Moreman Gallery through January 19, 2019. 

Cletus Wilcox, Joshua Bleecker Suyun Son at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

SewIn Qulit and Fiber Biennial is across the river in New Albany.

Elsa Hansen Oldham "Muses" is at KMAC through January 27, 2019.

LVA's Artebella On The Radio: January 3, 2019

Jason Bige Burnett & Steven Cheek came in the studio January 3 to talk about Current: An Exhibition of The Southern Cross Pottery Festival opening January 4 at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com every Thursday to hear artists speak with Keith Waits about their work.

Jason Bige Burnett is a potter and the owner of Jason Bige Burnett Studio and Mr. Benny’s Pot Shop. He graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2009 with a BFA in ceramics and BA’s in both printmaking and graphic design. After college Jason continued his education at Penland School of Crafts in western North Carolina as a core fellowship student for two years. Since then he has exhibited nationally, been featured in Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated. Jason was accepted as an Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Artist-in-Residence in Gatlinburg, Tennessee for the 2012-2013 year. He lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky.

Steven Cheek received his MFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from the University of Evansville. Steven is currently the Director/Artist in Residence at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Louisville. Prior to moving to Louisville, KY he was visiting professor at Georgia State University School of Art and Design, a sabbatical replacement and adjunct lecturer at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga and an Artist in Residence at Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts in Asheville, NC. He has received several awards and recognitions and is included in many private and public collections.