LVA’s Weekly Art Guide: 2.5.24
WEDNESDAY: Speed Cinema+ presents The Sweet East, directed by Sean Price Williams, with a post-screening discussion with screenwriter Nick Pinkerton moderated by Lamplighter Film Union founder Nathan Viner.
FRIDAY: Looky/Hear: Artwork by Tad DeSanto opens tonight at the Outsider Museum & Gallery with a reception from 5-8 pm.
FRIDAY: Speed Cinema opens The Teachers’ Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer), directed by Ilker Çatak at 6 pm.
SATURDAY: WXOX/ArtFM.com celebrates 8th Anniversary/Year of the Dragon with a public event at the WXOX Studios beginning at 8 pm.
SATURDAY: Aurora Gallery and Boutique opens Made You A Mixtape: a group art show for the music we love. Opening Reception tonight from 6-10 pm
Schneider Hall Galleries at the University of Louisville hosts Paired Influence: MFA Student Selections from the University Collection
Kore Gallery is having an “Abandoned Artwork” Inventory Clearance Sale for the month of February.
One Artist's Attic: Art Harmony's Big Merz Giveaway at Quonset Hut Press is a series of conversations with artist J.P. Begley in which he is giving away a wide array of art and studio supplies.
Wheelhouse Art opened Megan Bickel, The Blazing World.
Donna R. Charging opened her MFA Thesis exhibit, That Limbless Sign, at the Hite MFA Building In Portland.
U of L’s Hite Institute ‘s Annual Student Exhibition opened at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts.
PYRO Gallery opened La Creme de la Creme, an exhibit of 23 artists who were once students of Bob Lockhart, with drawings by Lockhart.
Revelry Gallery opens Tiny Art/Big Heart, a Valentine-themed group show, and Savant, a solo exhibit from Braylyn “Resko” Stewart.
Jeffersonville is celebrating American Painter’s Day by showcasing the work of Damon Thompson.
Chestnuts and Pearls Gallery in New Albany, IN, iopened an exhibit by Vick Edwos, Twin Flame Series. Parts 1 & 2.
Granny Faye's Basement - an immersive gallery show with the artist known as Whathappenedtotoday? opened at Grady Goods.
The Speed Museum is exhibiting two recent monumental works by leading contemporary artists Angel Otero & Leslie Martinez., and The Bitter and the Sweet: Kentucky Sugar Chests, Enslavement, and the Transatlantic World 1790-1865.
Gallery 104 in LaGrange has opened a group exhibit, small things.
21c Museum Hotel is currently exhibiting This We Believe, which features over 95 artworks from 21c’s collection, and H2O, a group show of local artists Julia Coash, Susanna Crum, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Mary Newton, Guinever Smith, and curated by Rebecca Norton.
Love: Stephen Dorsett, Joyce Garner, Aleksandra Stone is open at garner narrative contemporary.
Bourne-Schweitzer is exhibiting We Are Family.
Kleinhelter Gallery has opened Portraits in New Albany, featuring paintings by Heather Brunetti, Debra Lott, Claudia Hammer, Shayne Hull, Jessica Lewis, Ellen Weis, Ray Kleinhelter, and Sharon Weis; with sculptural portraits from Meg White.
Kentucky Fine Art Gallery has an exhibit that includes Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, Greta Mattingly, and David O. Schuster.
Paired Influence: MFA Selections from the University Collection is open at the University of Louisville’s hite Institute for Art’s Schneider Hall Galleries.
Debra Clem: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1995-2023 opened at Indiana University Southeast.
ARTPORTAL (formally known as The Common Gallery), has opened two shows. Slump, with Nick Netherton, Nina Kersey, and Scott T. Anderson, curated by Lindsey Cummins and Ellie Bruner, and Interpreting the Stars with Olivia Reyes, Peter Price, and Alex Edison.
Fruit of the Womb/Skin of the Fruit, Paintings by Ann Charlotte Tavolacci opened at Capacity Contemporary Exchange.
Resilience & Recovery: A Wellspring Art Therapy Exhibit is at the Mellwood Art Center.
Dawn Della Bella is exhibiting at the Roberta Marx Gallery.
Prospect CIty Hall opened its inaugural exhibition Art in City Hall Prospect featuring Ashley Brossart, Liz Coomes, Lynn Dunbar, Ann Farnsley, Wyatt Gragg, Claudia Hammer, Margaret Howard, Shawn Marshall, Martin Rollins, Makenna Schibler and Pedro Roque Urra.
Carnegie Center for Art & History opened Intentionally Intimate: The Choice to Work Small, featuring work by Kay Grubola, Wendi Smith, Nancy Currier, Caroline Waite, and Rachel Singel.
Lowber Gallery is exhibiting work by Sabra Crockett.
A group show, Reformation is open at the new Gallery @ MOSAIC.
KMAC Museum opened two shows: Gold Key and American Visions Exhibition and, Sawyer, A Solo Exhibition by Dan Gunn.
Meadows Gallery in the Masonic Homes Campus is exhibiting Janna Hankins Wardle.
Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit Go Far, Go Together is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.
Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.
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