Patrick Smith is an artist from Lexington, Kentucky who studied at Transylvania University. Viewers may be familiar with his work from seeing it at Swanson Contemporary on East Market Street in Louisville, where he is currently exhibiting through March 31.and
Amira Karaoud is a Documentary Photographer and Visual Anthropologist who immigrated from Tunisia to the US to pursue her MBA in Financial Management. Karaoud is a member of Sociologists for Women in Society and Treasure assistant for "US Women Caucus with the UN". Recently participated in the CSW-62 in the UN headquarter in NY. 2018: Amira won Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women in January 2018, to work on a new multimedia project given voice to Arab Women in the US.
She will be participating in the 2018 SWAN Day at the Louisville Free Public Library on March 24 from 2-3pm.
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Another Kroger mural has gone up! Our neighbors @oftenseenrarelyspoken did a great job on this, now visible at the University of Louisville location by Churchill Downs!
Ramona Lindsey from Community Foundation of Louisville and Susanna Crum from Indiana University Southeast came to the WXOX 97.1 FM studio to talk about the 2018 Hadley Prize for Visual Art. In 2013, Susanna was the 1st recipient of the prize, and the discussion focused on what makes for a competitive application for grants such as this.
Fourth graders at Price Elementary are collaborating in small groups to design and construct their own unique Water Towers. This is the first day of construction - recycled materials, art supplies, a lot of imagination, and trial and error make for a fun and different learning experience.
The project is sponsored by the Water Co. Foundation and the Fund for the Arts. The project also includes a field trip to the Water Works Museum and a Family Fun Day event at the Water Tower.
CFAC instructor Julia had King Elementary 4th & 5th-grade students look at Romare Bearden's collage paintings, then discussed how to make a landscape of their home. They talked about historical figures and heroes, and what those heroes would be wearing and doing if they lived in their neighborhood. This is mainly a collage project but students were allowed to expand into other materials once they covered the whole page.
Trina Fischer & Shannon Woolley Allison came in to discuss the Looking for Lilith Theatre Company production of The Patron Saint of Losing Sleep by Louisville playwright Diane Grisanti and to explain what makes something "Lilithian". It opens March 15 at The Kentucky Center for the Arts. Tune in Thursdays at 10am for LVA's Artebella On The Radio on WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com.
LVA received a visit from the Leadership Louisville Center, where they toured the building and discussed promoting the arts all over Louisville.
They shared this photo and wrote, "The Leadership Louisville 2018 class has a gorgeous day to be out and about today getting a taste of the arts as part of their Quality of Life day. Here's the group at Louisville Visual Art."
CFAC instructor Jean shared these photos from class at Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve. "For the last two weeks, our subject has been fish. Our first project was drawing the fish with accuracy. Last week was having fun with negative space, using the outline of the fish and filling in around it with colorful shapes and patterns."
Instructor Jean sent these photos of her CFAC class at North Oldham Middle School and said, "All semester, we've been focusing on drawing hands. They are the most difficult part of the human body to draw accurately, so we started from the skeletal level and built on that. We will eventually create hands using different art movements. For example, next week we are starting a segment on Pop Art incorporating hands. For the last two weeks, we have been working on drawing, shading, and highlighting hands using toned paper, white charcoal, black charcoal, and different grades of graphite pencils."
Wilma Bethel, Vinhay Keo, Mayor Greg Fischer, Elmer Lucille Allen, Porter Watkins, LVA Executive Director Lindy Casebier
LVA Executive Director Lindy Casebier addresses the sold-out crowd
Carol Seifer, Elmer Lucille Allen, Lindy Casebier, Gill Holland
Wilma Bethel, Porter Watkins, Elmer Lucille Allen
Today LVA celebrated individuals that have made a significant impact in our visual art community, including Elmer Lucille Allen, Porter Watkins, Wilma Bethel, and Vinhay Keo. Mayor Greg Fischer introduced the luncheon, which was hosted by Gill Holland at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage. We look forward to seeing you at the second ceremony, coming in 2019!
Learning to see is an essential part of every artist's development. Elementary students in instructor Rick's CFAC class hone their observational skills creating contour line drawings from life with impressive results!
Kayla Bischoff & Bob Lockart will be exhibiting together at PYRO Gallery beginning Feb. 22, but first Kayla joined us in the WXOX studios to talk about their work. Thursday at 10a. Tune in to WXOX 97.1/Artxfm.com.
Kayla Bischoff joined LVA's Keith Waits in the WXOX studios to talk about her duo exhibition with Bob Lockart at PYRO Gallery. Tune in Thursdays from 10-11 a.m. on Art FM, 97.1, artxfm.com.
From the Kentucky Arts Council: " On Feb. 20, arts leaders came from across the Commonwealth to celebrate the public value of the arts and to thank legislators for their continued support of the Kentucky Arts Council. Checks were presented to organizations awarded Kentucky Arts Partnership operational support grants by the arts council in July 2017.
Representatives of Louisville arts organizations gathered Feb. 20 in Frankfort for Arts Day in Kentucky, an annual meeting that fosters discussions in the Commonwealth’s arts community about the state of the arts industry in Kentucky. The day is also an opportunity for arts leaders to thank members of the Kentucky General Assembly for their continued support of arts funding through the Kentucky Arts Council.
Louisville’s 26 Kentucky Arts Partnership (KAP) organizations received a combined $473,451 in grant awards. The funds were awarded by the arts council in July 2017 through the KAP program. The funding is part of $1.2 million the arts council awarded to 93 nonprofit arts organizations across the state for the 2018 fiscal year.
KAP grants provide operating support on a competitive basis to arts and cultural organizations and community arts programs to ensure participation in the arts is available to the people of Kentucky.
After doing small projects about line, shape, color, and shading, our Clifton middle school CFAC students are creating self-portraits with instructor Liz. Square by square, they are blending colors and seeing their likenesses appear!
