LVA Creative Design Director Amy Chase, a ceramic artist, and Ann Stewart Anderson, a mixed media artist, are two of six Kentucky artists awarded a $7,500 Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council "for exemplifying excellence in their respective creative disciplines."
The Fellowship award was named in 1983 in honor of Al Smith, a journalist and Kentucky Arts Council board chair. This program has since been able to distribute a few million dollars to emerging artists in the Commonwealth.
“Our Al Smith Fellowship and Emerging Artist Award recipients represent the best in their disciplines, and we count them as ambassadors for Kentucky’s artistic excellence,” said Lydia Bailey Brown, Arts Council executive director. “Their awards are well deserved, and we look forward to more great work from them in the future.”
We rise by lifting others. Sunday was a great day as we celebrated the first Studio 2000 mural with Louisville Metro Parks. Parishioners, family, friends and Metro Council member Barbara Sexton Smith came together to see what our high school student artists and instructor Casey McKinney made happen this summer, bringing brightness back to a beautiful community.
LVA instructor Liz has been working with students at Home of the Innocents on several projects, including various crafts, painting, dreamcatchers and an interpretation of HOTI's iconic mural. We recently joined the students, faculty and employees to celebrate the end of a very successful summer!
This week on PUBLIC John Begley & Gail Gilbert joined us to discuss the impact of Julius Friedman and his work on Louisville and beyond. Join us at 10am each Thursday on WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com.
Our Studio 2000 students are nearing the finish line for their summer program we've been working on with Metro Parks. Fiber, clay and mixed media projects are all coming together so wonderfully!
Please come see the exhibition at Actors Theatre of Louisville on Thursday, August 4 from 5-7pm, free for all ages!
We celebrated this art program's conclusion as proud students shared what they made this summer with instructor and ceramic artist Lisa Simon - they are some of the sweetest kids we've gotten to work with yet!
Earlier in the year, Jenny Zeller was the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest’s first recipient of a ‘Regional Artist in Residence’ award, and now she is their new Visual Art Coordinator. She was on PUBLIC July 27 to tell us all about it. Tune in at 10am on WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com.
An ongoing partnership between Louisville Metro Parks and Recreation and Louisville Visual Art (LVA) now in its third year, Studio 2000 pairs high school students who aspire to be visual artists with professional artists to work in clay, fiber, mixed media and beginning this year, the first-ever mural art track.
Students have been hard at work, under the guidance of artist Casey McKinney, creating a vibrant new mural that is sure to become a beacon in the South Broadway / Smoketown neighborhood.
"Louisville Visual Art is thrilled to collaborate with Metro Parks again this summer to provide an opportunity for these students to work with a teaching artist," said Lindy Casebier, LVA Executive Director. "In doing so, they experience firsthand the power of art to transform lives and neighborhoods."
The program culminates with a celebration of the completion of the Studio 2000 mural at Christ Way Missionary Baptist Church on Sunday, August 6.
Proceeds from the sale are earmarked to support future programming through Studio 2000. The exhibition and sale is your chance to see artwork from 19 up-and-coming local high school artists while supporting an amazing program.
"We are very happy with our partnership with LVA," said Ben Johnson, Louisville Metro Parks and Recreation Assistant Director. "This annual event showcases the talent these young adults possess. We hope people will make it out to see some of their incredible work."
We hope you will be able to join us in celebration!
Here it is on July 17, when we were joined by a crew from WDRB News:
Students use art to bring inspiration to Louisville neighborhood "WDRB's Kate Springer talks with a group of Louisville students who are transforming a section of the city with their artwork creating inspiration for a neighborhood that needs it."
Our short artists have made this year's best animated shorts! Check out a behind-the-scenes look at https://www.instagram.com/louisvillevisualart/. And now, we proudly present the LVA Stop Motion Camp Film Festival 2017:
Thank you for being wonderful partners on The Future Is Now, our artist mentorship program, the Kentucky College of Art + Design at Spalding University and Jefferson County Public Schools! The exhibition will run through August 4 in KyCad's 849 Gallery. Thanks so much to everyone who came out last night and showed your support! Thanks also to photographer Maggie Huber for these great images:
This week PUBLIC spotlights The Future Is Now, a mentoring program in collaboration with KyCAD. Our guests included Dominic Guarnaschelli (far right), and two of the mentees, Hannah Lyle & Sunny Podbelsek, as well as Jacqueliine Pallesen from LVA. Join us at 10am every Thursday on WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com.
Our Picture Love students at the Berrytown Recreation Center in Anchorage, led by Ms. Shawna, enjoyed a sunny morning creating cyanotypes, using chemicals to produce cyan-blue photo prints!
Illustrator Kevlen Goodner spent a week with our Comic Art summer camp class. Here's what he shared with his Facebook fans:
"I simply cannot say enough about the incredible young people I was privileged to meet and honored to work with at this week's Louisville Visual Art summer camp. I have no doubt that I met with future illustrators whose work will dazzle us in the pages of comics, manga and even animation!
I'm even more proud of the fact that the class was made up predominantly of young women! Their voices will be heard loud and clear, their stories told near and far! Thank you so much to each and every one of them.
Thank you to the parents and loved ones who continue to encourage and inspire them to reach their creative goals. And thank you to LVA for the invitation to share in this beautiful experience. Support your local art organizations! These are our neighbors dedicating their lives to enriching ours. Thank you a million/billion times over to the awesome Jacqueliine Pallesen and the amazing Annette Cable! You guys are Rock Stars in the truest since of the words ;)
LVA was greatly saddened today to learn of the passing of artist Julius Friedman, a great talent, influence and friend. We profiled him on Artebella in 2013, and Keith Waits interviewed him for our PUBLIC radio show last year. Listen to it here and remember him always.
