LVA’s Weekend Arts Guide: 3.24.22
2022 LVA Honors: (from top left) William Duffy, Janet Britt, Clare Hirn, & Shohei Katayama
TAKE NOTE that many organizations are requiring masks and perhaps proof of vaccination for entry.
TONIGHT: The 5th LVA Honors happens at Art Sanctuary recognizing Shohei Katayama, Janet Britt, Clare Hirn, & William Duffy. Tickets are still available online until Noon today and then you can pay at the door. Listen to interviews with the honorees on Artists Talk with LVA HERE.
The Liminal Playhouse opens How to Transcend A Happy Marriage by Sarah Ruhl at the Henry Clay Theatre.
FRIDAY: The Hite Institute of Art and Design opens their second Spring 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition tonight at the MFA Gallery: Betty Ávarez's exhibition: di•as•po•ra: displaced not erased. The reception will be held from 5-8 PM.
Wheelhouse Art opens Cynthia Kelly Overall’s The Divinity of All Creatures, Great and Small.
Great Freedom (Grosse Freiheit), directed by Sebastian Meise opens tonight at Speed Cinema with showings all weekend.
SATURDAY: Laurie Fader gives a gallery talk at 2 pm for her exhibit, After Italy, From Landscape to Abstraction at Galerie Hertz.
Hannah DeWitt’s An Exercise In Unconditional Trust And Solidarity takes place at Carbon Copy. Listen to an interview with Hannah on Artists Talk With LVA.
Brother Healing Brother: Unmasking Superman will feature the work of Brandon Hill.
Cynthia Park Overall at Wheelhouse Art
Sanford Bigger’s Code Switch is now open at The Speed.
Bellarmine University’s McGrath Gallery will be highlighting the work of graduating Seniors Nobie Martin, Bailey McDougal, Molly Conrad, Makayla Brown, Josh Cushman, and Hannah Reed.
The Baby Maker by Brooke Bethel plays a 2nd weekend at The Bard’s Town.
Danny Seim’s Windows Into The Community is open at KMAC until May 8.
Revelry Gallery hosts Louisville artist Kaviya Ravi for her first solo show வண்ணமயம் / VANNAMAYAM.
Quappi Projects has Shining in the Wind: Ryan Tassi + Matthew McDole.
Jingshuo Yang’s University of Louisville MFA Thesis exhibition, Transformation - Find The Inner World, has opened at the Hite Institute’s MFA Gallery in Portland. Listen HERE to an interview on Artists Talk with LVA that includes this artist.
Reasons To Try, Reasons to Tremble: Art by Jess Robinson is open at Pyro Gallery.
“En plein air” is the March show at Kore Gallery, featuring the work of 16 local artists.
Chad McConnell's "The Beautiful Uglies" is open at Tim Faulkner Gallery.
The Hite Institute at the University of Louisville at the Cressman Center is showing New Recruits, work by new faculty.
At KMAC Crafting the Vernacular presents the work of contemporary glass artists, Ché Rhodes, SaraBeth Post, Corey Pemberton, Therman Statom, Leo Tecosky, and Nate Watson.
Edward R. White, Returning Home: A Life’s Retrospective is open at The Portland Museum through April 30.
Jason M. Lois — Urban Remix – Deconstructing the Avant Garde is open at The Mellwood Art Center’s Pigment Gallery.
Great Freedom (Grosse Freiheit) at Speed Cinema
6 Years Home by Cletus Wilcox has been extended at Kore Gallery until March 27.
Penny Sisto at 80 has opened at The Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany. You must REGISTER to attend the March 31 reception with the artist.
Wayside Expressions Gallery has two exhibits: Muhammad Ali Retrospective: Artwork by Rhonda Bridgewaters AND an 85th anniversary retrospective of the 1937 flood featuring archival photos by George Bailey, Margaret Bourke-White, Sallie Rawson, and Robert Schuhmann.
ravel, unravel - paintings by Dean Brown is at Art Sanctuary.
Josh Chang - Middle of Somewhere is at fifteenTWELVE Creative Compound through March 31.
garner narrative has opened a 2nd location garner LARGE on Bardstown Road.
Elizabeth Kramer is writing about the challenges facing local arts groups at Louisville Arts Bureau.