This is your last chance to get tickets for the 2025 LVA Honors Gala, a fundraising event and award ceremony celebrating the exceptional contributions of remarkable individuals: Chuck Swanson, Juliet Taylor, Annette Cable, and Dr. Jabani Bennett. Local artist Maria Tinnell was commissioned to create the 2025 LVA Honors Commemorative Awards. Entertainment includes  upbeat jazz music and dancing with Carly Johnson and her Quintet.

This year, LVA is also celebrating a remarkable milestone: 100 years of its Children’s Fine Art Classes (CFAC), a program that has nurtured creativity and inspired generations of young artists.

Proceeds from the LVA Honors Gala provide critical support for the mission of Louisville Visual Art.
For more information and tickets, visit the link above.

by Chip Calloway

Calloway explores his childhood growing up in Louisville.

On display from April 3 - 22, 2025.

Opening Reception Thursday April 3rd

6pm - 8pm

Louisville Visual Art

1538 Lytle St. Louisville, KY. 40203

Gallery Hours:

Monday - Thursday

10am - 4pm

REGISTRATION IS OPEN - CAMPS FILL FAST!

LVA Spring Break Art Camp - Art Buffet, ages 7 to 12 - Spring Break Art Camp runs from 9:00am-4:00pm. This camp is held at LVA @ United Crescent Hill Ministries, 150 State St., (just off of Frankfort Ave.), Louisville, KY 40206, unless otherwise noted. This camp does not offer extended hours.

LVA Summer Camps, ages 7 to 14 - Regular day camps run from 9:00am-4:00pm, with the option of adding extended hours to make the day from 8:00am-5:00pm. The "themed" portion of camps runs from 9:00am-12:00pm, and the afternoons consist of art-centric games and activities. Each distinctive camp runs one week long. These camps are held at LVA @ United Crescent Hill Ministries, 150 State St., (just off of Frankfort Ave.), Louisville, KY 40206, unless otherwise noted. 

Saturday Teen Manga Workshops, ages 13 to 17 - Meets at United Crescent Hill Ministries, 150 State St., (just off of Frankfort Ave.), Louisville, KY 40206.

Waterfront Park LVA Camp, ages 7 to 12 - Meet 9:30am-4:00pm at the Waterfront Park Office in the David K Karem Building 129 River Road, next to Joe’s Crab Shack (131 River Road). This camp does not offer extended hours. 

Louisville’s foremost CeLOUbration of the printmaking artform is returning for 2025, and just like last year, now’s your chance to get involved! Are you an experienced printmaker? A starting hobbyist? A printmaking organization? Someone who’s always wanted to try printmaking? Well great news, they have opportunities for all experience levels to make and share the creative power of print including free workshops and tabling space, so read on!

The event is at the Portland Museum, April 18-19, 2025.

Workshops are held at various locations all throughout Louisville Metro with FREE materials and FREE instruction from printmaking pro Erica Lewis (EVPL) 

LVA is hosting one of these workshops in the gallery, April 13th.

Click the link for more information and to register.

Check out these before and after photos of LVA and the installation of the new SPARK sculpture. We are officially lighting up the neighborhood!

LVA's 2025 Curate Purchase Inspire Fellowship (CPI) - Deadline: March 17, 2025

2025 AC Hotel Spring Exhibit - Deadline: March 31, 2025

Bill Fischer Award - Deadline: April 07, 2025

Every Thursday at 10am

Artist Talk with LVA is a radio show on WXOX 97.1 ArtxFm, where each week we feature a local visual artist to discuss their work, inspiration, and the current state of Louisville’s artistic community. We seek to bring greater awareness of the visual arts as a whole, while promoting local artists and their endeavors. Tune in Thursdays at 10:00am on artxfm.com or 97.1FM, WXOX. hosted by Keith Waits.

Did you know that simply linking your Kroger Rewards Card to Louisville Visual Art through Kroger Community Rewards makes a difference? So far in 2024, 56 households have raised $745.72 to support LVA—just by doing their regular shopping!

It’s a simple, no-cost way to give back and help sustain the arts in our community. If you haven't already, join our supporters by linking your card today. Every purchase counts!

Simply register your card online here, choose LVA as your organization, and with each purchase you make, Kroger will donate a percentage to LVA.
Thank you to everyone who has already signed up—we appreciate your support!
 *Kroger Plus cards are available at the customer service desk at any Kroger store.

Founded in 1909, Louisville Visual Art (LVA) nurtures our city's diverse artists throughout their creative lifecycles with youth art education, professional artist development, and art in public spaces. Since 1925, we've inspired future generations of creative leaders through Children's Fine Art Classes (CFAC). Our outreach programs span the Louisville Metro, enriching diverse communities. From our creative hub in the Portland neighborhood, we encourage artists through the Artists Talk with LVA radio show, Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI), Open Studio Weekend, and weekly calls for artists.

Louisville Visual Art

1538 Lytle St. Louisville KY. 40203

Hours: Mon-Thur 10am-4pm

502-584-8166

Louisvillevisualart.org

The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, provides operating support to Louisville Visual Art with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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